Crossword-Solution: ANTHON 6 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 9

TRANSLATION AND PUBLICATION OF THE BIBLE: Martin Harris's Connection with the Work--Smith's Removal to Pennsylvania--How the Translation was carried on--Harris's Visit to Professor Anthon--The Professor's Account of his Visit--The Lost Pages--The Prophet's Predicament and his Method of Escape--Oliver Cowdery as an Assistant Translator--Introduction of the Whitmers--The Printing and Proof--reading of the New Bible--Recollections of Survivors VII.

While Mormon speakers quoted Anthon as vouching for the mysterious writing, their writers were more cautious.

Pratt, in his "Voice of Warning" (1837), said that Professor Anthon was unable to decipher the characters, but he presumed that if the original records could be brought, he could assist in translating them.

Lee, in his "Mormonism Unveiled," mentions the generally used excuse of the Mormons for the professor's failure to translate the writing, namely, that Anthon told Harris that "they were written in a sealed language, unknown to the present age." Smith, in his autobiography, quotes Harris's account of his interview as follows:-- "I went to New York City and presented the characters which had been translated, with the translation thereof, to Prof.

Anthon stated that the translation was correct, more so than any he had before seen translated from the Egyptian.