Dreams

Seventh Vision of Joseph Smith Sr.

Published October 27, 2026 at 6:21 PM

1810s · 1819
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Joseph Smith Sr. dreamt of a man with a peddler's budget who visited him seven times. The man told him he was honest in his dealings and had balanced weights, but that he lacked one thing to secure his salvation, which the man promised to write down before the dreamer woke up.

In Their Own Words

““T dreamed,” said he, “that a man with a peddler’s budget on his back, came in, and thus addressed me: ‘Sir, will you trade with me to-day? I have now. called upon you seven times, I have traded with you each time, and have always found you strictly honest in all your dealings. Your measures are always heaped, and your weights overbalance; and I have now come to tell you that this is the last time I shall ever call on you, and that there is but one thing which you lack in order to secure your salvation.’ As 1 earnestly desired to know what it was that I still lacked I requested him to write the same upon paper. He said that he would do so. I then sprang to get some paper, but, in my excitement, I awoke.” — Lucy Mack Smith, History of Joseph Smith by His Mother, Chapter XVIIL”

Sources & References

Lucy Mack Smith, History of Joseph Smith by His Mother (Biographical Sketches of Joseph Smith), first published 1853, Chapter XVIIL. https://archive.org/details/biographicalsket0000lucy (account extracted verbatim from the book's Internet Archive OCR text; research confidence: high)

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Lucy Mack Smith, History of Joseph Smith by His Mother (Biographical Sketches of Joseph Smith), first published 1853, Chapter XVIIL. The full source citation appears in the Sources section below, with links to the original where available.

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