DOCTRINE and COVENANTS

Sections 4, 1112, 1416, 1819

Hurricane Utah Adult Religion Class

When, where, and to whom?

D&C 4 D&C 11 ~4 February 1829 Harmony, PA ~28 May 1829 Harmony, PA Harmony, PA Fayette, NY Fayette, NY Fayette, NY Fayette, NY Joseph Smith, Sr. Hyrum Smith Joseph Knight, Sr. David Whitmer John Whitmer Peter Whitmer Joseph Smith, Oliver Cowdery, David Whitmer

D&C 12 ~29 May 1829 D&C 14 early June 1829 D&C 15 early June 1829

D&C 16 early June 1829 D&C 18 <14 June 1829 D&C 19 <26 March 1830

Manchester, NY Martin Harris

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When, where, and to whom?

John Hamer bycommonconsent.com/author/johnhamer

D&C 4
Early February 1829 to Joseph Smith, Sr. at Harmony, Pennsylvania. D&C 4:1.
Marvelous work and a wonder (Isaiah 29:14; 2 Nephi 27:2435).

D&C 4:6.
Make your calling and election sure (2 Peter 1:510).

D&C 11
About 28 May 1829 to Hyrum Smith at Harmony, Pennsylvania.
D&C 6:19 D&C 11:19 = (Oliver Cowdery) (Hyrum Smith)

D&C 6:16 D&C 12:16 = (Oliver Cowdery) (Joseph Knight, Sr.) D&C 6:15 D&C 14:15 = (Oliver Cowdery) (David Whitmer) D&C 6:6 D&C 14:6 = (Oliver Cowdery) (David Whitmer) D&C 4:1 = 6:1; 11:1; 12:1; 14:1
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D&C 11
D&C 11:6.
Bring forth and establish Zion.

D&C 11:9.
Say nothing but repentance.

D&C 11:16, 21.

Seek not to declare my word, but first seek to obtain my word.

D&C 12
About 29 May 1829 to Joseph Knight, Sr. at Harmony, Pennsylvania.

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Joseph Smith on Joseph Knight, Sr.

While I contemplate the virtues and the good qualifications and characteristics of the faithful few,of such as have stood by me in every hour of peril, for these fifteen long years past; say, for instance; my aged and beloved brother Joseph Knight, Senr.: for fifteen years has he been faithful and true, and even handed, and exemplary and virtuous, and kind; never deviating to the right hand or to the left. Behold he is a righteous man. May God Almighty lengthen out the old mans days; and may his trembling, tortured and broken body be renewed, and in the vigor of health turn upon him; if it can be thy will, consistently, O God; and it shall be said of him, by the sons of Zion, while there is one of them remaining; that this man, was a faithful man in Israel; therefore his name shall never be forgotten. Joseph Smith, August 1842
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D&C 12
D&C 12:8.
Be humble[and] temperate in all things.

D&C 14, 15, 16

Early June 1829 to David, John, and Peter Whitmer at Fayette, New York.

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D&C 14, 15, 16

D&C 14:7: Endure to the end.
Continue in my word (John 8:31). Faithful unto death (Revelation 2:10). Overcome the world (1 John 5:4). Tried in all things (D&C 136:31). Sturdy, all-weather souls (Neal A. Maxwell).

D&C 15:2 / 16:2: Sharpness.

Acuteness of intellect; the power of discernment; quickness of understanding, sense, or perception.
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D&C 18
Before 14 June 1829 to Joseph Smith, Oliver Cowdery, David Whitmer at Fayette, New York. Melchizedek Priesthood restoration:
Aaronic Priesthood restored 15 May 1829. Left Harmony, Pennsylvania on 1 June 1829. Peter, James, and John in the wilderness between Harmony, Susquehanna county, and Colesville, Broome county, on the Susquehanna river (D&C 128:20). Therefore, between 16 and 30 May 1829.
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Peter Whitmer home, early June 1829

We had not long been engaged in solemn and fervent prayer, when the word of the Lord came unto uscommanding us that I should ordain Oliver Cowdery to be an Elder in the Church of Jesus Christ; and that he also should ordain me to the same office; and then to ordain others, as it should be made known unto us from time to time. We were, however, commanded to defer this our ordination until such times as it should be practicable to have our brethren, who had been and who should be baptized, assembled together, when we must have their sanction to our thus proceeding to ordain each other, and have them decide by vote whether they were willing to accept us as spiritual teachers or not; when also we were commanded to bless bread and break it with them, and to take wine, bless it, and drink it with them; afterward proceed to ordain each other according to commandment; then call out such men as the Spirit should dictate, and ordain them; and then attend to the laying on of hands for the gift of the Holy Ghost, upon all those whom we had previously baptized, doing all things in the name of the Lord. History of the Church 1:6061 13

D&C 18
D&C 18:9.
You are called even with [the] same calling as Paul the apostle.
Joseph Smith was a Prophet, Seer, and Revelator before he had power to build up the kingdom of God, or take the first step towards it. When did he obtain that power? Not until the angel had ordained him to be an Apostle. Joseph Smith, Oliver Cowdery, and David Whitmer were the first Apostles of this dispensation, though in the early days of the Church David Whitmer lost his standing, and another took his place. Brigham Young, April 1852
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D&C 18
D&C 18:1016.
The worth of souls is great in the sight of God.

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The worth of a soul

If we could truly understand the Atonement of the Lord Jesus Christ, we would realize how precious is one son or daughter of God. We would strive to emulate the Savior and would never be unkind, indifferent, disrespectful, or insensitive to others. If we truly understood the Atonement and the eternal value of each soul, we would seek out the wayward boy and girl and every other wayward child of God. We would help them to know of the love Christ has for them. We would do all that we can to help prepare them to receive the saving ordinances of the gospel. Elder M. Russell Ballard, April 2004
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D&C 18
D&C 18:20.
What is the church of the devil?

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What is the church of the devil?

I understand the injunction to Oliver Cowdery to contend against no church, save it be the church of the devil, to mean that he shall contend against evil, against untruth, against all combinations of wicked men. They constitute the church of the devil, the kingdom of evil, a federation of unrighteousness; and the servants of God have a right to contend against that which is evil, let it appear where it will, in Catholic or in Protestant Christendom, among the philosophical societies of deists and atheists, and even within the Church of [Jesus] Christ [of Latter-day Saints], if, unhappily, it should make its appearance there. But, let it be understood, we are not brought necessarily into antagonism with the various sects of Christianity as such.
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What is the church of the devil?

So far as they have retained fragments of Christian truthand each of them has some measure of truth that far they are acceptable unto the Lord: and it would be poor-policy for us to contend against them without discrimination. Wherever we find truth, whether it exists in complete form or only in fragments, we recognize that truth as part of that sacred whole of which the Church of Jesus Christ is the custodian; and I repeat that our relationship to the religious world is not one that calls for the denunciation of sectarian churches as composing the church of the devil. All that makes for untruth, for unrighteousness constitutes the kingdom of evilthe church of the devil. All that makes for truth, for righteousness, is of God; it constitutes the kingdom of righteousnessthe empire of Jehovah; and, in a certain sense at least, constitutes the Church of Christ. Elder B. H. Roberts, April 1906 19

D&C 18
D&C 18:2628, 37-38.
The Twelve shall be my disciples. Oliver Cowdery, David Whitmer, and Martin Harris commissioned to seek out twelve men to be called as apostles. Quorum of the Twelve organized February 1835.

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D&C 19
Before 26 March 1830 to Martin Harris at Manchester, New York. Since June 1829:
Book of Mormon translation finished (July 1829). Oliver Cowdery copies Book of Mormon manuscript. E. B. Grandin contracted to publish Book of Mormon for $3,000. Martin Harris mortgages his farm (August 1829). Book of Mormon printed August 1829March 1830. Organized boycotts (March 1829).
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D&C 19
D&C 19:412.
Every man must repent or suffer. God is endless and eternal, and so is his punishment.

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Eternal punishment
I have read statements from men which were really terrible when depicting the state of the damned. It is bad enough, but it is not the kind of thing they represent. . Is there justice? Yes. Eternal justice? Yes. These men that I have referred to suffered eternal justice; they were destroyed by the Almighty, and at last were saved again by the Almighty. Have we eternal punishment? Yes. What is it? It is Gods punishment. Are there everlasting prisons? Yes. What are they? Gods prisons. Do people stay in them forever? No. Not in all of them. We have prisons upon the earth, penitentiaries, in which to confine people for one, five, ten or twenty years, as the case may be; and when their time expires they come out; but the prison is there still. Is it an everlasting prison? You may call it so if you please; but people do not stay in it always. Has God a way to manage his affairs? Certainly; the Judge of all the earth ought to be at least as capable in the management of his affairs, as mortal men are in theirs. John Taylor, February 1880

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Eternal punishment
We believe there is an endless hell. We do not, however, believe that human beings are consigned to it eternally. The hell may be endless and the punishment endless, but it does not follow that they who are consigned there are to remain in it eternally. President George Q. Cannon, June 1881

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Eternal punishment
A man is his own tormenter and his own condemner. Hence the saying, They shall go into the lake that burns with fire and brimstone. The torment of disappointment in the mind of man is as exquisite as a lake burning with fire and brimstone. Joseph Smith, April 1844

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D&C 19
Damned dam.
Dam
Old and Middle German dammjan, to hinder.

Damned
Latin damnare, to adjudge guilty; to condemn.

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D&C 19
D&C 19:1519.
I, God, have suffered these things for all, that they might not suffer if they would repent.

D&C 19:26, 3435.

Book of Mormon went on sale 26 March 1830.

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