Benjamin Brown wrote that when JS opened this meeting, he declared that “the day of Penticost was continued.” Stephen Post recorded that JS expounded on “the order of dedicating a house to God” from the account of Solomon’s temple dedication in 2 Chronicles 6 and gave instruction “relative to our preaching & to our endowment.” Post also recorded that “Angels of God came into the room, cloven tongues rested upon some of the Servants of the Lord like unto fire, & they spake with tongues & prophesied.” Oliver Cowdery recorded, “The Spirit was poured out—I saw the glory of God, like a great cloud, come down and rest upon the house, and fill the same like a mighty rushing wind. I also saw cloven tongues, like as of fire rest upon many, (for there were 316 present,) while they spake with other tongues and prophesied.” (Benjamin Brown, Kirtland, OH, to Sarah M. Brown, Mar. 1836, Benjamin Brown Family Collection, CHL; Post, Journal, 27 and 28 Mar. 1836; Cowdery, Diary, 27 Mar. 1836; see also Partridge, Journal, 27 Mar. 1836.)
Benjamin Brown Family Collection, 1835–1983. CHL. MS 17646.
Post, Stephen. Journals, 1835–1879. Stephen Post, Papers, 1835–1921. CHL. MS 1304, box 6.
Cowdery, Oliver. Diary, Jan.–Mar. 1836. CHL. MS 3429. Also available as Leonard J. Arrington, “Oliver Cowdery’s Kirtland, Ohio, ‘Sketch Book,’” BYU Studies 12 (Summer 1972): 410–426.
Partridge, Edward. Journal, Jan. 1835–July 1836. Edward Partridge, Papers, 1818–1839. CHL. MS 892, box 1, fd. 2.
An educational program established in Kirtland, Ohio, in January 1836 for the study of the Hebrew language. On 4 January 1836, JS organized the school and served as its temporary instructor for three weeks. A committee composed of JS, Sidney Rigdon, Frederick...
View GlossaryAn educational program established in Kirtland, Ohio, in January 1836 for the study of the Hebrew language. On 4 January 1836, JS organized the school and served as its temporary instructor for three weeks. A committee composed of JS, Sidney Rigdon, Frederick...
View Glossary26 Jan. 1836
First day of formal instruction by Joshua Seixas at Hebrew School, Kirtland, Ohio.
4 June 1802–1874. Hebraist, textbook writer, teacher. Probably born at New York City. Son of Gershom Mendez Seixas and Hannah Manuel. Married Henrietta Raphael of Richmond, Henrico Co., Virginia. Taught Hebrew at New York and Charlestown, Massachusetts. His...
View Full BioThis concluded the eight weeks and two days of instruction received by JS and other Latter-day Saints. The following day Seixas signed a certificate that recorded JS’s completion of the course and encouraged him to continue his studies. In the years to come, JS occasionally studied Hebrew and used his knowledge of the language in sermons and writings. (Certificate, J. Seixas to JS, Kirtland, OH, 30 Mar. 1836, JS Collection, CHL; Ogden, “Kirtland Hebrew School,” 163–166; see also Zucker, “Joseph Smith as a Student of Hebrew”; and Walton, “Professor Seixas.”)
Smith, Joseph. Collection, 1827–1846. CHL. MS 155.
Ogden, D. Kelly. “The Kirtland Hebrew School (1835–36).” In Regional Studies in Latter-day Saint Church History: Ohio, edited by Milton V. Backman Jr., 63–87, 155–166. Provo, UT: Department of Church History and Doctrine, Brigham Young University, 1990.
Zucker, Louis C. “Joseph Smith as a Student of Hebrew.” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 3 (Summer 1968): 41–55.
Walton, Michael T. “Professor Seixas, the Hebrew Bible, and the Book of Abraham.” Sunstone 6, no. 2 (Mar.–Apr. 1981): 41–43.
An organized body of leaders over priesthood quorums and other ecclesiastical organizations. A November 1831 revelation first described the office of president over the high priesthood and the church as a whole. By 1832, JS and two counselors constituted ...
View GlossaryJS revelation, dated Jan. 1831, directed Latter-day Saints to migrate to Ohio, where they would “be endowed with power from on high.” In Dec. 1832, JS revelation directed Saints to “establish . . . an house of God.” JS revelation, dated 1 June 1833, chastened...
More InfoAn ordinance following the pattern set by Jesus in the New Testament, symbolizing unity and bestowing purification and spiritual power. At the first meeting of the School of the Prophets in January 1833, JS washed the feet of the elders present and pronounced...
View Glossary28 Oct. 1787–10 Oct. 1842. Ship’s pilot, teacher, physician, justice of the peace. Born at Suffield, Hartford Co., Connecticut. Son of William Wheeler Williams and Ruth Granger. Moved to Newburg, Cuyahoga Co., Ohio, 1799. Practiced Thomsonian botanical system...
View Full Bio19 Feb. 1793–14 July 1876. Tanner, farmer, minister. Born at St. Clair, Allegheny Co., Pennsylvania. Son of William Rigdon and Nancy Gallaher. Joined United Baptists, ca. 1818. Preached at Warren, Trumbull Co., Ohio, and vicinity, 1819–1821. Married Phebe...
View Full Bio9 Feb. 1800–27 June 1844. Farmer, cooper. Born at Tunbridge, Orange Co., Vermont. Son of Joseph Smith Sr. and Lucy Mack. Moved to Randolph, Orange Co., 1802; back to Tunbridge, before May 1803; to Royalton, Windsor Co., Vermont, 1804; to Sharon, Windsor Co...
View Full Bio3 Oct. 1806–3 Mar. 1850. Clerk, teacher, justice of the peace, lawyer, newspaper editor. Born at Wells, Rutland Co., Vermont. Son of William Cowdery and Rebecca Fuller. Raised Congregationalist. Moved to western New York and clerked at a store, ca. 1825–1828...
View Full BioJS revelation, dated Jan. 1831, directed Latter-day Saints to migrate to Ohio, where they would “be endowed with power from on high.” In Dec. 1832, JS revelation directed Saints to “establish . . . an house of God.” JS revelation, dated 1 June 1833, chastened...
More InfoProbably the veil-enclosed pulpits on the west side of the lower court, which were separately consecrated before the general dedication two days earlier. (See JS, Journal, 27 Mar. 1836.)
A specific location in Missouri; also a literal or figurative gathering of believers in Jesus Christ, characterized by adherence to ideals of harmony, equality, and purity. In JS’s earliest revelations “the cause of Zion” was used to broadly describe the ...
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