{(642 ? "Quotes from ":"") . Joseph Smith Sr.)}

[Joseph Smith, Jr.] claims and believes that there is a [seer] stone of this quality, somewhere, for every one.

Joseph Smith Sr., Fayette Lampham, The Father of Joseph Smith, the Mormon Prophet, p. 306, also Kirkham, New Witness for Christ in America, v. 2, p. 384

Thy shadow shall restore the Sick; the diseased shall send to thee their aprons and handkerchiefs and by thy touch their owners may be made whole.

Joseph Smith Sr., Patriarchal Blessing to Lorenzo Snow, December 15, 1836, in Selected Collections, 1:31

He [Joseph Smith] also believed that there was a vast amount of money buried somewhere in the country; that it would some day be found: that he himself had spent both time and money searching for it, with divining rods, but had not succeeded in finding any, though sure that he eventually would.

Joseph Smith Sr., Interview with the Father of Joseph Smith, the Mormon Prophet, p. 306, also see Kirkham, A New Witness for Christ in America, v. 2, p. 384

Joseph went to the town of Harmony, in the State of Pennsylvania, at the request of some one who wanted the assistance of his divining rod and stone in finding hidden treasure...

Joseph Smith Sr., Interview with the Father of Joseph Smith, the Mormon Prophet, p. 307