Source:Joseph Smith:Interview, JS by David Nye White:1843:The vision then vanished

Joseph Smith (1843): "The vision then vanished...I went home and told the people that I had a revelation"

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Joseph Smith (1843): "The vision then vanished...I went home and told the people that I had a revelation"

The vision then vanished, and when I come to my self, I was sprawling on my back; and it was sometime before my strength returned. When I went home and told the people that I had a revelation[1]

Notes

  1. "Interview, 21 August 1843, extract," Interview, JS by David Nye White, Nauvoo, IL, 21 Aug. 1843; in David Nye White, “The Prairies, Nauvoo, Joe Smith, the Temple, the Mormons, &c.” Pittsburgh Weekly Gazette, 15 Sept. 1843, p. [3]; photocopy at CHL. The Joseph Smith Papers.