Footnotes
Reflections and Blessings, 16 and 23 Aug. 1842; see also Genesis 49:29–32; 50:2–13, 25; Exodus 13:19; Joshua 24:32; and Brown, In Heaven as It Is on Earth, chap. 4.
Brown, Samuel M. In Heaven as It Is on Earth: Joseph Smith and the Early Mormon Conquest of Death. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012.
Woodruff, Journal, 16 Apr. 1843.
Woodruff, Wilford. Journals, 1833–1898. Wilford Woodruff, Journals and Papers, 1828–1898. CHL. MS 1352.
Parley P. Pratt, Alton, IL, 1 Apr. 1843, Letter to the Editor, Times and Seasons, 1 Apr. 1843, 4:148–149. JS learned approximately two weeks before he gave the featured discourse that Barnes had died.
Times and Seasons. Commerce/Nauvoo, IL. Nov. 1839–Feb. 1846.
See Historical Introduction to Discourse, 4 July 1843.
Woodruff evidently left three blank pages in his journal with the intention of filling them with the discourse, but he used only two and one-third of the pages. (See Smith, “Joseph Smith’s Sermons,” 224–225.)
Smith, William V. “Joseph Smith’s Sermons and the Early Mormon Documentary Record.” In Foundational Texts of Mormonism: Examining Major Early Sources, edited by Mark Ashurst-McGee, Robin Scott Jensen, and Sharalyn D. Howcroft, 190–230. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018.
TEXT: Possibly “Editors”.
Parley P. Pratt, Alton, IL, 1 Apr. 1843, Letter to the Editor, Times and Seasons, 1 Apr. 1843, 4:148–149. While in St. Louis, Pratt learned of Barnes’s death and wrote Wilford Woodruff and John Taylor, publishers of the Times and Seasons, on 1 April from Alton, Illinois. Thirty-year-old Barnes was presiding over the church in Bradford, England, when he died of “quick consumption” on 20 December. Barnes was identified on his tombstone as “the first gospel messenger from Nauvoo who has found a grave in a foreign land.” (Wilford Woodruff, Liverpool, England, 1 May 1845, Letter to the Editor, Times and Seasons, 15 May 1845, 6:908; see also Editorial, Millennial Star, Jan. 1843, 3:159.)
Times and Seasons. Commerce/Nauvoo, IL. Nov. 1839–Feb. 1846.
Latter-day Saints’ Millennial Star. Manchester, England, 1840–1842; Liverpool, 1842–1932; London, 1932–1970.
See Luke 10:34.