Source:Orson Hyde:A Cry out of the Wilderness:Angel of the Lord

Orson Hyde (1842): "Joseph Smith jun[ior], the person to whom the angel of the Lord was first sent"

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Orson Hyde (1842): "Joseph Smith jun[ior], the person to whom the angel of the Lord was first sent"

Joseph Smith jun[ior], the person to whom the angel of the Lord was first sent, was born on December 23 in the year of our Lord 1805.[1]

Notes

  1. "Orson Hyde, Ein Ruf aus der Wüste (A Cry out of the Wilderness), 1842, extract, English translation," The Joseph Smith Papers.