In 1830, at the age of 23, Parley Pratt, who would soon become a member of the original Quorum of Twelve Apostles and one of the great missionaries and writers of early Mormonism, encountered the Book of Mormon for the first time.
"I opened it with eagerness," he later recalled in his "Autobiography," "and read its title page. I then read the testimony of several witnesses in relation to the manner of its being found and translated. After this I commenced its contents by course. I read all day; eating was a burden, I had no desire for food; sleep was a burden when the night came, for I preferred reading to sleep.
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