Books of the Week - "Sacred
Truths of the Doctrine &Covenants" 2 volumes, Leaun G. Otten & C.
Max Caldwell
Section 46- Gifts of the Spirit- March 8, 1831
Vs. 1-6- Who
is not invited to Church? (3 Nephi 18:28-32; Moroni 6:9; D&C 20:45)
Vs. 7 - That
which is talked about in this verse is not a suggestion. It is an important key
to avoid deception. See Ex. 7:11-12; Isaiah 8:19 or 2 Nephi 18:19
Vs. 8 -
Another key to avoiding deception is the seek the best gifts of the Spirit.
Vs. 9- Gifts
of the Spirit are given to those who; 1) Love God, 2)Keep ALL the commandments,
3) Those who try to do #2, 4) who do these things to benefit others and who 5)
Don't seek for these Gifts of the Spirit as a sign or for their own benefit.
The gifts to be sought for are those which will allow us to serve others.
Vs. 11-33-
Gifts of the Spirit. See also I cor. 12:1-13; Moroni 10:8-18. The Institute
Student Manual p. 100-102 has a great description of these gifts. See also in
this Manual pages 411-416 - "Keys
For Avoiding Deception". Joseph Smith said, "Nothing is a great
injury to the children of men that to be under the influence of a false spirit
when they think they have the Spirit of God. Thousands have felt the influence
of its terrible power and baneful effects. Long pilgrimages have been undertaken,
penances endured, and pain, misery and ruin have followed in their train;
nations have been convulsed, kingdoms overthrown, provinces laid waste, and
blood carnage and desolation are habiliments in which it has been
clothed."(TPJS p. 205 & HC 4:573)
Vs. 13-14-
"Those who have the gift to know must give their witness so that those who
have the gift to believe on their words can enjoy the benefit of that
gift."(DHOaks, Ensign, Nov. 1990
p. 30)
"Taken
at random, let me mention a few gifts that are not always evident or noteworthy
but that are very important. Among these may be your gifts, gifts not so
evident but nevertheless real and valuable. Some of these less-conspicuous
gifts are the gift of asking, the gift of listening, the gift of hearing and
using a still, small voice, the gift of being able to weep, the gift of
avoiding contention, the gift of being agreeable, the gift of avoiding vain
repetition, the gift of seeking that which is righteous, the gift of not
passing judgment, the gift of looking to God for guidance, the gift of being a
disciple, the gift of caring for others, the gift of being able to ponder, the
gift of offering prayer, the gift of bearing a mighty testimony, and the gift
of receiving the Holy Ghost. We must remember that to every person is given a
gift by the Spirit of God. It is our right and responsibility to accept our
gifts and to share them. God's gifts and powers are available to all."
(MJAshton, The Measure of Our Hearts, p. 16)
Section 47 -
Church History By The Year- John Whitmer
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1802-Aug. 27
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John Whitmer born
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Fayette, NY.
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Youth
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Attended German Reformed Church
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1829-June
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Meets Joseph -accepted his
message
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Acts as scribe during BoM
translation
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1829-June
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D&C 15 directed to John
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1829-June
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One of 8 witnesses to Book of Mormon
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Palmyra, NY
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1830-July
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D&C 26- Given to John, Oliver & Joseph
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Study, visit church in Colesville, hold Conference in Fayette
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1831-Jan.
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Sent to Kirtland to lead Church
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1831-March 8
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D&C 47- Called as Church Historian
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1831-Nov.
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Hand carried revelations to Missouri
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For Book of Commandments
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1833
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Offered self to Missouri mob
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To prevent further violence
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1834-July 4
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Member of Presidency of Church
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In Missouri
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1835-May 18
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Editor of Church News paper in Kirtland
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Messenger and Advocate
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1838-Mar. 10
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Excommunicated for problems w/ land
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Refused to give Church 85 pages history.
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1856
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Last survivor of 8 Witnesses
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Many emotional testimonies of BoM
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1878-July 11
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Died in Far West
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Owned 625 acres, 2 story home
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Section 48- A new Bishop's concerns about a big influx of
people into Kirtland.
Vs. 1 &
3 - Stay in Kirtland for now-It is a temporary gathering place
Vs. 2- Those
who have land in Kirtland should share with the members coming from New York.
Vs. 3 - Buy
land as needed
Vs. 4 - Save
what you can for future purposes.
Vs. 5- I am
not yet ready to reveal the location of Zion. (That will happen on June 7 &
in July)
Section 49 - Ann Lee (1736-1784) - Founded the United Society
of Believers in Christ's Second Coming - known as Shakers or Believers- Came to
America in 1772
Shaking Quakers -1. The
deity is dual in nature. 1st manifestation was Christ. 2nd is Ann Lee. 2. Celibacy. Marriage is not a sin, but you
can attain a higher order if you're a virgin.
3. Open confession of sins. 4. Separation from world. Private property
and ostentation are sins. 5. Community
of possessions. 6. Pacifism. 7. Equality of sexes. 8. Consecrated work. 9. Continuous revelation. 10. Ordinances stopped in the apostolic age. 11. Start of Shakers was start of Christ’s
kingdom on the earth. Apostasy before this since the death apostles. 12. Doctrines of trinity, vicarious
atonement, and resurrection false. 13.
Disease is a sin against God. 14.
Abstinence from meat.
Oliver
Cowdery, Ashbel Kitchell, Leman Copley (759 acres in Thompson, Ohio) Sidney
Rigdon, Parley P. Pratt.
Vs. 2 The Education of Our DesiresElder
Neal A. Maxwell of the Quorum of the 12 (University of Utah Institute of Religion Devotional, 5 January 1983; transcribed by Daniel R. Mower-Shortened by GLP)
I hope you’ll come to this
place regularly. My wife and I first met at Institute at the University of
Utah. I can’t promise you’ll find your partner here but I’m so glad I came to
the Institute for all kinds of reasons, and that of course is chief among them
It is, brothers and sisters,
and will be your lot to strive to be true Latter-day Saints in a most unusual
time in the Earth’s history. It is your lot to live in a secular society when
there is growing tolerance for almost everything except that which is
spiritual, and when more and more individuals wrongly conclude that there are
no absolute principles to be honored, only personal preferences to be obeyed.
Likewise, brothers and sisters, yours is the time, scripturally speaking, when
some people will rage against that which is good and will for the praise of the
world even make war upon the saints. You will need to learn to love and to
defend the Book of Mormon. The Book of Mormon, by the way, is the only book
which people feel they need not read before they reject it. Moreover amid
cresting criticism, you will serve in the church at a time when many
non-members will accept only those descriptions of the church which are given
by the church’s dropouts.
Let our enemies, if they choose, mock or imitate the sacred temple
rites, scorn the prophets, rejoice over the imperfection of leaders and members
in the church. Such scoffing was foreseen and you will be able to cling to the
iron rod and pass through the thick mist successfully. Do not be surprised
however if, in order to strengthen the gospel grasp of its church members, the
church increasingly focuses on teaching the basics of the gospel, such as the
plan of salvation.
And if you become, brothers
and sisters, even more familiar than you now are with what might be called the
grammar of the gospel—that is, its basic elements, its doctrines, [and] its
structural as well as conceptual relationships between all that makes up the
gospel of Jesus Christ—by heightening your literacy in spiritual things, you
will become increasingly able to withstand the heat of the day.
What I have said up to now is a
rather long introduction to my text for tonight which I have entitled “The
Education of Our Desires”. It is an intriguing quotation from President Joseph
F. Smith, which says much about the importance of continuing education, in that
you and I have continuing challenge to educate our desires. For tonight’s
purpose I shall define desire as characterizing our very inmost feelings as
representing the distillation of our strongest motivations and as that which
truly calls the cadence for our thoughts and our deeds. Indeed, brothers and
sisters, our desires clearly control the tilt of our souls.
Your opportunities for service
are greater than any of those who have preceded you. Alas, however, the
smorgasbord of sin is presented to you in an astounding array. And
accessibility to it, is less restrained by peer, by family, by political, and
by social pressures than ever before in the past. Therefore your generation,
perhaps more than any other, is free to choose. And this is a time when the
contrast between that which is good and evil, that which is right and wrong, is
sharpened and profound. Therefore, your deepest desires will control your
choices, and your choices will then control the consequences to be felt both in
this life and in the life to come. Alma, as he did so often, put the case
succinctly. “I ought not to harrow up in my desires, the firm decree of a just
God, for I know that he granteth unto men according to their desire, whether it
be unto death or unto life; yea, I know that he allotteth unto men … according
to their wills, whether they be unto salvation or unto destruction” (Alma 29:4)
In one revelation we read of a certain people,
“Behold, I say unto you that they desire to know the truth in part, but not
all, for they are not right before me” (D&C 49:2). There are
people who want the truth but not all of it, and they too get their desires. We
live, as I have indicated to you, in a carnal and secular society. It is
becoming more so; except for people like you. Now because you are advancing
disciples, though youthful, I share with you this sober warning about the
continuing need for us to educate our desires. “For although a man may have
many revelations, and have power to do many mighty works, yet if he boasts in
his own strength, and sets at naught the counsels of God, and follows after the
dictates of his own will and carnal desires, he must fall and incur the
vengeance of a just God upon him” (D&C 3:4). It is the continuing education
of our desires and the alignment of those desires with the desires of our
Heavenly Father that becomes the great challenge of education for us.
Now may I presume to give you
some counsel out of the love and respect I have for you as the generations who
will govern the church and who have such a rendezvous with destiny. My counsel
is rooted in respect for the free agency that God has given to you.. Unless you
align your desires with those of the Lord you will have neither happiness here
nor everlasting joy in the world to come. And the education of your desires
includes developing a sense of history so that you will see nonsense for what
it is. Therefore I plead with you, please do not mistake the laughter of the
world for genuine happiness. The laughter of the world is merely garrulous
guilt trying to reassure itself. It is the sound of selfishness emanating from
the cul-de-sac of terrible loneliness. Don’t mistake it for something else.
If like Abraham of old you
desire even greater happiness, then you too must also be desirous of being
further instructed in the ways of the Lord and in the grammar of the gospel.
You must seek to comprehend not only the structure of the plan of salvation but
also its substance including the schooling that must come to each of us
concerning the wintry doctrines of the gospel, such as those about the role of
adversity; two of which I read you now. “My people must be tried in all
things”—that isn’t somebody down the block, that’s you—“that they may be
prepared to receive the glory that I have for them, even the glory of Zion; and
he that will not bear chastisement is not worthy of my kingdom” (D&C
136:31). From Mosiah, “nevertheless the Lord seeth fit to chasten his people;
yea, he trieth their patience and their faith” (Mosiah 23:21). That’s us,
brothers and sisters, about whom the scriptures speak [of] our need to develop
the capacity to be patient in the midst of life’s ordinariness or its
tribulations, to develop the capacity to accept chastening circumstances that
are required for the shaping of our soul.
When we have a genuine desire
for him to instruct us—as did Abraham—and to tutor us—as did Abraham—then
either the onrushing and sometimes crushing events of life or its deceptive
ordinariness will be seen realistically and developmentally by us. Either way,
one will then allow for the divine design and the pattern which is present even
when we cannot see it. A perplexed Nephi on one occasion said of his Father in
Heaven, “I know that he (God) loveth his children; nevertheless, I do not know
the meaning of all things” (1 Nephi 11:17). He knew what mattered most. He
didn’t know all the other answers, but he know that God loved him, and that
must be yours and that sense of his love must sense into the very marrow of
your soul so that you can trust him when he is stretching your soul and know
that he loves you even when you cannot explain the meaning of all the other
things that are going on around you. The clinical experiences of life, brothers
and sisters, are built into even the seeming ordinariness of life, into the
repetition of life itself. Sometimes, as the Prophet Joseph said, “We have
crushing experiences that break off a whole piece of us painfully.” My
experience is that while that sometimes happens, most of the time our soul gets
polished by the sandpaper of circumstances, relentlessly, carefully, and yet it
is underway. If we have that kind of deepened trust and the desire to be
instructed, then we will have the patience so that we can outlast life’s
seemingly imponderables and the seeming contradictions.
In perhaps the most
significant dimension of desire, we must be willing to submit to our Father in
Heaven even in those moments when he desires us to be righteously independent
in making some of life’s most difficult decisions, in order that we will
develop our capacity to act for ourselves under the influence of his spirit and
to be his friend in all circumstances, even in the midst of gloom. It is that
circumstance about which President Brigham Young spoke when he said that “you
and I must learn to be righteous in the dark.” And that requires us to be
tutored and to desire to be tutored even in those circumstances that cause such
wrenching of the soul. Abraham, if he had not early on had a deep desire to be
instructed in the ways of the Lord, could not have done what he did on Mount
Moriah. The one followed the other. When we have this kind of precious
perspective we have another great advantage. We will not mistake the
imperfections in each other or in the institution of the church for
imperfections in God or his plan. And that requires some sophistication, but if
we desire to develop that kind of trust, we can. We will come to understand how
it is that we are in a congregation of imperfect people who are saints in the
slow, slow process of becoming. That means so many things in the church are
done very imperfectly; it must be so in this laboratory of life and as we pass
through these necessary clinical experiences, and it shouldn’t surprise us,
since we end up practicing on each other, sometimes cruelly, sometimes
indifferently, and sometimes we practice on each other with the zeal that
doesn’t have much wisdom to accompany it. Either way, once we have the precious
perspective of the plan of salvation we can surmount those disappointments, and
that’s why I focus tonight on our strengthening our gospel grasp upon the iron
rod. Frankly, brothers and sisters, I see no way for us to educate our desires
except for us to first understand God’s desires for us and then to proceed in
that lifelong educational process to align our desires with his. It can never
be the other way around. God’s plan of salvation is plain, is straightforward.
There can be no mistaking its purposes. We are to become like Jesus virtue by
virtue, experience by experience. There is neither another objective nor any
other way. And once we desire to be instructed by him, we will see that it is
so. There is so much misperception about life that is rooted, brothers and
sisters, in the misperceptions of the character and purposes of God. Not only
who he is, but what his desires for mankind are.
I suggest to you that the
spiritual person is one who is truly literate in the things of the intellect,
because such a man or woman is aware and respectful of the lessons that come to
us from scriptural history. We cannot of course, you and I, frustrate the
overall purposes of God for us, as mankind generally. But we can surely fail to
rise to our personal possibilities because we fail to desire as did Abraham,
that which is possible within us. Around us all the time there are people
settling for less than they are, for less than they have the possibility to become.
And I believe so much of that stems from an intrinsic failure for them to
educate their desires.
Now I bear my testimony to
you, my brothers and sisters, this church is lead by Jesus Christ, in a
marvelous blend of letting us work things out and directive revelation. He has
so structured this life’s experiences that a Bishop who is new learns to get
revelations, but he does not have everything done for him. He must struggle; he
must strive, because that’s the way we grow. And the same might be said for any
of us, whatever our calling. The Lord will not make it too easy, because he
loves us too much. And if we desire to be like to his son Jesus Christ, we must
then submit to those experiences which will help us move in that direction.
There is no easy escalator that will take us there. There are no short-cuts.
And in a hundred ways that could be mentioned if there were time and voice, he
has beckoned us to become like him, because he loves us. And that love is too
pristine and pure for him to let us cut corners. One of the things I notice
about the straight and narrow path is that there are no corners to be cut. It
must be so. So in addition to certifying to you that this is his church, I
certify to you the existence of his Lordship Jesus Christ, that he is a reality
and that so is his personality a reality. And that whether it is his mercy, his
patience, his love, his compassion, his truthfulness, we are to become like
him. And he uses the church as a great shaping instrumentality to move us along
that path. But it is filled with imperfect people, the church; and that was
foreseen by him. And in the midst of that imperfection we are to struggle to
become more like him.
And lastly, I certify to you
that he loves us with a perfect love, which brings him to that rendezvous yet
future for you because you’re young, that moment when he shall stand alone at
the entry to his kingdom, for “he employeth no servant there” (2 Nephi
9:21)—there, not only to certify our worthiness to enter, but there because he
loves us and he waits for you, brothers and sisters, in that marvelous
rendezvous which is so movingly portrayed in the scriptures. He waits for you
with open arms. That’s why he’s there. He waits for you with open arms. Do nothing
to mar that moment. Do not allow yourself to be deflected from that straight
and narrow path, but to arrive at that rendezvous in such a circumstance
spiritually that you can be drenched with joy and know the touch of those arms,
for his arms of mercy and love are extended for you. I certify to you that
rendezvous is a reality. For some of you it will come soon and some later, but
it will come if we are faithful. Of that I testify, and I close by giving you
an Apostolic blessing that inasmuch as he who knows you best, and loves you
best, even perfectly, has placed you here now in the midst of all of these
things, some of them so trying and so distressing, I ask his blessings
therefore to be upon you and I so bless you, that you can be sufficiently stirred
by the desires you now have which are righteous; that those desires can begin
to work in you that you will give an increased place for a portion of his
words, that there can be a deepening appreciation of the gospel in your lives,
and therefore the motivation to become more and more like him; and that in
those moments when you will wonder if your courage will fail, to be brave
enough to be who you are. And I assure you he has not placed you here to fail,
but to succeed. I thank him for that testimony which I leave with you and for
such utterance that this feeble voice as I have had tonight. My words are
intended to be strong in affection for you, in adoration of Him, in confidence
for you, and of assurance that he lives and that he loves you. He does indeed
wait for you with open arms, of which I testify as one of his special
witnesses, in the holy name of Jesus Christ. Amen.
Vs. 8 -
Translated beings. See Student Manual p. 105
Vs. 15 - Ann
Lee, once unhappily married, turned misogamist & taught her disciples that
marriage was evil. In the Shaker communities, men & women lived in separate
quarters & the children born to couples prior to their acceptance of Shakerism
belonged to all members.
Section 50 - May 1831 - In the spring 0f 1831 several individuals in
and around Kirtland, Ohio, claimed revelations for the guidance of the infant
Church. Confusion was the result. Parley P. Pratt and other elders called on
Joseph Smith to find out how members of the Church were to discern such
spirits. This revelation came in response to that request. (See reading from
Levi Hancock diary in "Making Sense of the Doctrine and Covenants" p.
172.)
Vs. 2-3-
Revelation can come from different sources.
Vs. 9 -
Accidentally? examples
Vs. 22- The
KEY
Vs. 24-
President Hinckley's favorite verse.
Vs. 37 -
Joseph Wakefield- Converted George A. Smith - left Church when he saw Joseph
leave his study and immediately play with little children.
Vs. 38- John
Corrill- Taught by Lamanite Missionaries. Baptized Jan. 1831-Ordained Elder.
2nd Counselor to Edward Partridge in Jackson. July 1833 offered self with Partridge
and 4 Elders to be scourged or killed by mom as ransom for Church. Founder
& surveyor of Far West. In 1838 became disillusioned with Church &
leaders. Testified against Joseph at Richmond. Ex'd March 1839. Wrote pamphlet
against Church.
Section 51 - May 1831, Thompson, Ohio. About 200 New York
Saints are moving into Ohio. Bishop Partridge asks for the Lord's help in
giving them their Stewardships. Leman (Shaker) Copley had agreed to donate his
759 acres.
Vs. 3- Land
to be divided according to circumstances, wants and needs.
Vs. 4-
Bishop Partridge is to give deed with land.
Vs. 5-If
person leaves Church he takes his Consecration not his donation.
Section 52 - Given day after June 3-7 Conference (4th) in
Kirtland at the Isaac Morley farm, with possibly as many as 1000 in attendance.
First High Priests ordained at this conference. Tells that next conference will be in
Missouri. Gives calls for 33 men to go
to Missouri.
Vs. 9- What
missionaries teach
Vs. 14- A
pattern in ALL things Vs. 15-21 a
pattern of a person whose actions & attributes are acceptable to Him: 1)Prays,
2)Contrite, 3)Receives ordinances, 4)language is meek & uplifting,
4)recognizes Lord's power 5) teachings & works reflect truths from
revelation from the Lord.
CALLED
TO SERVE
1. Joseph Smith - had
just conducted 4 day conference
2. Sidney Rigdon -
3. Lyman Wight - wild
ram of the mountains - while being a high priest during the conference, he saw the heavens open and Jesus and the
right hand of the father-was in jail with Joseph and Hyrum at liberty jail for
six months-once when asked to betray the prophet in order to save his own life,
Wight responded: "shoot and be damned!"-1841 called as an apostle-
didn't follow Brigham-took group go Texas- excommunicated 12-3-48-, died march
31,1858.
4. John Corrill -
D&C 50:38 - one of 7 high priest called to preside over saints in Zion -
turned against church - Ex'ed march 17, 1839.
5. John Murdock -
father of twins - D&C99 calls him on a mission to the East-bishop in
Illinois & Utah-mission to Australia(opened) - patriarch - died 12-23-71 at
age of 79.
6. Thomas b. Marsh -
1st President of 12 - buried in Ogden cemetery
7. Ezra Thayre - 33:1;
52:22; 54:preface; 56:5,8; 75:31. In three of these he is admonished to take up
the labors of missionary work, and in one his rebuked for his pride and
selfishness. There is mention of his membership being in question in 1835.
Zions camp, member of the first quorum of the 70, high council at Adam-ondi-Ahman,
council of 50, campaigned for Joseph. Left church after martyrdom and later
affiliated with Reorganized Church.
8. Isaac Morley -13
revelations received on his farm - 1st counselor to Edward partridge for nine
years - Patriarch in Sanpete county for last 10 years of life.
9. Ezra booth - 1st apostate
to publish against the Church - collected mob which tarred and feathered Joseph
and led to little Joseph Murdock's death.
10. Edward Partridge -
1st bishop - named in 11 sections - died as a result of Mo. Persecutions - see D&C
124:19!
11. Martin Harris -
mortgaged farm for book of Mormon publication
12. David Whitmer -
only one of 3 witnesses to die outside of church
13. Harvey Whitlock -
left church on several occasions - ended up with Reorganized church.
14. Parley p. Pratt -
in 7 revelations is mentioned - song writer, - 8 months in jail during mo.
Persecutions, escaped July 4, 1839.
15. Orson Pratt - crossed
Atlantic 16 times as missionary
16. Solomon Hancock -
served on 3 high councils - mentioned frequently in Joseph's journal
17. Simeon carter -
died in Brigham city in 1869
18. Edson Fuller -
appeared to have not served mission, stripped of priesthood in later 1931 and
soon left church
19. Jacob Scott - left
church later that week. George A. Smith said that Jacob and his apostate
friends were more violent and cruel and persecuted more than any other enemies.
20. Levi W. Hancock -
served as a president of 70 from 1835-1882 served in Zions camp and Mormon Battalion-only
general authority in battalion(chaplain)- baptized a murderer
21. Zebedee Coltrin - Jan.
28, 1836 beheld vision of the Jesus extended on a cross & a little after crowned
with glory - settled & died a patriarch in Spanish Fork 1887.
22. Reynolds Cahoon -
brother of Jared story - one who persuaded Joseph to turn himself in at Carthage
23. Samuel H. Smith -
died month after the prophet
24. Wheeler Baldwin -
little known - left church
25. William Carter -
may not have gone on mission - has been mixed up with other wm. Carters in
church history - probably left church.
26. Newel Knight - 1st
miracle, faithful until death on plains- 1-11-47- spoke to wife after death
27. Selah J. Griffin - D&C
56:5-6, call changed, moved family to mo. Persecuted - did not move west with
saints
28. Joseph Wakefield - D&C
50:37 - baptized george a. Smith - saw joseph play with children - left church
29. Solomon Humphrey - Baptist
Exhorterborn 1775 slept w/ rattler on Zions Camp. Died faithful in 1834 in Mo.
at age 59.
30. Heman Basset - 17
years old. Youngest in D&C (tied with Joseph Smith). Took Levi Hancock's
watch. Claimed to have received a revelation from an angel and showed many a
picture of what he alleged was a group of angels. No further mention.
31. Symonds Ryder - (Rider)
joined church as a result of an earthquake in China that some papers burlesqued
as "Mormonism in China" when Ryder read of the account in the
newspaper he remembered that six weeks before a young Mormon girl had predicted
the destruction- led mob that tarred and feathered Joseph.
32. Jared Carter - 6x
in D&C (79 especially for him) sort of flaky. "I have sacrificed
everything once, but I never will again.
33. George James - 1834
charged with not attending mtgs. Remained in Ohio until death in 1864.
Consistently promised to join with the Saints.
Patterns From The Doctrine And
Covenants - D&C 52:14
1. 1 Nephi 19:23
2. 1 Nephi 15:3 - there are some
things hard to understand save a person, inquires of the lord.
3. We are similarly separated from the
D&C as Nephi & his brothers were separated from Isaiah (is. Prophesied
from about 740-700 BC-Nephi was teaching in I Nephi 19 in about 588-570 BC.
4. D&C 1:14 and Lael Hepworth
6. D&C 88:122 - a pattern for
classes, family home evenings, family councils etc.
7. D&C 88:119 - a pattern for
family preparedness- a. What are needful things? B. Establish a house -
what kind of house? 1. House of prayer - odd and even - 7 days of week- seven
family members 2. House of fasting - car sell - fast Saturday 3. House of faith
- brother Leakeau and home teaching - Kyle, Jodi and priesthood blessings - to
start the school year 4. House of learning - what can we do to establish a
house of learning? A. Reading rather than TV b. Positive reinforcement c. What
are our house priorities? 5. House of glory - a temple like house - there are
certain things that happen in the temple, things we talk about there and
nowhere else. Are there similar things that should be designated for the home?
(how about teaching our children the sacred nature of the law of chastity) 6.
House of order - is there order in your house-could you make a list of things
that you do in your house in order to make it a house of order ie., chores?
Family home evening? Family councils? Marked cupboards? 7. House of god - have
our homes been dedicated to god? Would he find our homes to be an acceptable
dwelling place for his spirit?
8. D&C 43:8-9 - a pattern for all
meetings, including family home evening
9. D&C 95:1-3 - a pattern for chastising
- 3 responsibilities of the chastiser 1. Love= 3x in verse 1 2. Motivate 3. Prepare
a way Dec. 27, 1832 - section 88:119 - build a temple may 6, 1833 section 94 -
permission given to build a house for the 1)presidency, 2)printing house,
3)homes for Hyrum Smith, Reynolds Cahoon, and Jared Carter June 1, 1833 -
D&C 95 revealed
10. D&C 88:122 - a pattern for all
teachers
Section
53 -
The Lord has had few
more devoted servants in this dispensation that Brother Algernon Sidney
Gilbert. Elder Gilbert for some years was a successful merchant in Painesville,
Ohio; and subsequently, with newel k. Whitney, he founded the successful
mercantile firm of Gilbert and Whitney in Kirtland, Ohio, at which place the
gospel found him in the year 1830. Later, he was called to go to Mo., and was
appointed keeper of the Lord's storehouse, and upon him also developed the
responsibility of purchasing lands for the Saints. He was devoted to the
interest of the Saints and the Church. In the persecutions which came upon the
people in Jackson County he sacrificed all his goods, and was among the six who
offered their own lives for the lives of their friends in the Jackson County
trouble on July 23, 1823 He was a man or rare good sense, conservative and of
sound judgment. He died of cholera following Zion's Camp on June 29, 1834. He
had said that he was so afraid of teaching (vs. 3) that he would rather die
than go forth to preach the Gospel of the Gentiles.
