Smith claims to have had the blessing of the divine power to guide him to a location of golden plates, which entails scriptures of ancient American prophets, and they became the foundation for his publication, the Book of Mormon. ... This became a democratization of free religion, and people began to move out of the old world and into the new world because of Whitefield's strong influence. ... They emphasized a personal and direct religious experience of Christ, which was acquired through both direct religious experience and the reading and studying of the Bible. Being that they were not ...

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