Oliver Olney, who joined the Church at an early day and
had presided over the teachers in Kirtland, was disfellowshipped in Nauvoo,
Illinois, by the high council of that place for setting himself up as a
prophet. Later (February 10, 1843) Oliver Olney was tried before a court in
Nauvoo for stealing goods. He declared before the court that he had been
visited many times by the Ancient of Days, that he had a mission from him to
the four quarters of the world, that he had visited them all except one in the
south, that he had suffered much for two or three years for want of clothing,
that he despised a theft except to clothe himself, etc. Joseph the Prophet declared
that Olney had never seen the Ancient of Days, or anything like him, but that he
was under the influence of a wicked and delusive spirit. (A Voice in the Wilderness: The 1888-1930 General
Conference Sermons of Mormon Historian Andrew Jenson, ed. Reid L. Neilson
and Scott D. Marianno [Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018], 225)
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