O.B. Huntington:
The inspiration of God caused men to hunt for a new continent until Columbus discovered it. Men have lost millions of dollars, and hundreds of lives to find a country beyond the North Pole; and they will yet find that country -- a warm, fruitful country, and inhabited by the ten tribes of Israel, a country divided by a river on one side of which lives the half tribe of Manasseh, which is more numerous than all the others. So said the Prophet. At the same time, he described the shape of the earth at the poles as being a rounded elongation and drew a diagram in this form; (see graphic at link) which any one can readily see will allow the sun's rays to fall so near perpendicular to the center that part of the earth may be warmed and made fruitful. He quoted scripture and proof of his theory which says that "the earth flieth upon its wings in the midst of the creations of God," and said that there was a semblance in the form of the earth that gave rise to the saying.
Do you think these quack quotes are a representation of LDS doctrine? Why do you post them as such?
Do I think that the crackpots that started the KKK and murdered blacks and Jews represented the beliefs of the Evangelical movement in early part of the last century? They were mostly Southern Baptists, but I don't go parading their actions and views as representing the beliefs of good Baptists in this country. If you want to know what we believe, then search our doctrines, not isolated words by a few.
