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* 19th century – The history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( LDS Church ), contains extensive references to the phenomenon of speaking in tongues by Brigham Young, Joseph Smith and many others.
At the 1836 dedication of the Kirtland Temple the dedicatory prayer asks that God grant them the gift of tongues and at the end of the service Brigham Young speaks in tongues, another elder interprets it and then gives his own exhortation in tongues.
Many other worship experiences in the Kirtland Temple prior to and after the dedication included references to people speaking and interpreting tongues.
In describing the beliefs of the church in the Wentworth letter, Joseph Smith identified a belief of the " gift of tongues " and " interpretation of tongues ".
Sidney Rigdon had disagreements with Alexander Campbell regarding speaking in tongues, and later joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
The practice of glossolalia by the Latter-day Saints seems to have been much more restrained than in many other contemporary movements.
Young, Smith, and numerous other early leaders frequently cautioned against the public exercise of glossolalia unless there was someone who could exercise the corresponding spiritual gift of interpretation of tongues, so that listeners could be edified by what had been said.
Although the Latter-day Saints believe that speaking in tongues and the interpretation of tongues are alive and well in the Church, modern Mormons are much more likely to point to the way in which LDS missionaries are trained and learn foreign languages quickly, and are able to communicate rapidly, on their missions, as evidence of the manifestation of this gift.
The visitor at LDS church services will never hear spontaneous, incomprehensible glossolalia as s / he might at a Pentecostal service.

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