Mr. Durant of Salt Lake City, "That Mormon"Rich, Ben. E. (Benjamin Erastus)
Religion
Mr. Durant of Salt Lake City, "That Mormon"
Rich, Ben. E. (Benjamin Erastus)
Latter Day Saints -- Fiction; Salt Lake City (Utah) -- Fiction
"After telling me these things, he commenced quoting the prophecies
of the Old Testament. He first quoted part of the third chapter of
Malachi, and he quoted also the fourth or last chapter of the same
prophecy, though with a little variation from the way it reads in
our Bibles. Instead of quoting the first verse as it reads in our
books, he quoted it thus: 'For behold, the day cometh that shall
burn as an oven, and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly,
shall burn as stubble, for they that come shall burn them, saith
the Lord of Hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor
branch.' And again, he quoted the fifth verse thus: 'Behold I will
reveal unto you the priesthood by the hand of Elijah the prophet,
before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord.' 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
of hearts the children shall turn to their fathers; if it were not
so, the whole earth would be utterly wasted at His 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 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
to the last verse. He also said that this was not yet fulfilled,
but was soon to be. And he further stated, the fullness of the
Gentiles was soon to come in. He quoted many other passages of
scripture, and offered many explanations which cannot be mentioned
here. 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 up till he
entirely disappeared, and the room was left as it had been before
this heavenly light had made its appearance.
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