Sidney Rigdon's letter of May 27th is published in the "Quincy Whig." (1)
-- (Tue) Jun 11, 1839
Smith began dictating a new autobiography and Church history to his clerk, James Mulholland. Just as when the 1834-35 History was begun in the "Messenger and Advocate" in Kirtland, the writing of this 1839 History may have been spurred in part by the appearance of the Spalding authorship claims as an alternative explanation for the origin of Mormonism. (1)
-- Jun 11, 1839
Joseph begins work on what becomes the Manuscript History of the Church. (2)
The first house was put up by the Saints in Commerce, afterward named Nauvoo. (3)
James Mulholland records that Joseph Smith "commenced to dictate and I to write history" based on the 1838 history by clerk George Robinson. The new manuscript contains Joseph Smith's well-known account of his first vision "early in the spring of eighteen hundred and twenty." (4)
Commerce, Illinois. Joseph Smith began dictating his personal history to James Mulholland. (5)
[Joseph Smith] Resumed recording history with scribe James Mulholland, Commerce. (6)
-- Jun 23, 1839
McDonough County, Illinois. While visiting his brother Don Carlos Smith, Joseph Smith preached to a congregation so eager to hear that a part of them stood out in the rain during the sermon. (5)
-- (Thr) Jun 27, 1839
Orson Hyde was readmitted to the Church in a meeting of the Council of 12 in Commerce. (1)
-- 27Jun39
[Joseph Smith Sermon] Return of Orson Hyde D&C 129 Topics Joseph - First Principles Calling and Election - Temples First and Second Comforter After Second Comforter Obtained - Visitations Cultivating the Spirit of Revelation New Testament "Evangelist" (7)
-- Jun 27, 1839
Orson Hyde acknowledges his faults and is "restored to the Priesthood again." (2)
Wilford Woodruff writes: "Among the vast number of the Keys of the Kingdom of God Joseph presented the following one to the Twelve for there benefit in there experience & travels in the flesh which is as follows: In order to detect the devel when he transforms himself nigh unto an angel of light. When an angel of God appears unto man face to face in personage & reaches out his hand unto the man & he takes hold of the angels hand & feels a substance the same as one man would in Shaking hands with another he may then know that it is an angel of God, & he should place all Confidence in him. Such personages or angels are Saints with there resurrected Bodies. But if a personage appears unto man & offers him his hand & the man takes hold of it & he feels nothing or does not sense any substance he may know it is the devel, for when a Saint whose body is not resurrected appears unto man in the flesh he will not offer him his hand for this is against the law given him & in keeping in
mind these things we may detec the devil that he decieved us not." (4)
Hyde, Orson: Restored to former position 27 June 1839. (8)
Footnotes:
1 - Broadhurst, Dale R., Mormon Chronology, http://olivercowdery.com/history/morchrn2.htm
2 - Kenny, Scott, "Mormon History 1830-1844," http://saintswithouthalos.com/dirs/d_c.phtml
3 - Richards, Franklin Dewey and Little, James A., Compendium of the Doctrines of the Gospel, Church Chronology, Ch.66, p.306
4 - On This Day in Mormon History, http://onthisdayinmormonhistory.blogspot.com
5 - BYU Studies Journal, volume 46, no. 4: A Chronology of the Life of Joseph Smith
6 - Jessee, Dean, Esplin, Ronald and Bushman, Richard Lyman (editors), The Joseph Smith Papers: Journals, Vol. 1: 1832-1839, Chronology for the Years 1832-1839
7 - The Parallel Joseph, http://www.boap.org/LDS/Parallel/
8 - Cook, Lyndon W., The Revelations of the Prophet Joseph Smith: A Historical and Biographical Commentary of the Doctrine and Covenants, Seventy's Mission Bookstore, Provo UT, 1985
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