Commentary
A Voice from Jerusalem
Orson Hyde
Orson Hyde’s letters from his 1840–1842 mission to Europe and the Near East, published in Liverpool in 1842. They include his account of the prayer he offered on the Mount of Olives in October 1841, dedicating the land for the gathering of the Jews.
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Edition and location
Orson Hyde, A Voice from Jerusalem, or a Sketch of the Travels and Ministry of Elder Orson Hyde (Liverpool: P. P. Pratt, 1842), Letter III, dated Alexandria, 22 November 1841, pp. 28–32. Project Gutenberg eBook 46208 (Mormon Texts Project transcription), retrieved 30 September 2026, compared word by word with the Internet Archive voicefromjerusal00hyde OCR text layer; printed p. 29 visually checked. One omission in the transcription restored from print: “unto thee, O Father!” HTML markup removed and whitespace normalized; italics rendered plain. No passages omitted within the selected unit.
Letter III, pp. 28–32: prayer on the Mount of Olives, 24 October 1841