Footnotes
Discourse, 17 Jan. 1843. JS’s journal notes that on 28 October 1842, “the brethren finished laying the temporary floor, and seats in the Temple.” The following May, a correspondent reported to the New York Herald that the temple was “going on rapidly” and that services were held “on the first floor every Sabbath,” during which JS frequently addressed the Saints. (JS, Journal, 28 Oct. 1842; “Late and Interesting from the Mormon Empire on the Upper Mississippi,” New York Herald [New York City], 30 May 1843, [2]; see also Clayton, History of the Nauvoo Temple, 40–41.)
New York Herald. New York City. 1835–1924.
Clayton, William. History of the Nauvoo Temple, ca. 1845. CHL. MS 3365.
Extant records do not indicate exactly when this lyceum meeting was held, but JS may have given his 17 January 1843 discourse in connection with it. During 1841 the lyceum met on Tuesdays. JS’s 17 January discourse was given on a Tuesday and addressed the same topics that JS chose to speak on in the 22 January meeting. (Discourse, 17 Jan. 1843; Historical Introduction to Discourse, ca. 2 Feb. 1841.)
Whether Jesus Christ’s kingdom was established before or on the day of Pentecost was a heavily debated subject among nineteenth-century theologians. (See Discourse, 17 Jan. 1843.)
Revelation, Apr. 1829–A [D&C 6:3, 13]; see also Historical Introduction to Discourse, 17 Jan. 1843.
JS, Journal, 1 Jan. 1843; Historical Introduction to Discourse, 17 Jan. 1843.
Woodruff frequently made notes in a daybook that he then used to compose journal entries at a later date.
Richards, Journal, 14–22 Jan. 1843; JS, Journal, 22 Jan. 1843.
Richards, Willard. Journals, 1836–1853. Willard Richards, Papers, 1821–1854. CHL. MS 1490, boxes 1–2.
Historian’s Office, JS History, Draft Notes, 22 Jan. 1843, 11; JS History, vol. D-1, 1457. In revising the history of this period during the 1850s, Leo Hawkins canceled the majority of the Clayton account and inserted in the addenda for volume D-1 a new summary of the sermon that drew upon the account in Woodruff’s journal. Hawkins likely made the insertion sometime between 1 July and 13 October 1854, when the Church Historian’s Office journal notes that he was working on the volume. (Historian’s Office, Journal, 1 July and 13 Oct. 1854; JS History, vol. D-1, addenda, 4–6; Jessee, “Writing of Joseph Smith’s History,” 441.)
Historian’s Office. Journal, 1844–1997. CHL. CR 100 1.
Jessee, Dean C. “The Writing of Joseph Smith’s History.” BYU Studies 11 (Summer 1971): 439–473.
See Romans 3:1–2.
Treason was included in the charges that Missouri courts made against JS, Hyrum Smith, Lyman Wight, Alexander McRae, Caleb Baldwin, and Sidney Rigdon in 1838. The courts charged those six men and another twenty-four Latter-day Saints with arson, burglary, robbery, and larceny. Parley P. Pratt and four others were charged with murder. (“Part 3: 4 November 1838–16 April 1839.”.)
Some Christians maintained that revelations and other spiritual manifestations had ceased with the deaths of the New Testament apostles. For example, one nineteenth-century Methodist minister in England taught that “no provision was made for the perpetuity of miracles.” Several published statements, pamphlets, and books criticized claims by JS and other church members that they received revelation from God. Following the pattern of earlier critics, John C. Bennett had recently reiterated such arguments in his History of the Saints. (Stamp, Signs of an Apostle, 16; Howe, Mormonism Unvailed, 37; “Regulating the Mormonites,” Missouri Republican [St. Louis], 9 Aug. 1833, [3]; Bennett, History of the Saints, 57–61, 86–87, 89.)
Stamp, John S. The Signs of an Apostle, and the Evidence for the Cessation of Miraculous Powers in the Church, Considered; Being the Substance of a Sermon Preached in the Wesleyan Chapel, New Inn Hall Lane, Oxford, on Sunday Evening, February 12th, 1832. Oxford: J. Munday, 1832.
Howe, Eber D. Mormonism Unvailed: Or, A Faithful Account of That Singular Imposition and Delusion, from Its Rise to the Present Time. With Sketches of the Characters of Its Propagators, and a Full Detail of the Manner in Which the Famous Golden Bible Was Brought before the World. To Which Are Added, Inquiries into the Probability That the Historical Part of the Said Bible Was Written by One Solomon Spalding, More Than Twenty Years Ago, and by Him Intended to Have Been Published as a Romance. Painesville, OH: By the author, 1834.
Daily Missouri Republican. St. Louis. 1822–1869.
Bennett, John C. The History of the Saints; or, an Exposé of Joe Smith and Mormonism. Boston: Leland and Whiting, 1842.
An 1832 revelation stated that John was “ordained by the Angel of God at the time he was eight days old.” (Revelation, 22–23 Sept. 1832 [D&C 84:28].)