Eliza R. Snow recollects pentecost-like experiences at the Kirtland temple c. April 1836.

Date
1877
Type
Book
Source
Eliza R. Snow
LDS
Hearsay
Direct
Late
Reference

Edward W. Tullidge, The Women of Mormondom (New York: Tullidge and Crandall, 1877), 94-95

Scribe/Publisher
Tullidge and Crandall
People
Eliza R. Snow, Edward W. Tullidge, Joseph Smith, Sr.
Audience
Reading Public
Transcription

A singular incident in connection with this shout may be discredited by some, but it is verily true. A notice had been circulated that children in arms would not be admitted at the dedication of the temple. A sister who had come a long distance with her babe, six weeks old, having, on her arrival, heard of the above requisition, went to the patriarch Joseph Smith, Sr., in great distress, saying that she knew no one with whom she could leave her infant; and to be deprived of the privilege of attending the dedication seemed more than she could endure. The ever generous and kind-hearted father volunteered to take the responsibility on himself, and old her to take her child, at the same time giving the mother a promise that her babe should make no disturbance; and the promise was verified. But when the congregation shouted hosanna, that babe joined in the shout.

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