Thirty-Three (1838)(^36) Compare BOM, Mormon 2:1, 3, 11–15.
(^37) DHC, 2:2 and (). Also note, “These ‘dissenters,’ as they came to be called, owned a
significant amount of land in Caldwell County, much of which was purchased when they were acting
as agents for the church. Possession became unclear and the dissenters threatened the church with
lawsuits.” (“1838 Mormon War,” Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, 27 Jun. 2011, Wikimedia Foundation,
Inc., 7 Jul. 2011 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1838_Mormon_War.)
(^38) DHC, 3:1–3; D&C, 38:31; 54:7; 115:6.
(^39) DHC, 3:13, 85.
(^40) DHC, 1:425; 3:69, 212–13.
(^41) Stephen C. LeSueur, The 1838 Mormon War in Missouri (Columbia: University of Missouri P,
1990) 24, quoting part of the Elders’ Journal of the Church of Latter Day Saints, 1:3 (July 1838) 34.
(^42) Corrill, A Brief History, 22.
(^43) See e.g., D&C, 133:61.
(^44) D&C, 115:2–3.
(^45) See D&C, 115:1.
(^46) DHC, 2:509.
(^47) Luke 16:15.
(^48) Compare DHC 6:520: “I advised my brother Hyrum to take his family on the next
steamboat and go to Cincinnati. Hyrum replied, ‘Joseph, I can’t leave you.’ Where-upon I said to
the company present, ‘I wish I could get Hyrum out of the way, so that he may live to avenge my
blood, and I will stay with you and see it out.’”
(^49) DHC, 2:528; D&C, 20:1.
(^50) D&C, 115:4.
(^51) D&C, 115:7.
(^52) D&C, 115:8; DHC, 3:23.
(^53) D&C, 115:10; DHC, 3:41–2.
(^54) D&C, 115:13; DHC, 2:478–80 makes specific reference “to the debt which has been contracted
for building the Lord’s House” and that “nearly the aggregate of debt that now remained
unliquidated.” The next paragraph on page 480 reiterates that problem, stating, “The second was the
building of the Lord’s House, the unliquidated debt of which was rising of thirteen thousand dollars.”
(^55) See Introduction, n. 17 for history of the name of the Church.
(^56) “Salt sermon,” Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, 30 Mar. 2011, Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., 29
Jan. 2012, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_sermon.
(^57) NOT EXACT. Compare BOM, 3 Nephi 12:13, D&C, 101:40. Rigdon’s “Salt Sermon” in June
1838 is often confused with his oration given on 4 July that same year, largely because the former is
not mentioned chronologically in the DHC. See also DHC, 3:42, n. ().
(^58) D&C, 134:10; see also n. 37 above.
(^59) DHC 3:41–2 and note (). “The oration was delivered by President Rigdon, at the close of
which was a shout of Hosanna, ...”;
(*) “The oration soon afterwards appeared in The Far West, a periodical published at
Liberty, Clay County, Missouri. ...This oration by Sidney Rigdon has always been severely
criticized as containing passages which threatened a war of extermination upon mobs should they
arise again to plague the Saints.”
(^60) Bushman, Rough Stone Rolling, 349–55.
(^61) DHC 3:180, 192–3.
(^62) DHC, 3:41.
(^63) Sidney Rigdon, Oration delivered by Mr. S. Rigdon on the 4th of July, 1838: At Far West,
Caldwell County, Missouri (Far West: Journal Office, 1838). See also LeSueur, 49–53.
(^64) BOM, Mormon 3:9–10, 14, emphasis added.
(^65) BOM, Mormon 3:16.