by Dan Wees | May 1, 2018 | Miscellaneous
“I have not a doubt but there will be hundreds who will leave us and go away to our enemies. I wish they would go this fall: it might relieve us from much trouble; for if men turn traitors to God and His servants, their blood will surely be shed, or else they will be...
by Dan Wees | May 1, 2018 | Miscellaneous
“‘What will you do with all those who have sought to kill you?’ Make them soap-boilers and kitchen flunkeys. We are not going to send them into hell fire, for it takes a good Latter-day Saint apostatized to get down that deep (did I say bottomless?) pit. A person, to...
by Dan Wees | May 1, 2018 | Miscellaneous
“I say, rather than that apostates should flourish here, I will unsheath my bowie knife, and conquer or die. [Great commotion in the congregation, and a simultaneous burst of feeling, assenting to the declaration.] Now, you nasty apostates, clear out, or judgment will...
by Dan Wees | May 1, 2018 | Miscellaneous
“[T]hy shadow shall restore the Sick; the diseased shall send to thee their aprons and handkershiefs and by thy touch their owners shall be made whole.” Lorenzo Snow’s patriarchal blessing – 15 December 1836; see Thomas C. Romney, The Life of Lorenzo Snow, Fifth...
by Dan Wees | May 1, 2018 | Miscellaneous
“Wilford Woodruff’s handkerchief – Prophet Joseph Smith’s handkerchief, given to him in 1839, in connection with the miracle healings.” D. Michael Quinn, Early Mormonism and the Magic World View (Salt Lake City, UT: Signature Books, 15 December 1998/second...
by Dan Wees | May 1, 2018 | Miscellaneous
“The Prophet [Joseph Smith, Jr.] said he could not go; but, after pausing some time, he said he would send some one to heal them; and he turned to me and said: ‘You go with the man and heal his children.’ “He took a red silk handkerchief out of his pocket and...
