Posted by:
baura
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Date: August 31, 2014 08:39PM
Evidently the Church discovered some short-hand transcriptions
of some early sermons by church leaders. Many of them are up
on The Church's website.
I came across this gem in one of them. It's by Milo Andrus
(you can learn about him here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milo_Andrus )
and was given in 1853. Here's the interesting part:
https://history.lds.org/article/lost-sermons-milo-andrus-first-vision?lang=eng"I was a boy, first nineteen years of age, when I heard the
testimony of that man, Joseph Smith, that [an] angel came and
that glory [shone] and [the] trees seemed to be consumed in [a]
blaze and he was there entrusted with this information: that
darkness covered the earth, that the great mass of [the]
Christian world [was] universally wrong [and] their creeds
[were] all upon [an] uncertain foundation. “Now as young as
you are,” [he was told], “I call upon you from this obscurity:
go forth and build up my kingdom on the earth."
Now Milo Andrus was born on March 6, 1814. He turned nineteen
years of age on March 6, 1833. That means that sometime
between March 6, 1833 and March 6, 1834, Joseph Smith was
teaching that it was an ANGEL that appeared to him in the grove
of trees and told him all other churches were wrong, not Jesus
Christ and God the Father.
He's not talking about the Moroni visit here, because he
mentions how the TREES seemed to be consumed in a blaze, not a
light in the bedroom.
Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 08/31/2014 08:47PM by baura.