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What Manner of Man:

A Weekly Program to Better Know the Savior

 

Week 14 -- Extra-Centeredness

By Linda and Richard Eyre

 

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The First Message (1830)

The first message of the Restored Gospel to be taken to the descendants of the Book of Mormon people was to the Cattaraugus Indians near Buffalo, New York. This Lamanite mission by Parley P. Pratt, Oliver Cowdery, Peter Whitmer, Jr., and Ziba Peterson also visited the Wyandots in Ohio and the Delawares west of Missouri. Ironically, the mission's greatest success was not among the Lamanites but among a group of Campbellites in Ohio. There they converted Sidney Rigd... Read More

An Honest Friend (1830)
   

 There are numerous little-noted gentile friends of the early Saints, and one of those was John Reid who, although not a lawyer, acted successfully as defense counsel for the Prophet in his first trials in Colesville and South Bainbridge, New York, in 1830. Although never a convert he journeyed to Nauvoo in May 1844 and publicly described his defense of the prophet and the spiritual experience that prompted him to take the case. Th... Read More

What Manner of Man:

A Weekly Program to Better Know the Savior

 

Week 13 -- Poetic Sensitivity

By Linda and Richard Eyre

 

Picture the Master sitting by the seaside as the sun sets; in a boat a little way out, speaking to the multitude on the shore; on the side of a mountain, alone in prayer; going out of the city's dust and clamor to the peaceful beauty of Bethany; winding his way through a golden cornfield; withdrawing to th... Read More

Another Emma Mystery (1830)

There are many unanswered questions on the life and events
surrounding the wife of the Prophet Joseph. One seldom mentioned is
the occasion of her baptism. Baptisms occurred on the day of the
organization of the Church and some had taken place before April 6
1830. Why was Emma not baptized until June 28th of that year and
then under the hands of Oliver Cowdery rather than her husband? Her
confirmation scheduled for the following day... Read More

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