AHC records a retelling of ZC's account of JS seeing Heavenly Mother.

Date
Aug 25, 1890
Type
Book
Source
Abraham H. Cannon
LDS
Hearsay
Direct
Reprint
Reference

Abraham H. Cannon, Transcription taken from Candid Insights of a Mormon Apostle: The Diaries of Abraham H. Cannon, 1889-1895, ed. Edward Leo Lyman (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 2010), 123.

Scribe/Publisher
Signature Books
People
Joseph Smith, Sr., Abraham H. Cannon, Zebedee Coltrin
Audience
N/A
Transcription

[August 25, 1890; Monday, in Richfield] Pres. Petersen told of an incident which he often heard Zebedee Coltrin relate. One day the Prophet Joseph [Smith] asked him and Sidney Rigdon to accompany him into the woods to pray. When they had reached a secluded spot Joseph laid down on his back and stretched out his arms. He told the brethren to lie one each arm, and then shut their eyes. After they had prayed he told them to open their eyes. They did so and saw a brilliant light surrounding a pedestal which seemed to rest on the earth. They closed their eyes and again prayed. They then saw, on opening them, the Father stead on a throne; they prayed again and on looking saw the Mother also; after praying and looking for the fourth time they saw the Savior added to the group. He had auburn-brown, rather long wavy hair and appeared quite young.

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