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274 They Made Mormon History giving advice to the saints on the brown eggs from Mrs. Clifton's special chicken. Then, before the gaping crowd, he would put the egg in a solution and bring out the writing before their very eyes. Soon the inscriptions on the egg took the form of spiritual advice, and finally prophecy of things to come. The credulous began to believe they were receiving messages from another world, and the excitement ran high. "Apostle Rich himself found it necessary to take a hand, and put a stop to these seeming occult demonstrations. Having a salty sense of humor of his own, he ended the nonsense by declaring in a public gathering that when the Lord wanted to reveal His truths to the people He would do so through His recognized authority, not through the hind end of a hen."47 Young Rich had a twentieth-century wit and imagination. He was the inventor of the somewhat famous "Bear Lake Monster," a distant relative, no doubt, of the renowned reptilian resident of Loch Ness. At this time Joseph was courting Ann Eliza Hunter, daughter of the Presiding Bishop of the Church, Edward Hunter. Joseph had been down in Salt Lake to see her. He was apprehensive about persuading her to marry him and leave her comfortable home in Salt Lake City to pioneer an untamed country. He racked his brain to find some way to success in his project. "Back again in Paris, he was struck with a brilliant idea. Once and for all, he would settle the matter by making Bear Lake the most talked of and widely known section in the entire territory. Why shouldn't it be, he thought. With the most beautiful lake in the Rocky Mountains; and a summer climate so cool and invigorating it could easily become a vacation paradise, he decided to appoint himself a one-man publicity bureau for his new home. Accordingly, he sat down and dashed off one of the most amazing pieces of regional publicity ever devised. 47Poulsen, op. tit., pp. 199-200.
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Transcript | 274 They Made Mormon History giving advice to the saints on the brown eggs from Mrs. Clifton's special chicken. Then, before the gaping crowd, he would put the egg in a solution and bring out the writing before their very eyes. Soon the inscriptions on the egg took the form of spiritual advice, and finally prophecy of things to come. The credulous began to believe they were receiving messages from another world, and the excitement ran high. "Apostle Rich himself found it necessary to take a hand, and put a stop to these seeming occult demonstrations. Having a salty sense of humor of his own, he ended the nonsense by declaring in a public gathering that when the Lord wanted to reveal His truths to the people He would do so through His recognized authority, not through the hind end of a hen."47 Young Rich had a twentieth-century wit and imagination. He was the inventor of the somewhat famous "Bear Lake Monster," a distant relative, no doubt, of the renowned reptilian resident of Loch Ness. At this time Joseph was courting Ann Eliza Hunter, daughter of the Presiding Bishop of the Church, Edward Hunter. Joseph had been down in Salt Lake to see her. He was apprehensive about persuading her to marry him and leave her comfortable home in Salt Lake City to pioneer an untamed country. He racked his brain to find some way to success in his project. "Back again in Paris, he was struck with a brilliant idea. Once and for all, he would settle the matter by making Bear Lake the most talked of and widely known section in the entire territory. Why shouldn't it be, he thought. With the most beautiful lake in the Rocky Mountains; and a summer climate so cool and invigorating it could easily become a vacation paradise, he decided to appoint himself a one-man publicity bureau for his new home. Accordingly, he sat down and dashed off one of the most amazing pieces of regional publicity ever devised. 47Poulsen, op. tit., pp. 199-200. |
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