Discourse, 2 July 1839, as Reported by Willard Richards

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Discourse, 2 July 1839, as Reported by Willard Richards
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JS, Discourse,
Montrose
Located in southern part of county on western shore of Mississippi River. Area settled by Captain James White, 1832, following Black Hawk War. Federal government purchased land from White to create Fort Des Moines, 1834. Fort abandoned; remaining settlement...
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, IA, 2 July 1839. Version copied [between 13 Jan. 1840 and 20 Apr. 1841] in Willard Richards, “W. Richards Pocket Companion Written in England,” pp. 10–15; handwriting of
Willard Richards
24 June 1804–11 Mar. 1854. Teacher, lecturer, doctor, clerk, printer, editor, postmaster. Born at Hopkinton, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts. Son of Joseph Richards and Rhoda Howe. Moved to Richmond, Berkshire Co., Massachusetts, 1813; to Chatham, Columbia Co...
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; Willard Richards, Journals and Papers, CHL. For more complete source information, see the source note for Discourse, between ca. 26 June and ca. 4 Aug. 1839–A, as Reported by Willard Richards.
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Asterisk (*) denotes a "featured" version, which includes an introduction and annotation. *Discourse, 2 July 1839, as Reported by Wilford Woodruff–A
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Gentile
Those who were not members of the House of Israel. More specifically, members of the church identified gentiles as those whose lineage was not of the Jews or Lamanites (understood to be the American Indians in JS’s day). Certain prophecies indicated that ...
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Sophistry
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TEXT: “Gentile Sophistry” is double underlined.
Ye are not sent out to be taught but to teach. let every word be seasoned with grace, be vigilant be sober. It is a day of warning & not of many words, Act honest before God & man. Beware of Gentile Sophistry such as bowing & scraping unto men in whom you have no confidence. Be honest open and frank in all your intercourse with man kind

[drawing of a key]
Key
Authority or knowledge of God given to humankind. In the earliest records, the term keys primarily referred to JS’s authority to unlock the “mysteries of the kingdom.” Early revelations declared that both JS and Oliver Cowdery held the keys to bring forth...
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. Betray not
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TEXT: “Key. Betray not” is double underlined.

O. ye
Twelve
Members of a governing body in the church, with special administrative and proselytizing responsibilities. A June 1829 revelation commanded Oliver Cowdery and David Whitmer to call twelve disciples, similar to the twelve apostles in the New Testament and ...
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& all
saints
The Book of Mormon related that when Christ set up his church in the Americas, “they which were baptized in the name of Jesus, were called the church of Christ.” The first name used to denote the church JS organized on 6 April 1830 was “the Church of Christ...
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profit by this important Key, that in all your trials, troubles, temptations: afflictions, bonds imprisonments & death se[e] to it that you do not betray heaven, that you do not betray Jesus Christ, that you do not betray your Brethren, that you do not betray the Revelations of God. whether in the Bible, Book of Mormon or Doctrines & Covenant or any other that ever was or ever will be given & revealed unto man in this world or that which is to come. Yea in all your kicking & [p. 13]
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