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Journal of Mormon History Volume 31 Issue 3 Article 1 2005 Journal of Mormon History Vol. 31, No. 3, 2005 Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/mormonhistory Part of the Religion Commons Recommended Citation (2005) "Journal of Mormon History Vol. 31, No. 3, 2005," Journal of Mormon History: Vol. 31 : Iss. 3 , Article 1. Available at: https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/mormonhistory/vol31/iss3/1 This Full Issue is brought to you for free and open access by the Journals at DigitalCommons@USU. It has been accepted for inclusion in Journal of Mormon History by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@USU. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Journal of Mormon History Vol. 31, No. 3, 2005 Table of Contents CONTENTS ARTICLES • --The Case for Sidney Rigdon as Author of the Lectures on Faith Noel B. Reynolds, 1 • --Reconstructing the Y-Chromosome of Joseph Smith: Genealogical Applications Ugo A. Perego, Natalie M. Myres, and Scott R. Woodward, 42 • --Lucy's Image: A Recently Discovered Photograph of Lucy Mack Smith Ronald E. Romig and Lachlan Mackay, 61 • --Eyes on "the Whole European World": Mormon Observers of the 1848 Revolutions Craig Livingston, 78 • --Missouri's Failed Compromise: The Creation of Caldwell County for the Mormons Stephen C. LeSueur, 113 • --Artois Hamilton: A Good Man in Carthage? Susan Easton Black, 145 • --One Masterpiece, Four Masters: Reconsidering the Authorship of the Salt Lake Tabernacle Nathan D. Grow, 170 • --The Salt Lake Tabernacle in the Nineteenth Century: A Glimpse of Early Mormonism Ronald W. Walker, 198 • --Kerstina Nilsdotter: A Story of the Swedish Saints Leslie Albrecht Huber, 241 REVIEWS --John Sillito, ed., History's Apprentice: The Diaries of B. H. Roberts, 1880-1898 Davis Bitton, 264 --Martha Beck, Leaving the Saints: How I Lost the Mormons and Found My Faith Boyd Jay Petersen, 267 --Donald Q. Cannon, Richard O. Cowan, et al., Unto Every Nation: Gospel Light Reaches Every Land Kahlile B. Mehr, 271 --Scott H. Faulring, Kent P.Jackson, and Robert J. Matthews, eds., Joseph Smith's New Translation of the Bible: Original Manuscripts H. Michael Marquardt, 274 This full issue is available in Journal of Mormon History: https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/mormonhistory/vol31/iss3/ 1 JOURNAL OF MORMON HISTORY FALL 2005 JOURNAL OF MORMON HISTORY FALL 2005 Mission Statement of the Mormon History Association The Mormon History Association is an independent organization dedi- cated to the study and understanding of all aspects of Mormon history. We welcome all who are interested in the Mormon past, irrespective of reli- gious affiliation, academic training, or world location. We promote our goals through scholarly research, conferences, awards, and publications. COVER: Abstraction of the window tracery, Salt Lake City Tenth Ward. De- sign by Warren Archer. 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Woodward 42 Lucy's Image: A Recently Discovered Photograph of Lucy Mack Smith Ronald E. Romig and Lachlan Mackay 61 Eyes on "the Whole European World": Mormon Observers of the 1848 Revolutions Craig Livingston 78 Missouri's Failed Compromise: The Creation of Caldwell County for the Mormons Stephen C. LeSueur 113 Artois Hamilton: A Good Man in Carthage? Susan Easton Black 145 One Masterpiece, Four Masters: Reconsidering the Authorship of the Salt Lake Tabernacle Nathan D. Grow 170 IV CONTENTS The Salt Lake Tabernacle in the Nineteenth Century: A Glimpse of Early Mormonism Ronald W. Walker 198 Kerstina Nilsdotter: A Story of the Swedish Saints Leslie Albrecht Huber 241 REVIEWS John Sillito, ed., History's Apprentice: The Diaries of B. H. Roberts, 1880-1898 Davis Bitton 264 Martha Beck, Leaving the Saints: How I Lost the Mormons and Found My Faith Boyd Jay Petersen 267 Donald Q. Cannon, Richard O. Cowan, et al., Unto Every Nation: Gospel Light Reaches Every Land Kahlile B. Mehr 271 Scott H. Faulring, Kent P.Jackson, and Robert J. Matthews, eds., Joseph Smith's New Translation of the Bible: Original Manuscripts H. Michael Marquardt 274 THE CASE FOR SIDNEY RIGDON AS AUTHOR OF THE LECTURES ON FAITH Noel B. Reynolds THE SECOND PUBLICATION OF Joseph Smith's revelations in 1835 bore the new title Doctrine and Covenants and contained significant additions to the 1833 Book of Commandments. Prominently placed at the beginning of this sacred collection were seven "theological lec- tures" derived from presentations at the "school for the Elders" in Kirtland the preceding winter. These seven lectures were appar- ently conceived as the first installment in a projected "course of lec- NOEL B. REYNOLDS {[email protected]} is a professor of political sci- ence at Brigham Young University. He wishes to thank the numerous col- leagues who provided criticisms and suggestions on earlier drafts. Over a fifteen-year period, research assistants Scott H. Faulring, Jedediah S. Rog- ers, Jason Scoffield, D. Philip Kenny, Jamison Noorlander, Daniel B. Mc- Kinlay, John J. Nielsen, Adam W. Bentley, and Eden Rasmussen provided invaluable help with source materials and documentation. Alison Coutts provided equally invaluable support in doing the final formatting. This pa- per is derived in part from Reynolds's earlier review essay on Larry E. Dahl and Charles D. Tate Jr., The Lectures on Faith in Historical Perspective (Provo, Utah: BYU Religious Studies Center, 1990), 31-104, which was published in BYUStudies 32, no. 1 (1991): 285-94. A second version was published in the FARMS festschrift for Richard L. Anderson, "The Authorship Debate Con- cerning Lectures on Faith: Exhumation and Reburial," in The Disciple as Wit- ness: Essays on Latter-day Saint History and Doctrine in Honor of Richard Lloyd Anderson, edited by Stephen D. Ricks, Donald W. Parry, and Andrew H. Hedges (Provo, Utah: FARMS, 2000), 355-82. This final version is based on the paper delivered at the 2003 MHA meetings in Kirtland as expanded by subsequent findings. ^Joseph Smith et al., History of the Church offesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, edited by B. H. Roberts, 7 vols., 2d ed. rev. (Salt Lake City: Deseret 1 The Journal of Mormon History tures designed to unfold . the doctrine of Jesus Christ." They take up the doctrine of faith as "the first principle in revealed reli- gion and the foundation of all righteousness" (31). There is no evidence of any effort to follow through with simi- lar treatments of other basic gospel principles.