. . . soon afterwards Elder
Dunham arrives & confirms the letter by preaching much stronger meat9 than
it contains, both in publick and in private: in publick he says “this nation is
about to be destroyed” and suggests to the bretheren that there is a place of
safety preparing for them away towards the Rockey mountains they may have a
long and crooked Road to go to get there” and says but few will be preserved to
arrive there, he suggests that twelve stakes may be built up & again thrown
down—that the ten tribes are somewhere on a Planet taken from this Plannet
which when it comes back will cause this earth to reel to and fro like two
Boats meeting—(Thomas
Burdick, Letter, August 28, 1840)
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