[I]t was during a time the brother tells us, that he was praying that the angel, as he calls it, appeared to him. He says that while he was praying, a bright cloud like that of fire appeared before him and in that cloud he saw some person dressed in a robe of exquisit whiteness above the whiteness of the driven snow, if possible. He says at first sign of the personage a spirit of fear fell upon him, and for a moment his strength left him, but the personage spoke to him and said, fear not for I have come to deliver unto you a message and tell you that God has chosen you for a great work, and that the Lord would reveal in due time what that work should be. The brother further states that this personage told him that none of the churches of the day were right. By further instructions from this personage whom the brother calls an angel, the brother was told that there was a record that had been hid for ages containing the history of a people that once inhabited this country the land of America, and that said record contained the fulness of the gospel of Christ. The place of the deposit of this record was shown the brother in the vision that appeared before him, it was further shown him in the vision that he was to obtain this record. It is here in this part of my history of this strange vision as related by my brother, that I will mention the circumstances that took place at the time the brother told his story of the angel's visit to his father's family. It was on an occasion like this: while my brothers Alvin, Hyrum, Samuel and myself were at work in an adjoining field near the house, my mother came to us and said that we were all requested to come into the house, that Joseph had something to tell us. It was in this manner that Joseph related his vision of the angel appearing to him before his father's family, and the story told my this brother of the angel's visit was fully believed in by every member of the family as there coiuld be no cause why they should dispute the brother's testimony, from the fact that my father's family was educated, under the teaching of the strictest kind of a religious influence.