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DOCTRINE andCOVENANTS
Hurricane Utah Adult Religion Class
Sections
3540, 47
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Sidney Rigdon
Born Feb 1793
Baptist pastor 1826;Campbellite 1828;Mormon convert Nov 1830
Met Joseph SmithDec 1830 (D&C 35)
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D&C 35: Sidney Rigdons role
35:46.Sidney sent forth, even as John[the Baptist], to prepare the way beforethe Lord.
35:3.The Lord prepared thee for a greaterwork:
35:20.Sidney to be Josephs scribe in thetranslation of the Bible.
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The Spaulding-Rigdon hypothesis
Solomon Spaulding (17611816). Congregationalist preacher.
Doctor Philastus Hurlbut (18091883). The Hurlbut affidavits, 1833/1834.
Eber D. Howe (17981885). Mormonism Unvailed(1834).
Pomeroy Tucker (18021870). Origin, Rise, and Progress of Mormonism (1867).
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The Gathering
29:78. They shall be gathered in untoone place.
31:78. Strengthenand prepare themagainst the time when they shall begathered.
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The Gathering
37:1, 3.The churchshould assembletogether at the Ohio.
38:3133. Five reasons for the gathering:
Escape their enemies.
Create a righteous people.
Receive the law of the Lord.
Be endowed with power from on high.
Go forth as missionaries.
39:15. I have kept in store a blessing.
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[Joseph] asked, What was the object of gathering theJews together or the people of God in any age of theworld? The main object was to build unto the Lord ahouse whereby he could reveal unto his people theordinances of his house and glories of his kingdom,
and teach the people the ways of salvation; for thereare certain ordinances and principles that, when theyare taught and practiced, must be done in a place or house builtfor that purpose. This was purposed in the mind of God before the
world was, and it was for this purpose that God designed to
gather together the Jews oft, but they would not. It is for the samepurpose that God gathers together the people in the last days: To
build unto the Lord a house to prepare them for the ordinancesand endowment, washings and anointings, etc.
Wilford Woodruff diary, 11 June 1843
The Gathering
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Unity
38:2427. Be one; and if ye are not one yeare not mine.
Context key to interpretation:
38:1620.
38:3439.
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D&C 3940
James Covill. Ordained a traveling preacher for the Methodist
church, 1791.
Preached and practiced medicine in Connecticut,Massachusetts, Maine, and southeast New York.
39:89. Personal details of Covills life.
39:1013. Commandments to Covill. 40:13.Why Covill broke his covenant.
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Office of Church Historian
47:13. JohnWhitmer (18021878) called as
Church Historian. Commandment to
keep a history (21:1;47:3; 123:117).
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If you assemble from time to time, and proceed todiscuss important questions, and pass decisions uponthe same, and fail to note them down, by and by you
will be driven to straits from which you will not beable to extricate yourselves, because you may be in a
situation not to bring your faith to bear with sufficientperfection or power to obtain the desired information;or, perhaps, for neglecting to write these things when God hadrevealed them, not esteeming them of sufficient worth, the Spiritmay withdraw and God may be angry; and there is, or was, a vast
knowledge, of infinite importance, which is now lost. What wasthe cause of this? It came in consequence of slothfulness, or aneglect to appoint a man to occupy a few moments in writing allthese decisions.
Importance of keeping our history
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Here let me prophesy. The time will come, when, ifyou neglect to do this thing, you will fall by the handsof unrighteous men. Now, if you will be careful tokeep minutes of these things, as I have said, it will beone of the most important records ever seen; for all
such decisions will ever after remain as items ofdoctrine and covenants. Joseph Smith, February 1835
Importance of keeping our history
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DOCTRINE andCOVENANTS
Hurricane Utah Adult Religion Class
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