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The Vision of Elder Heber C. Kimball (1868) An army of elders will be sent to the four quarters of the earth to search out the righteous and warn the wicked of what is coming. All kinds of religions will be started and miracles performed that will deceive the very elect if such a thing were possible.
Among the most well-known of these stories is the spiritual assault on Isaac Russell, Heber C. Kimball, and Orson Hyde, which occurred only ten days after their arrival in Preston, England.
Darkness will cover the earth and gross darkness the minds of the people. The judgments of God will be poured out on the wicked to the extent that our Elders from far and near will be called home, or in other words the gospel will be taken from the Gentiles and later on carried to the Jews.
During this period, Heber C. Kimball converted about one thousand five hundred people. This mission was replete with marvelous manifestations—the casting out of devils, healing of the sick, speaking in tongues, and so forth. Brother Kimball possessed the gift of prophecy to a remarkable degree.
Discourse by President Heber C. Kimball, made in the Tabernacle, Great Salt Lake City, April 14, 1861. Reported by J. V. Long. There is scarcely a subject in regard to myself or this people that is of any importance but I have thought of it, for I reflect much.
When we met in council, in the house of Joseph Smith, Elder Rigdon said he had some feelings toward Elder Kimball, and added, "I should suppose that Elder Kimball had passed through sufferings and privations and mobbings and drivings enough to learn to prophesy good concerning Israel."
Kimball claims to have witnessed a miraculous event on September 22, 1827. According to his autobiography, he subsequently learned that it "took place the same evening that Joseph Smith received the records of the Book of Mormon from the Angel Moroni."
