Download or read book The William E. McLellin Papers, 1854-1880 written by William Earl McLellin and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: McLellin wrote further: "I heard Joseph [Smith] tell his experience of his ordination and the organization of the church probably more than twenty times to persons who, near the rise of the church, wished to know and hear about it. I never heard of Moroni, John [the Baptist], or Peter, James, and John." McLellin believed that angels had visited Joseph Smith but not that human beings could become angels-a teaching not yet current in the 1830s-or that priesthood authority could be conveyed in that way.