[Brigham Young Sermon] President Brigham Young Said I thought while looking at the school Children to day that I should see a much larger assembly of school Children in the spirit world when we meet with all the Children who have lived on this Earth & Died without sin, & I thought would their be as many grown Persons worthy to be with them in proportion to the number of teachers with them to day. But I think there will not.
Again President Young said Joseph the Prophet told me that the garden of Eden was in Jackson Co Missouri, & when Adam was driven out of the garden of Eden He went about 40 miles to the Place which we Named Adam Ondi Ahman, & there built an Altar of Stone & offered Sacrifice. That Altar remains to this day. I saw it as Adam left it as did many others, & through all the revolutions of the world that Altar had not been disturbed. Joseph also said that when the City of Enoch fled & was translated it was where the gulf of Mexico now is. It left that gulf a body of water. -- Salt Lake City [Wilford WoodruffÂ's Journal. 9 Vols. Scott G. Kenney, ed. Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1983-85. 7:128-129]
[Source: The Complete Discourses of Brigham Young, Ed. Richard S. Van Wagoner, Smith-Pettit Foundation, Salt Lake City (2009)]
The 2nd paragraph of Brigham's sermon (paraphrasing Joseph Smith) is completely false. The ancient Garden of Eden was in the southernmost region of Mesopotamia, or the modern nation of Iraq (Tigris-Euphrates area) according to the following scriptures.
ReplyDeleteGenesis 2:
[10] And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads.
[11] The name of the first is Pison: that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold;
[12] And the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone.
[13] And the name of the second river is Gihon: the same is it that compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia.
[14] And the name of the third river is Hiddekel [Tigris]: that is it which goeth toward the east of Assyria. And the fourth river is Euphrates.
Brigham Young was one of Joseph Smith's most obedient pet poodles.