Posted by:
Henry B. Eyeroll
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Date: October 19, 2019 09:08PM
Glad to oblige. The links I had posted turned out to be #1-2 in Wikipedia (which I didn't realize when I first found them).
For all of its faults and failings (and they are many), FAIR actually provides a reasonable analysis as well as the WHP's full text.
https://www.fairmormon.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/cobabe-whitehorse.pdfA principal source for the above link was this one, from BYU Studies. Free download from here.
https://byustudies.byu.edu/content/edwin-rushton-source-white-horse-prophecyThe WHP as such was officially renounced as early as 1918. Meanwhile, the CHBAT continued to be preached and circulated. For example, this quote is from Joseph F. Smith, the same profit who disavowed the WHP at the Oct 1918 GenCon.
Joseph F. Smith, Conference Report, October 1912, p. 11:
"Now, these are the commandments of God, the principles contained in these commandments of the great Eternal are the principles that underly the Constitution of our country and all just laws. Joseph Smith, the prophet, was inspired to affirm and ratify this truth, and he further predicted that the time would come, when the Constitution of our country would hang as it were by a thread, and that the Latter-day Saints above all other people in the world would come to the rescue of that great and glorious palladium of our liberty."
Flash forward half a century to ET Benson.
Ezra Taft Benson, Conference Report, April 1963, p. 113:
"The Prophet Joseph Smith said the time would come when the Constitution would hang as it were by a thread. Modern-day prophets for the last thirty years have been warning us that we have been rapidly moving in that direction. Fortunately, the Prophet Joseph Smith saw the part the elders of Israel would play in this crisis. Will there be some of us who won't care about saving the Constitution, others who will be blinded by the craftiness of men, and some who will knowingly be working to destroy it? He that has ears to hear and eyes to see can discern by the Spirit and through the words of God's mouthpiece that our liberties are being taken."
Again, no horses, just the Constitution. [Note too ETB's "last 30 years" comment. What happened in 1933? The inauguration of FDR. Wanna bet ETB despised FDR?]