Joseph Smith

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• 1841 — The Standard of Truth – Part of the preface to the Articles of Faith, found in the ‘Wentworth Letter’ (DHC Vol. 4, page 540)
• 1844 — Introduction and outline of the Prophet Joseph Smith’s King Follett Discourse according to the Davidic Pattern. (Click here for the entire speech in one file — outlined via the Davidic pattern. Note: The above links below provide a more detailed outline of each individual macro element.)

King Follett Discourse Macro Outline

A — God Himself was Once as We are Now
 B — You have got to Learn how to Be Gods Yourselves

  C — You must Begin at the Bottom 
   D — The Head God called together the Gods in Grand Council

    E — Element, no Beginning, no End
     F — Man, Self-Existent
    E’ — Spirits, no Beginning, no End

   D’ — The Greatest Responsibility in this world . . . is to Seek after our Dead
  C’ — A Man is his own Tormenter and his own Condemner 

 B’ — Your Expectations and Hopes are Far Above what Man can Conceive
A’ — God dwells in Everlasting Burnings

To be added

By Joseph Smith, Written 

• 1830 — Sacramental Prayers*
• 1831 — “A transcript from the records of the eternal world” — Coda to D&C 76, 1831 – The Vision – DHC 1:252
• 1831 — “Called out of my Bed in the Night”  Letter from Joseph to Hyrum
• 1832 — “Joseph my son thy sins are forgiven thee”,** History, (Written by his own hand, from The Personal Writings of Joseph Smith)
• 1833 — “Little narrow prison of pen and ink”* Coda to D&C 85 – to W.W. Phelps
• 1833 — “Called to give up even more than this… What more dost thou require?”** Letter from Joseph to W.W. Phelps… , Prayer at the beginning of Letter (Written by his own hand, on occasion of the first persecutions in Jackson County, from The Personal Writings of Joseph Smith)
• 1834 — “A Just Comparison”,* excerpt of Letter Written to the Brethren Abroad (Teachings, pg. 56)
• 1834 — “The Clearer Are His Views”,* excerpt of Letter Written to the Brethren Abroad (Teachings, pg. 47)
• 1834 — “Violence to the Supreme Intelligence of Heaven?”* excerpt of Letter Written to the Brethren Abroad (Teachings, pg. 53)
• 1838 — “Careful and Ponderous and Solemn Thoughts”,* excerpt of Letter from Liberty Jail (Teachings, pg. 137)
• 1838 — “I Do Not Know Where It Will All End”** Letter to Emma during 1838 difficulties
• 1838 — “I wanted You to have the First Reading of it.” Letter from Joseph to Emma – from Liberty Jail
• 1838 — One Token of Friendship* — Part of a letter from the Liberty Jail
• 1838 — That They May Pattern After Thy Works (Hyrum’s works)* — Part of a letter from the Liberty Jail
• 1838 — Undaunted, Firm, & Unwavering- Unchangeable, Affectionate Emma!* — Part of a letter from the Liberty Jail
• 1839 — Confidence in Approaching Our Father in Heaven** — during his return from Washington, DC
• 1842 — The Principles and Order of the Priesthood… The Ancient Order of Things*
• ____ — The Davidic Plea:** Inter-Chiastic Analysis (on certain prayers found in Joseph Smith’s personal diary entries, from The Personal Writings of Joseph Smith)

By Joseph Smith, Spoken

• 1841 — “The Keystone of our Religion”* 1841 DHC4:461
• 1831 — “The veil might as well be rent”**
• 1834 — “The destinies of the church and kingdom … you don’t comprehend it”*
• 1836 — “I will not listen to or credit any derogatory report against you…”*
• 1838 — “Silence ye fiends…”* Joseph Smith to Missouri jailers
• 1839 — “When you feel pure intelligence flowing into you”*
• 1843 — “Come and Get More”** — conclusion of speech
• 1843 — “Could you gaze into heaven five minutes”*
• 1843 — “I am like a huge, rough stone rolling down a mountain”*
• 1843 — “I will lift them up, and in their own way, too, if I cannot persuade them…”*
• 1843 — “Visions that roll like an overflowing surge upon my mind”**, Words of Joseph Smith, pg. 196
• 1843 — To Stephen Douglas, “You will aspire to the presidency”*
• 1844 — The Prophet’s dream of his Kirtland farm,** the last night of his life, DHC Vol. 6, page 609
• ____ — “The right of the Patriarchal Priesthood”* Blessing to Hyrum
• 1844 — The Sealing Power* “… like splitting hemlock knots with a corn-dodger for a wedge, and a pumpkin for a beetle…”
• ____ — John Taylor reports Joseph Smith’s words, “He felt himself shut up in a nutshell… so much more comprehensive, enlightened and dignified”*