Pioneers and prominent men of Utah : comprising photographs, genealogies, biographies, Part 276

Author: Esshom, Frank Ellwood, b. 1865
Publication date: 1913
Publisher: Salt Lake City, Utah : Utah pioneers book publishing company
Number of Pages: 1336

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"Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural, and afterwards that which is spiritual. The first man is of the earth, earthy; the second men Is the Lord, from heaven. As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy; and ae is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly." And as are the records on the earth in relation to your dead, which are truly made out, so aiso are the records in heaven. This, therefore. is the sealing and binding power, and, in one senee of the word, the keye of the kingdom which consist in the key of knowledge.

And now, my dearly beloved brethren and sisters, let me assure you that these are principies in relation to the dead, and the living, that cannot be lightly passed over. as pertaining to our eaivation, For their salvatlon ie necessary, and essential to our salvation, as Paul says concerning the fathers "that they without us cannot be made perfect:" neither can we without our dead be made perfect.

And now, in relation to the baptism for the dead, I will give you another quotation of Paul. 1 Corinthians xv. 29, "Eise what shall they do which are baptized for the dead. if the dead rise not at ali; why are they then beptized for the dead?"

And again, in connection with this quotation. I will give you a quotation from one of the prophets, who had his eye fixed on the restoration of the Priesthood, the glories to be revealed in the last daye, and in an especial manner this most glorious of ali eubjecte belonging to the everlasting gospel, viz., the baptism for the dead; for Malachi says, last chapter, verses 5th and 6th, "Behold. I will send you Elijah the prophet, before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord: and he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children. and the heart of the children to their fathers, iest I come and smite the earth with a curse."

I might have rendered a plainer trenslation to this, but it is sufficiently plain to suit my purpose as it stands. It is sufficient to know, in this case, that the earth will be smitten with a curse, unless there is a welding link of some kind or other, between the fathers and the children, upon some subject or other, and behold what is that subject? It is the baptism for the dead. For we without them cannot he made perfect; nelther can they without us be made perfect. Neither can they nor we. be made perfect, without those who have dled in the gospel also; for it is necessary in the ushering in of the dispensation of the fuliness of times; which dispensation is now beginning to usher In, that a whole and complete and perfect union. and welding together of dispensations, and keys, and powers, and glories should take place, and be

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revealed from the days of Adsm even to the present time; and not only this, but those things which never have been revealed from the foundation of the world. but have been kept hid from the wise and prudent, shall be revealed unto babes and sucklings in this the dispensation of the fullness of times .- Doc. and Cov. 128:1-18.

Sat. 10 .- Joseph Smith returned home undiscovered.

Sat. 17 .- The ship "Sidney" sailed from Liverpool with 180 Saints; it arrived at New Orleans Nov. 11th.

Sun. 25 .- The ship "Medford" sailed from Liverpool with 214 Saints, under the presidency of Apostle Orson Hyde; it ar- rived at New Orleans Nov. 13th.

Thurs. 29 .- The ship "Henry" sailed from Liverpool for New Orleans, with 157 Saints, under the direction of John Snider. October. Sun. 2 .- Reports reached .Joseph Smith that Gov. Thos. Reynolds, of Missouri, had offered a reward for the arrest of himself and O. Porter Rockwell.

Fri. 7 .- Joseph Smith again left home to elude the pursuit of his enemies, leaving his wife Emma sick. He returned on the 20th.

Thurs. 13 .- Some of the brethren arrived at Nauvoo from the Fineries, Wisconsin, with 90,000 feet of lumber and 24,000 cubic feet of timber for the Temple and Nauvoo House.

Thurs. 20 .- Thomas Ward succeeded Apostle Parley P. Pratt as president of the British Mission, with Lorenzo Snow and Hiram Ciark as counselors."

Sat. 29 .- The ship "Emerald" sailed from Liverpool with 250 Saints, under the leadershin of Apostle Parley P. Pratt. Because of ice in the Mississippi river the company was detained during the winter in St. Louis, Alton, Chester and other places, and did not arrive in Nauvoo until April 12. 1843.

November. Tues. 15 .- Apostle John Taylor succeeded Jo- seph Smith as editor of the "Times and Seasons."

Thurs. 17 .- Alpheus Harmon was frozen to death on the prairie, between Nauvoo and Carthage, Ill., as he was re- turning home from a mission.

December. Sun. 4 .- The city of Nauvoo was divided into ten Bishop's wards.

Wed. 7 .- Apostle Orson Hyde returned to Nauvoo from his mission to Jerusalem.

Tues. 20 .- Lorenzo D. Barnes died at Bradford, England. His was the first death of an Elder on a foreign mission. Wed. 21 .- Apostle Willard Richards, who had heen in the East several months, was appointed Church Historian, etc. Mon. 26,-Joseph Smith was arrested the third time on a requisition from the State of Missouri.

Tues. 27 .- Joseph Smith, accompanied by several brethren, left Nauvoo for Springfield, Ill., where they arrived on the 30th.

1843

January. Mon. 2 .- Joseph Smith prophesied that he should not go to Missouri dead or alive.

Wed. 4 .- Joseph Smith was on trial before Judge Pope, of Springfield, on the accusation of being an accessory to the shooting of ex-Governor Boggs of Missouri.

Thurs. 5 .- Joseph Smith was proven innocent and ac- quitted.

Tues. 10 .- Joseph Smith and company arrived at Nauvoo from the trip to Springfield.

Mon. 16 .- The ship "Swanton" sailed from Liverpool with 212 Saints for New Orleans, led by Lorenzo Snow. The emi- grants arrived at Nauvoo April 12th.

Tues. 17 .- The Saints being overjoyed because of Joseph Smith's release, meetings of prayer and thanksgiving were held at Nauvoo.

February. Tues. 7 .- Apostle Parley P. Pratt arrived at Nauvoo from his mission to England.

Thurs. 9 .- Joseph Smith received by revelation three grand keys, by which bad angels, or spirits, may be known.

Three Grand Keys by which Good or Bad Angeis or Spirits may be

known. Revealed to Joseph, the Prophet, at Nauvoo, Illinois. February 9th, 1843.

There are two kinds of beings in heaven-viz., angels who are resurrected personages, having bodies of flesh and bones.

For instance, Jesus said, "Handle me and see, for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me have."

2nd. The spirits of just men made perfect-they who are not resurrected, but inherit the same glory.

When a messenger comes, saying he has a message from God, offer him your hand, and request him to shake hands with you.

If he be an angel, he will do so, and you will feel his hand. If he be the spirit of a just man made perfect, he will come in his glory; for that Is the only way he can appear.

Ask him to shake hands with you, but he will not move, because it Is contrary to the order of heaven for a just man to deceive; but he will still deliver his message.

If It be the Devil as an angel of fight, when you ask him to shake hands, he will offer you his hand, and you will not feel anything: you may therefore detect him.

These are three grand keys whereby you may know whether any administration is from God .- Doc. and Cov. Sec. 129.

March .- A "Young Gentlemen's and Ladies' Relief Society" was organized at Nauvoo, with Wm. Cutler as president. -Joseph Smith studied the German language.

Fri. 3 .- The Illinois legislature passed a bill for repeal- ing the Nauvoo city charter, which, however, was not ap- proved.

Sat. 4 .- O. Forter Rockwell was taken prisoner in St. Louis by the Missourians.

Wed, 8 .- The ship "Yorkshire" sailed from Liverpool, Eng- land, with 82 Saints on board, led by Thomas Bullock; the emigrants arrived at Nauvoo, May 31st, via New Orleans.

Wed. 15 .- Joseph Smith prophesied that O. Porter Rock- well would get away honorably from the Missourians.

Tues. 21 .- The ship "Clayborne" sailed from Liverpool with 106 Saints.

April. Sun. 2 .- "Important Items of Instruction" were given by Joseph Smith, at Nauvoo, who also prophesied "that the commencement of the difficulties which will cause much bloodshed previous to the coming of the Son of Man, will be in South Carolina."

Important Items of Instruction, given by Joseph, the Prophet, April 2nd. 1843.

When the Savlour shall appear, we shall see him as he is. We shall see that he is a man like ourselves;

And that same sociality which exists among us here will exist among us there, only it will be coupled with eternal glory, which glory we do not now enjoy.

(John xiv. 23.) The appearing of the Father and the Son, in that verse, is a personal appearance; and the idea that the Father and the Son dwell in a man's heart, is an old sectarian notion, and is false.

In answer to the question, "Is not the reckoning of God's time, angel's time, prophet's time, and man's time according to the planet on which they reside ?"

I answer, yes. But there ars no angels who minister to this earth but those who do helong or have belonged to lt.

The angels do not reside on a planet like this earth.

But they reside in the presence of God, on a globe Ilke a sea of glass and fire, where all things for thelr glory are manifest-past, present, and future, and are continually before the Lord.

The place where God resides is a great Urim and Thummim.

This earth, in its sanctified and Immortal state, will be made like unto crystal and will be a Urim and Thummim to the inhabitants who dwell thereon, whereby all things pertaining to an Inferior kingdom, or all kingdoms of a lower order, will be manifest to those who dwell on it; and this earth will be Christ's.

Then the white stone mentioned in Revelations il. 17, will become a Urim and Thummim to each individual who receives one, whereby things pertaining to a higher order of kingdoms, even all kingdoms, will be made known;

And a white stone is given to each of those who come Into the celestial kingdom, whereon Is a new name written. which no man knoweth save he that receiveth It. The new name is the key word.

I prophesy, in the name of the Lord God, that the commencement of the difficulties which will cause much bloodshed previous to the coming of the Son of Man will be in South Carolina.

I't may probably arise through the slave question. This a voice declared to me, while I was praying earnestly on the subject, December 25th, 1832.

Thurs. 6 .- At a conference held in the Temple, at Kirtiand, Ohio, it was decided that all the Saints residing at that place shouid remove to Nauvoo, Ili.

-An important conference, which continued its sessions tili the 8th, was commenced on the floor of the Temple, at Nauvoo, Ill. Joseph Smith prophesied that Christ would not come until he (Joseph) was eighty-five years of age.

I was once praying very earnestly to know the time of the coming of the Son of Man. when I heard a voice repeat the following :-

"Joseph, my son, if thou livest untll thou art eighty-five years old, thou shalt see the face of the Son of Man: therefore let this suffice, and trouble me no more on this matter."

I was left thus, without being able to decide whether this coming referred to the beginning of the millennium or to some previous appearing, or whether I should die and thus see his face.

I believe the coming of the Son of Man will not be any sooner than that time.

Whatever principles of intelligence we attain unto in this life, it will rise with us In the resurrection:

And If a person gains more knowledge and intelligence In this life through his diligence and obedience than another, hs will have so much the advantage in the world to come.

There is a law, Irrevocably decreed in heaven before the founda- tions of this world, upon which all blessings are predicated:

And when we obtain any blessing from God, it is by obedience to that law upon which it is predicated.

The Father has a body of flesh and bones as tangible as man's; the Son also: but the Holy Ghost has not a body of flesh and bones, but is a personage of Spirlt. Were it not so, the Holy Ghost could not dwell in us.

A man may receive the Holy Ghost, and it may descend upon him and not tarry with him .- Doc. and Cov. Sec. 130.

Mon. 10 .- About one hundred and fifteen Elders were called on missions to different States, at a special confer- ence held at Nauvoo.

Thurs. 13 .- Joseph Smith preached to the British Saints, who had arrived at Nauvoo the day previous.

Sun. 23 .- Six brass plates and a skeleton were found by Mr. R. Wiley and others, near Kinderhook, Pike Co., Iil. May. Wed. 3 .- The first number of the "Nauvoo Neighbor," a newspaper, was issued at Nauvoo, instead of the "Wasp," suspended.

Tuesday. 16 .- On this and the following day Joseph Smith made some important remarks about the celestial glory, at Ramus, Il1.

Remarks of Joseph, the Prophet, at Ramus, Ililnols, May 16th and 17th, 1843.

In the celestial glory there are three heavens or degrees:

And in order to obtain the highest, a man must enter In to this Order of the Priesthood; (meaning the new and everlasting covenant of marriage;)

And If he does not, he cannot obtain it.

He may enter Into the other, but that is the end of hls kingdom: he cannot have an Increase.

(May 17th, 1843.) The more sure word of prophecy (mentioned by Peter) means a man's knowing that he is sealed up unto eternal life, by revelation and the spirit of prophecy, through the power of the Holy Priesthood.

It is impossible for a man to be saved in ignorance.

There is no such thing as immaterial matter. All spirit is matter, but It 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 all matter .- Doc. and Cov. Sec. 131.

Thurs. 18 .- Returning to Nauvoo from his visit to Ra- mus, Joseph Smith dined with Judge Stephen A. Douglas, at Carthage, Hancock Co., Ill. During the conversation which took place Joseph prophesied that Judge Douglas would aspire to the Presidency of the United States, and added that if he ever turned his hand against the Latter- day Saints, he should feel the hand of the Almighty upon him, etc.

Tues. 23 .- Addison Pratt, Noah Rogers, Benjamin F. Grouard and Knowlton F. Hanks were set apart for a mis- sion to the Pacific Islands.

Fri. 26 .- Joseph Smith gave endowments, and also instruc- tions on the Priesthood and the new and everlasting cove- nant, to Hyrum Smith, Brigham Young, Heber C. Kimball and others. at Nauvoo.

June. Thurs. 1 .- Addison Pratt, Benjamin F. Grouard, Knowlton F. Hanks and Noah Rogers left Nauvoo on their missions to the Pacific Islands.

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Thurs. 8 .- Elias Higbee died in Nauvoo,

Sun. 11 .- A conference was heid at Lima, Ili., and the branch at that place reorganized, with Isaac Morley as president, and Gardiner Snow, Bishop.

Tues, 13 .- Joseph Smith ieft Nauvoo with his wife Emma to visit her sister, living near Dixon, Lee County, Ili.

Fri. 23 .- Joseph Smith was arrested and brutally treated by Joseph H. Reynolds, sheriff of Jackson Co., Mo., and Constabie Harmon T. Wilson, of Carthage, Iil., without legal process, and only through interference of friends at Dixon saved from being kidnaped and taken to Missouri.

Sat. 24 .- The corner stones of the Masonic Tempie at Nauvoo were laid.

-Joseph Smith secured a writ of habeas corpus and started towards Ottawa to have his case examined by Judge John D. Caton, but, arriving at Pawpaw Grove, the com- pany learned that Judge Caton was not at home, and, there- fore, returned to Dixon the following day.

Sun. 25 .- News of Joseph Smith being kidnaped reached Nauvoo, and 175 men immediately started on horseback to his rescue.

Mon. 26 .- Joseph Smith started under guard towards Quincy, Il1.

Tues. 27 .- The company traveling with Joseph Smith was met by the brethren from Nauvoo, when it was decided that instead of going to Quincy to have the writ of habeas cor- pus examined, the prisoner and escort should proceed to Nauvoo.

Fri. 30 .- Joseph Smith and company arrived at Nauvoo, neariy the whoie city turning out to meet him. In the afternoon he addressed the people, giving the history of his arrest. While he was speaking Officers Reynolds and Wiison started for Carthage and tried to raise a mob; after- wards they petitioned Gov. Thos. Ford for militia to take Joseph out of Nauvoo by force.

July. Sat. 1 .- Joseph Smith was tried before the mu- nicipai court of Nauvoo on a writ of habeas corpus and acquitted.

Sun. 2 .- Joseph Smith had a pleasant interview with severai Pottawatomie chiefs who had come to visit him, and a very good impression was made upon the Indians.

-The steamboat "Maid of Iowa" returned to Nauvoo, after a very adventurous trip in search of Joseph. The brethren who had participated in that river expedition, numbering about eighty, were blessed by the Prophet.

Mon. 3 .- A number of Elders were called to visit the various counties of Illinois, to preach the gospel and dis- abuse the public mind with regard to Joseph Smith's arrest. -Charies C. Rich and a company of twenty-five men, who had been out searching for the Prophet, returned to Nauvoo, having traveled about five hundred miles on horseback in seven days.

Tues. 4 .- Nauvoo was visited by about one thousand gen- tlemen and ladies from St. Louis, Quincy and Burlington. Fri. 7 .- Mr. M. Braman arrived at Nauvoo as a messenger from the governor, to learn the particulars of Joseph Smith's iate arrest.

Sat. 8 .- Bishop George Miller arrived at Nauvoo from the Pineries with 157,000 feet of lumber and 70,000 shingies for the Tempie.

Wed. 12 .- The revelation on celestial marriage was writ- ten in the presence of Hyrum Smith and Wm. Clayton. (Doc. and Cov., Sec. 132.)

Revelation on the Eternity of the Marriage Covenant, including Plurality of Wives. Given through Joseph, the Seer, in Nauvoo, Hancock County, Illinois, July 12th, 1843.

Verily, thus saith the Lord unto you, my servant Joseph, that inasmuch as you have inquired of my hand, to know and understand whereln I, the Lord, justified my servants Abraham, Isasc and Jacob; as aiso Moses, David and Solomon, my servants, as touching the principle and doctrine of their having many wives and concu- bines:

Behold! and lo, I am the Lord thy God, and will answer thee as touching this matter:

Therefore, prepare thy heart to receive and obey the instructions which I am about to give unto you: for all those who have this law - revealed unto them must obey the same;

For behold! I reveal unto you a new and an everlasting covenant; and if ye abide not that covenant, then are ye damned; for no one can reject this covenant, and be permitted to enter into my glory; For all who will have a blessing at my hands, shall sbide the law which was appointed for thst blessing, and the conditions thereof, as were instituted from before the foundation of the world:

And as pertaining to the new and everlasting covenant, it was instituted for the fullness of my glory, and he that receiveth a fullness thereof, must and shall abide the jaw, or he shall be damned, saith the Lord God.

And Verily I ssy unto you, that the conditions of this law are these :- All covenants, contracts, bonds, obligations, oaths, vows, per- formances, connections, associations, or expectations, that are not msde and entered Into, and sealed by the Holy Spirit of promise, of him who is snointed, both as well for time and for all eternity, and thst too most holy, by revelation snd commandment through the medium of mine anointed, whom I have appointed on the earth to hold this power, (and I have appointed unto my servant Joseph to hold this power in the Isst dsys, and there is never but one on the esrth at a time, on whom this power and the keys of this Priest- hood are conferred.) are of no efficscy, virtue or force, In and after the resurrection from the dead; for all contracts that are not made unto this end, have an end when men are dead.

Behold! mine house is a house of order, saith the Lord God, and not a house of confusion.

Will I accept of an offering, saith the Lord, thst is not made in my name!

Or, will I receive at your hands that which I have not appointed! And will I appoint unto you, saith the Lord, except it be by law, even ss I and my Father ordained unto you, before the world was! I am the Lord thy God, and I give unto you this commandment, thst no man shsil come unto the Father but by me, or by my word, which is my law, saith the Lord;

And everything that is in the world, whether it be ordained of men, by thrones, or principalities, or powers, or things of name, whatsoever they may be, that are not by me, or by my word, saith the Lord, shall be thrown down, and shall not remain after men are dead, neither in nor after the resurrection, salth the Lord your God:

For whatsoever things remain, are by me; and whatsoever things are not by me, shall be shaken and destroyed.

Therefore, if a man marry him a wife in the world, and he marry her not by me, nor by my word; and he covenant with her so long as he is in the world, and she with him, their covenant and marrlage are not of force when they are dead, and when they are out of the world; therefore, they are not bound by any law when they are out of the world;

Therefore, when they are out of the world, they neither marry, nor are given tn marriage; but are appointed angels in heaven, which angels are ministering servants, to minister for those who are worthy of a far more, and an exceeding, and an eternal weight of glory;

For these angels did not abide my law, therefore they cannot be enlarged, but remain separately and singly, without exaltatlon, in their saved condition, to all eternity, and from henceforth are not Gods, but are angels of God, for ever and ever.

And again, verily I say unto you, if a man marry a wife, snd make a covenant with her for time and for all eternity, if that covenant is not by me, or by my word, which is my law, and is not sealed by the Holy Spirit of promise, through him whom I have anointed and appointed unto this power-then it is not valid, neither of force when they are out of the world, because they are not jolned by me, saith the Lord, neither by my word; when they are out of the world, It cannot be received there, because the angels and the Gods are appointed there, by whom they can not pass; they cannot, therefore, inherit my glory, for my house is a house of order, salth the Lord God.

And again, verily I say unto you, if a man marry a wife by my word, which is my law, and by the new and everlasting covenant, and it is sealed unto them by the Holy Spirit of promise, by hlm who is anointed, unto whom I have appointed this power, and the keys of this Priesthood; and it shall be ssid unto them, ye shail come forth in the first resurrection; and if it be after the first resurrection, in the next resurrection; and shall Inherit thrones, kingdoms, principalities, snd powers, dominions, all heights and depths-then shall it be written in the Lamb's Book of Life, that he shall commit no murder whereby to shed Innocent blood, and if ye abide in my covenant, and commit no murder whereby to shed innocent blood, it shall be done unto them In all things whatsoever my servant hath put upon them, in time, and through all eternity, and shall be of full force when they are out of the world; and they shall pass by the angels, 'snd the Gods, which are set there, to their exaitation and glory in all things, as hath been sealed upon their heads, which glory shall be a fullness and a continuation of the seeds for ever and ever.

Then shall they be Gods, because they have no end; therefore shall they be from everlasting to everlasting, because they continue; then shall they be above all, because all things are subject unto them. Then shall they be Gods, because they have all power, and the angels are subject unto them.

Verily, verily I say unto you, except ye abide my law, ye cannot attain to this glory;

For strsit is the gate, and narrow the way that leadeth unto the exaltatlon and continuation of the lives, and few there be that find it. because ye recelve me not in the world, nelther do ye know me.

But if ye receive me in the world, then shall ye know me, and shall receive your exaltation, that where I sm, ye shall be also.

This is eternai lives, to know the only wise and true God, and Jesus Christ, whom he hath sent. I am he. Receive ye, therefore, my law.

Broad is the gate, and wide the way that leadeth to the deaths, and msny there are that go in thereat; because they receive me not, neither do they abide in my law.'

Verily, verily I say unto you, if a man marry a wife according to my word, and they are sealed by the Holy Spirit of promise, according to mine appointment, and he or she shall commit any sin or transgression of the new and everlasting covenant whatever, and all manner of biasphemies, and if they commit no murder, wherein they shed innocent blood-yet they shall come forth In the first resurrection, and enter into their exaltatlon; but they shall be destroyed in the flesh, and shall be delivered unto the buffetings of Satan unto the day of redemption, ssith the Lord God.

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Pioneers and prominent men of Utah : comprising photographs, genealogies, biographies, Part 276

Author: Esshom, Frank Ellwood, b. 1865 Publication date: 1913 Publisher: Salt Lake City, Utah : Utah pioneers book publishing company Number of Pages: 1336

Author: Esshom, Frank Ellwood, b. 1865
Publication date: 1913
Publisher: Salt Lake City, Utah : Utah pioneers book publishing company
Number of Pages: 1336