B. H. Roberts
Elder B . H. Roberts, a member of the First Council of Seventy of the Church, in writing the 1906 course of study for the seventies, proposed a new understanding of the manner in which Joseph Smith may have used divine instruments in translating the Book of Mormon. He received many letters challenging or agreeing with his theory and a lively exchange with his critics was printed in the Improvement Era during the first part of 1906 (Vol. IX); the following excerpts appear near the end of one of his responses (pp. 712-713).