![]() I had a long and profitable consultation with Professor Wm. Mills, a non-Mormon archaeologist, that clearly impressed him: ![]() One lengthy journal entry, from, recounts the findings of William C. In this instance, Elder Talmage was clearly indicating a belief in a South American setting.īut, a year after the publication of Jesus the Christ, we find evidence of Elder Talmage beginning to entertain evidence for a North American setting. The South American continent in general is called, in the Book of Mormon, the Land of Nephi. On the north it was bounded by the Land of Desolation, which embraced Central America, and, in later Nephite history, an indefinite extent north of the Isthmus. ![]() The Land Bountiful-This comprized the northerly part of South America, extending to the Isthmus of Panama. For instance, in his 1916 masterwork, Jesus the Christ, Elder Talmage appends the following note concerning where Christ is said to have visited the Book of Mormon peoples:ġ. Talmage had a firm belief in the historicity of the Book of Mormon account, yet the record shows that he was uncertain where the events described in the book took place. ![]()
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