A man's vision of the gospel work in his youth
Published October 5, 2026 at 1:35 AM
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Millennial Star Research
The narrator reports that he had been shown the Latter-day Saint work in a vision when he was very young, long before he had met any members or knew how to find a man authorized by God to administer gospel ordinances.
Fuller account of this event (the complete account as preserved in The Latter-day Saints' Millennial Star, Vol. 29, No. 42, 19 October 1867):
I had been shown the Latter-day Saint work in a vision when I was very young, long before I had met any members or knew how to find a man authorized by God to administer gospel ordinances.
In Their Own Words
“I was not a pressed soldier, neither overcome by argument; I had been looking for such a work for years, and had been shown it in a vision when very young. I had been told by people that I ought to be a “Mormon,” as I believed as they did, but I knew nothing about them. My feelings were before I knew any of them, O that I knew where to find a man authorized of God as anciently, to administer unto me the ordinances of the Gospel. — Millennial Star 29:42”
Sources & References
The Latter-day Saints' Millennial Star (Manchester, later Liverpool, England, May 1840–1970), 19 October 1867 (Vol. 29, No. 42). https://archive.org/details/per_utah-and-the-mormons_the-latter-day-saints-millennial-star_1867-10-19_29_42 (account extracted verbatim from the issue's Internet Archive OCR text; research confidence: high) Complete account: The Latter-day Saints' Millennial Star, Vol. 29, No. 42, 19 October 1867 https://archive.org/details/per_utah-and-the-mormons_the-latter-day-saints-millennial-star_1867-10-19_29_42
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