Twenty-Six (1831)(^26) See “Chronology of the First Presidency (LDS Church),” Wikipedia, the free
encyclopedia, 11 Aug. 2011, Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., 20 Jan. 2012
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronology_of_the_First_Presidency_%28LDS_Church%29.
(^27) Compare BOM, Jacob 4:14–15.
(^28) Quinn, The Mormon Hierarchy: Extensions of Power, “Paid Ministry and Voluntary Service,”
204–12. See also “How much are apostles paid?” The Salamander Society, 2010, 26 May 2011
http://www.salamandersociety.com/foyer/salary/.
Sandra Tanner, “Do Mormon Leaders Receive Financial Support?” Utah Lighthouse Ministry,
2011, Utah Lighthouse™ Ministry, 19 May 2011
http://www.utlm.org/onlineresources/paidclergy.htm.
(^29) BOM, Moroni 7:9.
(^30) BOM, 1 Nephi 13:10–13.
(^31) See George Fox, The Journal of George Fox, In Two Volumes (1694; London: Cambridge UP,
1911). See also “George Fox,” Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, 14 May 2011, Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.,
26 May 2011 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Fox.
(^32) BOM, 1 Nephi 13:13.
(^33) “Biographical Sketch of Alexander Campbell,” ed. James Challen, Ladies’ Christian Annual,
6:3 (Philadelphia: James Challen, 1857) 81–90; and “Alexander Campbell (1788–1866)” Restoration
Movement Texts, 2009, Hans Rollmann, 26 May 2011
http://www.mun.ca/rels/restmov/people/acampbell.html.
(^34) DHC, 1:120–4 and corresponding notes. See also D. Michael Quinn, “Jesse Gause: Joseph
Smith’s Little-Known Counselor,” BYU Studies 23:4 (1983) 489. “Seven months before Jesse’s arrival,
in March, Leman Copley and Parley P. Pratt had made an unsuccessful visit to preach to the Shakers
at North Union. It is not known when or how Mormon missionaries contacted Jesse Gause, but less
than five months after he came to Ohio as a Shaker, he was converted to the Church and was soon
chosen as a counselor to Joseph Smith.”
(^35) DHC, 1:122, n. (*).
(^36) “The actual title page reads, ‘The Sacred Writings of the Apostles and Evangelists of Jesus
Christ Commonly Styled the New Testament. Translated from the Original Greek by Doctors George
Campbell, James McKnight, and Philip Doddridge, with Prefaces, Various Emendations and an
Appendix by Alexander Campbell. Buffaloe, Virginia: Alexander Campbell, 1826.’ With a title this
long, it is no wonder it became known as ‘The Living Oracles,’ which was used as the cover title of
some editions.” See n. 19 of Gary Holloway, “Alexander Campbell as a Publisher,” Restoration
Quarterly 37:1 (1995), Abilene Christian University, 2011, 26 May 2011
http://www.acu.edu/sponsored/restoration_quarterly/archives/1990s/vol_37_no_1_contents/ho
lloway.html#N_19;
For a modern example of translation with the Urim and Thummim contrasted with the
writings of men, compare The Sealed Portion–The Final Testament of Jesus Christ with the Oracles of
Mahonri and/or The Sealed Portion of the Brother of Jared. (Oracles of Mahonri, Israel, Davied [born
Gilbert Clark], [Council of Patriarchs/Sons Ahman Israel, 1987]; and “The Brotherhood of Christ
Church,” [Goker Harim III-aka Ron Livingston], The Sealed Portion of the Brother of Jared, 2 vols.
[Overland Park: Leathers, 2001], respectively.)
(^37) PGP, Selections from the Book of Moses.
(^38) See Alexander Campbell, Living Oracles, chapter 24 titled “Ensigns and Devices,” (Bethany:
M’Vay and Ewing, 1835) 75–6. (Title page actually reads: A Connected View of the Principles and Rules
by which the Living Oracles May be Intelligibly and Certainly Interpreted: of the Foundation on which all
Christians May Form One Communion: And of the Capital Positions Sustained in the Attempt to Restore the
Original Gospel and Order of Things Containing the Principal Extras of the Millennial Harbinger, Revised and
Corrected.)
(^39) PGP, Joseph Smith—Matthew.