Footnotes
Obituary for King Follett, Nauvoo Neighbor, 20 Mar. 1844, [2]; JS History, vol. C-1, 929, 942–943; JS, Journal, 17 Dec. 1843.
Nauvoo Neighbor. Nauvoo, IL. 1843–1845.
Nauvoo Masonic Lodge Minute Book, 10 Mar. 1844; Obituary for King Follett, Nauvoo Neighbor, 20 Mar. 1844, [2]. Follett was buried on 10 March “in due Masonic form.” (See also Historian’s Office, Journal, 10 Mar. 1844.)
Nauvoo Masonic Lodge Minute Book. / “Record of Na[u]voo Lodge Under Dispensation,” 1842–1846. CHL. MS 3436.
Nauvoo Neighbor. Nauvoo, IL. 1843–1845.
Historian’s Office. Journal, 1844–1997. CHL. CR 100 1.
Woodruff, Journal, 5 Apr. 1844; Notice, Nauvoo Neighbor, 20 Mar. 1844, [2].
Woodruff, Wilford. Journals, 1833–1898. Wilford Woodruff, Journals and Papers, 1828–1898. CHL. MS 1352.
Nauvoo Neighbor. Nauvoo, IL. 1843–1845.
Samuel Richards noted that “the Grove a little East of the Temple was selected for the meeting ground” for the conference. He also reported that “seats were made,” as were other “necessary arrangements for the congregation.” (Richards, Reminiscences and Journal, 6 Apr. 1844; see also JS, Journal, 6 Apr. 1844.)
Richards, Samuel W. Reminiscences and Journal, ca. 1843–1845. Samuel W. Richards, Papers, 1839–1909. CHL. MS 1841.
Richards, Journal, 7 Apr. 1844; Historian’s Office, General Church Minutes, 6–9 Apr. 1844, 12; Woodruff, Journal, 7 Apr. 1844.
Richards, Willard. Journals, 1836–1853. Willard Richards, Papers, 1821–1854. CHL. MS 1490, boxes 1–2.
“Conference,” Nauvoo Neighbor, 10 Apr. 1844, [2].
Nauvoo Neighbor. Nauvoo, IL. 1843–1845.
JS, Journal, 7 Apr. 1844. Wilford Woodruff gave the start time as three o’clock in the afternoon. Thomas Bullock agreed with Richards’s ending time of 5:30. (Woodruff, Journal, 7 Apr. 1844; Historian’s Office, General Church Minutes, 6–9 Apr. 1844, 22.)
Matthew 12:31–32; see also Mark 3:29; and Luke 12:10.
William Law reported, “I told him [Hyrum Smith] then to cease their abominations, for they were from Hell & that I knew it. he said they were not doing anything in the plurality of wife business now, and that he had published a piece against it; when I came to examine the piece referred to I found that it amounted to this, that no one should preach or practice such things unless by revelation (of course through Hyrum or Joseph).” (Law, Record of Doings, 29 Mar. 1844, in Cook, William Law, 48, underlining in original.)
Cook, Lyndon W. William Law: Biographical Essay, Nauvoo Diary, Correspondence, Interview. Orem, UT: Grandin Book, 1994.
“Preamble,” Nauvoo Expositor, 7 June 1844, [2].
Nauvoo Expositor. Nauvoo, IL. 1844.
Fielding, Journal, 6 Apr. 1844, 28–29.
Fielding, Joseph. Journals, 1837–1859. CHL. MS 1567.
Woodruff, Journal, 7 Apr. 1844; William Goforth [Sissimus, pseud.], Nauvoo, IL, 10 Apr. 1844, Letter to the Editor, Nauvoo Neighbor, 1 May 1844, [2]. Some attendees wrote glowing reports on the conference. Thomas Bullock observed that “the speakers have all had the Spirit of the Lord upon them. spoke powerful. and told of great things.” He considered the conference “the greatest, best and most glorious five days that ever were consecutively” and concluded that “all rejoiced” with “much good done.” Others shared Bullock’s sentiment. Ellen Douglas wrote to her family in England that “the teaching which we heard made our hearts rejoice. I for one feel to rejoice and to praise my God that he ever sent the Elders of Israel to England and that he ever gave me a heart to believe them.” Likewise, Sally Randall wrote to her friends: “I wish you could have the teachings that we have here at the conference.” (Historian’s Office, Journal, 9 Apr. 1844; Ellen Douglas to family in England, 14 Apr. 1844, Ellen B. Parker Letters, 1842–1851, Martha G. Boyle Family Papers, 1842–1972, CHL; Sally Randall, Nauvoo, IL, to “Dear Friends,” 21 Apr. 1844, CHL.)
Nauvoo Neighbor. Nauvoo, IL. 1843–1845.
Historian’s Office. Journal, 1844–1997. CHL. CR 100 1.
Boyle, Martha G. Family Papers, 1842–1972. Microfilm. CHL.
Randall, Sally. Letters, 1843–1852. Typescript. CHL.
Law, Record of Doings, 1 June 1844, in Cook, William Law, 49. The Nauvoo Expositor also criticized the idea of a plurality of gods. (“Preamble,” Nauvoo Expositor, 7 June 1844, [2]; see also “Resolutions,” Nauvoo Expositor, 7 June 1844, [2].)
Cook, Lyndon W. William Law: Biographical Essay, Nauvoo Diary, Correspondence, Interview. Orem, UT: Grandin Book, 1994.
Nauvoo Expositor. Nauvoo, IL. 1844.
In his account of the April conference, William Goforth observed that four clerks were recording the “masterly sermons” preached. (William Goforth [Sissimus, pseud.], Nauvoo, IL, 10 Apr. 1844, Letter to the Editor, Nauvoo Neighbor, 1 May 1844, [2].)
Nauvoo Neighbor. Nauvoo, IL. 1843–1845.
Clayton, History of the Nauvoo Temple, 31.
Clayton, William. History of the Nauvoo Temple, ca. 1845. CHL. MS 3365.
Bleak, Annals of the Southern Utah Mission, 10 June 1877; Woodruff, Journal, 7 Apr. 1844.
Bleak, James Godson. Annals of the Southern Utah Mission, ca. 1903–1906. CHL.
Richards, Reminiscences and Journal, 6 Apr. 1844; see also Richards, Notebook, [66].
Richards, Samuel W. Reminiscences and Journal, ca. 1843–1845. Samuel W. Richards, Papers, 1839–1909. CHL. MS 1841.
Richards, Samuel W. Notebook, ca. 1844–1845. Samuel W. Richards, Papers, 1839–1909. CHL.
Laub, Reminiscences and Journal, 1 Jan. 1845, 1.
Laub, George. Reminiscences and Journal, 1845–1857. CHL. MS 9628.
Apparently, by 10 April there were plans to publish the discourses from the conference. (William Goforth [Sissimus, pseud.], Nauvoo, IL, 10 Apr. 1844, Letter to the Editor, Nauvoo Neighbor, 1 May 1844, [2]; see also Historian’s Office, Journal, 10, 23–26, and 28 Apr. 1844; and the docket for the 6 April 1844 minutes in Historian’s Office, General Church Minutes, 6–9 Apr. 1844.)
Nauvoo Neighbor. Nauvoo, IL. 1843–1845.
Historian’s Office. Journal, 1844–1997. CHL. CR 100 1.
Historian’s Office. General Church Minutes, 1839–1877. CHL
JS, Journal, 26 Jan. and 29 Mar. 1836; Seixas, Manual Hebrew Grammar, 55.
Seixas, Joshua. Manual Hebrew Grammar for the Use of Beginners. 2nd ed., enl. and impr. Andover, MA: Gould and Newman, 1834.
See Isaiah 33:14; Hebrews 12:29; and Instruction, 2 Apr. 1843 [D&C 130:7].
In 1843 William Clayton asked JS “wether children who die in infancy will grow.” JS answered they would not but that “we shall receive them precisely in the same state as they died ie no larger. They will have as much intelligence as we shall but shall always remain separate and single. They will have no increase. Children who are born dead will have full grown bodies being made up by the resurrection.” (Clayton, Journal, 18 May 1843.)
Clayton, William. Journals, 1842–1845. CHL.
See John 3:5.
On 6 April 1830, the Church of Christ was officially established at a meeting at Peter Whitmer Sr.’s home in Fayette Township, New York. Prior to JS’s 7 April 1844 discourse, Sidney Rigdon spoke three times during the conference on the history of the church and the kingdom of God. (See Historian’s Office, General Church Minutes, 6–9 Apr. 1844, 1–3, 5–12.)
See Matthew 3:11; Mark 1:7–8; Luke 3:16; and John 1:33.
Alexander Campbell (1788–1866) left his association with Regular Baptists to promote, with several other Christian reformers, the restoration of primitive Christianity through adherence to New Testament teachings and practices. Campbell’s followers and supporters came to be known as Disciples of Christ or, less formally, Campbellites. In January 1832, Campbell’s movement merged with a similar movement led by Barton Stone, whose followers—many of whom were former Presbyterians—referred to themselves simply as Christians. (See Hayden, Early History of the Disciples in the Western Reserve, chap. 1; McAllister and Tucker, Journey in Faith, 26–28; and Foster et al., Encyclopedia of the Stone-Campbell Movement, 713–716.)
Hayden, Amos Sutton. Early History of the Disciples in the Western Reserve, Ohio; with Biographical Sketches of the Principal Agents in Their Religious Movement. Cincinnati: Chase and Hall, 1875.
McAllister, Lester G., and William E. Tucker. Journey in Faith: A History of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ). St. Louis: Bethany Press, 1975.
Foster, Douglas A., Anthony L. Dunnavant, Paul M. Blowers, and D. Newell Williams, eds. The Encyclopedia of the Stone-Campbell Movement. Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans, 2004.
Campbell taught that a person received the Holy Spirit after being baptized by immersion and that no additional ordinance was necessary. He explained, “As children, after their natural birth, inhale the spirit or air of this world; so the new born babes, or the regenerated, as soon as born of the water, receive the Spirit which pervades the kingdom into which they are born.” (Alexander Campbell to [Robert] Semple, in Millennial Harbinger, 2 Aug. 1830, 357–358; see also Benson, Alexander Campbell and Joseph Smith, 176.)
Millennial Harbinger. Bethany, VA. Jan. 1830–Dec. 1870.
Benson, RoseAnn. Alexander Campbell and Joseph Smith: NineteenthCentury Restorationists. Provo, UT: Brigham Young University Press; Abilene, TX: Abilene Christian University Press, 2017.
See Ephesians 4:4–6.
The Times and Seasons account renders this passage as “I have the truth and am at the defiance of the world to contradict me, if they can” (italics added).
See Vision, 16 Feb. 1832 [D&C 76:38–39].
See Matthew 12:31–32; and Vision, 16 Feb. 1832 [D&C 76:34–39].
See John 5:29; Revelation 20:10; and Book of Mormon, 1840 ed., 79 [2 Nephi 9:16].
See Isaiah 33:14.