"I don’t think anyone would blame Joseph Smith if he had gotten out of Liberty Jail and decided he wasn’t going to gather the Saints to build up a city again, because it had brought trouble for them before. And here he is, several months later, in a new state, a new tract of land to develop for his people, and you see this resolve in him," McBride said. "We see a Joseph Smith who has been at the low point of his life in Liberty Jail. Readers will learn something about Joseph Smith's character, McBride said. "I think it’s an overlooked period of church history," Godfrey said. McBride explained in an interview with the Deseret News. The new volume, released this week, spotlights the early years of the Nauvoo era with documents that offer insight into the building up of the city, what the Saints lost in Missouri, missionary efforts in England and new teachings and doctrine, volume editors Matthew C. The documents featuring this tender exchange between Phelps and Joseph Smith are among the highlights found in " The Joseph Smith Papers: Documents, Vol.
"Come on, dear brother, since the war is past, for friends at first, are friends again at last." "Believing your confession to be real, and your repentance genuine, I shall be happy once again to give you the right hand of fellowship, and rejoice over the returning prodigal," Joseph Smith wrote before paraphrasing Methodist poet Charles Wesley. Holland of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints said in a 1984 Brigham Young University devotional that Joseph's response "powerfully demonstrates the magnificence of his soul."ĭespite much suffering, "the cup has been drunk, the will of our Father has been done, and we are yet alive," the Prophet wrote to Phelps. If you cannot grant that, grant me your peace and friendship, for we are brethren, and our communion used to be sweet."Įlder Jeffrey R. He wrote to Joseph: "I am as the prodigal son. Two years later, Phelps' heart had changed. He betrayed the Mormons and helped send Joseph Smith to be incarcerated at Liberty Jail, an act that deeply hurt the Prophet. Phelps couldn't bear the guilt and remorse any longer.Įxcommunicated in 1838 over issues dealing with church finances and land, Phelps became bitter.
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