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SteelBlue · 10-10-2005, 08:07 PM

I've learned a lot I didn't know in just the first couple of chapters. Strongly recommend the purchase on this one folks. An interesting bit of information that I'd never heard comes from the second chapter. Apparently Joseph didn't really talk much about the First Vision for several years. He told his family and 1 minister (we all know that story). Bushman says that it is probable that many of those who joined the church in the years of its infancy probably had not heard about the vision.

With the church having made the First Vision its centerpiece of the story of the restoration, it is really difficult to imagine somebody joining the church not even knowing about it. I thought that was fascinating.

10-10-2005, 08:07 PM	#1
SteelBlue Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Norcal Posts: 5,821	Rough Stone Rolling is great so far. I've learned a lot I didn't know in just the first couple of chapters. Strongly recommend the purchase on this one folks. An interesting bit of information that I'd never heard comes from the second chapter. Apparently Joseph didn't really talk much about the First Vision for several years. He told his family and 1 minister (we all know that story). Bushman says that it is probable that many of those who joined the church in the years of its infancy probably had not heard about the vision. With the church having made the First Vision its centerpiece of the story of the restoration, it is really difficult to imagine somebody joining the church not even knowing about it. I thought that was fascinating.