Oliver Cowdery - Divine Removal from Persecution and Preservation to Complete the Translation

Due to persecution which developed in the neighborhood of Harmony, Pennsylvania, Joseph Smith felt that he and Oliver would be forced to move away. Oliver thereupon wrote to David Whitmer of Fayette township, New York, with the request that he and Joseph be permitted to finish their important work at his father's home. Arrangements were satisfactorily concluded and about the first of June, 1829, David Whitmer arrived at Harmony with a two-horse wagon to convey Joseph, Emma, Oliver and the sacred record to Fayette. This was a miraculous providence of the Lord—just when persecution threatened to interrupt the sacred translation work, the Lord opened a way for the work to be completed in safety. At the Whitmer home, the work of translation was immediately resumed, and in about four weeks' time the great and important work was concluded. The Lord's timing was perfect: the translation could not have been completed at Harmony, but was brought to completion at Fayette without interruption.