Source:Orson Hyde:A Cry out of the Wilderness:Joseph lapsed into the errors and vanities of the world

Orson Hyde (1842): "Some time after he had been given these heavenly revelations (in his earlier years), he lapsed into the errors and vanities of the world"

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Orson Hyde (1842): "Some time after he had been given these heavenly revelations (in his earlier years), he lapsed into the errors and vanities of the world"

The vision closed and peace and calm filled his mind. Some time after he had been given these heavenly revelations (in his earlier years), he lapsed into the errors and vanities of the world, which he later was genuinely sorry for.[1]

Notes

  1. "Orson Hyde, Ein Ruf aus der Wüste (A Cry out of the Wilderness), 1842, extract, English translation," The Joseph Smith Papers.