Joseph Smith and the Masonic cry of distress
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Question
Just before he died, did Joseph Smith begin to give the Masonic cry of distress?
Answer
It is well documented that Joseph Smith uttered the words "Oh Lord, My God," as he fell from the window at Carthage Jail. The Masonic Grand Hailing Sign of Distress is "Oh Lord, My God, is there no help for the widow's son?"
Conclusion
Endnotes
- [back] Reed C. Durham, Is there no help for the widow's son?, Presentation to the Mormon History Association, Nauvoo, Illinois, April 20, 1974.
Further reading
FAIR wiki articles
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- Did Joseph boast of keeping the Church intact?
- Healings and miracles?
- Holy Ghost, Joseph Smith is the
- Kinderhook Plates
- King of the world, anointed
- Lucy Mack Smith and Joseph's "amusing recitals" of Ancient Americans
- Martyr?
- Masonic cry of distress
- Money digging/treasure seeking
- Moonmen
- Occult activities or "magick"?
- Personal failings
- Political activities
- Seer stones, use of
- Status in LDS belief
- Teller of tall tales?
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- Joseph Smith prophecies
- Official doctrine: what is it?
- LDS prophets don't prophesy?
- Revelation after Joseph Smith
| First Vision wiki articles |
- First Vision accounts (Summary and index page)
- Religious revivals in 1820
- Conflation of 1824-25 revival?
- Early Smith family history
- Contradiction about knowing all churches were wrong
- Joseph Smith did not know if God existed in 1823
- Joseph Smith joined other churches
- 1830 statement about seeing "God"
- First Vision fabricated to give "Godly authority"
- D&C 84 says God not seen without priesthood?
- No reference to First Vision in 1830s publications?
- 1838 account modified to offset leadership crisis?
- First Vision story became more detailed and colorful after 1832?
- The "Angels" of the 1835 account
- Controversy Concerning D&C 121:28
- The Father: A Spirit vs. Embodied
- Lack of contemporary Father and Son vision until 1838?
- No mention in non-LDS literature before 1843?
- Seldom mentioned in LDS publications before 1877
- Claims about the 1832 First Vision account
- Only one Personage appears in the 1832 account
- 1832 account doesn't mention new dispensation
- 1832 account doesn't mention a revival
- 1832 account doesn't forbid joining a church
- 1832 account doesn't mention persecution
- Motivation in 1832 account is different
- Different age provided in the 1832 text
- Struggle with Satan not in the 1832 account
- 1832 says wicked will be destroyed but 1838 doesn't
- 1832 vision set in heaven or on earth?
- Eternal life regardless of church affiliation in 1832 text?
- Claims about other members and the First Vision
- George Q. Cannon referred to "angels"
- Oliver Cowdery not aware of First Vision in 1834-35
- Orson Hyde referred to "angels"
- Andrew Jenson called personage an "angel"
- Heber C. Kimball denied the Father appeared
- Orson Pratt confused about "angel" or Father-Son
- Parley P. Pratt only said that "God" appeared
- George A. Smith said First Vision was an "angel"
- Lucy Mack Smith claimed "angel"?
- William Smith said First Vision was an "angel"?
- Orson Spencer said an "angel" was the first manifestation?
- John Taylor's understanding of the First Vision
- Wilford Woodruff spoke of an "angel"
- Brigham Young said the Lord didn't appear
- Brigham Young never mentioned the First Vision
| Joseph Smith other visionary issues wiki articles |
- Joseph Smith's early conception of God
- Moroni as an angel of Satan
- Did Nephi or Moroni appear in 1823?
- Personages who appeared to Joseph Smith
- Swedenborg and three degrees of glory
| God wiki articles |
- The Father: A Spirit vs. Embodied
- Corporeality of God
- Unchanging Nature of God
- Creatio ex nihilo
- Downplaying the King Follett discourse?
- Elohim and Jehovah
- Foreknowledge of God
- God is a Spirit
- Godhead and the Trinity
- Heavenly Mother?
- Infinite regress of Gods?
- Kolob
- "No God beside me" - (includes Isaiah 43-46 issues)
- No man has seen God
- Polytheism - Are Mormons polytheists?
- Spirit bodies for humans and 1 Cor 15
- Theosis/deification of man
Video
| Revised or Unaltered?: Joseph Smith's Foundational Stories, Matthew Brown, 2006 FAIR Conference |
- Part 1: Revised or Unaltered?: Joseph Smith's Foundational Stories
- Part 2: Revised or Unaltered?: Joseph Smith's Foundational Stories
- Part 3: Revised or Unaltered?: Joseph Smith's Foundational Stories
- Part 4: Revised or Unaltered?: Joseph Smith's Foundational Stories
- Part 5: Revised or Unaltered?: Joseph Smith's Foundational Stories
- Part 5: Revised or Unaltered?: Joseph Smith's Foundational Stories
FAIR web site
- David Ferguson, "Miraculous Events in Early Church History," ((fairlink|url=http://www.fairlds.org/apol/misc/misc38.html}}
| Joseph Smith FAIR articles |
| Joseph Smith other visionary issues FAIR links |
- Craig Ray, "Joseph Smith's History Confirmed," (Mesa, Arizona: FAIR, August 2002) FAIR link
External links
| Joseph Smith, Jr. on-line articles |
- Leonard J. Arrington, "The Human Qualities of Joseph Smith, the Prophet," Ensign (January 1971): 35ff. off-site
- Richard L. Bushman, "Joseph Smith Miscellany," (Mesa, Arizona: FAIR, 2005 FAIR Conference). FAIR link
- Richard L. Bushman, Dean C. Jessee and Truman G. Madsen, "Smith, Joseph," Encyclopedia of Mormonism, 4 vols., edited by Daniel H. Ludlow, (New York, Macmillan Publishing, 1992), 3:1331–1348. ISBN 002904040X. off-site off-site off-site
- Andrew H. Hedges and Dawson W. Hedges, "No, Dan, That's Still Not History (Review of: Joseph Smith: The Making of a Prophet, by Dan Vogel)," FARMS Review 17/1 (2005): 205–222. off-site PDF link
- Louis Midgley, "Editor's Introduction: Knowing Brother Joseph Again," FARMS Review 18/1 (2006): xi–lxxiv. off-site PDF link wiki
- Louis Midgley, "Two Stories—One Faith," FARMS Review 19/1 (2007): 55–79. off-site PDF link wiki
- Larry E. Morris, "Joseph Smith and "Interpretive Biography", Review of Joseph Smith: The Making of a Prophet by Dan Vogel," FARMS Review 18/1 (2006): 321–374. off-site PDF link wiki
Printed material
| Joseph Smith, Jr. printed materials |
- Richard L. Bushman, "Joseph Smith's Family Background," in The Prophet Joseph: Essays on the Life and Mission of Joseph Smith, ed. Larry C. Porter and Susan Easton Black (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1988), 1–18. ISBN 0875791778. GospeLink
- Richard L. Bushman, Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling (New York: Knopf, 2005), 1. ISBN 1400042704
- Mark L. McConkie, Remembering Joseph: Personal Recollections of Those Who Knew the Prophet Joseph Smith (Salt Lake City, UT: Deseret Book Company, 2003) (print version). ISBN 978-1570089633. GospeLink (Key source)
