Footnotes
For more on the Nauvoo lyceum, see Discourse, ca. 2 Feb. 1841.
McIntire, Notebook, [16].
McIntire, William Patterson. Notebook, 1840–1845. CHL. MS 1014.
See Walters, American Reformers, 3–19; Mintz, Moralists and Modernizers, xiii–xxii, 16–17; and Young, Bearing Witness against Sin, 1–9.
Walters, Ronald G. American Reformers: 1815–1860. Rev. ed. New York: Hill and Wang, 1997.
Mintz, Steven. Moralists and Modernizers: America’s Pre-Civil War Reformers. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995.
Young, Michael P. Bearing Witness against Sin: The Evangelical Birth of the American Social Movement. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006.
For examples of JS’s teachings on the Millennium, see Revelation, Sept. 1830–A [D&C 29:14–21]; Revelation, ca. 7 Mar. 1831 [D&C 45:26–33]; and Revelation, 16–17 Dec. 1833 [D&C 101:32–42, 89–91]. See also Underwood, Millenarian World of Early Mormonism, 1–10.
Underwood, Grant. The Millenarian World of Early Mormonism. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1993.
Miller, Evidence from Scripture and History, 20.
Miller, William. Evidence from Scripture and History of the Second Coming of Christ, about the Year 1843; Exhibited in a Course of Lectures. Troy, NY: Kemble and Hooper, 1836.
Revelation, Sept. 1830–A [D&C 29:11]. In an 1840 publication, apostle Orson Pratt similarly explained that the Saints would “reign with him [Christ] on earth a thousand years.” (Pratt, Interesting Account, 31.)
This dating assumes weekly meetings beginning on Tuesday, 5 January 1841. For more on the dating issues in McIntire’s notebook, see Historical Introduction to Discourse, ca. 2 Feb. 1841.
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See Isaiah 65:20, 22; and Revelation, 16–17 Dec. 1833 [D&C 101:31].
See Zechariah 14:16–17.
In his first letter to the Corinthians, Paul listed the various people and groups who saw the resurrected Christ and reported that “he was seen of above five hundred brethren at once; of whom the greater part remain unto this present, but some are fallen asleep.” (1 Corinthians 15:6.)
See Revelation 20:3; Revelation, Sept. 1830–A [D&C 29:22]; and Revelation, Feb. 1831–A [D&C 43:31].
See 2 Peter 3:13; Revelation 21:1; Book of Mormon, 1840 ed., 550–551 [Ether 13:9]; and Revelation, Sept. 1830–A [D&C 29:23–24].
See Psalm 37:11; Matthew 5:5; Book of Mormon, 1840 ed., 466 [3 Nephi 12:5]; and Revelation, 27–28 Dec. 1832 [D&C 88:17].
At one of the first lyceum meetings, held a few months earlier, JS also discussed resisting temptation. McIntire recorded, “Joseph said that before foundation of the Earth in the Grand-Counsel that the spirits of all Men ware subject to opression & the express purpose of God in Giveing it a tabernicle was to arm it against the power of Darkness.” An early revelation dictated by JS explained, “It Must needs be that the Devil should tempt the children of men or they could not be agents unto themselves for if they never should have bitter they could not k[n]ow the Sweet.” (Account of Meeting, ca. 19 Jan. 1841; Revelation, Sept. 1830–A [D&C 29:39].)
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