John E Page: Restored to fellowship 7 Apr. 1842 (1)
Brigham Young and Heber C. Kimball deny, reports that they tried to induce a sister into the belief of having two wives. Joseph Smith also denounces the reports. (2)
Joseph Smith receives a revelation to establish a formal theocratic government, "the Kingdom of God," later known as the "Council of Fifty." The text is available but has not been canonized or officially published. (3)
Richards, Willard: Initiated into Masonry 7 April 1842. (4)
Young, Brigham: Initiated into Masonry 7 April 1842. (4)
-- Apr 7, 1842 (Thursday Afternoon)
[Joseph Smith Sermon] Location: Grove, Nauvoo, Hancock County, Illinois, USA
Source: Times and Seasons (15 April 1842): 761-63 (Words of Joseph Smith, 110-11)
Conference met, Pres't Joseph Smith had the several quorums put in order, and seated: he then made some very appropriate remarks concerning the duties of the church, the necessity of unity of purpose in regard to the building of the houses, and the blessings connected with doing the will of God; and the inconsistency folly and danger of murmuring against the dispensations of Jehovah.
He said that the principal object of the meeting was to bring the case of Elder Page before them, and that another object was to choose young men, and ordain them, and send them out to preach, that they may have an opportunity of proving themselves, and of enduring the tarring and feathering and such things as those of us who have gone before them, have had to endure.
. . . Pres't J. Smith then arose and stated that it was wrong to make the covenant referred to by him; that it created a lack of confidence for two men to covenant to reveal all acts of secrecy or otherwise to each otherâ€"and Elder Page showed a little grannyism. He said that no two men when they agreed to go together ought to separate, that the prophets of old would not and quoted the circumstance of Elijah and Elisha iii Kings 2 chap. when about to go to Gilgal, also when about to go to Jericho, and to Jordan, that Elisha could not get clear of Elijah, that he clung to his garment until he was taken to heaven and that Elder Page should have stuck by Elder Hyde, and he might have gone to Jerusalem, that there is nothing very bad in it, but by the experience let us profit; again, the Lord made use of Elder Page as a scape goat to procure funds for Elder Hyde.
. . . Pres't J. Smith spoke upon the subject of the stories respecting Elder Kimball and others, showing the folly and inconsistency of spending any time in conversing about such stories or hearkening to them, for there is no person that is acquainted with our principles would believe such lies, except Sharp the editor of the "Warsaw Signal." Baptisms for the dead, and for the healing of the body must be in the font, those coming into the church and those rebaptized may be done in the river.
A box should be prepared for the use of the font, that the clerk may be paid, and a book procured by the monies to be put therein by those baptized, the remainder to go to the use of the Temple. (5)
[Joseph Smith Sermon] Location: Grove, Nauvoo, Hancock County, Illinois, USA
Source: Wilford Woodruff Journal (Words of Joseph Smith, 111-12)
Rainy in the fore part of the day conferance opened at 1 oclock President J. Smith H. Smith Wm Law & the Twelve took the stand & opened meeting & spoke upon a variety of subjects & called upon those who wished to be ordained to the office of an Elder to come forward & have their names taken many came forward. (5)
-- Apr 8, 1842
Lyman, Amasa Mason: Initiated into Masonry 8 April 1842. (4)
-- Apr 8, 1842 (Friday)
[Joseph Smith Sermon] Location: Grove, Nauvoo, Hancock County, Illinois, USA
Source: Wilford Woodruff Journal (Words of Joseph Smith, 112)
Conference opened at 10 oclock Elder L. Wight Presidents J Smith & Hyarm Smith & others spoke. . . . In the afternoon Elders Amasa Lyman & Wm Smith occupied the stand in the afternoon & was followed by Joseph with a few remarks & the Conference closed. (5)
-- 9Apr42
[Joseph Smith Sermon] Solemn Time - Contemplate our Lives
Joseph has no Lease on Life
We Should be Ready to Die (6)
-- Apr 9, 1842
the Nauvoo City Council passes an ordinance to license taverns and ordinaries in the town to sell beer but not spirits. (7)
Nauvoo, Illinois. Joseph Smith preached at the funeral of Brother Ephraim Marks in the morning. (8)
Knight, Vinson: Initiated into Masonry 9 April 1842. Took plural wife before death. Possibly received endowment before death. (4)
Footnotes:
1 - 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
2 - Tidd, N. R., "Mormon Chronology"
3 - Quinn, D. Michael, The Mormon Hierarchy: Origins of Power, Appendix 7: Selected Chronology of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1830-47"
4 - 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
5 - The Woodland Institute, http://www.woodlandinstitute.com
6 - The Parallel Joseph, http://www.boap.org/LDS/Parallel/
7 - On This Day in Mormon History, http://onthisdayinmormonhistory.blogspot.com
8 - BYU Studies Journal, volume 46, no. 4: A Chronology of the Life of Joseph Smith
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