{"id":26690,"date":"2015-09-26T20:26:05","date_gmt":"2015-09-27T02:26:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=26690"},"modified":"2015-09-26T20:26:05","modified_gmt":"2015-09-27T02:26:05","slug":"in-the-school-of-the-prophets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2015\/09\/in-the-school-of-the-prophets.html","title":{"rendered":"In the School of the Prophets"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><\/p><center style=\"color: #000000;\"><\/center><center style=\"color: #000000;\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_26691\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-26691\" style=\"width: 593px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2015\/09\/newel-whitney-store-769451-gallery.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-26691\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2015\/09\/newel-whitney-store-769451-gallery.jpg\" alt=\"N. K. Whitney store\" width=\"593\" height=\"447\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-26691\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Newel K. Whitney\u2019s store in Old Kirtland Village<br>(Photograph from LDS.org)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><\/p><\/center><center style=\"color: #000000;\"><\/center><center style=\"color: #000000;\"><\/center><span><span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">We spent an hour or more upstairs in Newel K. Whitney\u2019s store this morning. \u00a0Fascinating things\u00a0have\u00a0happened there.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">\n<\/p><p style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 51, 0);\"><strong>Presidents John Taylor and George Q. Cannon, Apostles Erastus Snow, Brigham Young, Francis M. Lyman, and Heber J. Grant, and Elders L. John Nuttall and Zebedee Coltrin present.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 51, 0);\"><strong>Brother Zebedee Coltrin said: I believe I am the only living man now in the church who was connected with the School of the Prophets when it was organized in 1833, the year before we went up in Zion\u2019s Camp. . . .<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 51, 0);\"><strong>At one of these meetings after the organization of the school, (the school being organized on the 23rd of January, 1833, when we were all together, Joseph having given instructions, and while engaged in silent prayer, kneeling, with our hands uplifted each one praying in silence, no one whispered above his breath, a personage walked through the room from east to west, and Joseph asked if we saw him. I saw him and suppose the others did and Joseph answered that is Jesus, the Son of God, our elder brother. Afterward Joseph told us to resume our former position in prayer, which we did. Another person came through; he was surrounded as with a flame of fire. He (Brother Coltrin) experienced a sensation that it might destroy the tabernacle as it was of consuming fire of great brightness. The Prophet Joseph said this was the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. I saw Him.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 51, 0);\"><strong>When asked about the kind of clothing the Father had on, Brother Coltrin said: I did not discover his clothing for he was surrounded as with a flame of fire, which was so brilliant that I could not discover anything else but his person. I saw his hands, his legs, his feet, his eyes, nose, mouth, head and body in the shape and form of a perfect man. He sat in a chair as a man would sit in a chair, but this appearance was so grand and overwhelming that it seemed I should melt down in his presence, and the sensation was so powerful that it thrilled through my whole system and I felt it in the marrow of my bones. The Prophet Joseph said: Brethren, now you are prepared to be the apostles of Jesus Christ, for you have seen both the Father and the Son and know that they exist and that they are two separate personages.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 51, 0);\"><strong>The school room was in the upper room of [Newel K.] Whitney\u2019s store. . . .<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 51, 0);\">\u00a0Source: Minutes, Salt Lake City School of the Prophets, October 1883.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Posted from Mentor, Ohio<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 We spent an hour or more upstairs in Newel K. Whitney\u2019s store this morning. \u00a0Fascinating things\u00a0have\u00a0happened there. Presidents John Taylor and George Q. Cannon, Apostles Erastus Snow, Brigham Young, Francis M. Lyman, and Heber J. 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