John Whitmer 6 Could 1877 manuscript letter discovered on web page 39 of Lambert Journal with adjoining normal content material textual content for simple studying of testimony present in letter.
John Whitmer 6 Could 1877 testimony aspect by aspect with excerpted quotes taken from it in pictured transient excerpt used for truthful use overview functions of article authored by Mormon historian Richard Lloyd Anderson in 2005 BYU article
John Whitmer 6 Could 1877 Guide of Mormon testimony with photographs of Joseph R. Lambert, Lambert in RLDS Council of 12 and John Whitmer in high hat.
John Whitmer 6 Could 1877 testimony on web page 39 adjoining to un-transcribed “Early Pitman shorthand” textual content discovered on web page 38 of Lambert Journal.
Joseph R. Lambert “Scrap-book” journal subsequent to 1870s Whitmer information article clip and seen over Whitmer 6 Could 1877 letter testimony.
Guide of Mormon 1800’s river flooding destroyed signature web page to hidden Gold Plates transcription causes new doc discovery to be solely Gold Plates hyperlink left
— Brigham Younger
ATLANTA, GA, UNITED STATES, July 25, 2023/EINPresswire.com/ — The necessary 1877 testimony to the Guide of Mormon written by the highest co-founder of the Mormon Church is now up on the market on eBay below merchandise quantity: 134644812800.
The asking value is a million {dollars}.
ARTSANDSCIENCES, the eBay vendor, is providing the 6 Could 1877 handwritten testimony by Mormon and first Church historian John Whitmer that he had despatched to Joseph R. Lambert of the RLDS Church in Missouri at the moment. The long-lasting historic manuscript letter was discovered pasted right into a scrapbook journal over 20 years in the past on the Renningers antiques market at Mt. Dora, Florida.
THIS IS THE EBAY SALE LINK
The doc has truly been recognized to the Mormon Church for nearly 150 years but ‘misplaced’ for nearly the identical time period! The scrapbook discovered was stuffed with 1870’s Mormon newspaper clippings and pages of strange unknown textual content first regarded as a type of Mormon hieroglyphics or akin to “Anthon Transcript Caractors.”
For about 6 years after the scrapbook’s discovery by worldwide IEEE historian and Beatles writer Richard Warren Lipack, nothing a lot was understood about it exterior of the truth that John Whitmer was recognized as one of many Guide of Mormon’s Eight Witnesses and that this scrapbook contained a hand written testimony by him despatched to Joseph R. Lambert in 1877.
Then the breakthroughs lastly got here!
At one level, trying via an outdated guide on Pitman shorthand from the late 1800’s at an antiques present, Lipack seen a sure character he remembered seeing in his Mormon journal. It was the phrase “God.” After shopping for the little guide on Pitman, Lipack began to contact Pitman shorthand organizations in each the US and Canada, and despatched samples of the journal’s textual content to members to strive deciphering the unusual code. However to no avail may any of them do it!
It was lastly within the yr 2006 that on a on-line Canadian Pitman web site historian Lipack was checking that just a little two line ‘advert’ for a Dorothy Webb Roberts popped-up. Roberts claimed to have the ability to transcribe “Early Pitman” shorthand. Dorothy Roberts was initially from England and had labored for the Queen’s Service in South Africa as a shorthand practitioner and secretary. She had perfected the transcription of “Early Pitman” shorthand in 1995 after transcribing three outdated Civil Battle diaries – and shortly thereafter was given a Library of Congress quotation for being first on the planet capable of transcribe the misplaced “Early Pitman” shorthand in these trendy instances.
Additional documentation concerning this necessary Guide of Mormon manuscript testimony may be discovered on the following hyperlinks:
https://www.mormonkey.com/
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JOHN WHITMER HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION 2019 ANNUAL CONFERENCE – ROCHESTER, NY PRESENTATION:
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As time rolled on, one other wonderful occasion occurred, which might immediately attribute additional authentication and supply provenance to the John Whitmer 6 Could 1877 Guide of Mormon testimony. In 2010, just some years later after historian Lipack discovered Dorothy Roberts to do the Journal transcription, he stumbled upon an article by Mormon historian Richard Lloyd Anderson in a Jan. 30, 2005 BYU publication citing a letter dated Jan. 29, 1884, written by none apart from Joseph R. Lambert – the identical one that obtained the 1877 testimony present in Lambert’s Journal.
The letter from Joseph R. Lambert was despatched to Reorganized Church of Christ of Latter-day Saints (RLDS) elder E. L. Kelley testifying to a letter dated 6 Could, 1877 obtained from John Whitmer. This was the very letter that historian Lipack had discovered within the Journal 9 years earlier than! Within the 1884 Lambert letter written to E. L. Kelley, Joseph R. Lambert cited a number of the exact same strains of textual content that Whitmer had written in his testimony discovered within the Mormon “Scrap – Guide” journal that historian Lipack had discovered. Serving as a way of authentication, that letter resided within the archives of the Neighborhood of Christ Church in Independence, MO.; a church previously referred to as the RLDS.
The date of 6 April 1830 has held nice significance amongst Latter-day Saints. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was organized on that day within the Fayette, New York log cabin of Peter Whitmer, Sr. Witnesses to the gathering included John Whitmer and his brothers David, Peter Jr. and Jacob Whitmer. The Church was shaped with the formal signing of its constitution on 6 April 1830.
John Whitmer was basically a co-founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. John Whitmer had additionally served as a scribe in the course of the translation of the sacred Gold plates that Angel Moroni had offered to Church founder Joseph Smith and which had been translated to the varied scribes, which included John Whitmer – who wrote down the translations.
Many different necessary occasions passed off within the Whitmer house, again in Fayette, NY. What’s fascinating is that the Gold plates had been discovered and obtained by Joseph Smith close to the Whitmer homestead.
Following the LDS Church group of April 1830, John Whitmer continued to contribute considerably in lots of important methods. When Prophet Joseph Smith first heard of the rising variety of converts in Kirtland, Ohio, John Whitmer was who he despatched out to Kirtland to offer a lot wanted management to that space’s Sainthood. After Joseph Smith turned settled in Kirtland himself and others started to assemble there, in March 1831, commanded by God via the palms of Joseph Smith, John Whitmer was anointed to “write and maintain an everyday historical past” in addition to to help Joseph “in transcribing all issues which shall be given you” (Paperwork & Covenants 47:1).
John Whitmer was initially reluctant to behave as a historian for the Church, however as soon as affirmation was made for it to be of the desire of the Lord, John Whitmer diligently sought to satisfy his job. However then John Whitmer got here to be the primary Mormon to be excommunicated from the LDS Church in 1837. It was for John Whitmer’s reporting on the truths of indiscretions made by Joseph Smith.
It was at the moment in 1837, the place John Whitmer had traveled to Far West, Missouri whereas performing additional in his capability of missionary in drawing extra individuals into the LDS Church there.
Due to monetary instability sustained by the Church on the time, partially because of growing debt wanted to pay financial institution loans to maintain a Mormon militia prepared towards anti-Mormon factions, Joseph Smith had come out to Far West to solicit for Church parishioner’s property. It was within the type of cattle and chickens and such to resell, that Prophet Smith had sought. However the Prophet took these properties carte blanche within the type of a outright theft and Church historian Whitmer printed discover of this within the Church publication.
Joseph Smith didn’t approve of this motion of Church historian John Whitmer, because it was embarrassing to him. Thus, in 1837 John Whitmer turned the primary Mormon to be excommunicated from the LDS. And John Whitmer by no means returned to the LDS Church, however would at all times maintain and assist his 1830 Bible testimony, even to the day he would meet God his maker.
John Whitmer would die on July 11, 1878, roughly 14 months after he executed this most important testimony to the Guide of Mormon for Joseph R. Lambert. The query arises as to if a person so near loss of life whereas assembly his maker would inform a lie within the face of the Lord when asserting his testimony involving the Lord?
One would assume not.
John Whitmer’s remaining interview was performed by P. Wilhelm Poulson in 1878 and printed on July 31, 1878, simply 20 days after John Whitmer’s July 11, 1878 loss of life.
Concerning dealing with the Gold plates, Poulson stated of John Whitmer; “He handed them uncovered into our palms, and we turned the leaves adequate to fulfill us.” (1)
There are a lot of contradictions discovered between historic accounts documenting the Church, however the reality stays by advantage of the genuine John Whitmer testimonial doc on eBay that the doc being provided represents probably the most formidable Guide of Mormon hand written testimony extant and the one one that may ever be made out there on the market publicly.
In truth, in Dan Vogel’s five-volume masterwork: “Early Mormon Paperwork” printed between the years 1996 and 2003, not a single point out of the Could 6, 1877 Whitmer testimony is made! Dan Vogel had entry to the identical RLDS Church archives simply as LDS BYU historian Richard Lloyd Anderson would have a number of years later. It was nevertheless Richard Lloyd Anderson who, in 2005, would publish discover of John Whitmer’s 6 Could 1877 testimony just some years following Dan Vogel’s earlier effort.
Trying via quite a few histories, information and even Dan Vogel’s Early Mormon Paperwork masterwork, one will, after a lot examine will see that only one or two different precise handwritten letters of testimony exist between the entire 3 Witnesses and the 8 Witnesses, and these scant few handwritten testimonies usually are not as formidable as what’s being provided on eBay.
Not lengthy earlier than Joseph Smith was murdered on the Carthage, Unwell. jailhouse whereas awaiting trial in 1844, he had hid the unique Concord PA. executed unique Gold plates transcription manuscript behind a cornerstone on the Illinois based mostly Nauvoo Home. The thick hand executed manuscript doc for the 1830 Guide of Mormon contained the signature web page testifying as true testimony asserting the authenticity of the statements made within the Guide of Mormon as being truthful. Every of the three and eight Witnesses discovered within the Guide of Mormon signed their respective signatures in their very own separate hand.
This unique Guide of Mormon manuscript web page in essence was a real affidavit, whereas the second or higher recognized “Printer’s copy” executed by Oliver Cowdery had all signatures represented executed in Cowdery’s hand – thus making the doc a mere non-legal facsimile. Each the unique Concord transcription, now a distressed principally incomplete remnant and Oliver Cowdery’s executed facsimile “Printer’s Copy,” has remained in possession of what has turn out to be the Neighborhood of Christ (former RLDS), till lately acquired by what has now turn out to be known as the Church of Jesus Christ starting in mid-2018.
Some years after the 1844 homicide of Joseph Smith the Mississippi River crested it banks within the space of Nauvoo, and the unique Concord, PA. executed Guide of Mormon manuscript turned severely soaked. When the manuscript was faraway from behind the Nauvoo Home cornerstone in 1881 by Louis Bidemon, the second husband of Prophet Smith’s widow Emma, the horrific harm was found.
Some 28% of the doc remained intact and 72% was destroyed. Most significantly, the signature web page was fully destroyed! It not existed! The one true viable closest hyperlink to the Gold plates was severed ceaselessly! This has triggered the John Whitmer 6 Could 1877 testimony the one true viable direct hyperlink left to the Gold Plates of Nephi.
Supportive of this notion is present in Richard Lloyd Anderson’s BYU talks that he gave and in addition present in his 2005 BYU printed work entitled: Makes an attempt to Redefine the Expertise of the Eight Witnesses. Right here historian Anderson codified that the Guide of Mormon is supported by the written and printed testimony of those Witnesses, and that these testimonies function authorized affidavits.(2)
The very palms that touched and “hefted” the Guide of Mormon gold plates are the very palms that wrote the letter of testimony that’s now up on eBay on the market.
Emanating from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, new experiences started to floor worldwide on August 16, 2018 stating that the Church was going to endure a reputation change. This announcement curiously happened not too lengthy after the John Whitmer Could 6, 1877 testimony discovery made its means on-line.
Elder and President Russell M. Nelson acknowledged he had obtained a “revelation” from the Lord that the LDS Church title ought to be decreased to merely “Church of Jesus Christ” and that the Church ought to drop the “of Latter-day Saints” and dump the phrase “Mormon” from its official nomenclature and web site titles.
One assertion that quickly got here ahead cited: “Over time, many church communication channels in English will turn out to be a part of Church of JesusChrist.org. In coming months, Church web sites and social media accounts in different languages can be adjusted following an identical sample, in line with the letter.”
To be extra particular, the next understandings got here ahead;
1.) LDS.org will turn out to be ChurchofJesusChrist.org
2.) MormonNewsroom.org will turn out to be newsroom.ChurchofJesusChrist.org
3.) Mormon.org will turn out to be ComeUntoChrist.org
4.) Church social media accounts will now emphasize the title of the Savior’s Church.
The above is only a small checklist of many adjustments nonetheless to return. Basically the LDS Church is systematically being transformed into an entirely Christ based mostly church. It’s clearly following with the identical however extra dramatic adjustments that occurred throughout the Independence, MO based mostly Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints within the 1990’s when it turned the Neighborhood of Christ Church – i.e. a Christ based mostly church. This church truly had drawn-up a brand new constitution and integrated below the brand new title.
This alteration throughout the RLDS was led to after the vast majority of parishioners started to unfastened religion within the unique Mormon doctrine that the RLDS Church had maintained since its inception within the 1860’s on the time Elder Joseph R. Lambert had truly turn out to be instrumental in changing into a guiding power behind it. The unique RLDS church that Elder Lambert was member of adhered to doctrine based mostly on the unique precepts of the 1830 Guide of Mormon. The RLDS didn’t condone blood atonement and polygamy; practices which the LDS started to embrace formally as soon as settling in Utah after which claimed abandonment of identical after public and federal authorities strain.
The Whitmer 6 Could 1877 testimony seems to stay because the foremost surviving core doc of the unique LDS Church based mostly on the unique precepts within the 1830 Guide of Mormon bible. The esoteric energy and power emboldened throughout the Whitmer testimony harbors a possible that may present Mormon adherents that need to stay true to the unique Mormon doctrine, a pivotal accession level the place the doc’s possession can turn out to be a major catalyst in beginning a brand new LDS Church out of the ashes of the outdated; as a result of it emboldens pure fact transferred by a major principal and co-founding of a serious faith. The proprietor believes that this holy relic within the type of a doc can truly serve within the type of a robust sacred talisman if that’s the case channeled.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
(1) Dan Vogel (editor), Early Mormon Paperwork (Salt Lake Metropolis, Signature Books, 1996–2003), 5 vols, 5:247–249., unique in Deseret Night Information, 6 August 1878; citing a letter from P. Wilhelm Poulson to Editors (31 July 1878) from Ovid Metropolis, Idaho.
(2) Richard Lloyd Anderson, Makes an attempt to Redefine the Expertise of the Eight Witnesses (Salt Lake Metropolis, Brigham Younger College, Journal of Guide of Mormon Research, Vol. 14, No. 1, January 31, 2005.
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1385&context=jbms
8/16/2018: https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/church/information/mormon-is-out-church-releases-statement-on-how-to-refer-to-the-organization?lang=eng
3/5/2019: https://newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.org/article/church-name-alignment
6/3/2019: https://www.thechurchnews.com/2019/6/3/23215114/president-nelson-name-of-church-mormon
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