by Dan Wees | May 20, 2019 | Miscellaneous
“The Journal of Discourses deservedly ranks as one of the standard works of the Church.” George Q. Cannon, Journal of Discourses – Volume 8 (Liverpool, England: Self-Published, 1861), preface. Compare this with the words of later apologists: “The Journal of...
by Dan Wees | May 19, 2019 | Miscellaneous
Jane Elizabeth Manning James was a servant to Joseph Smith, Jr. in Nauvoo, IL, and later came to Utah. “Aunt Jane” was sealed to Joseph Smith, in a special temple ceremony, to be his servant eternally. She died 16 April 1908, “in Salt Lake City....
by Dan Wees | May 18, 2019 | Miscellaneous
“Sometimes these old and middle-aged ladies do not see their husbands once a year, and yet they may not live half a mile apart. A few years since, at a large party at the Social Hall in Salt Lake City, Orson Hyde, one of the twelve apostles, met the wife of his youth,...
by Dan Wees | May 16, 2019 | Miscellaneous
“On the return of Orson Hyde from his mission [7 December 1842] to Palestine he carried letters of introduction to me [Mary Ann Price] and invited me to visit his wife. I was there met by Joseph Smith, the Prophet, who, after an interesting conversation introduced the...
by Dan Wees | May 16, 2019 | Miscellaneous
“When he [Orson Hyde] returned [from his mission], he, in turn, imbibed the teachings of polygamy also, and prepared to extend his kingdom indefinitely. In the mean time it was hinted to him that Smith had had his first wife [Marinda Nancy] sealed to himself in his...
by Dan Wees | May 15, 2019 | Miscellaneous
“Orson Hyde and W.W. Phelps turned against Joseph in Missouri, and forsook him in time of peril and danger, and even testified against him in the courts … ” They asked to be reinstated, and “with tears he moved that we would forgive them and receive...
