The Prophet's mother was permitted to see and handle them and describes them thus: "I found that they consisted of two smooth, three-cornered diamonds, set in glass, and the glasses were set in silver bows which were connected with each other in much the same way as old-fashioned spectacles." Martin Harris described them just the same, only he said they were larger than the ordinary spectacles. Some have marveled at the Lord's choice in selecting one so young and unlearned as Joseph Smith to perform so great a work. However, the Lord's ways are not man's ways. For, "As the Heavens are higher than the earth, so are the Lord's ways higher than man's ways." As an instance we read how the Lord sent the prophet Samuel unto Jesse, saying he had provided a king among his sons. And how, when Samuel looked on Eliab, he thought surely the Lord's anointed was before him. But the Lord said unto Samuel: "Look not at his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him; for the Lord seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the Lord looketh on the heart." After seven sons of Jesse had been presented, Samuel asked, "Are here all thy children?" to which Jesse replied, "There remaineth yet the youngest and behold he keepeth the sheep." And he it was whom the Lord had chosen should be anointed king. Samuel did the bidding of the Lord, and we learn that the spirit of God rested upon David, and he became a man after God's own heart. In this connection we will not pass by unnoticed God's mighty power in raising up the great prophet Moses, as a deliverer of His chosen people from under the hand of Pharoah, the oppressor and king of Egypt. In this case, His power was manifested in overruling Pharoah's midwives even unto disobedience of their wicked king in preserving the male children of the promised seed of Abraham, as found in the 1st chapter of Exodus: "But the midwives feared God, and did not as the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the men children alive." [That is, the Hebrew children, for they were the ones the king sought to destroy.] "Therefore, God dealt well with the midwives; and the people multiplied, and waxed very mighty. "And it came to pass, because the midwives feared God, that he made them houses. "And Pharaoh charged all his people, saying, every son that is born ye shall cast into the river, and every daughter ye shall save alive."