Without Disclosing My True Identity
NOTES
(^1) HR, 15:11.
(^2) See “1809 in History,” Brainy History, 2001–10, BrainyHistory.com, 3 Dec. 2010
http://www.brainyhistory.com/years/1809.html.
(^3) BOM, 1 Nephi 13:3.
(^4) BOM, 1 Nephi 13:14.
(^5) BOM, 1 Nephi 13:14.
(^6) BOM, 1 Nephi 11:1.
(^7) BOM, 1 Nephi 11:1, 14.
(^8) BOM, 1 Nephi 11:11.
(^9) BOM, 1 Nephi 12:20–3.
(^10) BOM, 1 Nephi 13:4–5.
(^11) Largely due to LDS Apostle Bruce R. McConkie’s (1915–1985) popular book making this
connection. See Bruce R. McConkie, Mormon Doctrine (Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1958) 129–30, 314–15.
(NOTE: all later editions of this work have been changed to remove all references singling out the
Catholic Church.)
(^12) BOM, 1 Nephi 14:10.
(^13) BOM, 1 Nephi 13:8.
(^14) BOM, 1 Nephi 13:12.
(^15) See Samuel Eliot Morison, Admiral of the Sea: A Life of Christopher Columbus, Volume 1 (New
York: Time, Inc., 1962), chapters 1–9 for details about Christopher Columbus and Queen Isabella. The
Catholic Church also gave Christopher Columbus an annual allowance, and a letter ordering all cities
and towns under their domain to provide him with food and lodging at no cost. See Will and Ariel
Durant, The Story of Civilization, vol. VI, “The Reformation” (New York: Simon, 1957) 260.
(^16) For the most detailed LDS treatise on this belief, see Arnold K. Garr, Christopher Columbus: A
Latter-Day Saint Perspective (Provo: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 1992).
(^17) BOM, 1 Nephi 13:12.
(^18) BOM, 1 Nephi 13:13.
(^19) TSP, 84:68–87.
(^20) BOM, 1 Nephi 13:5.
(^21) Matthew 11:28–30.
(^22) TSP, 84:89–99. For a biography of George Fox, see H. Larry Ingle, First Among Friends: George Fox
and the Creation of Quakerism (New York: Oxford University Press, 1994); and Harry Emerson Wildes, Voice
of the Lord: A Biography of George Fox (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania P, 1965).
(^23) See The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church. 3rd ed., 1997; see also “English
Dissenters, Quakers,” ExLibris, 1 Jan. 2008, Exlibris.org, 3 Dec. 2010
http://www.exlibris.org/nonconform/engdis/quakers.html; and
“English Dissenters,” Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, 3 Dec. 2010
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_Dissenters.
(^24) 2 Corinthians 4:6.
(^25) See Rufus M. Jones, ed., George Fox: An Autobiography (1908); reprinted online at Street
Corner Society, “Journal of George Fox (1694),” 3 Dec. 2010
http://www.strecorsoc.org/gfox/title.html. The quoted material is found in Chapter I.
(^26) “Religious Society of Friends,” Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, 4 Aug. 2011, Wikimedia
Foundation, Inc., 5 Aug. 2011 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_Society_of_Friends. See
also Jones, Chapter II. George Fox wasn’t actually trying to form any organization. People just came to
him and then traveled along with him and he started to refer to them as “friends.”
(^27) See biographies cited in note 22 for details of his life and various imprisonments.