[Apostle Wilford Woodruff Journal] 12th Sunday We parted with Br Ames family. He accompanied us on our way 12 miles to the big mound & we parted with him & he returned & we continued on to walnut grove & stoped at Br John Gaylord & fed the Horses. I accompanied Br Grant to his fathers house. He found them well except his mother was some out of health. His father Joshua Grant was a school mate of my fathers in Connecticut. Told an anacdote concerning a coon & a cheese.
After spending 2 hours plesantly & dining with them we took our departure & rode to Fraker's Groove & spent the night with Br Austin Grant & Gideon Gillet. Distance of the day 31 miles. (1)
William Smith: Anointed Quorum 12 May 1844 but not second anointing (2)
Joseph Smith publicly exclaims, "I calculate to be one of the instruments of setting up the kingdom of Daniel by the word of the Lord, and I intend lay a foundation that will revolutionize the whole world." A few hours later "about three hundred" people attend a meeting of William Law's Reformed Church in Nauvoo and listen to sermons against "the Spiritual wife doctrine" and "Smith's plan of uniting Church and State." (3)
[Joseph Smith Diary] Sunday, May 12th 1844 At home. 10 A.M. Preached at the stand touching many things. Hyrum spoke also Lyman Wight.
/Joseph/ 3 P.M. Prayer Meeting at council room. W[illia]m Smith and Almon /W./ Babbit were present [and initiated into quorum of the annointed]. A full room prayed for deliverance from our enemies and exaltation to such officers as will enable the Servants of God to execute Righteousness in the Earth. (4)
The endowed quorum meets and two new members receive temple ordinances: William Smith and Almon W. Babbitt.. (5)
William B Smith: Received endowment 12 May 1844. (6)
-- May 13, 1844
[Apostle Wilford Woodruff Journal] 13th I wrote a letter to Mrs Woodruff & sent By Elder Grant. Informed her to write to kirt-land. We had a rainy morning. We parted with Elder Grant and rode to Toulon and spent the night with Br Adam Perry. Held a meeting with the Saints & appointed a meeting at the Court House at 2 oclock on the morrow. Distance of the day 9 m. (1)
William Law: Told by Sidney Rigdon 13 May 1844 that he could be rebaptized and restored as counselor, but William Law refused unless Joseph Smith Jr. publicly acknowledged his polygamy and abandoned it (2)
William Law, former counselor to Joseph Smith, writes in his diary: "[Joseph] ha[s] lately endeavored to seduce my wife, and ha[s] found her a virtuous woman." Law also notes in his journal his response to Sidney Rigdon concerning the terms he would need to forgo publishing the NAUVOO EXPOSITOR: "if they wanted peace they could have it on the following conditions. That Joseph Smith would acknowledge publicly that he had taught and practised the doctrine of plurality of wives, that he brought a revelation supporting the doctrine, and that he should own the whole system (revelation and all) to be from Hell." (3)
[Joseph Smith] Joseph receives a letter from Orson Hyde in Washington and discusses it in general council. Orson Hyde writes that Joseph's proposal that he be empowered to raise 100,000 volunteers will probably not be passed. However, Orson Hyde does have several discussions with prominent legislators who give him good advice about the possibility of moving to Oregon or Texas, or even California. Unfortunately, however, since many Missourians are moving to Oregon, Hyde says that the move, if it is to be made, must be made at once. Hyde also describes his meeting with President Tyler, whom he describes as a "very plain, home spun, familiar, farmer-like man." Stephen A. Douglas recommends Oregon and says "he would resign his seat in Congress if he could command the force that Mr. Smith could, and would be on the march to the country in a month." Elder Hyde also hints of the probable coming war with Mexico, if Texas is admitted into the Union, and says that Orson Pratt and Elde
r Hyde himselfsubmitted a bill asking for $2 million in relief for the sufferings in Missouri. (History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (7 volumes) 6:369-76.)On this date Joseph answers Henry Clay's reply of Nov. 15, 1843. Joseph once again meets a noncommittal answer with a strong rebuke: "Honest men of every clime, and the innocent, poor and oppressed, as well as heathens, pagans and Indians, everywhere, who could but hope that the tree of liberty would yield some precious fruit . . . have long since given up all hopes of equal rights, of justice and judgment, and of truth and virtue, when such polluted, vain, heaven-daring, bogus patriots, are forced or flung into the front rank of government." (Jerry Burnett and Charles Pope, Nauvoo Classics, "The Voice of Truth," 51-59.) (7)
Footnotes:
1 - Wilford Woodruff's Journal: 1833-1898 Typescript, Volumes 1-9, Edited by Scott G. Kenney, Signature Books 1993, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies
2 - Quinn, D. Michael, The Mormon Hierarchy: Origins of Power, Appendix 6, Biographical Sketches of General Officers of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1830-47, http://amzn.to/origins-power
3 - On This Day in Mormon History, http://onthisdayinmormonhistory.blogspot.com
4 - Faulring, Scott (ed.), An American Prophet's Record: The Diaries and Journals of Joseph Smith: Joseph Smith Diary, 1844, http://amzn.to/jsdiaries
5 - Hales, Brian C., Joseph Smith's Polygamy: History and Theology, 2 vols., Salt Lake City: Greg Kofford Books, 2011 (www.JosephSmithsPolygamy.com)
6 - 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
7 - Conklin, Christopher J., Joseph Smith Chronology
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