Essentials in Church History: A History of the Church from the Birth of Joseph Smith to the Present Time (1922), with Introductory Chapters on the Antiquity of the Gospel and the "Falling Away" — John Shaqi
Essentials in Church History: A History of the Church from the Birth of Joseph Smith to the Present Time (1922), with Introductory Chapters on the Antiquity of the Gospel and the "Falling Away"Smith, Joseph Fielding
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Essentials in Church History: A History of the Church from the Birth of Joseph Smith to the Present Time (1922), with Introductory Chapters on the Antiquity of the Gospel and the "Falling Away"
Smith, Joseph Fielding
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints -- History
"He also quoted the next verse differently: _And he shall plant in the
hearts of the children the promises made to the fathers, and the hearts
of the children shall turn to their fathers; if it were not so, the
whole earth would be utterly wasted at its coming._
"In addition to these, he quoted the eleventh chapter of Isaiah, saying
that it was about to be fulfilled. He quoted also the third chapter of
Acts, twenty-second and twenty-third verses, precisely as they stand
in our New Testament. He said that that prophet was Christ; but the
day had not yet come when they who would not hear his voice should be
cut off from among the people, but soon would come. He also quoted the
second chapter of Joel, from the twenty-eighth verse to the last. He
also said that this was not yet fulfilled, but was soon to be. And he
further stated that the fulness of the Gentiles was soon to come in. He
quoted many other passages of scripture, and offered many explanations
which cannot be mentioned here.
Moroni's Admonition
"Again, he told me, that when I got those plates of which he had
spoken--for the time that they should be obtained was not yet
fulfilled--I should not show them to any person; neither the
breastplate with the Urim and Thummim; only to those to whom I should
be commanded to show them; if I did I should be destroyed. While he was
conversing with me about the plates, the vision was opened to my mind
that I could see the place where the plates were deposited, and that so
clearly and distinctly that I knew the place again when I visited it.
"After this communication, I saw the light in the room begin to gather
immediately around the person of him who had been speaking to me, and
it continued to do so, until the room was again left dark, except just
around him, when instantly I saw, as it were, a conduit open right up
into heaven, and he ascended till he entirely disappeared, and the
room was left as it had been before this heavenly light had made its
appearance.
The Second Appearance of Moroni
"I lay musing on the singularity of the scene, and marveling greatly
at what had been told to me by this extraordinary messenger; when, in
the midst of my meditation, I suddenly discovered that my room was
again beginning to get lighted, and in an instant, as it were, the same
heavenly messenger was again by my bedside.
"He commenced, and again related the very same things which he had done
at his first visit, without the least variation; which having done, he
informed me of great judgments which were coming upon the earth, with
great desolations by famine, sword, and pestilence; and that these
grievous judgments would come on the earth in this generation. Having
related these things, he again ascended as he had done before.
The Third Appearance of Moroni
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