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Date: October 12, 2019 09:06PM
The Campbellite "Millennial Harbinger" (Vol. 2, No. 2, dated 7 Feb 1831, pp. 100-101) has a piece on Rigdon and his having left the sect.
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=chi.18113061&view=1up&seq=106"Fits of melancholy succeeded by fits of enthusiasm accompanied by some kind of nervous spasms and swoonings which he has, since his defection, interpreted into the agency of the Holy Spirit… Whenupon one of his fits of swooning and sighing came upon him, he saw an angel and was converted."
"I doubt not that but that the irreverence and levity in speaking of the things of God, which have been too apparent in Sidney's public exhibitions for some time past, and which he has lately confessed, may yet be found to have been the cause of this abandonment to delusion."