Show Biography of Brigham Young and History of the Monn Church By M. M R. R V Werner Jerner erner in L Ladies dies Horns Home Jo irr al aI 1 1111 i I I Continued from last week But there were o. o other hr CO consic era era era- bobs that brought D Brigham Young Youn- n to t to his hia final con conclusions His lis financial financial financial finan- finan finan finan- l cial condition lugs w-as was n not t good at th the tin time time- e- e and he w was s undoubtedly shrewd enough skeptical enough and well enough acquainted with the progress s of religious speculation in II i his neighborhood to realize t tint that asa as asa a business proposition this new religion re- re re religion rc-I rc ligion might be bo worth looking ing into A Another other Influence was tl that at of his family a and his friends His Ills brother Phineas and anel his father were convinced convinced convinced con con- vinced vinced of The truth resented presented by th the Cook Book of Mormon and his father was actually baptized into the new mew newchurch newchurch church a a. a few v lays ber before re Brigham was wag With his brother Phineas and his best friend Heber KImball Brigham visited a a. branch of ot the new church at Columbia Bradford county Pennsylvania They Thor spent a a. week investigating tho the religion In action When he returned home to Mendon Bl Brigham Young had be become convinced of oC the truth of ot MormonIsm Mormonism Mormon Mormon- I ism and he lie started for Canada where his brother Joseph whose opinion on religious matters matters' Brigham Brigham BrIgham Brig- Brig ham respected more than anybody's except his own was waa preaching Methodism Joseph was four years older than Brigham and ami he lie W was considered the theological expert of or ofte orte te to Camil family it is natural natura that Brigham Brigham Brig Brig- ham should consult him before doing doing doing do do- ing anything about this new opportunity opportunity opportunity to em embrace race Brigham Meets t tile the Prophet In March lI 1832 1332 the two brothers returned from Crom Canada and on April fifteenth when he was thirty years old Brigham Young was baptized into the Church of Jesus Christ o of Latter day His Isis father and his brother Joseph had both been baptized ed a few days before Brigham Brigham Brigham Brig- Brig ham IY Young ung said said later of his baptism I recollect the Sunday morning on 01 which I was baptized zed In fn my own little little little lit lit- tle mill stream I was ordained t to the office of an elder be before ore my clothes were wele dry upon upon 1 me A ACe fen fe months after their baptism Brigham Young ilg and his fri friend nd Heber Kim Kim- Kimball Kimball ball went t to Ohio Ohio to meet mec the now no prophet of God Joseph Smith Jr Brigham Young put in writing many many years later the details s sf f this memorable meeting We Ve went to his fa fathers father's hers her's house and learned that he was in the wo woods ds chopping We Ve immediately r repaired pait ed to the woods where we w wiO iO fount found the Mlle lh prop prophet t affil i and U tw for h e of liI Ills Ills I brothers chopping and l haul haul- jUg ng wood Here my joy was was as' as full atthe at atthe atthe the p h ll ge of oC shaking the hand 0 of the prophet het of God and am receiving reedy lug ing the sure testimony by hy the spirit of prophecy that that- he lie- was was was' all aJl that any mall man could coul believe beHove him hint to be as asa asa a true truc prophet He lIe was ha happy ry to see see us and aud bid Jid us its welcome Wo We soon returned to his house he lie accompanying accompanying us Its In the even evening ng a few ey of or the brethren came in and we the things of the conversed upon kingdom He lie called upon me 1110 to torl i I ko In rl u in my r prayer tongues As soon as we arose from the tIle brethren our knees around around him hint and asked his opinion concerning the gift girt of tongues that told them teem that was upon me tie lIe He the pure Intra Adamic lan language It was he lie him they expected Some ome said ome-said said to Brother Brothel would condemn the gift Ut Brigham had but he lie said No it is Is' or of the From History of oC God Church Vol I footnotes PP VP Brigham Young had picked ur up of tongues while on this divine e gift girt ot Of f the new newchurch newchurch the branch his bis visit to had church in Pennsylvania and used it effectively while whilo preaching g consisted of a It in New York babble of incomprehensible sounds supposed to be the tho which g were resting upon the spirit of God In Interpreted In- In these were speaker and l lese In li the cl b by br y another p person parson c con congregation reb as as soon as s the tile speaker speak uttered them theta er had tact I Joseph Smith 1 Jr was born at before I Sharon Vermont two days das Christmas In 1305 1805 He came into family where there thora an ultra-poor ultra c S 1 1 ry were er already three e Chi children c older I Ithan than he and and where there were cleo destined destined de cle- de- de o r to be six more mOr before he w was wasa s sa a man When he came camo to write the Book of Mormon Joseph Smith accounted accounted accounted ac ac- ac- ac counted himself a direct of ant-of tho the original Joseph of Israel The Thc Second Do Book ok of Nephi of the then n Book of Mormon rmon contains the prediction pre pre prediction diction Oll t that at a descend descendant of of the Jewish Joseph eph will one day arise arise who will also b be nam named d Joseph an anal ana who in the latter days will save the world by hy his revelations of oC the will of the Lord 0 f I When Joseph Smith was vas ten ye years rs old his father moved t the e famil family t to Palmyra Wayne Vayne county New York where he lie bought and cleared a farm Carm which he be lost because o of his Inability to pay the last Installment on Jt It it H He then moved to a similar farm in the neighboring village of or Manchester Joseph Joseph Smith received i few Cew educational opportunities H He knew how to read and to write I imperfectly and nd he elementary elementary ele ele- arithmetic But the most important events of Joseph Smiths Smith's you youth h were his religious j ence When he was fifteen years old there was stirring religious excitement excitement ex ex- ex- ex In his neighborhood Revivals Revivals Re Re- were flourishing nourishing People changed their religions religions- with religions with the arrival arrival arrival ar ar- ar- ar rival of new preachers Joseph was vas yas very much disturbed by this religious excitement and the result result-of of it on his adolescent mind was perplexity and m melancholy worry for his salvation First st Religious Experience A few years before he lie had been a L rough boy with battered hat lint clothes and mussed yellow v h ha har lr r joining in Yankee practical j with other farm boys as h ho hJ ran barefooted about Palmyra and anel Man Man- chester But Dut V no vague ns g of the future were beginning to disturb disturb dis dis- his placid mind He has left eft an Interesting InterestIng record in writing of his leis first religious ls experience at the age ago ot o of fifteen While I was vas laboring under the extreme tle ca caused by the l e contests of these parties of religion religion- rel fists I was one day raiding the Epistle Epistle- of James first chapter and I fifth fifth verse which reads If If inv any o of you lack lack wisdom let him ask of oC God that g vet ti unto all j Jer- Jer all ally and not l it shall be be- given him At i-At At length I I came to tho the tho thoc c conclusion l lu iou th that t I must must eith either r remain in dark dark- darkness darkness' ness mess and and confusion or 01 l else l lSe e I must c do as as s Jj ddll directs that that s a ask lc oG J. J God goS 1 I at came to the j determination lation to ask ask- of God God God concluding that if if the lie gave wisdom to then them that lacked wisdom wiMon and would give liberally and n not t upbraid I might venture S So So in iii accordance with with this my determination determination de de- termination to ask of ot God I retired to the woods to make the attempt It was on of the morning of a beautiful beautiful ful clear day early In the spring of eighteen hundred and twenty It was the first time In my life that I had made such an attempt for amidst all nIl my anxieties I had never as yet jet t made the attempt to pray vocally After he lie had liar looked about to make sure that he ie was alone and had kneeled in prayer he was seized upon by some power which entirely entirety overcame ne me me and had lead such aston astonishing astonishing astonish astonish- shin sh- sh in ing influence over me nie as a to bind my tongue t so o that I could not speak Thick darness gathered aroun around l me nie and it seemed to me nie for a L time as asIf asif asit If it I we were e doomed to sudden Ge lIe de He lie prayed fervently to God Goel and aud then Just at t this moment moment mo mo- ment inert of or great alarm I saw a a. pillar of ot light exactly over m my head above the brightness of or the sun sun which gradually until it fell upon me Wh When n the light rested upon me mc I saw two personages whose brightness and glory deC defy all description standing above aboe mo rile 10 In the tho air Quo Ono of them shake unto me hue calling me by name and said pointing to tp the other othel This Is Ismy my mr be beloved d loved sou hear him Mm Wen Off on onAs As soon soon as he could talk tall Joseph asked the two glorious personages On Last Page |