-- Oct 29, 1831
[Lucy Mack Smith] Joseph Jr. receives a revelation at Hiram, Ohio, for Samuel Smith and William E. McLellin to serve a mission. (1)
[Revelations] Hiram, Ohio. Doctrine and Covenants 66. William E. McLellin (h) met Joseph at the conference in Orange a few days earlier (Minutes of October 25-26, 1831) and went home with him that day. Joseph received this revelation for William a few days later. He is to take Samuel H. Smith with him on a mission to the East.
William E. McLellin journal gives the October 29 date; heading: This day the Lord condecended to hear my prayr and give me a revelation of his will, through his prophet or seer (Joseph) -And these are the words which I wrote from his mouth, saying,
Not printed in the Book of Commandments.
Kirtland Revelations Book heading: Rev To Wm E McLelin Oct 1831.
1835 Doctrine and Covenants 74 heading: Revelation given October, 1830 [1831].
William E. McLellin Kirtland Revelations Book/McLellin journals, 45-46; KRB, 95-97. (2)
-- Oct 30, 1831
Church meeting at John Johnson's. William E. McLellin to preach. "Here was Brothers John, Sidney, Oliver and Joseph and it did not seem to me as if I could instruct them or even entertain the Congregation; but with confidence alone in Enoch's God I arose and addressed them about one hour and a half. And it was not I but the spirit and power of God which was in me and it did seem to me before I finished as though it was not I or that I had got into another region where all was light & glory." (3)
D&C 65 (Hiram): keys of the kingdom committed to men; gospel to roll forth as the stone cut out of the mountain without hands; Son of Man to return in glory; kingdom of God goes forth that the kingdom of heaven may come. (3)
[Joseph Smith] Hiram, Ohio. Shortly after Sidney Rigdon baptized Orson Hyde, Joseph Smith confirmed Orson and ordained him an elder in the Church. (4)
[Revelations] Hiram, Ohio. Doctrine and Covenants 65. Keys of the kingdom are committed unto men on earth that gospel may roll forth, fill the earth (Daniel 2:34-45). Prepare for coming of the Lord. (2)
-- Oct 31, 1831
[Lucy Mack Smith] Orson Hyde is baptized at Kirtland, Ohio, by Sidney Rigdon. (1)
-- During 1831 Oct.
[Joseph Smith] A revelation to William E. McLellin warns: "Forsake all unrighteousness. Commit not adulterya temptation with which thou has been troubled." While on a mission in 1832, newly remarried McLellin "came to the house of a certain harlot [and] concluded to tarry many days," for which he would be excommunicated in Dec. 1832 and rebaptized in 1833 (then became a member of the Quorum of Twelve Apostles in 1835). (5)
-- During About Oct 1831
Ezra Booth, Jacom Scott, Symons Rider, Eli Johnson, and others apostate. (6)
-- During Fall 1831
[Heber C. Kimball] Joins Baptist church. (7)
-- During Oct 1831
Joseph Smith and Sidney Rigdon resume re-translation of the Bible. (6)
-- During Oct. 1831
Joseph Smith Jr.: Warned out of Kirtland, Ohio, Oct. 1831 (8)
-- During October 1831
[Gause, Jesse] Located in Shaker community in Cleveland, Ohio, area by October 1831. (9)
Footnotes:
1 - Lucy's Book: A Critical Edition of Lucy Mack Smith's Family Memoir, Edited by Lavina Fielding Anderson, 2001, Signature Books
2 - http://saintswithouthalos.com/s/_dc.phtml
3 - http://saintswithouthalos.com/dirs/d_c.phtml
4 - BYU Studies Journal, volume 46, no. 4: A Chronology of the Life of Joseph Smith
5 - 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"
6 - http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dgv482t8_0d5hdn5cv
7 - On the Potter's Wheel: The Diaries of Heber C. Kimball, Stanely B. Kimball editor. Signature Books in association with Smith Research Associates, Salt Lake City, 1987. Chronology
8 - D. Michael Quinn, 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
9 - 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
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