Discourse, circa 19 July 1840, as Reported by Martha Jane Knowlton Coray–B
Discourse, circa 19 July 1840, as Reported by Martha Jane Knowlton Coray–B
Source Note
Source Note
JS, Discourse, , Hancock Co., IL, ca. 19 July 1840. Featured version copied [between fall 1843 and 1850s] in Martha Jane Coray, Notebook, ca. 1843–1850s, pp. [9]–[22]; handwriting of Martha Jane Knowlton Coray; CHL.
Small book, measuring 5⅝ × 3⅝ × ⅜ inches (14 × 9 × 1 cm). The notebook consists of ninety-two pages in four gatherings of eight, sixteen, ten, and twelve leaves each. The volume is loosely sewn together with thread and lacks a cover. The pages are ruled with now-faded black lines. The beginning of the notebook appears to be missing at least one leaf that likely contained diary entries. The majority of the book’s pages are unnumbered. Coray inscribed most of the entries in the book with black ink, but the volume also includes occasional inscriptions in graphite. Twenty-four pages in the middle of the book are blank. The reverse side of the book includes inscriptions regarding Coray’s study of French. The reverse pages are numbered 3 through 20 inclusive, suggesting that the reverse side is also missing at least one leaf.
The timing of ’s appointment as in (an event referred to in the notebook) and internal dating suggest that Coray made the entries in the notebook sometime between 1843 and 1855. The first date listed in the notebook is 8 August 1853, and the last recorded date is 1 December 1854. The notebook contains diary entries, financial statements, school notes, a copy of Coray’s patriarchal blessing, and transcripts of three sermons given by JS in , Illinois.
Presumably, Coray maintained ownership of the notebook until her death in 1881. The book likely remained in the possession of the Coray family until at least July 1902. Historians later discovered the book filed among the Joseph F. Smith Papers in the Historical Department of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, suggesting that the Coray family placed the notebook in Smith’s custody sometime prior to his death in 1918.
Footnotes
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Ehat and Cook, Words of Joseph Smith, 419n2.
Ehat, Andrew F., and Lyndon W. Cook, eds. The Words of Joseph Smith: The Contemporary Accounts of the Nauvoo Discourses of the Prophet Joseph Smith. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 1980.
- [2]
Jessee, “Joseph Smith’s 19 July 1840 Discourse,” 390n1.
Jessee, Dean C. “Joseph Smith’s 19 July 1840 Discourse.” BYU Studies 19, no. 3 (Spring 1979): 390–394.
Historical Introduction
Historical Introduction
See Historical Introduction to Discourse, ca. 19 July 1840, as Reported by Martha Jane Knowlton Coray–A.
A few Item from a discourse delivered by Joseph Smith July 19— 1840
Read a chap in [Ezekiel] ed concluding with this saying and when all these things come to pass and Lo they will come then shall you know that a Prophet hath been among you
Afterwards read the parable of the 12 olive trees and said speaking of the Land of that It consisted consists of all N. & S America but that any place where the gather is Zion which every righteous man will build up for a place of safety for his children that The olive trees are 12 which are yet to be built not the in as some suppose for while the 12 olive stakes are being built we will be at [p. [9]]
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Footnotes
Footnotes
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See Ezekiel 33:33.
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See Revelation, 16–17 Dec. 1833 [D&C 101:43–62].
- [3]
A July 1831 revelation stated that the Saints would build a temple near Independence, Jackson County, Missouri. (Revelation, 20 July 1831 [D&C 57:3]; see also Revelation, 22–23 Sept. 1832 [D&C 84:3–4].)
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