Deseret Alphabet
In
October 1853 Brigham Young formed a committee composed of Heber C. Kimball,
Parley P. Pratt, and George D. Watt to produce a new alphabet known as the
Deseret alphabet. Brigham Young recognized the different languages in the Salt
Lake Valley due to the gathering and the challenges it presented in
communication, hence the idea for the new alphabet (The alphabet was used for a
few years, but never really caught on the way Brigham Young had hoped). In
which country did some LDS elders recognize characters of the Deseret alphabet?
A)
Canada
B)
Wales
C)
Denmark
D)
Sandwich Islands (Hawaii)
Yesterday’s answer:
(D)
Future events
The following from
the journal of Jesse N. Smith relating his experience while attending the
dedication of the Salt Lake Temple on April 8, 1893:
Received
special permits for self and sons, for Uncle Silas and Bro. L. H. Hatch to
attend all the temple services. Attended twice a day with two exceptions until
the evening of the 18th instant. Pres. Woodruff taught that to enjoy
the Holy Spirit was a greater testimony to any man than to enjoy the presence
of an angel. Said he never witnessed so great an outpouring of the Holy Spirit
but once before, and that was when Joseph Smith said that Adam lived to be
older than any other man, but died inside the thousand year limit. Said once in
A. O. Smoot’s mother’s house an angel appeared to him and showed him a panorama
of future events. Also of seeing a vision of thousands of the Lamanites enter
the temple by the door in the west end of the building previously unknown to
him. They took charge of the temple and could do as much in an hour as the
other brethren could do in a day. He prophesied that the Presidency and Twelve
would never again be disunited, but if any one of them got wrong the Lord would
remove them.
Oliver
R. Smith, ed., The Journal of Jesse
Nathaniel Smith-1834-1906 (Provo: Jesse N. Smith Family Assn., 1970), 393.
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