
FAIR is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing well-documented answers to criticisms of the doctrine, practice, and history of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
George A. Smith, The Rise, Progress, and Travels of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, being a series of Answers to Questions, including the Revelation on Celestial Marriage, and a Brief Account of the Settlement of Salt Lake Valley, with Interesting Statistics (1869): 30 [page 37 in later editions] [quoting from Wentworth letter Times and Seasons 3. 706] page 30 includes First Vision [page 37 in later editions]:
I had confidence in the declaration of James … I retired to a secret place in a grove and began to call upon the Lord…. I was enwrapped in a heavenly vision, and saw two glorious personages, who exactly resembled each other in features and likeness, surrounded with a brilliant light, which eclipsed the sun at noonday. They told me that all religious denominations were believing in incorrect doctrines, and that none of them was acknowledged of God as His church and kingdom. And I was expressly commanded to ‘go not after them;’ at the same time receiving a promise that the fullness of the gospel should at some future time be made known unto me. On the evening of the 21st of September, A.D. 1823 …” [1]
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