My Fellow Servants. Essays on the History of the Priesthood. William G. Hartley. BYU Studies Provo, Utah

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1 My Fellow Servants Essays on the History of the Priesthood William G. Hartley BYU Studies Provo, Utah

2 Copyright 2010 Brigham Young University. All rights reserved. Front cover image: detail of The Sacred Susquehanna by Glen Hopkinson; back cover: The Sacred Susquehanna by Glen Hopkinson. Visit glenhopkinson.com. Cover design: Catharine Verhaaren Gruver Some images courtesy of the Church Archives, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Salt Lake City. Some images courtesy of L. Tom Perry Special Collection, Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah. Images from the Library of Congress are in the public domain. All articles are reprinted by permission. Original publication data appears at the end of each article before any endnotes. Opinions expressed in this publication are the opinions of the author and his views should not necessarily be attributed to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Brigham Young University, or BYU Studies. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilized in any form or by any electronic, digital, mechanical or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording or in an information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. To contact BYU Studies, write to 1063 JFSB, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah , or visit Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Hartley, William G. My fellow servants : essays on the history of the priesthood / William G. Hartley. p. cm. Includes index. ISBN (paper back : alk. paper) 1. Priesthood Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints History. 2. Priesthood Mormon Church History. 3. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints History. 4. Mormon Church History. I. Title. BX8659.H ' dc Printed in the United States of America

3 Contents Illustrations Introduction vii xi P r i e ST H O O D R e STO r AT I O N 1 Upon You My Fellow Servants : 3 Restoration of the Priesthood 2 Every Member Was a Missionary 25 A a r O N I C P r i e ST H O O D 3 From Men to Boys: 37 LDS Aaronic Priesthood Offices, Ordained and Acting Teachers 87 in the Lesser Priesthood, Bishop, History of the Office Edward Hunter: Pioneer Presiding Bishop 125 v

4 vi M Y F E L L O W S e r VA N T S 7 Ward Bishops and the Localizing of LDS Tithing, M e L C H I z e d e k P r i e ST H O O D 8 Brigham Young and Priesthood Work at the 175 General and Local Levels 9 LDS Pastors and Pastorates, The Priesthood Reorganization of 1877: 227 Brigham Young s Last Achievement 11 The Seventies in the 1880s: 265 Revelations and Reorganizing 12 The Priesthood Reform Movement, A D M I N I ST r AT I V e / O r G A N I z AT I O N A L H I STO ry 13 Organization Enough Water: Baptism, An Ever Changing Quality Mormon Sundays Organization of Wards and Stakes: 355 A Historical Approach 17 Nauvoo Stake, Priesthood Quorums, 361 and the Church s First Wards 18 Brigham Young s Overland Trails Revolution: 387 The Creation of the Down-and-Back Wagon-Train System, Common People: 415 Church Activity during the Brigham Young Era 20 War and Peace and Dutch Potatoes 463 Index 475 About the Author 491

5 Illustrations Joseph Smith Jr. 5 Joseph Smith Jr. and Oliver Cowdery 8 David Whitmer 11 Sidney Rigdon 18 John Whitmer 27 Sacrament meeting in the tabernacle in Ephraim, Utah, early 1870s 38 Martin Harris 41 Richmond Ward deacons, Joseph F. Smith 65 Edward Hunter 88 B. H. Roberts and Joseph B. Keeler 106 Edward Partridge 116 Immigrants traveling through Echo Canyon, Edward Hunter 127 General Tithing Office 129 Deseret News and General Tithing Office 137 vii

6 viii M Y F E L L O W S e r VA N T S Daniel H. Wells 154 John Banks 155 Nathaniel H. Felt 163 Brigham Young 177 First Presidency and Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, John Smith 190 St. George Temple 200 Samuel W. Richards 209 Daniel Spencer 210 John S. Fullmer 217 Edward Bunker 222 Detail of photo of St. George, c Brigham Young 235 John Rowberry 239 Wilford Woodruff and Erastus Snow 243 Assembly Hall in Salt Lake City 247 Members of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles in John Taylor 274 Abraham H. Cannon 283 J. Golden Kimball 303 Charles W. Nibley 311 Kirtland Temple 325 Spencer W. Kimball 333 George D. Watt 337 Daniel P. McArthur baptizing a Shivwitz Indian 338 Edwin D. Woolley 341 Missionaries preaching in Hyde Park, London, c Brigham City Second Ward sacrament meeting, John Taylor, George Q. Cannon, and Joseph F. Smith, c George Miller 365

7 i l l u s t r AT I O N S ix Hosea Stout, c Hyrum and Joseph Smith 369 George A. Smith 372 Wagon train at Hanging Rock 393 A group of Saints traveling to Utah Territory, c A wagon train making its way up a trail 405 Orderville 419 Cottonwood Ward deacons, Ezra Taft Benson 465 Alma Sonne 466 Cornelius Zappey 469 Dutch members filling trucks with potatoes for German Saints 470 Dutch Saints loading potatoes onto a boxcar 470