Manchester and April 6, 1830
Posted: Mon Jun 04, 2012 5:07 pm
Mike Marquardt has uploaded five new files to his Mormon PDF Web Site: http://user.xmission.com/~research/mormonpdf/index.htm
They are under the title of Joseph Smith Organized the Church of Christ in Manchester, Ontario County, New York on April 6, 1830. The five papers are named:
Church of Christ Organizational Meeting of April 6, 1830
Manuscripts and Sources on April 6, 1820
Six Revelations of April 6, 1830
Note on the Joseph Knight Jr., Statement, August 1862
Kirtland Firm printed change to Fayette
If people are unfamiliar with this subject, I would suggest reading Mike's Sunstone article first (the pdf right under these new papers), this will familiarize you with the topic.
I understand that the Church has so much invested in the Fayette site, but it seems like it would be quiet easy to be honest about the place of April 6 as Manchester and point out that Fayette was the place of the first couple of conferences. This way the Church would be historically accurate and continue to maintain the Fayette site as an extremely important place in early Church history.
The dancing done to keep Fayette as the place is quite a funny thing.
They are under the title of Joseph Smith Organized the Church of Christ in Manchester, Ontario County, New York on April 6, 1830. The five papers are named:
Church of Christ Organizational Meeting of April 6, 1830
Manuscripts and Sources on April 6, 1820
Six Revelations of April 6, 1830
Note on the Joseph Knight Jr., Statement, August 1862
Kirtland Firm printed change to Fayette
If people are unfamiliar with this subject, I would suggest reading Mike's Sunstone article first (the pdf right under these new papers), this will familiarize you with the topic.
I understand that the Church has so much invested in the Fayette site, but it seems like it would be quiet easy to be honest about the place of April 6 as Manchester and point out that Fayette was the place of the first couple of conferences. This way the Church would be historically accurate and continue to maintain the Fayette site as an extremely important place in early Church history.
The dancing done to keep Fayette as the place is quite a funny thing.