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JOSEPH SMITH—HISTORY
EXTRACTS FROM THE HISTORY OF JOSEPH SMITH, THE PROPHET

16 But, exerting all my powers to ^acall upon God to deliver me out of the power of this enemy which had seized upon me, and at the very moment when I was ready to sink into ^bdespair and abandon myself to destruction—not to an imaginary ruin, but to the power of some actual being from the unseen world, who had such marvelous power as I had never before felt in any being—just at this moment of great alarm, I saw a pillar of ^clight exactly over my head, above the brightness of the ^dsun, which descended gradually until it fell upon me.

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16a	Moses 1: 20. 20 And it came to pass that Moses began to ^afear exceedingly; and as he began to fear, he saw the bitterness of ^bhell. Nevertheless, ^ccalling upon God, he received ^dstrength, and he commanded, saying: Depart from me, Satan, for this one God only will I worship, which is the God of ^eglory.
b	Isa. 6: 5 (1-7). 5 ¶ Then said I, Woe is me! for I am ^aundone; because I am a man of ^bunclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have ^cseen the ^dKing, the Lord of hosts. TG Despair.
c	Acts 26: 13. 13 At midday, O king, I saw in the way a ^alight from heaven, above the brightness of the sun, shining round about me and them which journeyed with me.
d	Rev. 1: 16. 16 And he had in his right hand seven stars: and out of his mouth went a sharp twoedged ^asword: and his ^bcountenance was as the ^csun shineth in his strength.