- This topic is empty.
-
Posts
-
I did a Google search to see if I could find the answer. One of the first links posted was this link. 😳 I’m going to guess 8. So, I’d like to know the true answer.
Sadly, the Church has kept sparse records about the sisters and their amazing accomplishments… 😳 mormonheretic wrote:I’m going to guess 8. So, I’d like to know the true answer.
Close, in fact you could be right, this is a difficult one to nail down definitively. My best guess is 7, though it could be 6. I honestly think when Joseph said “Six original members” he thought he was including everyone that had been baptized up to that point. When we look at the different lists of original members they only toggle between two of the Whitmer brothers (John and Peter Jr.) — except those that may include a Joseph Smith Sr. or Martin Harris that were clearly not baptized before April 6th. ‘History of the Church’ names 6 and gives baptism dates, John Whitmer is not mentioned, but he is widely believed to have been baptized before April 6.
Do you have these discrepant lists of the “original 6” that we could compare? Not off hand. I think I found references to most of them on LDS.org, it has been a while. One or more is in History of the Church, maybe in the footnotes. I find it interesting Emma wouldn’t be there the same day as Lucy Mack Smith. Is there anything in journals or historical accounts that suggest why the prophet’s wife wouldn’t be among the first? What was she going through at that time? Good question Heber. I don’t know if Emma was always nearby during those early meetings. My guess is her family’s opposition to Joseph’s work weighed on her, and it was common for people to wait until they felt strongly prompted to act. Today it is easy for us to forget how it started from nothing, imagine a couple of your friends feeling called to start a new church. Emma was baptized at the end of June. Orson wrote:imagine a couple of your friends feeling called to start a new church
…its hard to imagine. It would be like me listening to Matthew Gill, and choosing to commit everything to follow him.
Heber13 wrote:Orson wrote:imagine a couple of your friends feeling called to start a new church
…its hard to imagine. It would be like me listening to Matthew Gill, and choosing to commit everything to follow him.
What’s wrong with Matthew Gill?
Hail Jeraneck!
My ancestors were converted in England and immagrated to the US to follow BY across the plains. I wonder what they’d say to me if I immagrated back to England to follow Gill? [queue the Lion King music….The Circle of Life….]
Orson, I have an answer to the original 6 members (thanks to Michael Marquardt).
Quote:Baptisms were performed for Joseph Smith Sr., Lucy Mack Smith, Martin Harris, and a “Rockwell”–that is Sarah Rockwell.
He also makes a pretty strong case that the church was organized in Manchester, rather than Fayette. See
http://mormonheretic.org/2013/06/23/where-was-the-lds-church-organized-in-fayette-or-manchester-ny/
- You must be logged in to reply to this topic.