Footnotes
See Historical Introduction to Discourse, 14 May 1843.
See Levi Richards, Journal, 21 May 1843.
Richards, Levi. Journals, 1840–1853. Levi Richards, Papers, 1837–1867. CHL. MS 1284, box 1.
See Historical Introduction to Discourse, 4 July 1843.
Coray and Coray, Notebook, verso, [36]. Martha Jane Knowlton Coray recounted that “from the age of thirteen years,” she had been “much in the habit of noting down evrything, I heard and read which possessed any peculiar interest to me, in order to preserve facts.” According to one account, Coray “took in common hand every di[s]course that she heard him [JS] preach, and has carefully preserved them.” Coray’s daughter noted that “it was ever her [Coray’s] custom when going to meeting to take pencil and note paper; she thus preserved notes of sermons that would otherwise have been lost to the Church.” (Martha Jane Knowlton Coray, Provo, Utah Territory, to Brigham Young, 13 June 1865, Brigham Young Office Files, CHL; Obituary for Martha Jane Knowlton Coray, Woman’s Exponent, 1 Feb. 1882, 10:133; Lewis, “Martha Jane Knowlton Coray,” 440.)
Coray, Martha Jane Knowlton, and Howard Coray. Notebook, ca. 1853–1855. CHL.
Brigham Young Office Files, 1832–1878. CHL. CR 1234 1.
Woman’s Exponent. Salt Lake City. 1872–1914.
Lewis, Martha J. C. “Martha Jane Knowlton Coray.” Improvement Era 5, no. 6 (Apr. 1902): 439–440.
See Ecclesiastes 7:6.
The entry for this date in JS's history, which was compiled in the 1850s under the direction of George A. Smith, explains this phrase: “I break the ground, I lead the way. like Columbus when he was invited to a banquet, where he was assigned the most honorable place at table and served with the ceremonials which were observed towards Sovereigns. A shallow courtier present, who was meanly jealous of him, abruptly asked him whether he thought, that in case he had not discovered the Indies, there were not other men in Spain, who would have been capable of the enterprize? Columbus made no reply, but took an egg and invited the Company to make it stand on end. They all attempted it, but in vain, whereupon he struck it upon the table, so as to break one end, and left it standing on the broken part. illustrating that when he had once shewn the way, to the new world, nothing was easier than to follow it.” (JS History, vol. D-1, 1556; see also Phillips and Phillips, Worlds of Christopher Columbus, 190.)
Phillips, William D., Jr., and Carla Rahn Phillips. The Worlds of Christopher Columbus. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992.
JS used a similar phrase three weeks later when commenting on the misleading use of theological terms: “I wou[l]d make you think I was climbing a ladder when I was climbing a rainbow.” (Discourse, 11 June 1843–A.)
See 2 Peter 1:1, 5–7.
See 2 Peter 1:10.