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    A Concise History of Kirtland
    A Concise History of Kirtland
    A Concise History of Kirtland
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    A Concise History of Kirtland

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    In the early 1800s, God called a latter-day prophet. The Times of the Gentiles were fulfilled, but a tempest raged in the hearts of men. To protect the Saints from terrible persecution the Lord commanded the Church to move to Kirtland, Ohio. Amazing things happened during those few short years, including Jesus' acceptance of the first temple to be built in His name in almost two thousand years.

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    PublisherWindRiver Publishing
    Release dateApr 29, 2010
    ISBN9781886249486
    A Concise History of Kirtland
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    E. Keith Howick

    E. Keith Howick was born and raised in Salt Lake City, Utah. He attended the University of Utah where he received his bachelor's and master's degrees in political science and Juris Doctor in law. He also taught and did PhD studies at Pennsylvania State University.Keith has taught religion classes on all levels: in his ward, in seminary, in institute classes at the University of Utah and Montana State University and in the religion department at the Brigham Young University. He has also taught courses in American political government and conducted graduate seminars in public law at Pennsylvania State University.

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      A Concise History of Kirtland - E. Keith Howick

      A Concise History of Kirtland

      By

      E. Keith Howick

      A Concise History of Kirtland

      Copyright ©2010 by E. Keith Howick

      Published by WindRiver Publishing, Inc.

      http://www.WindRiverPublishing.com

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      Library of Congress Control Number: 2007926894

      ISBN-13 978-1-886249-48-6

      Table of Contents

      Prologue

      Chapter 1 — The Work Begin

      Chapter 2 — The Prophet Arrives in Kirtland

      False Spirits

      Simonds Ryder

      The Bishop's Storehouse

      The Man of Sin Revealed

      Chapter 3 — Mobs and Persecution

      Tar and Feathers

      Ezra Booth

      Poisoning

      Continuing Mob Action

      Chapter 4 — Revelations, Humor, and Banks

      Humor

      Banks

      Chapter 5 — The Kirtland Temple

      Chapter 6 — The Book of Abraham

      Chapter 7 — Publishing the Revelations

      The Doctrine and Covenants

      Chapter 8 — The Camps

      Zion's Camp

      Milk Sickness

      Spies and Sick Horses

      Rattlesnakes and Squirrels

      Zelph

      A Sudden Storm

      Eagles and Turkey Buzzards

      Cholera

      Kirtland Camp

      The Destroyer in the Camp

      Discipline Affects the Camp

      Expulsion of G.W. Brooks

      Chapter 9 — The First Twelve Apostles

      Epilogue

      Footnotes

      Endnotes

      PROLOGUE

      When Joseph Smith saw the vision of God the Father and His Son, Jesus Christ, in the spring of 1820, he was only fourteen years old. A few days after receiving this miraculous revelation, he recounted it to one of the local ministers who had been proselyting in the area around Palmyra, New York. The reaction was not what the boy expected. Rather than being awed, the minister treated Joseph's story lightly and with contempt. He said it was all from Satan; that there were no such things as visions or revelations in modern times; that all such things had ceased with the Apostles, and that there would never be any more of them.

      The news of Joseph's vision soon spread, however, and produced a great deal of prejudice against him among the professors of religion. The vision also became the cause of an intense persecution that was directed against the young prophet by many religious sects. It appeared they were all united to persecute him.[1]

      Three years later, on the night of September 21, 1823, Joseph felt he needed to inquire of his status before the Lord since he had received no further divine communication since his first vision in 1820. In keeping with his confident nature, he did not doubt that he would receive a manifestation in answer to his prayer—because he had previously received one. So when he retired for the evening, he prayed earnestly to the Lord. The result was a vision of the Angel Moroni who appeared to him three times during the night and once again the next morning. Although Moroni gave Joseph instructions and quoted certain scriptures pertaining to the imminent restoration of the gospel, the principal purpose of his angelic visits was to make Joseph aware of the golden plates— plates made of gold that contained an ancient record of civilizations that inhabited the western hemisphere long ago. The information contained on these plates is known as The Book of Mormon.

      Moroni showed Joseph the location of the plates in vision. They were buried under a partially obscured stone high on the west side of the hill Cumorah, a tall hill located close to the village of Manchester in Ontario County, New York. Following the angel's instructions, Joseph climbed to the site, located the ancient record, and then returned there each year in September until he was allowed to retrieve the plates on September 22, 1827.

      Once Joseph had the plates in his possession, and all during the time he translated them, persecution continued and intensified. A major setback occurred when a scheme evolved to discredit him through the loss of 116 pages of the translated material. As a result, Joseph's ability to translate was withdrawn for a short period of time. But eventually the Lord directed him to retranslate the pages from an alternate record.[2]

      After the translation was complete and in the process of being printed, one Esquire Cole made another attempt to destroy its credibility by taking some of the transcript and creating interlineations . . . omissions, and added vulgarisms in the text. His intent was to publish the doctored pages in his weekly periodical, the Dogberry Paper on Winter Hill. But Joseph was able to thwart his plan.[3]

      Persecution continued to dog the prophet wherever he lived, both in New York State and in the state of Pennsylvania, but it did not stop him from receiving the Aaronic Priesthood from John the Baptist and the Melchizedek Priesthood from Peter, James, and John. Nor did it stop him from officially organizing the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the LDS Church or the Mormons) at the home of Peter Whitmer, Sr., in Fayette, New York, on April 6, 1830.[4]

      CHAPTER 1

      The Work Begins

      One of the keystones of the LDS Church is missionary work. On the title page of The Book of Mormon it states, . . . Written to the Lamanites, who are a remnant of the house of Israel; and also to Jew and Gentile. . . . Consequently, not long after the Church was organized in 1830, the Lord told Joseph to . . . go unto the Lamanites and preach my gospel unto them.[1]

      The Lord knew the Church needed to grow as rapidly as possible if it was to survive. As a result, at a conference of the Church held on September 26, 1830, in Fayette, New York, Peter Whitmer, Jr., was appointed to accompany Oliver Cowdery on the first Lamanite mission.[2] In a later revelation received in October of 1830, the Lord directed Joseph to call Parley P. Pratt and Zeba Peterson to accompany them.[3]

      Parley P. Pratt was baptized on or about September 1, 1830, and had been a member of the Church for

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