"Tabernacle Services," Deseret News (September 20, 1880): 3 (summarizing a speech by Orson Pratt delivered September 19, 1880):
The
speaker gave illustrations to prove this, and to substantiate his assertion
that for centuries the world had been without the light of the gospel, without
divine authority, and without a Christian Church. The beginning of a new
revelation was coincident with the setting up of this Church of Latter-day
Saints. The speaker then described the first vision of the Prophet
Joseph—something far different to that the world had been accustomed for
centuries . . .
