[Footnote 105: "Autobiography of P.P. Pratt," 30.]
[Footnote 106: Supplement 14, Millennial Star, 6.]
[Footnote 107: 5 Journal of Discourses, 141.]
[Footnote 108: Key to Theology, 41, 5 Millennial Star, 20.]
[Footnote 109: 5 Times and Seasons, 613. God an Exalted Man, 6 Journal of Discourses, 3.]
[Footnote 110: Deseret News, March 18, 1857, 13. See also Deseret News 179. Those most familiar with the psychology of dreams and the influence over them had by the experiences of waking life, will give considerable evidentiary weight to a dream of the prophet's father, in which there appeared to him a "man with a peddler's budget on his back," such a peddler P. P. Pratt probably carried. This peddler of his dreams flattered him, told him he had called seven times and this last call had come to tell him what was the one thing essential to his salvation, and then he awoke. ("Joseph Smith, the Prophet," 74.)]
September 9, 1827, Pratt was married. On September 22, 1827, he was the angel who appeared to Smith, and in October he started back to Ohio, the home of Rigdon.[111] Rigdon is now brought again upon the scene. He preaches in Pratt's neighborhood, converts him, the latter commences preaching,[112] evidently preparing for his part in the drama about to be enacted.
[Footnote 111: "Autobiography of P.P. Pratt," 30.]
[Footnote 112: "Autobiography of P.P. Pratt," 31-33.]