Without Disclosing My True Identity
(^72) Compare BOM, 2 Nephi 9:42.
(^73) TSP, 647. (Appendix 4, “The Fullness of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.”)
(^74) TJSP, “Minutes, 22 December 1836,” 20 Jun. 2011
http://josephsmithpapers.org/paperSummary/minutes-22-december-1836. See also Latter Day
Saints’ Messenger and Advocate 3 (Jan. 1837): 443–4; DHC, 2:468.
(^75) SNS, 87–8.
(^76) SNS, 106–7.
(^77) See Introduction, n. 17 for history of the name.
(^78) Articles drawn up on 2 November 1836. DHC 2:467 & note (); () “‘Kirtland Safety Society
Bank’ was the full title of the proposed institution, and Oliver Cowdery had the plates on which bank
notes were to be printed so engraved.” See also “Minutes of a Meeting of the Members of the ‘Kirtland
Safety Society,’ held on the 2nd day of January, 1837,” DHC, 2:470–2.
(^79) Stanley B. Kimball, Heber C. Kimball: Mormon Patriarch and Pioneer (Champaign: Univ. of
Illinois Press, 1986) 40. See also Bushman, Rough Stone Rolling, 320.
(^80) Hill, 207. See also Matthew 6:24, BOM, 3 Nephi 13:24.
(^81) Hill, 206.
(^82) Hill, 208.
(^83) Compare Mark 8:38. See also SNS, 72–3, 75, 129, 138, 147, and 150 for examples of the
wording of temple covenants made in the LDS Temple Endowment.
(^84) PGP, Articles of Faith 1:2.
(^85) D&C, 6:33; DHC, 4:40, 80.
(^86) As quoted by Wilford Woodruff. See Jessee, “The Kirtland Diary of Wilford Woodruff,” 393.
(^87) D&C, 136:25.
(^88) Compare BOM, 1 Nephi 22:14, 19; 27:3; D&C, 84:100; Joel 3:16.
(^89) Jessee, “The Kirtland Diary of Wilford Woodruff,” 391; grammar corrected.
(^90) DHC, 3:113.
(^91) Bushman, Rough Stone Rolling, 337–8.
(^92) Contrast this with the “history” of David Patten, who is often revered as a martyr of the
Church: “Elder Patten remained in Missouri until the spring of 1837, when he performed a mission
through the States preaching by the way until he arrived in Kirtland. He attended a Conference held
in Kirtland Sept. 3rd 1837. It was a time of great apostasy in the Church, Warren Parrish, his brother-
in-law and his fond associate apostatized, and labored diligently to draw away Elder Patten from the
Church, these things troubled Elder Patten and caused him much sorrow. ...When the persecution
and mobbing commenced, he was foremost in defending the Saints. ...[On his deathbed, after being
wounded during the Battle of Crooked River, he] bore a strong testimony to the truth of the work of
the Lord, and the religion he had espoused. ...he exclaimed, ...’I feel I have kept the faith, I have
finished my course, henceforth there is laid up for me a crown which the Lord, the righteous Judge
shall give to me.’” (Heber C. Kimball, “History of Brigham Young,” Millennial Star 26 [Jul. 9 & 16,
1864]: 440, 454–5.)
(^93) DHC, 2:484–5.
(^94) “September 3, Kirtland conference sustains Joseph as president of the whole church, with
Sidney Rigdon and Frederick G. Williams as counselors, and Oliver Cowdery, Joseph Smith Sr.,
‘Uncle John’ Smith, and Hyrum Smith as assistant counselors. The Kirtland bishopric is also
sustained. Luke S. Johnson, Lyman E. Johnson, and John F. Boynton are excommunicated or rejected
as apostles (the technical aspects are unclear). Nine high council members are replaced.” (“1837
Chronology,” SaintsWithoutHalos.com, 2011, Saints Without Halos, 25 Jun. 2011
http://saintswithouthalos.com/c/1837.phtml.)
(^95) Bushman, Rough Stone Rolling, 337.
(^96) “At this time a certain young woman, who was living at David Whitmer’s, uttered a
prophecy, which she said was given her by looking through a black stone that she had found. This