EMMA SMITH: elect Lady
(SWORD of the SPIRIT)
SLIDE ONE: Wikipedia
Early life in the East Coast of the United States
--Emma was a school teacher
--Clear soprano voice--dark hair--tall--fair complexion
--ready wit and natural ease with people
HOBBIES: farming. Working. Cooking
SCHOOLING: acted as a SCRIBE to Joseph Smith in preparing Book of Mormon for print
Met Joseph Smith--parents did not approve so the couple eloped
Age 22. married in 1830 Joseph Smith was 21
186 YEARS AGO--Events in History
--any key discoveries about electricity were discovered
--for a sewing machine in France; it chains stitches at 200/minute.
--June 22, 1839 – Louis Daguerre receives a patent for his camera (commercially available by September at the price of 400 francs
--May 1837 – Samuel Morse patents the telegraph.
"is the long-distance transmission of textual or symbolic"
--December 27, 1831 – Charles Darwin embarks on his historic voyage aboard HMS Beagle.
"was an English naturalist and geologist,[4] best known for his contributions to evolutionary theory.[I] He established that all species of life have descended over time from common ancestors,[5] and"
--Railroad construction begins in earnest in the United States.
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period of economic prosperity in America and Europe, mainly due to increasing trade, the mass production of railroads, and the Erie Canal.
--December 1, 1835 – Hans Christian Andersen publishes his first book of fairy tales
--February 1837 – Charles Dickens's Oliver Twist begins publication in serial form in London.
--December 16–December 17, 1835 – The Great Fire of New York destroys 530 buildings, including the New
--HARMONY PENN and upstate NY--moved 3 times in first 3 years of marriage.
--baptized 1830----harassment by neighbor's --Emma's Joseph was wrongfully arrested on numerous occasions and often had constables shielding him with their own lives from dangerous
--Throughout their lives, in their hour of need, faithful friends—often provided Joseph and Emma with financial assistance.
SLIDE: JOSEPH AND EMMA
--“devote all [his] service in Zion.” Joseph was told, “in temporal labors thou shalt not have strength for this is not thy calling” (See D&C 24:7, 9). This revelation led Joseph and Emma to understand that they would struggle financially and need to rely on support from Church members because of their dedication to the ministry.11
--first years of marriage were spent translating BOFM and establishing The LDS church. Emma occasionally acted as SCRIBE. a farm in HARMONY, PENN was where most of BOFM was transcribed.
SLIDE: TRANSLATING BOOK OF MORMON
--JOHN JOHNSON HOME: HIRAM OHIO
"When I came to the door I was naked, and the tar made me look as if I were covered with blood, and when my wife saw me she thought I was all crushed to pieces, and fainted” (History of the Church, 1:263).
Helpful friends spent the rest of the night scraping the sticky tar from the Prophet, and he recovered from the foray. But eleven-month-old Joseph’s condition worsened and within a few days he died. Emma and Joseph buried the fourth of their five children.
SLIDE: LOSS OF FIRST CHILD--stillborn--
11 children--only 5 lived to adulthood
--The only scripture dedicated to a woman--Emma Smith
, Doctrine and Covenants 25, which reiterated, “verily I say unto thee that thou shalt lay aside the things of this world & seek for the things of a better” (See D&C 25:10).
Through the revelation, Emma received words of consolation and instruction. She was told, “murmur not because of the things which thou hast not seen for they are withheld from thee & the World,” perhaps a reference to the gold plates, which Emma later recalled she had handled on one occasion but not seen. (See D&C 25:4)
The revelation called Emma “an elect lady” and told her that the “office of thy calling shall be for a comfort unto my Servant Joseph thy husband in his afflictions with consoling words in the spirit of meekness” (See D&C 25:3, 5).
LIBERTY JAIL: SLIDE
Wrongfully accused---COLD WINTER DAMP LITTLE FOOD. CONDITIONS MUCH SICKNESS SUFFERING. TEMPLE PRISON.
HAVE YOU VISITED THE JAIL? SHARE YOUR IMPRESSIONS
The revelation also spoke of Emma’s work in the Church, promising that she would be “ordained” by her husband “to expound Scriptures & exhort the Church”12 (See D&C 25:7).
SLIDE: BOOK OF HYMNS
Furthermore, Emma was instructed to serve as a scribe to her husband and to compile a hymnal. Joseph Smith later explained that Emma “was ordain’d13 at the time, the Revelation was given, to expound the scriptures to all; and to teach the female part of community; and that not she alone, but others, may attain to the same blessings.”14
Emma particularly treasured the revelation addressed to her. With the assistance of William W. Phelps, she followed its instructions to compile the Church’s first hymnal.19 In 1842, Joseph Smith read the revelation to Emma at the organizational meeting of the Relief Society.
He also read 2 John 1, which references the “elect lady,” and explained that she was “called an Elect Lady” because she was “elected to preside.”20 Joseph stated that “the revelation was then fulfilled by Sister Emma’s Election to the Presidency of the Society.”21
ORGANIZED THE RELIEF SOCIETY
--for 32 years, married to Lewis BIDAMON--LUTHERN
--lived 35 years in NAUVOO after Joseph's death. She raised Jospeh's 5 children--4 sons
--Lucy Mack Smith Emma cared for her for 9 years before her death of old age
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SLIDE: POSTERITY OF JOSEPH/EMMA
5 of Joseph and Emma's children lived past 25.
--1 child of Emma and joseph born after Joseph's death.
--David Hyrum--Emma was pregnant when Joseph was shot and fell to his death from Carthage, MO jail cell
--1 daughter adopted. Julie Murdock who was a twin of Joseph Murdock who died after Joseph was tarred in Hiram Ohio
11 children--only 5 lived to adulthood
The children of Joseph Smith, Jr., the founder of the Latter Day Saint movement, and his wife Emma Smith, are historically significant because of their roles in establishing and leading the Latter Day Saint Movement, which includes The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (RLDS Church, now called Community of Christ), The Church of Jesus Christ (Bickertonite), the Church of Christ (Temple Lot) and several other sects. Several Latter Day Saint sects, including the RLDS believed that leadership of the church would flow through Smith's descendants, (Lineal succession). In 1860, Joseph Smith III became its prophet and president of the RLDS Church. The larger LDS Church was led after a vote following Joseph's death by Brigham Young.
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