Today’s dilemma shows how the Church tries to reverse-engineer events in a lame attempt to extract sympathy from members and perhaps, if they’re lucky, a few unknowing souls who aren’t familiar with their wily ways.
To give a little background first, the Church has always insisted Joe Smith wrote the History of the Church. This is a seven volume work housing the chronological events and daily excerpts of Smith’s life, the lives of church members and basic church info.
Truth: approximately 60% of the History of the Church was written after Smith’s death. They continued to change dates, facts, and other pertinent info on the 2,200+ pages as late as the 1970’s.
Public shame got them to admit that not all of the history had been written before Smith’s death. Young dictated what church historians would write and forced them to write it as if Smith were the person doing so. It wasn’t finished until seventeen years after Smith had died (August 1856). – Brigham Young University Studies, Summer 1971, pp. 466, 469, 470, 472
Now with our history lesson behind us, check out what the Church wants you to believe.
The following excerpt is from a newspaper in Smith’s day called ‘The Wasp’. They reported on the arrest of Joseph Smith in 1842 when the law suspected him of being an accessory to the assassination attempt of Governor Boggs.
To make things look good in their favor, they plagiarized most of the article and then changed some of the wording making it appear as if Smith had written it.
| The Wasp | History of the Church |
| Vol. 5, pp 86-87 | |
| August 13, 1842 | August 8, 1832 |
| “Joseph Smith was arrested upon a requisition of Gov. Carlin… in accordance with a process from Gov. Reynolds of Missouri, upon the affidavit of Ex-Governor Boggs,… the Municipal court issued a writ of habeas corpus according to the constitution of the State… they left them in care of the Marshal, without the original writ by which they were arrested, and by which only they could be retained, and returned back to Gov. Carlin for further instruction, – and Messrs. Smith and Rockwell went about their business. As to Mr. Smith, we have yet to learn by what rule of right he was arrested to be transported to Missouri for a trial of the kind stated.” | “I was arrested… on a warrant issued by Governor Carlin, founded on a requisition from Governor Reynolds of Missouri, upon the affidavit of ex-Governor Boggs,… the municipal court issued a writ of habeas corpus according to the constitution of the state,… they left us in the care of the marshal, without the original writ by which we were arrested, and by which only we could be retained, and returned to Governor Carlin for further instructions, and myself and Rockwell went about our business. I have yet to learn by what rule of right I was arrested to be transported to Missouri for a trial of the kind stated.” – Joseph Smith |
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