Elder
George Albert Smith visited the Chicago’s World Fair. While there he met with
Mr. Dawes, the president of the fair. What was Elder Smith given by this man?
A)
$40,000 worth of pioneer genealogy
B)
A discount ticket to the fair
C)
A promise of a better location for the
Mormon pavilion at the next World’s Fair
D)
An invitation for the Mormon Tabernacle
Choir to sing at the fair.
Yesterday’s answer:
(C)
A vision similar to Joseph Smith’s first vision
The following is related by Harrison Burgess
On the third Sabbath in May while speaking to a congregation I declared
that I knew that the Book of Mormon and the work of God were true. The next day
while laboring in the field something seemed to whisper to me, “Do you know the
book [Book] of Mormon is true?” My mind became perplexed and darkened, and I
was so tormented in spirit that I left my work and retired into the woods. The
misery and distress that I there experienced cannot be described. The tempter
all the while seemed to say, “Do you know that the Book of Mormon is true?”
I remained in this situation about two hours. Finally I resolved to
know, by exercising faith similar to that which the Brother of Jared possessed,
whether I had proclaimed the truth or not, and commenced praying to the God of
Heaven for a testimony of these things. Suddenly a glorious personage clothed
in white stood before me and exhibited to my view the plates from which the
Book of Mormon was taken.
Harrison Burgess,
“Labor in the Vineyard,” Twelfth Book of
the Faith Promoting Series, p. 65-6.
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