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Solomon Chamberlain - Two Wicked Preachers Punished After Rejecting the Book of Mormon

1820s · 1829
Reformed Methodist Conference and Free Will Baptist Camp Meeting
Solomon Chamberlain, Preacher Buckly, William Lake, Brigham Young, Phineas Young

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Solomon Chamberlain documented divine judgment upon two preachers who rejected the Book of Mormon. At a Reformed Methodist conference where approximately 40 preachers gathered, Chamberlain labored for two days to convince them of the truth of the Book of Mormon. He wrote: 'One of their greatest preachers so called, by the name of Buckly, (if a mistake not) abused me very bad, and ordered me off from their premises. He was soon taken crazy, and died a miserable death.' Later, he encountered another prominent preacher named William Lake at a Free Will Baptist camp meeting who 'utterly condemned it and rejected it, who spurned at me and the Book and said, if it was of God, do you think He would send such a little upstart as you are around with it? But he soon after died a poor drunken sot.' These were clear demonstrations of divine justice against those who mocked God's word and its messengers.

Sources & References

Solomon Chamberlain Autobiography (1788-1862), written July 11, 1858, Holograph HBLL, josephsmithsermons.org

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