We continued in this church, which to us was the nearest pattern to our Saviour's teachings, until Parley P. Pratt and another Elder preached the Everlasting Gospel in Kirtland. Sidney Rigdon was then a great Campbellite preacher. He received the Gospel at the house of Isaac Morley, who...
Hence Mormonism finds favor with a large class who must have some religion or other, and likes that faith best which comes nearest the level of their prejudices and passions. What educated man ever, in good faith, embraced its absurdities! It does little or no good to spread before the ...
On the way back to his home his 'conscience seized him and his sins stared him in the face.' Retiring to the woods to pray, he received the spiritual light which turned him toward the nearest Shaker community in the town of Harvard, Massachusetts." How long Barton remained a Shaker, ...
For several weeks we had no other help at case than the wife, as apprentice under instructions, and at the press, than the saddler, our nearest neighbor; who would for pastime come in and beat awhile. (Inking the type was done with a couple of balls, like large negro-heads, but the...