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Counselor in the First Presidency This journal record was typed from the notes kept by Elder Alvin R. Dyer Date – June 7, 1966 Wednesday and Thursday, June 1 and 2, 1966 SUPPLEMENT: TO THE JOURNAL RECORD OF THE VISIT OF PRESIDENT DAVID O. MCKAY TO ADAM-ONDI-AHMAN Far West: In connection with President McKay’s visit at Far West, on the date given, it is to be noted that while there the president appeared somewhat overwhelmed. The place made a deep impression upon him; so much so that he referred to Far West a number of times in the ensuring days as a place of deep impression. The feeling that President McKay had at Far West registered upon me once again, but now with greater impact. The events that transpired there are significant. a) The Lord proclaimed Far West a holy and consecrated land unto Him, declaring to Joseph Smith that the very ground he stood on there was holy. b) The Prophet Joseph Smith contended with the devil face to face for some time, upon the occasion of the power of evil menacing one of his children in the Prophet’s home just west of the temple-site. Lucifer declared that Joseph had no right to be there, that this was his place. Whereupon the Prophet rebuked Satan in the name of the Lord, and he departed and did not touch the child again. c) The overwhelming feeling that President McKay had when he visited this sacred place. The Answer: I have often pondered the Holy significance of Far West, and even more so since President McKay’s visit. The sacredness of Far West, Missouri, is no doubt due to the understanding that the Prophet Joseph Smith conveyed to the brethren, at these early times, that Adam-ondi-Ahman, the place to which Adam and Eve fled when cast out of the Garden of Eden, is where Adam erected an altar unto God, and offered sacrifices, and that Far West was the spot where Cain killed Abel. This, information, tends to explain why the Lord declared Far West to be a holy consecrated place; and no doubt explains why Satan claimed that place as his own, as it was here that he entered into a covenant with Cain, resulting in the death of Abel the first of mortal existence upon this earth. It would appear that President McKay while there felt the spirit and significance of this Holy Place. Ref: D & C 115 The Meaning of Truth, Dyer, pp. 76, 77 Manuscript, Jerrald Tanner, op. cit. – Reed Peck”
President Alvin R. Dyer
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Abel
21 Oct 2026