Painesville Republican publishes Warren Parrish's February 5 letter to the editor, asserting that Joseph said "that the audible voice of God instructed him to establish a Banking-Anti-Banking Institution, which, like Aaron's rod, should swallow up all other banks ... and grow and flourish and spread from the rivers to the ends of the earth, and survive when all others should be laid in ruins.". (1)
-- Feb 23, 1838
Missionary Wilford Woodruff and his companion "repaired to the sea shore and clensed our feet with pure water & bore testimony against eight housholds before God who had rejected us or turned us from their Doors the evening before." (2)
-- Feb 24, 1838
Far West high council direct two wagons and funds be sent to meet Joseph and Sidney. (1)
-- During Feb 0, 1838
Oliver Cowdery: Released as stake clerk 10 Feb. 1838 (3)
Salmon Gee: Disfellowshipped 20 Feb. 1838 by the seventies (3)
-- During Feb 1838
[Emma] Family crosses frozen Mississippi River into Iowa. (4)
-- During February 1838
[Word of Wisdom] George M. Hinkle denounces David Whitmer for using tea, coffee, and tobacco. (1)
-- Mar 3, 1838
Far West high council votes to provide Joseph, Sidney, and Hyrum with lots in Far West without charge. (1)
-- about Mar 3, 1838
Far West, Missouri. Joseph Smith received Doctrine & Covenants 113, a revelation identifying the stem of Jesse and the rod and root of Jesse in Isaiah 11. (5)
-- (Tue) Mar 6, 1838
Zion's Watchman prints Parley P. Pratt's angry letter of May 23, 1837, causing embarrassment to Church leaders in Missouri. Warren Parrish furnished the non-Mormon newspaper with a copy of the problematic letter. (6)
-- Mar 6, 1838
Salmon Gee: Dropped from office and disfellowshipped 6 Mar. 1838 by a church conference (3)
Zera Pulsipher: "ordained" a president of the First Council of Seventy 6 Mar. 1838 (3)
-- (Sat) Mar 10, 1838
William W. Phelps and John Whitmer were excommunicated from the Church by the Council at Far West, Missouri. Marcellus Cowdery was disfellowshipped. Some time afterwards W. W. Phelps was received back into the Church by baptism. (6)
Footnotes:
1 - Kenny, Scott, "Mormon History 1830-1844," http://saintswithouthalos.com/dirs/d_c.phtml
2 - On This Day in Mormon History, http://www.advent-adam.com/jakestand.html
3 - 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
4 - Emma Smith, Woman of Faith, http://emmasmithmormon.com
5 - BYU Studies Journal, volume 46, no. 4: A Chronology of the Life of Joseph Smith
6 - Broadhurst, Dale R., Mormon Chronology, http://olivercowdery.com/history/morchrn2.htm
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