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Kirtland Temple Visitation



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“The great heavenly ‘visitation,’ which was alleged to have taken place in the temple at Kirtland, was a grand fizzle.  The elders were assembled on the appointed day, which was promised would be a veritable day of Pentecost, but there was no visitation.  No Peter, James and John; no Moses and Elias, put in an appearance.  ‘I was in my seat on that occasion,’ says Mr. Whitmer, ‘and I know that the story sensationally circulated, and which is now on the records of the Utah Mormons as an actual happening, was nothing but a trumped up yarn...”

-    High Priest David Whitmer, one of the Three Witnesses, The Des Moines Daily News, Oct. 16, 1886; online at http://www.xmission.com/~country/chngwrld/chap5a.htm



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