| Show 14 7 2 q 1 ff qa I 1 p 1 1 1 i j ti W ta V N q 1 I 1 alf I 1 J I 1 I 1 I 1 4 2 1 I 1 m ll 11 V I 1 I 1 i I 1 I 1 I 1 io 1 r m V r 1 I T 1 aia 11 I 1 1 1 1 F I 1 cyz q 1 0 w M I 1 11 ar ak I 1 I 1 i f I 1 41 I 1 4 5 r 1 11 a I 1 11 I 1 L I 1 I 1 1 V I 1 41 1 I ir I 1 airo 1 1 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 i 1 Y I 1 1 I 1 1 1 1 1 I 1 4 L 1 bif 11 1 1 11 9 11 T r i I 1 7 f fj 11 r 4 J i 0 t 1 A I 1 I 1 1 5 T i I 1 r k 34 T ti I 1 I 1 h I 1 I 1 I 1 k Z L I 1 ay iy 1 I i T 4 1 1 t I 1 p M 1 11 1 J IV 1 i 1 I 1 q I 1 iv ir i 1 I 1 I 1 i IV I 1 ia k I 1 r t 1 oc 1 I 1 I 1 P IT ll 11 W t ll 11 1 daae 11 19 it 0 V et 1 i I 1 eza V 1 na l V 1 I 1 wi i 11 j A 1 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 hy nak A V lk ms 4 4 ta 11 V J AI h ar i V N 4 71 q I 1 I 1 r 1 I 1 11 1 rz h i ka ja I 1 I 1 1 L V I 1 i I 1 14 I 1 p 0 ab r C I 1 A I 1 Z effi vm I 1 I 1 I 1 w k I 1 azz 1 I 1 agn 79 1 aliz ak T A G 1 AND PROPHET JOSEPH september 2 51 1827 nas as t the he jay day set apart by the angel to ini et tile hie your yonna 1 prophet jo Joc cepl sil billith lith on oil the hill Cul Cuino norall rali chero tile prophet nas ial to receive tile the gold plates the breast plate and thu the arini and the picture shows hoNs the angel delivering livering dul do iverine them with 1 a I charge cli arge to the young mail inn holding the arim and in his hand anciently ns as found in the flie bible it hore giorc that name the purpose ise of those interpreters pr eters or gritu and was to give power to it ingate tile the characters cn en graen upon the book of plates plate whid joseph sanith is holding hold iii in liis his land hand it becomes necdet try tot for an all explanation to lie be made rardin bowding a 11 previous vision or rather two of if them which was to prepare so young a lal all to perform so go great and marvelous a work as aa was before this chosen vessel ot of the lord to per pei form forin 1 orne have marveled at the choice which the lord made in selecting so EO youns and unlearned anle arned a boy to tiring bring about so important a i work this wonder mender lion hov ever sever may eniy axell ft ell be modified when lien we vile take into consideration the lords being s BO 0 different and above I 1 nans mans ave ait is is written ritten in tile the bible as tile alaene Ila ene are higher than tile ear eaith ill so are the lords ways an example of gods choos iii those hose whom he will was plainly manifested when david the shepherd rd boy was chosen as a king to reign over his choson people ciple israel it way may be befell ell to refer to the hatli chapter of ast 1st samuel which says aud and the lord said unto samuel lill fill thine horn with oil and go I 1 will send thee to jesse the mite for I 1 have provided mo ine a king kin among his eon i and I 1 lie ba notified ban tined jesso jesse and his bons eons he looked upon eliab and said surely tho the lord lords it an is before him but the lord said raid unto Sai samuel nuel look riot not on his hie countenance or on oil the hicl hecht ht of his because I 1 liae refused him for alim alie lord seeth not as man inan edeith for man on oil the outi outlaid vaid appear appearance nce but the lord louneth louk etli on the heart it was wag not until se seen ell sons had been presented that the boy bov out I 1 herding tile sheep was call called W for and tire ord lord 1 chose him and the spirit ot of the lord canite came upon david in him for or liis his great and high calling peter ilia apostle was as called from his bis fishing net art to be a 1 I fisher of souls as were also alao liia his fellow apostles allot all of them unlearned excepting 1 aul ubo called afterwards and as the lord chose chobe his ancient disciples of tile poor and weak as to t the I 1 je wisdom and rudiments ments of tile world why not do the same in our aea well ve e tay hay be lus lias done so BO and god lias has established a church hem hein an all one as has caused the NN wisdom of the wi wise wic c to perish some have found fault at al tile llie gentlemanly man ly appearance appear ance of llie lite prophet in ili the engraving lie has been styled as a farmer boy bute but we lor ber it is 19 1 7 years after ho he xiaq was called ismile chile praying in tile glove blien lie was 14 and now as 13 lie is over 2 21 1 and al soi 0 married a rrie d man I 1 only iOnly a few da daa 8 after attending in in tile tie pre presence ence of 0 the angel le he was ili in ins its dress drees we u prefer seeing him in his marriage marri se suit sait only a few ears eara after in 1831 1 1 hae fen him dressed similarly tire the 1 diess I I 1 es no dif difference Terence lie was called not it by the voice oi of man but it by y tile lords voice from the heavens nis making inuring the latter day saints a distinct and amid a ye peculiar rullar people for all other oilier of the llie religious balo believe that god lus has ceased to speak to in mortals although lie always dw did thus reveal larl aind al lias made a promis ii that lie will wil I 1 to do nothing without revealing himself or ilia big unto liia ilia ferrauti Ferva uti tire the prophets amos ainoa III chapter I 1 marvel enarvel why people be so skeptical as other marvel all why there are su s many belio illg til that it GU go lias hab again broken llie lite long allence lence ei El hut but wo we are riot not dependant upon the word ord of one nian man alone we s e have no lega lees than live five sus mils all of whom tile llie writer lias has both seen and lidard testify that they have beard tile the voice and ally seen alir heavenly ines benger who le Is healed himself to the young man who isho is to bo be seen been in the picture the first vision ol of joseph occurred in the spring of as 0 to use his hia own words lie ho says 1 I vas mag at this time it in nay iny year my fathers imily as to t alie le frebby terian faith and four of t bliem eni ilind that cli 11 during tin great excitement and revival meetings mel ine tings miny converts were sere gatli gathered ered in and I 1 decarne partial to tile odit ecat aay mind was wag greatly excited ilie hie were most inot decided by against the bab and methodists in the midst of this war of words and tu tumuli hurault of opinions I 1 often said raid to iny myself NO what is to be done who of all alece lire are right and how hov shall I 1 know ono one day reading james let chapter it it if any of you lack wis windom doin let him ask of god that giloth liberally and up not bot and aej it chall lie be 9 givan 1 n him this becthel to enter 1 with 1 ie 11 gr great cat force into ebery feeling of my illy I 1 heart eart if any peron per on needed wisdom from roin jod god I 1 did it was on oil the in orning morning of a beautiful clear day early in tire spring ot 01 after I 1 retire 11 to the lie place ilice in it a 1 groe roie I 1 kneeled do to it I 1 bean wan to offer up the dasins of my heart I 1 experienced a power of darkness which Ii ieli hall had such lucli astonishing influence oer me as tr to bind my illy tongue it seemed to tile for a tune little us ab if I 1 nvere mere doomed to sudden cut but I 1 exerted all ili my powers to call all upon god jw to deh delner wine me out of the power of his enemy which hall had U upon pon me ine lust just atlhia at I 1 ilia moment of great alarm I 1 saw a pil pilli air of light above the bright nebs lesi sot it the he sun which dec decender ended upon ne me I 1 found myself delivered from the which bield tire me baund I 1 siw saw wo HO whose brightness and lory alory deev af all description 1 n stand standing ing bove above rite me in the air 0 one of f klicin b ent lipare unto tire illing calling c rite me by name air aej said pointing to the other oilier this is my beloved son eon hear him As soon as I 1 N was as attic able to speak I 1 naked asked the pel senates rr s who lie stood above abai e in the light is which OF tile the sects was a s right and which rich I 1 join I 1 was mas answered that I 1 should jet join it none of them for they N were ere all is wrens rons they teach for d doctrine 0 carine tile the coin commandments inand of nien men I 1 was kas forbidden to join any of thern them I 1 was vias I 1 in il sti ticked to bo be prayerful keep good company and it would be made known unto tire me w u hat course to pursue at 1 a I future per period icid some time after the vision was made knon known n to a methodist Ileth odist preacher who treated it stith con ing it casall was all from froin the llie devil that there was wag no fuh fuch thice as af a f visions I 1 or revelations leve lations in fit these alts that all such euch things haid had ceased cased with ith the llie apostle Apost leb and wat that there never F rould be any more of thern them the ministers iter sand ind atif ot aers per persecuted secured hini him which caused him deep sorrow alth although ough an abs ol 01 tire lire boy bov and d doomed to tile necessity it y of if obtaining a canty scanty s maintenance by lit hia daily labor but strange orange to sly ay lie became very prominent and eon conica ous it and evil wits was spoken of leini continually nevertheless novel th elees lie had seen EC en a J vision an and 1 lil like e vaul before king agrippa feted K cited tile account of the vision lie had when lie aw av 1 1 I light and heard a vi vice ice 11 still there mcie few fen who he believed him bint some said lie ho was as ol 01 honest others said ile he was sos mad a and n d U hf like joeph Joir plit wag is ridiculed anil and reviled but all this did riot not destroy the re alit I 1 of liis is vision lie he lad bad seen lie he knew lie ho had and all the persecution under heaven could coul 1 not lot mahe inake it others ise and Joli epli smith said 1 I have actually seen it a vision and a lio lie am abrim I 1 that I 1 can ithe tand god or aby does the world third think to make me deny 11 what hat I 1 li ivo actually seen seel to for I 1 biad seen a vision ision I 1 knew it I 1 knew alin 1111 god knew it and I 1 could not deny I 1 it neither late dare I 1 do it at least I 1 1 knew by go doing I 1 would offend 0 god 0 d and cone come tin under der conderi condemnation mation three ali ace yearb lie continued his labors labore daily until ibe nd oi of september 1823 3 after retiring to his bed in quite a serious lie ile shortly betook retook himself to prayer and supplication to almighty oil jod tor lor a toni manifestation of iris his standing ta before him and while thus engaged liu lie received tile the following vision using ill 01 11 words 11 while I 1 wil was thus 1 in I luc lie act of if calling upon bod I 1 disc discovered overe d a light appearing in the hits rooi which continued to lu in increase creast until the alie room was lighter than at noonday noon day alien bell a per obige t appeared at atma iriv bell bed side s standing ta adins ili in the air lie ile had on oil a to buoi ome u r robe c hands were nake biked d ilia bis head anil live arck k were ere also bale lie lidd had no noot oilier er 01 on bit b it its his robe lobe inot A ot only was as ins its rube white bite hut but liis his whole I 1 erson was glorious beyond description and his truly like lightning the room liblit but not bo very brial a immediately around 11 unit liis his peri oll when I 1 first looked looked upon hirn him I 1 miia as iid but the tear fear eutin left tire ine llo ile called rite me by byname name aud and said unto to rite me that lie was a messenger sent froni from the llie pre grebence bence of god to 1 ue me and that ins name was mormon t that hat god had a work ork for tile me i to 0 do and that my illy should hi br had bill tot for good and ev evil 1 I imm anon all nations kindred and tongues 11 NOW mow 1 ask seventy years after that ditc d itc 1823 it if this angels words have not lot bee been fulfilled to thu the letter ue de further said whereas a book deposited britten sr itten upon gold gol plates giving an account of dl tile the fornier former inhabitants of tins ills country all aal tile the collice from whence they 11 lit 1517 mexico was discovered with wit its in lu illions of indians Im lians and the gold plates here spoken of gi gic e tile tho bistor lii hi stor story of then them and I 1 invite all men inen to lo read thein as translated into the hook book of mormon furthermore tile angel a said aid that the fullner falli ug of the everlasting aoa pei acl isile M us contained lit in it by tins the soviet savior to tile the ancient inhabitants inh abitante those spoken of in another chapter from buo years B C aiom whom tho Ante american rican indians Indi ins sprang as 18 found on oil the alic gold pl ittes aso also that there acro ere two stories atones in silver bows bos as to be seen in tile the hands of the Augel in this picture and further explained lit iu time the picture or of the 7 lines ui bf ch arac in ill an oilier chapter joseph smith ii under the instruction of ill the angel Nl moroni tor for four our years first front from the ape age of 13 to 17 years ill under del the direction of god tile father father and jesus the son second front fi the age of 17 to 21 lie was wag bell being d directed i tell a and lid it his is you youthful t it f ul days strengthened mgt I 1 I 1 in this ibis lesli school bhoge whoso teacher wis sent of goil from Il heaven caen gerein is the grand secret of the of tills this so called unlearned young nian man vibo ho ats unable able to spell ill the 0 word woid characters properly ia is seen been n lin hij oil own it writing above afie llio seven lines 0 of tile other engraving grai tg and as isiah ahli cha chapter ter anil and fic 12 verse veree makes fco be plain where lie pays the book which hns has been delivered to hini that is i not learned saying road I 1 pi liay ay th thee the e and lie eab babeth eth I 1 am ain lot learl learned Cd it must bo be distinctly understood that the prophet became eminently sell nell educated not nor or only ly her being ng taught laugh I 1 as N were ere till nil ancient prophets by di 1 ine ina revelation but lie learned the lie hebrew language lor for a high school tit ot the prophets was estable established 8 led in kirtland kirtlan ohio where it was no disgrace for tire azad age d rs Ps well as the youra to be promoted in the HIP higher branches of education for the I 1 ord lord told I 1 mini to read all useful history ind good books selecting all useful etro addge consequently his hill suc success ceils and superior advantages came to him by being taught line upon line precept upon precept pi here a little aud and there a little until lie ho was waa cria enabled bled to organize a church which as aa it increases in ili age is being copied by macy of the different sects of to day as many of its principles are more liberal and biblical than tile doctrines of man itis becoming be comini more inore widely known that alie churm church h of jesus christ ol 01 latter day saints is an air exact copy of the church of jesus christ of tot doimer iner days and the toiuo is is coming coining N when 1 en the christian orld will either cither adopt it as bible Duc doctrine trine or become infidels now after 1 a I brief view of the prosplr up tip to shere we e find him iu tire the picture reaching rec hing ching the plates and tire m i harge barge concerning them that he is I 1 receiving e ce cei we ie will proceed with liis his after life when first got the plates the angel of the lord stood by him saying now ov you have got the record into your own hand and ac are but a man therefore you will have to be watchful and faithful to your trust or you wi will 1 1 be overpowered by wicked men f for r they wilt will lay ever every plan and scheme that hat is possible to get it away assay front from you and it if you do riot not take heed continually they will succeed while ill it was irs iu in my hands I 1 could keep it and no man had power to take it away but now I 1 give it up to you beu IS ettare are an and d look ni 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