Footnotes

1. [1]

   William Clayton stated that “the Temple was crowded with people.” (Clayton, Journal, 29 Jan. 1843.)

   Clayton, William. Journals, 1842–1845. CHL.

2. [2]

   Willard Richards [V., pseud.], Nauvoo, IL, 24 Mar. 1843, Letter to the Editor, Daily Bee (Boston), 18 Apr. 1843, [2]; Matthew 11:11; Luke 7:28. By 17 March 1843, Richards and William W. Phelps began writing a series of letters under the pseudonym “Viator” to be published in the Boston Daily Bee. One of these letters to the Bee recounted the first part of the 29 January discourse, in which JS explained the three reasons John the Baptist was considered the greatest prophet. Records indicate Richards wrote that particular letter, apparently basing it upon the account of the discourse he had recorded in JS’s journal. On 15 May 1843, the Times and Seasons reprinted the Bee article. (JS, Journal, 6 and 17 Mar. 1843; “Truthiana No. 2,” draft, Truthiana, 1843, CHL; “Mormonism,” Times and Seasons, 15 May 1843, 4:199–200.)

   Boston Daily Bee. Boston. 1842–1857.

   “Truthiana,” 1843. Draft. CHL. MS 15537.

   Times and Seasons. Commerce/Nauvoo, IL. Nov. 1839–Feb. 1846.

3. [3]

   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 New York Herald correspondent reported that the temple construction 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].)

   New York Herald. New York City. 1835–1924.

4. [4]

   JS, Journal, 29 Jan. 1843.

5. [5]

   See Discourse, 22 Jan. 1843; Historian’s Office, JS History, Draft Notes, 29 Jan. 1843, 11; and Luke 15:11–32.

6. [6]

   See, for example, “The Elder Son,” Gospel Advocate and Impartial Investigator, 29 Apr. 1828, 121–122; Rayner, Parable of the Rich Man and Lazarus, 121–122; and “Review of a Discourse,” Trumpet and Universalist Magazine, 10 Jan. 1829, 112.

   Gospel Advocate and Impartial Investigator. Buffalo, NY. 1827–1829.

   Rayner, Menzies. Parable of the Rich Man and Lazarus; Illustrated in Nine Lectures, Delivered in the First Universalist Church in Portland, Maine, 1833. Boston: Marsh, Capen, and Lyon, 1833.

   Trumpet and Universalist Magazine. Boston. 1828–1862.

7. [7]

   See Luke 15:31.