by Dan Wees | Dec 21, 2019 | Miscellaneous
“A history of Alpheus Cutler stated: ‘Joseph Smith revealed to Alpheus Cutler, by revelation, that a sign of “two crescent moons with their backs together” would be seen by him when the proper time to reorganize the church had arrived.’ Since...
by Dan Wees | Dec 21, 2019 | Miscellaneous
“[I]n the revelation to Oliver Cowdery in [April] May 1829, Bro[ther B.H]. Roberts said that the gift which the Lord says he has in his hand meant a stick which was like Aaron’s Rod [Book of Commandments 7:3, now D & C 8:6]. It is said Bro. Phineas Young got it...
by Dan Wees | Dec 21, 2019 | Miscellaneous
“Many of us Mormonites today, whether pious believers or critically objective students of history, are closer in mental outlook to the position of [1834 anti-Mormon writer Eber D.] Howe than to that of the Prophet Joseph and his early followers … Would we rant and...
by Dan Wees | Dec 21, 2019 | Miscellaneous
“Last nite I clothed my self and offered up the Sines [signs] of the Holy Preasthood and called one the name of the Lord. He hurd me fore my heart was /mad[e]/ comfortable. I inquired by the rod. It was said my family was well, that my wife would come to me in the...
by Dan Wees | Dec 21, 2019 | Miscellaneous
“He [Joseph Smith, Sr.] 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,...
by Dan Wees | Dec 21, 2019 | Miscellaneous
“Many of the earliest Mormons, including [Oliver] Cowdery, Martin Harris, Orrin P. Rockwell, Joseph Knight and Josiah Stowel, were rodsmen or money diggers but became Mormons for religious reasons.” Marvin S. Hill, Secular or Sectarian History. In Newell...
