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Date: November 24, 2010 09:34PM
I was also taught in Seminary/Institute that the lost tribes of Isreal were underground under the North Pole lead by St. John, the one that supposedly never died. I think that idea came from James E. Talmage's Articles of Faith:
“They determined to go to a country ‘where never man dwelt,’ that they might be free from all contaminating influences. That country could only be found in the north. Southern Asia was already the seat of a comparatively ancient civilization; Egypt flourished in northern Africa; and southern Europe was rapidly filling with the future rulers of the world. They had therefore no choice but to turn their faces northward. The first portion of their journey was not however north; according to the account of Esdras, they appear to have at first moved in the direction of their old home; and it is possible that they originally started with the intention of returning thereto; or probably, in order to deceive the Assyrians, they started as if to return to Canaan, and when they crossed the Euphrates and were out of danger from the hosts of Medes and Persians, then they turned their journeying feet toward the polar star.” (In James E. Talmage, The Articles of Faith, p. 512.)
Of course, James E. Talmage also said in 1916, “The ten tribes shall come; they are not lost unto the Lord; they shall be brought forth as hath been predicted; and I say unto you there are those now living—aye, some here present—who shall live to read the records of the Lost Tribes of Israel, which shall be made one with the record of the Jews, or the Holy Bible, and the record of the Nephites, or the Book of Mormon, even as the Lord hath predicted” (in Conference Report, Oct. 1916, p. 76; emphasis added).
I guess he was just speaking as a man when he said that last one. Or maybe the three Nephites were present at that Conference so he was actually right?
http://institute.lds.org/manuals/old-testament-institute-student-manual-2/ot-in2-04-2kg-d.asp