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This is the biography of a contested memory, how it was born, grew, changed the world, and was changed by it. It's the story of the story of how the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints began. Steven C. Harper tell the story of how Latter-day Saints forgot and then remembered several accounts of Joseph Smith's experience of his first vision and how Smith's 1838 account was redacted and canonized. He explores the dissonance many saints experienced after discovering multiple accounts of Smith's experience. He describes how, for many, the dissonance has been resolved by a reshaped collective memory.

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Excerpt from Scrapbook of Mormon Literature, Vol. 1: Religious Tracts Faith, repentance, baptism and laying ON OF hands. - Heb. Xi.; Rom. I. 16, 17; x. 14, 15; Jas. Ii. 14-26; Mark xvi. 15, 16; Acts ii. 38, 39; 2 Cor. Vii. 9, 10; Isa. Lv. 6, 7; Eph. Iv. 25-32; Luke xiii. 3; Matt. Iv. 17; Acts viii. 14-17; xix. 1-6; John iii. 5; Heb. V1. 1, 2. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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