Original sentence: " Smith also said that the telling of his vision story "excited a great deal of prejudice against me among professors of religion, and was the cause of great persecution, which continued to increase", but there is no contemporary record of this persecution, except for local opposition to his treasure hunting activities in the mid-1820s, and then again after 1827, when he said he had discovered a set of golden plates
Edited sentence: " Smith also said that the telling of his vision story "excited a great deal of prejudice against me among professors of religion, and was the cause of great persecution, which continued to increase", though this may have been exaggerated or based on local opposition to his treasure hunting activities in the mid-1820s.Persecution increased again after 1827, when he said he had discovered a set of golden plates