Ezra Thayer: Mission to New York 1843. (1)
Joseph Smith - "Wednesday, 8 â€"This morning, I read German, and visited with a brother and sister from Michigan, who thought that 'a prophet is always a prophet;' but I told them that a prophet was a prophet only when he was acting as such ...'" History of the Church, vol. 5, p. 265 (2)
During this and the preceding year Joseph the Prophet preached many powerful sermons and uttered a number of important prophecies. While on a visit to Dixon, Ill., he had a narrow escape from being kidnapped under legal pretense and taken to Missouri. The revelation on celestial marriage was given and the first missionaries sent to the Society Islands. (3)
(Edward Partridge) In 1819 he married Lydia Clisbee; they had seven children. Two daughters, Eliza Marie and Emily Dow, married Joseph Smith on the same day in 1843. After the Prophet's death, Eliza married Amasa Lyman, and Emily married Brigham Young. Two other daughters, Caroline Ely and Lydia, also married Amasa Lyman. (4)
(Elijah Abel) Abel's desire to engage in missionary work in Cincinnati, Ohio, presented special difficulties for a traveling high council comprised of Apostles John E. Page, Orson Pratt, Heber C. Kimball, and Lorenzo Snow. Despite their respect for "a coloured Bro.," the brethren felt "wisdom forbids that we should introduce [him] before the public … [but] Bro Abels [sic] was advised to visit the coloured population." (4)
(Hyrum Smith) In a public meeting, July 16, 1843, the Prophet "said I would not prophesy any more, and proposed Hyrum to hold the office of prophet to the Church, as it was his by birthright. I am going to have a reformation, and the Saints must regard Hyrum, for he has the authority, that I might be Priest of the Most High God." (4)
(Hyrum Smith) In the controversy over John C. Bennett's lurid allegations of spiritual wifery at Nauvoo and the denials of Joseph Smith and others, Hyrum condemned polygamy and declared he would never believe in plural marriage unless God gave a revelation sanctioning it. (4)
(Hyrum Smith) July 12: Joseph Smith dictated the revelation now known as section 132 of the Doctrine and Covenants. Converted, Hyrum presented the revelation to the Nauvoo high council in August, performed plural marriages for the Prophet and others, and married plural wives himself. (4)
(Hyrum Smith) Two months later, Hyrum married Mary Fielding, by whom he had two children, Joseph Fielding and Martha Ann. In 1843 he married Mary's sister Mercy Fielding Thompson, Catherine Phillips, and Lydia Dibble Granger. (4)
(John D. Lee) Like many former Danites, Lee served as a city policeman in Nauvoo and guarded Joseph Smith's home. He was also wharfmaster, major in the Nauvoo Legion, and general secretary of Nauvoo seventies. (4)
(John M. Bernhisel) Though he was baptized in 1837 and ordained a bishop in New York City in 1841, it was not until 1843 that the Prophet could convince him to migrate to Nauvoo. On his arrival, Joseph Smith insisted that he board in the Smith home. He became a respected friend and adviser to the family, serving as Joseph's personal emissary to Governor Ford in 1844 and attending to Emma Smith after the birth of her son, David Hyrum, five months after the Prophet's death. (4)
(Martin Harris) During the next twenty years, Hyde served thirteen missions, including Ohio (1831, 1833), "eastern countries" (1832), Missouri (1833), Pennsylvania (1834), New York (1835), Canada (1836), England (1837, 1846), Indiana (1839), Palestine (1841), and the Eastern United States (1843). (4)
(Orson Pratt) July 15: According to the Prophet, Pratt attempted to commit suicide "and caused almost all the city to go in search of him."
July 22: Pratt refused to endorse a resolution affirming Joseph Smith's moral character. Brigham Young wrote Parley P. Pratt that "Br. Orson Pratt is in trouble in consequence of his wife. His feelings are so wrought up that he does not know whether his wife is wrong, or whether Joseph's testimony and others are wrong, and do lie, and he deceived for 12 years or not; he is all but crazy about the matters … We will not let Br. Orson go away from us. He is too good a man to have a woman destroy him."
Church leaders tried in vain to get Pratt to "recall his sayings against Joseph and the Twelve," Wilford Woodruff recorded, "but he persisted in his wicked course and would not recall any of his sayings which were unjust and untrue."
August 20: After four days of fruitless efforts at reconciliation, the Twelve excommunicated Pratt for "insubordination," and Sarah for "adultery."
Within three months Pratt publicly "confessed his error and his sin in criticizing Joseph." In 1878 he said that he had "got his information from a wicked source, from those disaffected, but as soon as he learned the truth he was satisfied." Joseph Smith rebaptized Orson and Sarah Pratt in January, 1843, and Orson was reinstated in the Quorum of the Twelve. (4)
Footnotes:
1 - 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, http://amzn.to/RevelationsofJosephSmith
2 - Instutite for Religious Research
3 - Jenson, Andrew, Church Chronology
4 - Van Wagoner, Richard and Walker, Steven C., A Book of Mormons, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies
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