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FootnoteOn April 6, 1853, Pratt gave a speech on Spiritual Communication in the Conference in Salt Lake City. His speech is recorded in the Journal of Discourses 2:43. http://muhlestein.info/journalofdiscourses/Vol_02/index.htm Some excerpts are provided below: [Pratt...

FootnotePratt’s description of Rigdon: “About this time one Mr. Sidney Rigdon came into the neighborhood as a preacher, and it was rumored that he was a kind of Reformed Baptist, who, with Mr. Alexander Campbell, of Virginia, a Mr. Scott, and some other gifted men,...

Footnotehttp://www.sidneyrigdon.com/dbroadhu/IL/mischig.htm Alvin Smith, Joseph’s oldest brother who died in 1823, also traveled west. Dr. John Stafford recalled that “A son, Alvin, went out West in search of wealth, but was unsuccessful and in a short time returned.”...

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FootnoteEarly Mormon Documents 5 287-291 Dan Vogel, ed., Early Mormon Documents, 3 vols. (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1996-2000, 3:177-79).