BLAINE: Pardoname, but where does it say he was baptized, or even wanted to
be? Sounds like he was just a member of a class, and wanted to attend, for
unknown reasons, and they got downright mean and ornery with him--
These events occured 8 years after Joe was supposedly told not to join them
http://www.utlm.org/onlineresources/josephsmithmethodist.htm
Mormon Enigma: Emma Hale Smith, by Linda K. Newell and Valeen T. Avery,
University of Illinois Press, 1994, p.25.
"They told him plainly that such character as he . . . could not be a member of
the church unless he broke off his sins by repentance, made public confession,
renounced his fraudulent and hypocritical practices, and gave some evidence
that he intended to reform and conduct himself somewhat nearer like a christian
than he had done. They gave him his choice to go before the class, and publicly
ask to have his name stricken from the class book, or stand a disciplinary
investigation." Joseph refused to comply with the humiliating demands and
withdrew from the class. His name, however, stayed on the roll for about six
more months, either from oversight or because Emma�s brother-in-law, Michael
Morse, who taught the class, did not know of the confrontation. When Joseph did
not seek full membership, Morse finally dropped his name.2"
Page 314, footnote 2:
Amboy Journal, 11 June and 30 April 1879. In 1879 Joseph and Hiel Lewis, sons
of Uncle Nathaniel Lewis, debated with a Mormon named Edwin Cadwell over events
in Harmony while Emma and Joseph lived there. The Amboy Journal reproduced
their letters.
LDS historian, Richard L. Bushman, referred to Smith�s involvement with the
Methodists in his book Joseph Smith and the Beginnings of Mormonism, University
of Illinois Press, 1984, pp. 54, 94-95.
Dave Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
David Miller wrote:
David Miller wrote:
There would be a historical reason.
Joseph Smith was baptized a Protestant
(Baptist), ...
Dave Hansen wrote:
Where did you come up with that, DavidM?
Don't you remember me raising this point some years ago here on TruthTalk?
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