Does this sound like insincere language to you?

Does this sound like insincere language to you?

 

Temple Lot marker in Independence MO
In Independence, Missouri
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On 27 November 1832, the Prophet wrote from Kirtland to his friend William W. Phelps, who was editing the Church newspaper in Jackson County, Missouri.  Contained in that letter is the following passage, impassioned with yearning and impatient at the constraints imposed by our fallen mortality:

 

Oh Lord when will the time come when Brother William thy Servent and myself behold the day that we may stand together and gase upon Eternal wisdom engraven upon the hevens while the magesty of our God holdeth up the dark curtain until we may read the round of Eternity to the fullness and satisfaction of our immortal souls Oh Lord God deliver us in thy due time from the little narrow prison almost as it were totel darkness of paper pen and ink and a crooked broken scattered and imperfect language. 

 

 


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