Footnotes
For more information on the Saints’ expulsion from Jackson County, see “Joseph Smith Documents from February 1833 through March 1834.”
For information on JS’s financial concerns leading up to this conference, see Historical Introduction to Letter to Orson Hyde, 7 Apr. 1834.
JS, Journal, 21–22 Apr. 1834.
At an October 1831 conference, for example, Hyrum Smith suggested that JS explain “the coming forth of the book of Mormon,” but JS demurred, stating that “it was not intended to tell the world all the particulars of the coming forth of the book of Mormon.” (Minutes, 25–26 Oct. 1831.)
A September 1832 revelation explained that the lesser priesthood was “confirmed upon Aaron and his sons.” (Revelation, 22–23 Sept. 1832 [D&C 84:30].)
JS, Journal, 21–22 Apr. 1834.
In a February 1834 letter to JS, Bosworth recounted three dreams he recently had, which he called “Visions.” (Letter from Joseph Bosworth, 17 Feb. 1834.)
A December 1832 revelation commanded the Saints to build a “house of God” in Kirtland, and a June 1833 revelation reiterated the command. Since the latter revelation also provided specific directions about constructing the house, it was probably the revelation that JS discussed here. (Revelation, 27–28 Dec. 1832 [D&C 88:119]; Revelation, 1 June 1833 [D&C 95].)
Thomas Tripp may be the same Thomas Tripp who appears in the 1830 census for Tyre, Seneca County, New York. The church was organized in Fayette, Seneca County, in 1830. There is little information available about Tripp, other than that he preached in Wayne County, Ohio, in April 1831 and, according to an Evans family history, baptized David Evans in 1833. Tripp may have also ordained Evans both a priest and an elder. (1830 U.S. Census, Tyre, Seneca Co., NY, 31; JS History, vol. A-1, 37; McBride, Autobiography, 22–23; “David Evans,” [10].)
Census (U.S.) / U.S. Bureau of the Census. Population Schedules. Microfilm. FHL.
JS History / Smith, Joseph, et al. History, 1838–1856. Vols. A-1–F-1 (original), A-2–E-2 (fair copy). Historian’s Office, History of the Church, 1839–ca. 1882. CHL. CR 100 102, boxes 1–7. The history for the period after 5 Aug. 1838 was composed after the death of Joseph Smith.
McBride, James. Autobiography, 1874–1876. Microfilm. CHL. MS 8201.
“David Evans.” Unpublished paper. No date. Ewell Family Historical and Genealogical Society. Accessed 27 Feb. 2015. http://ewellfamily.org/genealogy/browsemedia.php?mediatypeID=histories.
The bishop’s council was a lower appellate body than the Kirtland high council. According to the minutes of the meeting where the Kirtland high council was organized, the high council would act only as an appellate court in cases that could not be resolved “by the Church, or the bishop’s council” or in cases tried outside of church headquarters before a council of high priests. Because Tripp was tried by the conference of elders, his first recourse for appeal was the bishop’s council. (Revised Minutes, 18–19 Feb. 1834 [D&C 102:2, 24, 27–28].)
The “Articles and Covenants” of the church instructed “every member” with children “to bring them unto the elders before the church” so the elders could “lay hands on them in the name of the Lord, and bless them in the name of Christ.” (Articles and Covenants, ca. Apr. 1830 [D&C 20:70].)
Possibly the Methodist hymn that began “Away with our fears: / The glad morning appears.” The final stanza of the hymn begins “My remnant of days / I spend in his praise.” (Hymn 642, Hymns for the Use of the Methodist New Connexion.)
Hymns for the Use of the Methodist New Connexion. Principally from the Collection of the Rev. John Wesley, M. A. Late Fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford. Manchester: W. Shuttleworth, 1836.