Without Disclosing My True Identity
to be abolished until the curse pronounced on Ham shall have been removed from his descendants.’”
(See Quinn, Extensions of Power, 749, 758.)
See also Pat Bagley, “Living History: Slaves arrived in Utah with Brigham Young,” The
Salt Lake Tribune, 19 Feb. 2010, The Salt Lake Tribune, 3 Sept. 2011
http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_14437472?source=email.
(^82) D&C, 87 for dated prophecy; D&C, 130:13 (12–13) for specific mention of slavery.
(^83) D&C, 87:6.
(^84) D&C, 87:7.
(^85) See DHC, 2:436–40, “The Prophet’s Views on Abolition.”
(^86) In 1857, Brigham Young declared that apostates would “become gray-haired, wrinkled,
and black, just like the Devil” (JD, 5:332).
(^87) D&C, 64:15–16.
(^88) Beginning in Sept. 1831 (and first printed Nov. 1831), Booth “wrote a series of letters, which,
by their coloring, falsity, and vain calculations to overthrow the work of the Lord, exposed his
weakness and folly, and left him a monument of his own shame, for the world to wonder at.” (DHC,
1:215–17 & nn. (†) ().)
(†) “In the minutes of a conference held on the 6th of September 1831, and signed by Oliver
Cowdery, it is recorded: ‘Upon testimony satisfactory to this conference, it was voted that Ezra Booth
be silenced from preaching as an Elder in this Church’.”
() “The series of letters referred to in the text above were nine in number, and first appeared
in the Ohio Star, published at Ravenna, the county seat of Portage [C]ounty. Afterwards they were
published in E. D. Howe’s Book, Mormonism Unveiled, pp. 175–221.”
(^89) Howe, 176–7, 183.
(^90) D&C, 71.
(^91) DHC, 1:334–5.
(^92) On 3 June 1833, “A conference of High Priests convened in the translating room at Kirtland. The
first case presented was that of ‘Doctor’ Philastus Hurlburt, who was accused of unChristian conduct with
women, while on a mission to the east. On investigation it was decided that he be no longer a member of
the Church of Christ.” (DHC, 1:352) On 21 June 1833, he appealed the decision and was forgiven, “because
of the liberal confession which he made.” (DHC, 1:354) On 23 June, he “was again called in question, by a
general council; ...The council cut him off from the Church.” (DHC, 1:355 & n. ().)
() “Finally he was charged with illicit intercourse with the sex, was tried and cut off
from the Church. He denied, expostulated, threatened, but to no use, the facts were too apparent, and
he at once avowed himself the enemy of the Church.”
(^93) Eber D. Howe, Mormonism Unvailed (Painesville: Telegraph Press, 1834).
(^94) Mrs. Ellen E. Dickinson, New Light on Mormonism (New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1885) 72–3.
(^95) Compare Matthew 16:4, 12:39; D&C, 63:7, 46:9.
(^96) On 1 April 1834, we read: “The court has not brought forward Hurlburt’s trial yet, and we
were engaged in issuing subpoenas for witnesses. My soul delighteth in the law of the Lord, for He
forgiveth my sins, and will confound mine enemies. The Lord shall destroy him who has lifted his
heel against me, even that wicked man Dr. Philastus Hurlburt; He will deliver him to the fowls of
heaven, and his bones shall be cast to the blasts of wind, for he lifted his arm against the Almighty,
therefore the Lord shall destroy him.” On 2–3 April, Joseph “attended the court. Hurlburt was on trial
for threatening my life.”
On 9 April, “After an impartial trial, the court decided that Dr. Philastus Hurlburt be bound
over, under two hundred dollar bonds, to keep the peace for six months, and pay the cost, which
amounted to nearly three hundred dollars, all of which was in answer to our prayers, for which I
thank my Heavenly Father.” (DHC, 2:46–7, 49 and note ().)
- “And thereupon came the said Doctor P. Hurlburt, with Charles A. Holmes and Elijah
Smith as sureties, in open court, entered into a recognizance in the penal sum of two hundred dollars
each, conditioned that the said Doctor P. Hurlburt shall, for the period of six months from and after