George Q. Cannon — Vision of the Savior

George Q. Cannon recorded a sacred experience in which he saw the Savior, Jesus Christ. While he was generally reserved about the details of this manifestation, he bore solemn testimony of the reality of the resurrected Lord based on this personal vision. His journals, which span over fifty years, contain references to this and other sacred manifestations that occurred during his service as an Apostle and member of the First Presidency.

Fuller account of this event (as retold in Daniel Peterson, “George Q. Cannon and Seeing the Savior,” Patheos, August 12, 2017):

Roberts, who was there, recorded in his journal that Cannon testified that he knew Jesus was the Christ, that “he had seen and conversed with Christ as a man talks with his friend.” Marriner Wood Merrill, also in attendance, heard precisely the same language, quoting Cannon as saying that he “had seen and conversed with [Christ] as a man talks with his friend.” The “feelings of all were subdued” by this testimony, Merrill noted. Francis Asbury Hammond, using his own rough-hewn language rather than that of the articulate Cannon, reports him as testifing, “I have been greatly favored of the Lord. My mind has been opened to see the Savior and I have conversed with him as a man converses with his friend.”