Tag: Priesthood Men

Jared Carter was an effective missionary for the early church and seemed to be faithful through the growing pains of the church until the death of Joseph Smith. During the uncertainty of succession he choose another sect apart from the main body of the saints. Interestingly he was soon excommunicated from that sect and subsequently…

Newell K. Whitmer was very prominent in the very early days of the church as his store was used as an office by Joseph Smith and as the bishops storehouse for the church. In later history of the church he doesn’t stand so prominently. This wasn’t sure to any faltering on his part but rather…

I knew that Luke was asking those who turned from the church during the trying years of the late 1830’s and early 1840’s but I hasn’t realized that he was among the original twelve not that he returned to the church after the death of Joseph Smith. Both of those things are true and after…

David W. Pattern had a short tenure among the apostles. He was among the first called and was the second most senior member of the quorum when it was formed. He died less than two years later as the first martyr in the restored church in a battle against the Missouri mob. By then he…

Orson Hyde had an interesting history in the church. His mission to the Holy Land will forever be remembered but he was also removed from the Quorum of the Twelve and then reinstated (possibly twice). In the late 1830’s he wrote that he felt that God was no longer with the church. As I consider…

I really wonder what William McLellin’s five secret questions were when Section 66 was received. Whatever they were, I imagine he was somewhat embarrassed when he was admonished to “Commit not adultery—a temptation with which thou hast been troubled.” McLellin obviously had potential for gospel service but also much spiritual baggage. He unfortunately finally abandoned…

I hadn’t known that William W. Phelps had aspirations to become lieutenant governor of New York before he learned of and joined the church. It seems that he didn’t the same kind of drive and energy in living the restored gospel once he found it although there was a rough period in Missouri when he…

Could a man who had been a Methodist minister for decades who was in Fayette, New York in January 1831 not have heard about the farm boy from Palmyra who claimed to have seen God and received new scripture? In fact, unless he was new to the area he would most likely have spoken against…

Sidney is representative of the many church members who abandoned the church after Joseph Smith died. I think their leaving the church is somewhat less damning because there was no established order of succession. On the other hand, those who were present when Sidney and Brigham addressed the people in Nauvoo (which obviously included Sidney)…

Edward Partridge literally have everything he had to the building up of the kingdom of God. When he found the church his material circumstances were comfortable but by the time he died 10 years later he had little left because he had decked everything to the restored church.