Posted on 04/13/2011 7:43:32 PM PDT by Colofornian
Last month (March 2011) Ensign magazine included a challenge titled How Well Do You Know Our Church Leaders? It consisted of 15 details from the lives of the 15 current Prophets, Seers and Revelators of the LDS Church. Readers were invited to match the names with the facts.
The Ensign challenge included things like figuring out which leader once raised rabbits or worked on an oyster boat. The lives of LDS leaders throughout the history of the Mormon Church reflect much more interesting details than those included in the Ensign article. So I here add my own version of How Well Do You Know Mormon Church Leaders of the Past? See if you can match the following eight names of early Church leaders with events or other details from their lives. Answers and references follow, but see how well you can do without peeking.
1.Apostle Jedediah Grant
2.Apostle Amasa Lyman
3.Apostle Franklin D. Richards
4.President Sidney Rigdon
5.President Joseph Smith
6.Apostle* David Whitmer
7.President Wilford Woodruff
8.President Brigham Young
A. When returning to Salt Lake City after a mission, this leader and his travelling companions overtook the Willie Handcart Company, stopping for a night to encourage the pioneers. After promising that they would all end their journey in the Valleys of the Mountains with strong and healthy bodies, this leader asked Captain Willie for fresh meat and took the Companys fattest calf.
B. This leader was sealed to four hundred unmarried women ancestors in a single day.
C. He accused his wife of attempting to murder him by putting poison in his coffee.
D. This Mormon leader said he received a revelation from God telling him to separate himself from the Latter-day Saints because they had gone deep into error and blindness.
E. Speaking of the sinful actions of some Latter-day Saints, this leader publicly called for a place to be designated where the blood of covenant-breakers could be shed.
F. According to the Law of Adoption practiced in the early Mormon Church, this man was sealed to someone who was later convicted of mass murder.
G. In a fiery and memorable sermon, this leader declared a war of extermination against non-Mormons.
H. Hosting and participating in séances and automatic writing, this Mormon leader fully embraced the spiritualist underground operating all throughout Utah.
* While not usually listed among LDS apostles, D&C 18:9, Brigham Young, and Larry Porter writing for the Ensign, all indicate that David Whitmer was called as an apostle.
ANSWERS:
A. 3, Roberts, Devils Gate: Brigham Young and the Great Mormon Handcart Tragedy, 162-164; B. 7, Van Wagoner & Walker, A Book of Mormons, 399; C. 5, Newell & Avery, Mormon Enigma: Emma Hale Smith, 164; D. 6, Whitmer, An Address To All Believers in Christ, 27; E. 1, Journal of Discourses 4:49-50; F. 8, Van Wagoner & Walker, A Book of Mormons, 156; G. 4, LeSueur, The 1838 Mormon War in Missouri, 50-51; H. 2, Avery, From Mission to Madness, 186-188.
Good friend Mike Tea has also compiled a version of the Ensign challenge. Take a look at The Mormon Chapbook
Freud strikes AGAIN!
THIS is STILL in force; but it seems MORMONs really cannot READ!!
Hey MORMONs!!THE
DOCTRINE AND COVENANTS
OF THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTSSECTION 89Revelation given through Joseph Smith the Prophet, at Kirtland, Ohio, February 27, 1833. HC 1: 327329. As a consequence of the early brethren using tobacco in their meetings, the Prophet was led to ponder upon the matter; consequently he inquired of the Lord concerning it. This revelation, known as the Word of Wisdom, was the result. The first three verses were originally written as an inspired introduction and description by the Prophet.19, Use of wine, strong drinks, tobacco, and hot drinks proscribed; 1017, Herbs, fruits, flesh, and grain are ordained for the use of man and of animals; 1821, Obedience to gospel law, including the Word of Wisdom, brings temporal and spiritual blessings.1 A aWord OF Wisdom, for the benefit of the council of high priests, assembled in Kirtland, and the church, and also the saints in Zion4 Behold, verily, thus saith the Lord unto you: In consequence of aevils and designs which do and will exist in the hearts of bconspiring men in the last days, I have cwarned you, and forewarn you, by giving unto you this word of wisdom by revelation6 And, behold, this should be wine, yea, apure wine of the grape of the vine, of your own make.7 And, again, astrong drinks are not for the belly, but for the washing of your bodies.8 And again, tobacco is not for the abody, neither for the belly, and is not good for man, but is an herb for bruises and all sick cattle, to be used with judgment and skill.10 And again, verily I say unto you, all wholesome aherbs God hath ordained for the constitution, nature, and use of man11 Every herb in the season thereof, and every fruit in the season thereof; all these to be used with aprudence and bthanksgiving.14 All agrain is ordained for the use of man and of beasts, to be the staff of life, not only for man but for the beasts of the field, and the fowls of heaven, and all wild animals that run or creep on the earth;15 And athese hath God made for the use of man only in times of famine and excess of hunger.17 Nevertheless, wheat for man, and corn for the ox, and oats for the horse, and rye for the fowls and for swine, and for all beasts of the field, and barley for all useful animals, and for mild drinks, as also other grain.21 And I, the Lord, give unto them a promise, that the adestroying angel shall bpass by them, as the children of Israel, and not slay them. Amen.
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Winter is over: QUIT EATING MEAT!
HArdly any of us are; except for Utah Binger: HE's evidently a REAL person!
Only time I was glade there was another biker that smoked.
Huh?
SOMEbody is 'smokin' all right!
Trying to be nice gets me here.
Yeah!
Them hecky dern HATEFUL Bigo uh, abominable APOSTATE ANTIs are always picking on us!
--MormonDude(Why are we ALWAYS the VICTIM? not that I mind; of course)
Sage Creek Junction
I’ve tried to be nice before, and I STILL get misunderstood!
Thanks for keeping me abreast of the situation.
Glad you enjoy it.
Platters are flatter.
rederick ... define this please.
Well, congrats. You succeeded in picking the fight you first posted your snarky comment to garner! Are you a Mormon?
Well, congrats. You succeeded in picking the fight you first posted your snarky comment to garner! Are you a Mormon? ... Are you honest? ... Are you Resty?
On second thought you’re probably not Resty since K-Ben-K is more likely Resty, based upon the syntax and other familiar errors.
Thank you. For what?
{snort!}
Should have said pladders are fladder in order to be in sync (sink) with the posers (poseurs) now making silly liddle spelling adjustments for the anti’s.
It’s a higher form of intelligence....and so forth.
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