The Utah Polygamists declare that he [Joseph Smith] gave that
revelation [D&C 132]. The reorganized Church under the leadership of his son declares
that he did not give it. One of these statements are certainly untrue. It
matters not to us which is false because we know that the revelation is false
and came from no other source than from the Devil. I will state also that I
have had knowledge given to me of God many years ago that Joseph Smith went
absurdly wrong. I was in Wheeling in 1864 in company with William Bickerton on
religious duties and we there came in contact with the aforementioned W. W.
Blair, concerning a sermon of Joseph Smith's, published before his death
teaching the plurality of God's. This sermon was delivered by him in the April
conference preceding his death. And the Lord revealed to me at that time.
"That Joseph Smith (in that case) taught a worse doctrine than the Devil
did in the Garden of Eden." The Devil only taught that men should be as
God's. But Joseph Smith taught that men should be God's. (William Cadman, Faith
and Doctrines of the Church of Jesus Christ [Roscoe, Pa.: Roscoe Ledger
Print], 16, comments in square brackets added for clarification)
