-- Feb 27, 1833
D&C 89 (Kirtland): Word of Wisdom: health guidelines with promise of health, wisdom, and deliverance from the destroying angel. (1)
[Joseph Smith] Kirtland, Ohio. Joseph Smith received Doctrine & Covenants 89, a revelation containing the dietary code for the Saints known as the Word of Wisdom. (2)
[Joseph Smith] The "Word of Wisdom" discourages use of tobacco, wine, and "strong drink" but encourages the use of "mild drinks" made from barley (beer). (3)
[Joseph Smith] Revelation on dietary code that became known as Word of Wisdom, Kirtland. (4)
[Lucy Mack Smith] Revelation known as the Word of Wisdom given at Kirtland (D&C 89). (5)
[Lucy Mack Smith] Joseph receives the Word of Wisdom. (6)
[Revelations] Kirtland, Ohio. Doctrine and Covenants 89. Not a commandment. Use wine for sacrament, strong drink for washing, tobacco for bruises, no hot drinks, herbs useful, meat sparingly, grain the staff of life, fruit, mild barley drinks. Promise: health, hidden treasures of knowledge, endurance, destroying angel pass by.
Kirtland Revelations Book heading: A Revelation for the benefit of the saints & -.
Not printed in the Book of Commandments.
1835 Doctrine and Covenants 80 heading: A word of wisdom for the benefit of the council of high priests assembled in Kirtland and church; and also the saints in Zion: to be sent greeting: not by commandment or constraint: but by revelation and the word of wisdom: showing forth the order and will of God in the temporal salvation of all saints in the last days. Given for a principle with promise adapted to the capacity of the weak and the weakest of all saints who are or can be called saints.
Kirtland Revelations Book.
A Revelation for the benefit of the saints & KRB, 49-51. (7)
-- Feb 28, 1833
It is well known that Jo Smith never pretended to have any communion with angels, until a long period after the pretended finding of his book, and that the juggling of himself or father, went no further than the pretended faculty of seeing wonders in a "peep stone," and the occasional interview with the spirit, supposed to have the custody of hidden treasures; and it is also equally well known, that a vagabond fortune-teller by the name of Walters, who then resided in the town of Sodus, and was once committed to the jail of this country for juggling, was the constant companion and bosom friend of these money digging imposters. "Gold Bible, No. 5," Palmyra Reflector, Feb. 28, 1831. (1)
-- During February 1833
[Young, Brigham] Returned to Mendon, New York, February 1833. (8)
-- Mar 1, 1833
A disgruntled member successfully sues Bishop Partridge to recover the $50 he had paid for an inheritance in Zion. Chronicle of the Times (Batavia, Ohio), Mar. 30, 1833. (1)
-- Mar 2, 1833
Rev. Richmond Taggart of Cleveland writes Rev. Jonathan Goings that the previous week, Joseph told congregation in Newburg (6 miles from Cleveland) that "he had seen Jesus Christ and the Apostles and conversed with them, and that he could perform Miracles." Authority, 22-23. Original in the American Baptist Historical Society, Rochester, New York. (1)
-- Mar 3, 1833
Joseph Smith gets a revelation that the Lord is not pleased with McLellin [per Joseph Smith]. (9)
-- Mar 8, 1833
D&C 90 (Kirtland): Only Joseph to receive the oracles of the Lord. Sidney and Frederick to to be equals with Joseph in holding the keys of the kingdom. Joseph to complete Old Testament "translation," then preside and study. Tell Zion [that Joseph?] will preside over them in the Lord's own due time. They are to repent. (1)
Footnotes:
1 - http://saintswithouthalos.com/dirs/d_c.phtml
2 - BYU Studies Journal, volume 46, no. 4: A Chronology of the Life of Joseph Smith
3 - D. Michael Quinn, The Mormon Hierarchy: Origins of Power, Appendix 7: Selected Chronology of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1830-47"
4 - Joseph Smith Papers: Chronology for the Years 1832-1839
5 - History of Joseph Smith by His Mother: Revised and Enhanced by Scot Facer Proctor Maurine Jensen Proctor
6 - Lucy's Book: A Critical Edition of Lucy Mack Smith's Family Memoir, Edited by Lavina Fielding Anderson, 2001, Signature Books
7 - http://saintswithouthalos.com/s/_dc.phtml
8 - Lyndon W. Cook, The Revelation of the Prophet Joseph Smith: A Historical and Biographical Commentary of the Doctrine and Covenants, Seventy's Mission Bookstore, Provo UT, 1985
9 - http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dgv482t8_0d5hdn5cv
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