A Wonder of the World

 

 

Gilbert Belnap, an early member of the Church, referred to what as a “wonder of the world?”

 

a.      The Joseph Smith birthplace

b.      The Nauvoo Temple

c.       The Salt Lake Temple

d.      The Kirtland Temple

Yesterday’ s answer:

 

a.                  The feeling around Nauvoo after Joseph and Hyrum where martyred.

 

The following is in relation to the desertion of Carthage, Ill., after the martyrdom of Joseph and Hyrum Smith.

   “As soon as this was done the whole country was deserted; men, women and children fled for their lives, not taking time to shut their doors after them. Stores were left standing open and there was gloom cast over the country, so much that strangers passing through the country spoke of it. As I was out looking, I met a stranger. He ask me what was the matter. That everything looks so gloomy and lonesome. I told him that last evening (27^th of June, 1844) Joseph Smith the Prophet and his brother Hyrum were murdered at the Carthage Illinois, and the people here all fled and left the country and when the blood of a prophet is shed it has a tendency to cast a gloom over the country.”

Autobiography of Lewis Barney, http://www.boap.org/