by Dan Wees | Dec 21, 2019 | Miscellaneous
“BYU historian Marvin S. Hill has … observed: ‘Now, most historians, Mormon or not, who work with the sources, accept as fact Joseph Smith’s career as village magician. Too many of his closest friends and family admitted as much, and some of Joseph’s own revelations...
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,...
