Speaking of Mormonism...
Way, way back b4 the I’Net, I had a book on “cults” with one chapter in it that insisted that young Joe Smith had spent a few days in a NY jail with a traveling preacher who had been writing a book. The preacher made a profound impression on Smith.
It seems Smith went free a few days later and the preacher found he was then missing his manuscript. The author thought that that manuscript was the basis of Smith’s beliefs from that time on.
I have since (lately)attempted to determine the name and author of that book w/o success.
Anyone know of it?
Anyone know of it?
WIKI does!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spalding%E2%80%93Rigdon_theory_of_Book_of_Mormon_authorship