Footnotes
A Historian’s Office inventory includes the following under the entry for 1842: “A religious proclamation by the Prophet.” That entry likely refers to this document. (“Letters to and from the Prophet,” ca. 1904, [2], Historian’s Office, Catalogs and Inventories, 1846–1904, CHL.)
Historian’s Office. Catalogs and Inventories, 1846–1904. CHL. CR 100 130.
Jessee, “Writing of Joseph Smith’s History,” 456, 458; Woodruff, Journal, 22 Jan. 1865.
Jessee, Dean C. “The Writing of Joseph Smith’s History.” BYU Studies 11 (Summer 1971): 439–473.
Woodruff, Wilford. Journals, 1833–1898. Wilford Woodruff, Journals and Papers, 1828–1898. CHL. MS 1352.
Footnotes
Revelation, 19 Jan. 1841 [D&C 124:1–6].
Revelation, 19 Jan. 1841 [D&C 124:7–8].
Revelation, 19 Jan. 1841 [D&C 124:12–14].
Thompson apparently died from a severe lung infection. (Letter to Oliver Granger, 30 Aug. 1841; see also Minutes and Discourse, 1–5 Oct. 1841.)
When Thomas Bullock filed the proclamation featured here, he wrote on the document that it was created “about, 1842,” but that appears to be a mistake.
Richards wrote the title of the proclamation and a few sentences about it on the verso of a 22 December 1841 revelation appointing John Snider to raise funds for the construction of the Nauvoo temple and the Nauvoo House, which the 19 January 1841 revelation commanded to be built. (See Revelation, [Nauvoo, IL], ca. 22 Dec. 1841, Revelations Collection, CHL.)
In April 1845, the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles published a sixteen-page proclamation that was far more expansive and wide-ranging than JS’s 1841 proclamation. (Proclamation of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ, of Latter-day Saints [New York: Prophet Office, 1845].)
[Pratt, Parley P.] Proclamation of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ, of Latter-Day Saints. New York: Samuel Brannan and Parley P. Pratt, 1845.
At the church’s organization, JS dictated a revelation stating that he would be recognized in the church record as “a seer & Translater & Prop[h]et an Apostle of Jesus Christ an Elder of the Church through the will of God the Father.” This authority was reiterated in the 19 January 1841 revelation that mandated the creation of a proclamation: “I give unto you my servant Joseph to be a presiding Elder over all my Church, to be a Translater, a Revelator, a Seer, and Prophet.” (Revelation, 6 Apr. 1830 [D&C 21:1]; Revelation, 19 Jan. 1841 [D&C 124:125].)
Martin Van Buren served as president of the United States from 4 March 1837 to 4 March 1841. William Henry Harrison served from 4 March 1841 to 4 April 1841, and John Tyler served from 4 April 1841 to 4 March 1845. Given the uncertain date of creation for this document, it could have been addressed to any one of these three presidents.
TEXT: “Lord God” is double underlined.
TEXT: “Lord” is double underlined.
Isaiah 49:22–23.
Chapters 60, 61, and 62 of Isaiah contain prophecies that Israel would rise again as a mighty nation and that the Gentiles would join with and serve Israel.
See Revelation, 19 Jan. 1841 [D&C 124:1–12].
This list resembles the first principles of the gospel of Jesus Christ according to Latter-day Saint thought. In 1837 a church newspaper identified “faith, repentance, baptism, remission of sin, and . . . the reception of the Holy Ghost” as the “first principles of the gospel.” (A. Cheney, “The Gospel,” Messenger and Advocate, May 1837, 3:498, 499; see also Letter to the Elders of the Church, 2 Oct. 1835; Discourse, 3 Oct. 1841; Acts 2:38; 19:1–6; and Book of Mormon, 1840 ed., 117, 494, 499–500 [2 Nephi 31:5–13; 3 Nephi 27:20; 4 Nephi 1:1].)
Latter Day Saints’ Messenger and Advocate. Kirtland, OH. Oct. 1834–Sept. 1837.
Acts 22:16.