. What the world believes, the false and the true, embracing the people of all races and nations, their peculiar teachings, rites, ceremonies, from the earliest pagan times to the present, to which is added an account of what the world believes today, by countries. 1KESIDENT JOILN TAYLOR. JOSEPH SMITH. 587 Thus exercised and anxious, while reading the Bible oneday he was forcibly impressed with the fifth verse of thefirst chapter of the Epistle of James : If any of you lackwisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberallyand upbraideth not; and it shall be given him. This passage we
. What the world believes, the false and the true, embracing the people of all races and nations, their peculiar teachings, rites, ceremonies, from the earliest pagan times to the present, to which is added an account of what the world believes today, by countries. 1KESIDENT JOILN TAYLOR. JOSEPH SMITH. 587 Thus exercised and anxious, while reading the Bible oneday he was forcibly impressed with the fifth verse of thefirst chapter of the Epistle of James : If any of you lackwisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberallyand upbraideth not; and it shall be given him. This passage went with such unusual force to his mindthat he resolved to act upon the advice therein given. Con-sequently, one morning early in the spring of 1820, heretired to the woods to ask for knowledge and wisdom ofGod. It was the first attempt he had ever made to prayvocally. He knelt down and began to offer up the desiresof his heart in prayer and supplication. He had scarcelydone so, when he was seized by some invisible power thatprevented him from speaking, and darkness gathered aroundhim. However, exerting all his powers to call upon God todeliver him out of the power of the enemy, he saw over hishead a pillar of light, brighter than the sun, which de-scended gradually until it fell u
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