Item Detail
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English
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The Council of Fifty, Orson Hyde, and the “Last Charge”: A Re-evaluation
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John Whitmer Historical Association Journal
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37
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2
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Independence, MO
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John Whitmer Historical Association
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62-82
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"For decades most Latter-day Saint historians have accepted that Joseph Smith’s “Last Charge,” a single event where he selected the Twelve Apostles as his successor, occurred on March 26, 1844, in a meeting of the Council of Fifty. In reaching this conclusion, these historians have generally accepted that a document found in the Brigham Young Office Files written by Orson Hyde in 1844 or 1845 is historically accurate. In this document Hyde claims that the “Last Charge” was a single event that occurred in the “latter part of the Month of March [1844]” at a meeting of the Council of Fifty, a secret organization headed by Joseph Smith. However, the historians that have accepted Hyde’s document as accurate have had to ignore or explain away other contemporaneous evidence and statements that would tend to show otherwise."[Editors Abstract]
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Joseph Smith's Quorum of the Anointed, 1842-1845
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The Book of the Law of the Lord
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The Mormon Hierarchy : Origins of Power
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Wilford Woodruff's Journals