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Letter to Brother Fosdick, 3 February 1834
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This item is reproduced by permission of The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.
Kirtland Mills Feb. 3, 1834.
Located in Newel K. Whitney store in northwest Kirtland on northeast corner of Chardon and Chillicothe roads. Whitney appointed postmaster, 29 Dec. 1826. JS and others listed “Kirtland Mills, Geauga County, Ohio” as return address for letters mailed, 1833...
More InfoDear Bro. Fosdick:
Your letter of the 10th. Jan. last is just recd. and this day there has been a regular Council of H. Priests & Elders in this place, and the subject spoken of in your letter was, we believe, taken into due consideration. We were very sorry to learn that Bro. J[oseph] Wood had gone so far astray and offered such violence to the pure principles of the Gospel of Christ. But, alas! Such is the depravity of man when lost to a sense of the fear of God and of the ties which bind [e]very virtuous man to the interest and happiness of his follow man.
A gathering of church leaders assembled “for consultation, deliberation and advice”; also a body responsible for governance or administration. As early as 9 February 1831, a revelation instructed that “the Elders & Bishop shall Council together & they shall...
View GlossaryAn ecclesiastical office. The Book of Mormon used the term high priest to denote one appointed to lead the church. However, the Book of Mormon also discussed an order of high priests who were called to teach the commandments of God and serve as leaders in...
View GlossaryAn administrative and ecclesiastical office not associated with age. The Book of Mormon explained that elders ordained priests and teachers and administered “the flesh and blood of Christ unto the church.” The articles and covenants of the church directed...
View GlossaryEvery principle inculcated among you which is contrary [t]o virtue, to industry, to wisdom, to good order, to propriety, and in fine, to the pure principles of godliness as contained in the Scriptures of the old and new Testaments, the Book of Mormon and the revelations and commandments of Jesus Christ, which have been given to his Church in these last days, is entirely foreign from the feelings of our breasts, and is that upon which we [l]ook down with feelings of the utmost disapprobation; and as consc [i]encious men who expect to render an impartial account, before [th]e searcher of hearts, of all our transactions here, we cannot [lo]ok upon any principle contrary to the above with any degree [of] allowance.
Generally, a divine mandate that church members were expected to obey; more specifically, a text dictated by JS in the first-person voice of deity that served to communicate knowledge and instruction to JS and his followers. Occasionally, other inspired texts...
View GlossaryThe Book of Mormon related that when Christ set up his church in the Americas, “they which were baptized in the name of Jesus, were called the church of Christ.” The first name used to denote the church JS organized on 6 April 1830 was “the Church of Christ...
View GlossaryAfter some investigation of the case of Bro. Wood, in Council, [it] was decided that he should be cut off from the Church. [Ac]cordingly the Council lifted their hands against him and [he] was excluded from the church on this 3d. day of Feb. 1834. [for] indulging an idle, partial, overbearing and lustful spirit, and [not] magnifying his holy calling whereunto he had been [ord]ained. These things were plainly manifest to the satisfaction [of a]ll the council, and the Spirit constrained us to separate him [fro]m the church. Should bro. Joseph Wood, after learning [th]e decission of this council, truly repent of all his sins and bring forth fruit meet to the satisfaction of that branch of the Church where he has committed the offences, he can be [p. 23]
The conferral of power and authority; to appoint, decree, or set apart. Church members, primarily adults, were ordained to ecclesiastical offices and other responsibilities by the laying on of hands by those with the proper authority. Ordinations to priesthood...
View GlossaryAn ecclesiastical organization of church members in a particular locale. A branch was generally smaller than a stake or a conference. Branches were also referred to as churches, as in “the Church of Shalersville.” In general, branches were led by a presiding...
View GlossaryJS and a council of high priests and elders, letter, Kirtland Mills, OH, to Brother Fosdick, Pontiac, Michigan Territory, 3 Feb. 1834; handwriting of Thomas Burdick; in Oliver Cowdery Letterbook, pp. 23–24; Huntington Library.
Located in Newel K. Whitney store in northwest Kirtland on northeast corner of Chardon and Chillicothe roads. Whitney appointed postmaster, 29 Dec. 1826. JS and others listed “Kirtland Mills, Geauga County, Ohio” as return address for letters mailed, 1833...
More Info17 Nov. 1795/1797–6 Nov. 1877. Farmer, teacher, judge, postmaster, clerk, civil servant. Born at Canajoharie, Montgomery Co., New York. Son of Gideon Burdick and Catherine Robertson. Married Anna Higley, 1828, at Jamestown, Chautauque Co., New York. Baptized...
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