Footnotes
Revelation, 22 June 1834 [D&C 105:9–11].
JS, Journal, 24 Sept. 1835.
The entry in John Whitmer’s history for 18 October 1835 also notes that several church leaders received blessings from JS that day and that those blessings were recorded in the “Patriarchal blessing Book.” Many church leaders received blessings from JS in late September and early October 1835, but none received blessings on 18 October. It is likely that Whitmer, who did not have access to the Patriarchal Blessing Book when he made the 18 October 1835 entry in his history, mistakenly associated those September and October 1835 blessings with the date of the revelation featured here. (See JS, Journal, 22 Sept. 1835; and Patriarchal Blessings, 1:13–16; for further information about John Whitmer’s history, see Historical Introduction to Whitmer, History.)
Patriarchal Blessings, 1833–. CHL. CR 500 2.
JS’s journal does not mention this revelation but simply notes that he “attended meeting in the Chapel,” or the House of the Lord, on 18 October 1835. (JS, Journal, 18 Oct. 1835.)
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See Psalm 149:2; Joel 2:23; Revelation, 22–23 Sept. 1832 [D&C 84:56–58]; Revelation, 16–17 Dec. 1833 [D&C 101:41, 81–85]; and Revelation, 24 Feb. 1834 [D&C 103:35].
Cholera broke out in June 1834 among members of the Camp of Israel, killing thirteen camp members and two other Saints in Clay County, but there is no other evidence of unusual or serious illness among church members in Clay County. JS’s journal notes that he had recently attended to his father, Joseph Smith Sr., whose recovery from illness “caused us to marvel at the might power and condesension of our Heavenly Father in answering our prayers in his behalf.” (“Joseph Smith Documents from April 1834 through September 1835;” JS, Journal, 6–11, 13, and 18 Oct. 1835; see also “Mormon War,” Painesville [OH] Telegraph, 25 July 1834, [3]; Amasa Lyman, Journal, 1834; Smith, “History of George Albert Smith,” 29–31; Bradley, Zion’s Camp 1834, 207; and Burgess, Autobiography, 3.)
Painesville Telegraph. Painesville, OH. 1822–1986.
Lyman, Amasa. Journals, 1832–1877. Amasa Lyman Collection, 1832–1877. CHL. MS 829, boxes 1–3.
“History of George Albert Smith,” ca. 1857–1858. George Albert Smith, Papers, 1834–1877. CHL. MS 1322, box 1, fd. 1.
Bradley, James L. Zion’s Camp 1834: Prelude to the Civil War. Logan, UT: By the author, 1990.
Burgess, Harrison. Autobiography, ca. 1883. Photocopy. CHL. MS 893. Also available as “Sketch of a Well-Spent Life,” in Labors in the Vineyard, Faith-Promoting Series 12 (Salt Lake City: Juvenile Instructor Office, 1884), 65–74.