by Dan Wees | Dec 8, 2019 | Miscellaneous
“I heard Joseph Smith[, Jr.] preach baptism for the dead; saw him baptizing for the dead in the Mississippi River. I heard him say, ‘Peradventure, the Ten Tribes were not on this globe, but a portion of this earth had cleaved off with them and went flying into space,...
by Dan Wees | Dec 8, 2019 | Miscellaneous
“The evening was spent in conversing upon the subject of the Ten tribes in the North Country … A portion of the North Country containing the ten tribes may be separated from the earth. O [Orson] Hyde and others believed they would soon return.” Wilford Woodruff’s...
by Dan Wees | Dec 8, 2019 | Miscellaneous
“President [Brigham] Young said he heard Joseph Smith say that the Ten Tribes of Israel were on a portion of land separated from this earth.” Wilford Woodruff’s Journal – 8 September 1867; reprinted in Susan Staker, editor., Waiting for World’s End: The Diaries...
by Dan Wees | Dec 8, 2019 | Miscellaneous
“I have heard Joseph [Smith, Jr.] say that ‘John was among the Ten Tribes beyond the North Pole.’” Oliver B. Huntington Journal – 13 January 1881; Abanes, One Nation Under Gods (New York, NY: Four Walls Eight Windows, 2002), 528,...
by Dan Wees | Dec 8, 2019 | Miscellaneous
“[I h]eard Joseph F. Smith describe the manner of translating the Book of Mormon … Joseph did not render the writing on the gold plates into the English language in his own style of language as many people believe, but every word and every letter was given to...
by Dan Wees | Dec 3, 2019 | Miscellaneous
“At the same time he [Joseph] described the shape of the earth at the poles as being a round elongation, and drew a diagram of it.” Oliver B. Huntington, The Young Women’s Journal – Volume 3, “The Inhabitants of the Moon” (Salt Lake City, UT: The Church of Jesus...
