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Mar 14, 1843

Journal Entry

March 14, 1843 ~ Tuesday

14th At about half past seven oclock in
the evening the sword which had
made its appearenc for several evenings
past moved up near the moon & formed
itself into a large ring round the moon,
two Balls immediately appeared in the
ring opposite of each other sumthing in the
form of sundogs annother half ring ishues
from those Balls sumthing in the shape of
a horse shoe extending outside of the first ring
with one line runing through the centre of the moon
according to the following cut


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The following is the declaration of Joseph the Seer conserning the foregoing sign As sure as there is a God who sits enthroned in the heavens & as sure as he ever spoke by me so shuresure there will be a spedy & bloody war & the broad sword seen last evening is the sure sign thereof
~ Joseph Smith
The following is the declaration of Joseph the Seer conserning the foregoing sign As sure as there is a God who sits enthroned in the heavens & as sure as he ever spoke by me so shuresure there will be a spedy & bloody war & the broad sword seen last evening is the sure sign thereof
~ Joseph Smith
March 14, 1843 ~ Tuesday 14th At about half past seven oclock in the evening the sword which had made its appearence for several evenings past moved up near the moon & formed itself into a large ring round the moon two balls immediately appeared in the ring opposite of each other sumthing in the form of sundogs annother half ring ishues from those balls sumthing in the shape of a horse shoe extending outside of the first ring with one line runing through the centre of the moon according to the following cut
~ Wilford Woodruff

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Autobiography Volume 1 circa 1842-1865
and on the it moved up near the moon and formed itself into a large ring around the moon balls immediately appeared in the ring opposite each other something in the form of sundogs and another half ring issued from those balls something in the shape of a horseshoe extending outside of the first ring with one line running through the centre of the moon Prophetic Declaration of Joseph upon The Sign of the Sword in the Heavens "As sure as there is a God who sits in the heavens and as sure as He ever spoke by me so sure will there be a speedy and bloody war and the broad sword seen last ^night^ is the sign thereof." A week or two afterwards there were also remarkable signs in the heavens. Orson Pratt Professor of Mathmatics in the University of Nauvoo sketched a diragram of halos and pharhelia or circles and mock suns descovered in the heavens

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May 1843
Wilford assists in publication of the Nauvoo Neighbor (published until Saints leave Nauvoo in 1846).

Mar 14, 1843