Rigas Pofantis's Vision of a Stranger from Turkey

Rigas Pofantis dreamed of a man dressed in a European suit but wearing a Turkish fez who led him to a modern steamship to show him its machinery and perfection. Pofantis felt this represented someone coming from Turkey to show him the true Church. When Elder F. F. Hintze, President of the Turkish Mission, later visited Athens, Pofantis recognized him as the man from his dream.

Fuller account of this event (as retold in The Latter-day Saints' Millennial Star, Vol. 68, No. 8 (February 22, 1906), p. 122):

Some time before this letter was written to the Church in Utah, Rigas Pofantis had a dream, in which he saw a man, dressed in a common European suit, but having on his head a Turkish fess. This stranger asked him what kind of tools or machinery he had in his shop, and upon Mr. Pofantis showing him some of a very crude style, the stranger bade him follow, and led him down to Piraeus, took him into one of the most modern steamships in the harbor, and showed him the beautiful machinery and the perfection of the whole structure and workmanship of the boat. He was impressed with this dream that some man would come from Turkey to show him the perfect Church—the ship of Zion—and immediately he wrote several letters to friends in Asia Minor and Constantinople, inquiring if they knew of a man who had 'all the truths of the Gospel.' Elder F. F. Hintze, then President of the Turkish mission, called at Athens, according to their request, reaching there late in March and remaining about ten days. Mr. Pofantis immediately recognized his face as being that of the man from Turkey he had seen in his dream, though without his fess.