to give the name of his host or the date of his first meeting with Rigdon. [101] [Footnote 97: "History of the Church," 149-150. ("Josephite".)] [Footnote 98: "4 _Times and Seasons_," 209. Supplement 14, _Millennial Star,_ 45.] [Footnote 99: See Text for foot-notes, Nos. 106 to 109 herein. 6 _Millennial Star_, 20. "History of Mormonism," 154.] [Footnote 101: 20 _Millennial Star_, 33-36. _7 Deseret News_, 288-9. _7 Journal of Discourses_, 53. _1 Journal of Discourses_, 230, and Sermons generally of this period. See also _Am. Hist. Mag._, July, 1906.] Lambdin, who, by some, has been suspected of once having been Rigdon's partner in the contemplated fraud, died Aug. 1, 1825. Engles, Patterson's foreman, died July 17, 1827. Spaulding had died in 1816, and Robert Patterson, it seems, knew nothing personally of the contents of the Spaulding manuscript, [102] which fact Rigdon probably well knew through his intimate acquaintance with Lambdin. In September of 1827 the time was, therefore, as ripe as it was ever likely to be for active preparation in the matter of bringing forth the "Book of Mormon," since probably all those having any intimate knowledge of the "Manuscript Found" had conveniently died. [Footnote 102: "Mormonism Exposed," by Williams. "Who Wrote the Book of Mormon?" 7.] In 1827 Pratt started back to New York for the purpose of getting married. Now, remember, this was nearly three years before the advent of Mormonism. Pratt reached the home of his aunt Van Cote July 4, 1827, and in his autobiography records a summary of a conversation with his future wife thus: "I also opened my religious views to her and my desire, which I sometimes had, to try and teach the red man." [103] In October, 1830, within a month after Pratt's professed conversion to Mormonism, a revelation was received for Pratt, in which the Lord, through "Joseph Smith, the Prophet," directed Pratt to carry out this very design. [104] The desire which Pratt thus expressed to his wife three years before the advent of Mormonism was afterward and for a long time the pet scheme of all Mormons. Pratt was married September 9, 1827. [105] On September 22, 1827, a "heavenly messenger" appeared to Joseph Smith and unfolded to him the scheme of the Book of Mormon, and disclosed the whereabouts of the "Golden Plates." [106] This "heavenly messenger" is called the Angel Moroni. According to Mormon theology, "God may use any beings he has made or that he pleases, and call them his angels, or messengers." [107] "God's angels and men are all of one species, one race, one great family." [108] "God is a man like unto yourselves; that is the great secret." [109] Why, of course! "That is the great secret." God is but an "exalted man," and may call Parley Parker Pratt his angel. Parley Parker Pratt was the "heavenly messenger," the angel who, on that day (September 22, 1827), appeared to Joseph Smith and told him where were the golden plates, that is,