Tongues / Interpretation of Tongues

Missouri Persecutions Described in Detail Through the Gift of Tongues

1830s · 1838

United States

Benjamin Brown

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Benjamin Brown (autobiography)

During the Missouri persecutions of the Latter-day Saints around 1838, the sufferings and trials being inflicted upon the Missouri Saints were described in vivid and accurate detail through the gift of tongues and interpretation of tongues — before the full news of those events had reached those present. This miraculous foreknowledge through spiritual gifts served as a witness of divine awareness of the Saints' suffering and the reality of the gifts of the Spirit.

Sources & References

Benjamin Brown, Testimonies for the Truth (Liverpool: S.W. Richards, 1853), Chapter II; https://doctrineandcovenantscentral.org/history/benjamin-brown/

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