Spaulding's "Manuscript Found." Sidney Rigdon, for Smith's purposes, was the "exalted man," the "God" who sent this "heavenly messenger" Parley Parker Pratt, just as the Mormon people now look upon Joseph Smith as the "God to this people." [110] Now, watch the sequel, and no doubt can remain. [Footnote 103: Pages 29 and 30.] [Footnote 104: Section 32, Doctrine and Covenants. Smith's God was, however, unfamiliar with governmental regulations of Indian affairs, so in spite of the revelation Pratt and Company were compelled by the United States Indian agent to leave the reservation. 5 _Journal of Discourses,_ 199. Howe's "Mormonism Unveiled," 218-226. "Gleanings by the Way," 324.] [Footnote 105: "Autobiography of P.P. Pratt," 30.] [Footnote 106: Supplement 14, _Millennial Star_, 6.] [Footnote 107: 5 _Journal of Discourses_, 141.] [Footnote 108: Key to Theology, 41, 5 _Millennial Star_, 20.] [Footnote 109: 5 _Times and Seasons_, 613. God an Exalted Man, 6 _Journal of Discourses_, 3.] [Footnote 110: _Deseret News_, March 18, 1857, 13. See also _Deseret News_ 179. Those most familiar with the psychology of dreams and the influence over them had by the experiences of waking life, will give considerable evidentiary weight to a dream of the prophet's father, in which there appeared to him a "man with a peddler's budget on his back," such a peddler P. P. Pratt probably carried. This peddler of his dreams flattered him, told him he had called seven times and this last call had come to tell him what was the one thing essential to his salvation, and then he awoke. ("Joseph Smith, the Prophet," 74.)] September 9, 1827, Pratt was married. On September 22, 1827, he was the angel who appeared to Smith, and in October he started back to Ohio, the home of Rigdon. [111] Rigdon is now brought again upon the scene. He preaches in Pratt's neighborhood, converts him, the latter commences preaching, [112] evidently preparing for his part in the drama about to be enacted. [Footnote 111: "Autobiography of P.P. Pratt," 30.] [Footnote 112: "Autobiography of P.P. Pratt," 31-33.] RIGDON VISITS SMITH BEFORE MORMONISM. The work of revising the Spaulding manuscript, or, as "Holy Joe" calls it, the "Translation of the Golden Plates," is begun. A mysterious stranger now appears at Smith's residence and holds private interviews with the far-famed money-digger. For a considerable length of time no intimation of the name or the purpose of this personage transpired to the public, or even to Smith's nearest neighbors. It was observed by some of them that his visits were frequently repeated. [113] At about this time Rigdon is away from his Ohio home on several long visits, reporting himself as having gone to Pittsburg. [114]