SMH reprints article in SFH summarizing OP speech using the BOA to say JS was a descendant of Abraham.
- Type
- News (traditional)
- Source
- The Sydney Morning Herald LDS
- Hearsay
- Scribed SummaryReprintJournalism
- Reference
"Progress of Mormonism," The Sydney Morning Herald 34, no. 4953 (April 1, 1853): [2]
- Scribe/Publisher
- The Sydney Morning Herald
- Audience
- Reading Public
- Transcription
PROGRESS OF MORMONISM.
(From the San Francisco Herald.)
San Diego, January 10, 1853. We were last week favored with a deputation of "Elders" belonging to "the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints." One of them was kind enough to present me with a copy of the Deseret News, Extra, containing the proceedings of a conference held at Great Salt Lake City in August last. . . .
On the 29th of August, Professor Orson Pratt addressed the brethren and sisters:— . . .
He then goes on to prove, by reading from the Book of Abraham, translated from the Egyptian papyrus by the Prophet Joseph Smith, that Joe was a veritable descendant of Abraham, and as such endowed with peculiar rights and privileges by the Almighty; . . .
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