You will, no doubt, say this is not correct; but the bare notice of these charges, over which you assume a right to decide, is in my opinion, a direct attempt to make the secular power subservient to Church direction-to the correctness of which I cannot in conscience subscribe-I believe that principle never did fail to produce anarchy and confusion.
This interchange is interesting because it shows that Oliver did have a rebellious spirit. He was a man of dignity and pride, But beware of pride, lest thou shouldst enter into temptation DC As the second Elder of the Church, it was probably hard for him to stomach taking these charges from the high council at Far West.
He might have felt like he was above that church body. He certainly felt maybe rightfully so that if he could have had an interview with the prophet that all conflicts could have been resolved to everyone's satisfaction. Joseph did not come to Oliver to try to patch things up.
He let the decision of the high council stand rather than overturn its decisions and undermine its authority. Later, Oliver recounted his feelings at this time:. In spite of the fact that no resolution between Oliver and the church came for another 10 years, during that interval, he remained true to the testimony he gave regarding the plates.
The following incident is instructive:. Cowdery, I see your name attached to this book; if you believe it to be true, why are you in Michigan? Cowdery, do you believe this book? Which time was you right?
Obviously, this was not a wise choice, for the future may not afford such an opportunity. As things will turn out, Oliver would have only a dozen more years to live.
In essence, he was not excommunicated; rather, he stepped away. Although Oliver left the Church for a time—for many reasons, but principally over bureaucratic and ecclesiastical conflict with Church leadership—he never wavered in his testimony of the Book of Mormon or of the divine origins of the Restoration.
At a chance meeting later that summer, Thomas B. Marsh, who by that point had also left the Church, asked Oliver Cowdery and David Whitmer if they still held to their testimony of the Book of Mormon. Scott H. John W. Welch and Larry E.
Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship, , — Jeffrey N. Alexander L. Daniel H. Ludlow New York: Macmillan, , — We respect your email privacy. Skip to main content. Portrait of Oliver Cowdery.
Landscape of Far West by Al Rounds. Doctrine and Covenants William E. McLellin had published a letter of Oliver Cowdery to David Whitmer, implying that Oliver held keys higher than those of the Twelve, and Oliver was questioned on his motives in that matter. If Oliver had really written the Defence, Church leaders would have at least asked him about it to clarify his worthiness to be rebaptized.
Does this detail check out? Ohio experts know of no such press, and gazetteers of the time indicate that the village of Norton in Delaware County was too small to have a press. There was a Norton township some thirty-five miles from Kirtland, but townships are merely geographical jurisdictions, like small counties, and are rarely given as places of publication.
The poem is a secondary comment, not a primary source. It is rhetoric, not history. To qualify for the latter, it would have to be based on demonstrable knowledge Joel Johnson had of Oliver outside the Church, which it is not.
Johnson may simply have meant that Oliver had withdrawn from the Church and did not then stand openly for the ancient record. Attacks on Oliver Cowdery typically add a Brigham Young statement, although it clearly was not intended to refer to Oliver. His description fits none of the Three Witnesses, particularly Oliver Cowdery. When Oliver returned to the Saints, and as he approached the last year of his life, he reiterated his witness of the plates and the priesthood—the same testimony that he had held since the beginning of the Restoration:.
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