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After a certain individual camped under the Locust
trees in front of Samuel and Sarah Ann Bryson’s home, the trees became sacred
to the couple. Who camped under their trees in 1848 in Bountiful, Utah?
a.
Joseph Smith
b.
Martin Harris
c. Oliver Cowdery
d.
David Whitmer
Yesterday’s
answer:
D David Patten
From the 1839 mission to England: The gifts of the Spirit enjoyed by the
Saints included dreams, visions, and prophesying. On March 12, 1840, for
example, Anne Booth, a Manchester Saint, saw a recently martyred American
apostle preaching to spirits in prison (those in the spirit world who had not
heard the gospel in mortality) and was beginning to baptize them. John Wesley,
the eighteenth-century British reformer and founder of Methodism, was among
those spirits, and after the apostles baptized him, Wesley proceeded to baptize
others. Latter-day Saint doctrine does not suggest that the dead themselves
will baptize or be baptized in the spirit world, but Ann Booth’s vision clearly
anticipated the forthcoming doctrine and practice if baptism in behalf of the dead.
Significantly, the apostles had not yet even heard of the doctrine from Joseph
Smith, but Wilford Woodruff was so impressed when he heard about the vision
that he wrote a full report of it in his journal. No doubt the description of
the martyred American apostle brought to his mind memories of David W. Patten one
of the original members of the Quorum of the Twelve, who was killed in Missouri
at the Battle of Crooked River on October 25, 1838.
Men With a
Mission 1837-1841, James B. Allen et.
al, (Deseret Book, Salt Lake City, Utah: 1992), 93-94.
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