| Show I 1 copyright copi right secured 1 iff i 1 HISTORY OF JOSEPH SMITH MAY mav lin liu 1843 monday monjay Mo fiday 15 emma haeng iia lix virl arrived at yel rome tome last night from quincy with the carriage ariage wd we rode home together er on our way we sapped a short time at bro gro perrys brothers Brol broi hers george giorge A smith and IV woodruff rode in in my buggy I 1 was asked if the horse would stand without without tying I 1 answered yes but never trust property to the mercy or judgment of a horse the following follow ing is 13 from the journal of geo gen A gm fth at noon at the house of mr mcmahon a notorious anti mormon at green plains andr and waited waleed sometime for mac mae to come in joseph and myself spent this time in conversation on the grass plot south of the house joseph se h 1 asked my opinion of W IV phelps as an edit editor editon or I 1 told him that I 1 considered phel phelps the sixth sixth part of all an editor and that was t the e satirist when it came to the cool discretion necessarily n in trusted to an editor in the control of public opinion the soothing oe of enmity he was deficient and would always make more enemies than friends but for my part if I 1 were able I 1 would be willing to pay phelps for edidin editing 0 a paper provided provides nobody else should have haie the privilege of reading it but myself joseph laughed heartily saig said sald I 1 had the thing josf right sas says he bro phelps makes such a 3 sever q use of language cl as to make enemies all the time at the ase ise close of the conversation joseph wrapped his arms round me and squeezed me to his bosom and said george A I 1 love you as I 1 do ngy my own life I 1 felt feit so affected I 1 could hardly speak but replied I 1 hope brother jo aepli that my whole life and actions will ever prove my feelings feelings 0 and the depth of my affection towards you A great hailstorm hail storm in in Gettys burgh penn zhe the stones were from six to ei eight c ht inches in circumference much damage done tuesday 16 at 11 1 I with geo george rge miller william wliilam clayton eliza and lydia partridge anda and J M smith started for carthage where we tarried tamed about half an hour conversing in with different individuals when we started for f r arrived about 31 3 pm p m and stayed at william G perkins for the evening ei evenin enin then iv went int to B F johnsons with william clayton I 1 t to 0 sleep I 1 before retiring I 1 gave brother and as tp 7 T hn S on some instructions wi on the priesthood and putting my hand on the knee of william I 1 said your life is hid with christ in god go d and so are many others nothing but the ild fid p sin sin can prevent ent you from anber ging ning eternal glory for you are sealed up by the power pf af the priesthood unto eternal life riving having A taken eaken the step necessary for that purpose except a man mart and bis his wife enter into an everlasting covenant and be married for eternity while in this probation by b the power and authority of the holy prie priesthood st they will cease to increase indrea be when they th eydie dle die that is 13 that tha t they will not have any children after pie gla he resurrection but those who are married by the power and authority of the priesthood in this ippe life life ilfe I 1 and continue conti hiie hile without committing the sin bill against aua ama dinst the holy ghost will continue con tintie to increase and have children in in the celestial glory the unpardonable sin sin is is to shed innocent blood or y be accessory thereto all other sins will be sited with judgment in the flesh and the spirit spi le being delivered to the of satan tint yint until 1 I the day of the lord jesus the way I 1 know in whom to confide god gol tells me in whom I 1 may place confidence conn dence in the celestial glor gior glory y there are three heavens or degrees decrees and in in order to obtain the highest a man idan must enter into this order of the p priesthood biet riet ah izod and if he does not he cannot ob obtain an it sla sia he may inay enter into the other but that is the adof his kingdom kindom ain kin dom he cannot have an increase tha th twelve met me in the office to see mr brown but he did not appear and they doted voted that john johb E pa page pae 0 e be requested to repair immediately med lately to and preach till they I 1 1 arrive arrived wednesday 17 partook of brewi breal breakfast fast at it brother perkins afar aloyi which we tock a pleasure ciure ride through fountain Foun taini tairi green I 1 at 10 am preached reached from 2nd and peter 1 ch and und showed tE that at knowledg knowledge I 1 e is and the man who has the most moat k knowledge awer de d e has the greatest greatest rea test power salvation means mean s a mans eing placed beyond the power of all his enemies the more sure word of prophecy means a mans knowing that he is sealed up unto eternal life by revelation and the spirit of pro accy through the power of the holy priest lood it is impossible for a man to be saved in ignorance paul has seen the third heavens and I 1 more peter penned the most sublime language of any of the apostles in the twe afternoon attended atten aed council and afterwards rade rp dewith wath B F johnsons John sons family in the evening went to hear a methodist preacher lecture after he got through I 1 offered some corrections as follows verse of 2nd and chap of genesis ought to 0 o read god breathed into adam his spirit or breath of life but when the word 41 roach applies to eve it should be translated lives speaking of eternal duration of matter I 1 said there is no such thing as immaterial matter all spirit is matter but is more fine or pure and can only be discerned by purer eyes we cannot see it but when our bodies are purified we shall see that it is it all matter the priest seemed pleased with the correction and stated his intention to visit nauvoo A conference was held in the columbian hall hail grand street new york where 15 branches 6 high priests 36 elders 19 priests 16 teachers 5 deacons members were represented 49 have been baptized since last conference many hav moved to nauvoo and 28 have keen been excommunicated four elders and ana one priest were ordained thursday 18 19 we left macedonia about 8 81 am and arrived at carthage at 10 0 the follow following ing inq brief account is from the journal of wilbain clayton who was present dined with judge stephen A douglass who is presiding at court after dinner judge douglass requested president joseph to give him a history of the missouri persecution which he did in a very minute manner for about three hours he also gave a relation of his journey to washington city and his application in behalf of the saints to mr van buren the president of the united states for redress and mr van burens pusillanimous reply gentlemen Gen nemen Hemen your cause cause is jusa jus but I 1 can do nothing for youa you and the cold unfeeling manner in which lie he was treated by most of the senators and representatives in relation to the subject clay saying you had better go to oregon 0 calhoun shaking his head solemnly saying 1 its a nice question a critical question but it will not do to agitate it 7 4 the judge listened with the greatest attention and then spoke warmly in deprecation of the conduct of governor bo bos boggs s and the authorities ties of missouri who ha had cf taken part in the extermination and said that any people that would do as the mobs of missouri have done ought to be brought to jud judgment 11 ment ahr vhey they y ought to be punished president smith in concluding his remarks said that if the gover government n t which whick ilch bich receive receives into its coffers the money mon moh ey me of 6 citizens for its public u alic lands while its olt officials igals are rolling in fl luxury ury a the expense of its public treasur treasury y cannot protect such citizens in their lives and property it ls s an old granny anyhow and I 1 prophesy in the name of the lord god of israel that unless the united states redress the wrongs committed upon the saints in the state of missouri and ahl punish the crimes committed by her officers that in a few vears years the government will be utterly overt overthrown brown and wasted and there wi will I 1 riot not be so much as a potsherd left for their wickedness in permitting the murder of men women and children and the wholesale plunder and extermination of thousands of her citizens to 9 go unpunished nishel 1 thereby perpetrating a foul and corro cor corroding oung aing tig ing blot upon the fair fame of this great republic the ver very thought of which would have caused the high minded and patriotic framers of the constitution of the united states to hide their faces w with ith shame judge you will aspire arpir e to the presidency of the united states and if ever you turn your hand against me or the latter day saints you will feel the weight of the hand of the almighty u upon on vou and yoi will live to see and know teat that I 1 have testified the truth to you for the conversation of this day will stick to you through life ile he appears very friendly and nd acknowledged ed the truth and propriety of president smita smiths remarks we then rode home where we wg arrived abelt 51 5 pm and found my family all well mr joseph II 11 jackson who professed professed essed to be a catholic priest was at my rouse eouse house awaiting my arrival at 6 pm I 1 called in my office for arlin arlington arlinton ton benn bennetts etts letter friday borrowed of 0 hyde llyde 50 30 which I 1 paid to mr eric rhodes eodes which he is either to repay or let me have lumber I 1 rode out with mr jackson in the a afternoon told brother phelba phelps a dream that the history mu must it g go ahead head before anything anything else elder ge george orgy P D dykes kes writes one year sinie since bince f visited a bett sett settlement lerent of norwegians Norwegia ns in la salle saile county illinois and baptized five and ordained one elder when I 1 left lert them for about one month then returned and organized the branch and called it the la salle sille S lile ille branch of the church of jesus christ of latter day saints and ordained brother goodman elder a man of strong mind and well skilled in the scriptures he can preach i in norway sweden and denmark lading an understanding of their languages I 1 returned returned to nauvoo and in a few days I 1 was appointed by the special conference in august to labor in illinois I 1 trav traveled pied pled through eighteen different counties baptized six in perry erry county and returned home in december ber ben in january I 1 left again and went into st clair lair county where I 1 was joined dy b brother henry enry B jacobs who baptized twelve andl andi and l baptized a german after he left I 1 preached in chester sparta and Bel bellville iville from thence returned home and again visited ottowa la salle county spent two weeks and baptized seven I 1 found the church there in in good spirits and in the enjoyment of the spiritual gifts the la salle branch now numbers fifty eight in good standing elder oley hayer was chosen to preside over them heis well niell worthy of the office elder goodman bougus and bro brother tiger tIfer J R anderson visited the norwegian settlement in lee ee county iowa lowa in january last spent three weeks baptized ten ordained one priest and left them and went home to la salle county from thence brothers bougus arla aria an hayer visited a large jarge large body from norway in in wisconsin sin territory and have laid the foun dation atlon of a great work to all appearance there are now fifty seven members of the church from norway and the time is not far distant when the saying 0 of micah 4 2 will be fulfilled saturday 20 received of ezra oakley a certificate of deposit in the fulton bank N Y value 5 and g gave a receipt payable in lands or money ten days from date at court room and adjourned the case of samuel ful fui fuller I 1 er I 1 corrected and sent to the times and seasons the ie following EDITOR OF THE TIMES tiles AND SEASONS sir through the medium of your paper I 1 wish to correct an error abom among men that pro fess ess to be learned liberal ant and wise and I 1 do it the more cheerfully because I 1 hope sober thinking 0 and sound reasoning people will sooner listen liste n to the voice of truth than be ve led astray by the vain pretensions of the self wise the error I 1 aspea speak k of is the definition df the word MORMON it has been stated that this word ward was derived from the greek woid word normo this hib his is not the case there was no greek or latin upon the plates from flom which I 1 through the grace arace grace of god translated the book of mormon let the langu language ae of that book speak for itself on the page of the fourth adrion it reads and now behold we have written this record according to our knowledge in the characters which are called among us its the reformed egyptian being handed down and altered by us accordi according n to our manner of speech and if our plat piat plates e 1 I had been bean s efficiently aly large we should have written in lie Ife hebrew brew but the hebrew hath been altered by us also and if we could havil written in hebrew behold ye would have had no imperfection in our record but the lord the things we have written and also that ilone other deop people le our language therefore he be hath ha in prepared means for thereof y here liere then the subject is put to silence for nom now other people our language ian lan a cuare 0 9 1 therefore the lord and not no man had to interpret after the people berrall erali eTall dead and as paul said the world by wisdom know no not t god I 1 so the world by speculation are destitute of revelation and as god in his superior wisdom has always given givert his saints wherever be he had any on the theearta earth the same spirit and that spirit 7 as john says is the true spirit of prophecy which is the testimony of jesus Imay I 1 may bately safely sly siy say that the word mormon stands independent of the le learning arnim and wisdom of this n ger generation lera iera 1 before I 1 give a definition however lo 10 the word let me say that the bibler bible in its widest sense means good for the savior says according cordin to th gospel of john 91 1 I am the good shepherd au and it will not he beyond the com moi mo i use of terms to say that good dood GOOD is among among the most important in nse nae and though know known n by various names in different languages still its meaning is the same sime s ame and is ever in opposition to bad we say from the saxon good the dane god the goth goda the german creek guf gut the dutch datch goed the latin donus bonus the greek kalos the hebrew lebrew tob fob and the egyptian 2 mon hence with the addition of more or the contraction mor mar we have the word MORMON which means literally more good t yours JOSEPH SMITH 11 mr jackson representing es entin himself as being bein out of e employment t and destitute of funds ide ite he desired I 1 vy would ad e employ ploy him and relieve his necessities I 1 took compassion and employed him aa as a clerk to seil sell lands so as to give him a chance chanco in the world |
