Title :
One person immediately disobeyed the
Year :
1834
POI :
Booth,Ely,Howe,Smith,Rigdon,Page
City :
Missouri
Scripture Reference :
Content :
One person immediately disobeyed the obligation to obey Joseph Smith. Ezra Booth, a Methodist preacher who converted to Mormonism and was present for the temple site dedication, left the Church. Eber Howe published Booths nine letters in Mormonism Unvailed(1834). Booth: When I embraced Mormonism, I conscientiously believed it to be of GodOn our arrival in the western part of the State of Missouri the place of our destination, we discovered that prophecy and vision had failed, or rather had proved false. -- The fact was so notorious, and the evidence so clear, that no one could mistake it -- so much so, that Mr. Rigdon himself said that "Joseph's vision was a bad thing." This was glossed over, apparently, to the satisfaction of most persons present; but not fully to my own
Notes :
Howe, E. D., 1834. Mormonism Unvailed. https://archive.org/details/mormonismunvaile00howe/page/198/mode/2up
One person immediately disobeyed the
Year :
1834
POI :
Booth,Ely,Howe,Smith,Rigdon,Page
City :
Missouri
Scripture Reference :
Content :
One person immediately disobeyed the obligation to obey Joseph Smith. Ezra Booth, a Methodist preacher who converted to Mormonism and was present for the temple site dedication, left the Church. Eber Howe published Booths nine letters in Mormonism Unvailed(1834). Booth: When I embraced Mormonism, I conscientiously believed it to be of GodOn our arrival in the western part of the State of Missouri the place of our destination, we discovered that prophecy and vision had failed, or rather had proved false. -- The fact was so notorious, and the evidence so clear, that no one could mistake it -- so much so, that Mr. Rigdon himself said that "Joseph's vision was a bad thing." This was glossed over, apparently, to the satisfaction of most persons present; but not fully to my own
Notes :
Howe, E. D., 1834. Mormonism Unvailed. https://archive.org/details/mormonismunvaile00howe/page/198/mode/2up