by Jack Kelly
54.“Oh-a, Ho-a”: Ham, 296.
54.“Our readers will recollect”: The Vermont Chronicle 6, no. 26 (June 24, 1831).
55.“pretend to marry”: Barrus.
55.“the marriage of the flesh”: Neal, 23.
55.“It is not I that speak”: Ibid., 24.
55.“They run about”: Morse, 7.
55.“In admonition she was quick”: Burns, 32.
56.“They have everything”: Ibid., 40.
56.“The joys of the celibate”: Nordhoff, 160.
56.“accompanied by a gentle”: Church of England Magazine 15, no. 414 (July 14, 1843).
56.“with a sort of galvanized hop”: Morse, 156.
57.“All appeared happy”: Ibid., 154.
57.“in school houses”: Hambrick-Stowe, 35.
58.“have gone down to hell”: Finney, Lectures, 2.
58.“You have taken your stand”: Hambrick-Stowe, 36.
58.“You admit that what”: Finney, Memoirs, 62.
58.“The Spirit of God”: Hambrick-Stowe, 37.
59.“A sinner under”: Ibid., 38.
60.“Gospel salvation seemed”: Finney, Memoirs, 14.
60.“like cannonballs”: William C. Martin, 40.
60.“Oh, God, smite”: McLoughlin, 125.
61.“feast of reason”: Rowe, 81.
61.“The Bible is a system”: Ibid., 74.
62.“the end of all things”: Ibid., 83.
62.“I believe”: Ibid., 82.
62.“a great favorite”: Brodie, 29.
63.“glorious beyond description”: Bushman, Joseph Smith and the Beginnings of Mormonism, 61.
63.“written upon gold plates”: Persuitte, 30.
64.“The whole family were”: Bushman, Joseph Smith and the Beginnings of Mormonism, 76.
64.“they would try to take”: Bushman, Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling, 46.
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66.“a swindler and a dangerous”: Weed, 216.
66.“never saw men”: Stoler, 35.
68.“There was danger”: Finney, Memoirs, 161.
69.“men of the strongest”: Ibid., 163.
69.“Ministers came in”: Ibid., 164.
69.“Religion . . . was the principal”: Hardman, 73.
69.“It is fanaticism”: Finney, Memoirs, 165.
69.“That man is mad”: Ibid., 167.
69.“I was obliged to preach”: Ibid., 168.
69.“Go where you would”: Ibid., 171.
70.“My meetings soon”: Ibid., 289.
70.“I said ‘you’”: Ibid., 83.
70.“is not plain-telling”: Hambrick-Stowe, 56.
70.“descriptions of hell”: Sweet, 136.
71.“levelling of all distinctions”: Sellers, 229.
71.“that my flesh literally”: Finney, Memoirs, 193.
71.“The next morning”: Ibid., 180.
71.“I heard of several cases”: Ibid., 177.
71.“sunk down, and burst”: Ibid., 183.
72.“Good evening, we’ve”: Hardman, 89.
73.“My father was a real”: Abzug, 47.
73.“those great staring”: Ibid., 39.
73.“I was so ashamed”: Ibid., 48.
73.“his heart all broken”: Finney, Memoirs, 187.
74.“put an end to my studying”: Hardman, 88.
74.“It seemed to me like”: Koeppel, 320.
75.“where large timber”: Ibid., 321.
75.“plan to prevent their”: Ibid., 255.
76.“No person without experience”: Way, Common Labour, 139.
76.“Although great exertions”: Koeppel, 255.
77.“wages on the canal”: Sheriff, 43.
77.“I don’t know”: Mayo County Library.
77.“several plates of brass”: Western Farmer 1, no. 27 (September 19, 1821).
77.“fed with a Vain”: Taylor, 15.
77.“who do in the simplicity”: Brodie, 18.
78.“poor but credulous people”: Taylor, 22.
78.“the MANIA of”: Bushman, Joseph Smith and the Beginnings of Mormonism, 212.
79.“It proved not to”: Vogel, 458.
79.“by which he could discern”: Bushman, Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling, 48.
79.“The heat of the sun”: Brooke, 31.
79.“by some clever spirit”: Taylor, 11.
79.“on account of enchantment”: Ibid., 13.
80.“deluded beings would”: Ibid., 9.
80.“become insolent and”: Ibid., 15.
80.“Joseph can see any”: Ibid., 14.
81.“a valuable mine”: Joseph Smith, “The Joseph Smith Papers, Appendix I.”
82.“At the center of all”: Morison, 6.
83.“would one day pass”: Shaw, 34.
83.“Economy induced us”: Koeppel, 323.
83.“I take the average”: Barnes, 8.
84.“appears to be correct”: Koeppel, 324.
86.“did not want to go”: Bernard, Appendix 1, 1.
87.“most of whom were”: Ontario Repository 24, no. 28 (October 11, 1826).
87.“are of a very strong”: Ontario Repository 24, no. 30 (October 25, 1826).
88.“outrages and oppressions”: Geneva Gazette 17, no. 20 (October 18, 1826).
88.“the said Morgan”: Ontario Repository 24, no. 38 (December 20, 1826).
88.“several persons have been”: Ontario Repository 24. no. 40 (January 3, 1826).
88.“unparalleled outrages upon”: Ontario Repository 24, no. 38 (December 20, 1826).
89.“that if living”: Ibid.
89.“We have bought the place”: Vogel, 315.
89.“Oh, no matter”: Bushman, Joseph Smith and the Beginnings of Mormonism, 67.
89.“The anxiety of mind”: Vogel, 321.
90.“I did not feel so keenly”: Ibid.
90.“fine looking, smart”: Newell, 18.
90.“would be my choice”: Bushman, Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling, 53.
91.“a certain stone”: Persuitte, 41.
91.“discovered that time”: Brooke, 152.
91.“I had no intention of marrying”: Newell, 1.
91.“Joseph’s wife was”: Brodie, 42.
92.“They want me to look”: Bushman, Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling, 54.
93.“I have got a key”: Ibid., 59.
93.“The money-diggers”: Brooke, 156.
94.“my family will be placed”: Brodie, 416.
94.“I do not wish to make myself a fool”: Bushman, Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling, 62.
95.“a man of very pleasant”: Koeppel, 250.
97.“an ingenious and enterprising”: Ibid., 327.
97.“Who can contemplate”: Shaw, 129.
97.“prodigious violence”: Koeppel, 328.
97.“see that no bad material”: Ibid.
98.“In conversation”: Wyld, 40 x 8 x 4, 27.
98.“the most stupendous”: Shaw, 130.
98.“the grandest single”: Koeppel, 329.
99.“so conducive to health”: Lender, 47.
100.“was provided bountifully”: Koeppel, 350.
100.“Along the line”: McGreevy, 78.
100.“You wouldn’t expect”: Way, “Evil Humors,” 1414.
100.“Fever, and death”: Ibid.
100.“quarrel in their drink”: Muelder, 14.
101.“cold-water, pale-faced”: Johnson, Shopkeeper’s, 60.
102.“The importance of”: Abzug, 46.
102.“throw us back in civilization”: Hardman, 126.
102.“a softness and delicacy”: Ibid., 127.
102.“Illiterate men”: Hatch, 18.
102.“his shocking blasphemies”: Hardman, 109.
103.“Our spiritual dignity”: Finney, Memoirs, 213.
104.“talking to God”: Hardman, 84.
104.“lukewarmness in religion”: Hardman, 143.
104.“meet you at the State”: Ibid., 144.
104.“We crossed the mountains”: Ibid.
106.“an art which”: Johnson, Sam Patch, 53.
107.“He may now challenge”: Ibid., 124.
107.“gentlemen who feel”: Ibid., 134.
107.“like an army drawn”: Ibid., 153.
108.“between a horse race”: Ibid., 158.
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115.“I frequently wrote”: Waterman, 89.
116.“should be forthcoming”: Morris.
116.“would apper in Brite”: Bushman, Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling, 72.
116.“You must study”: Ibid., 73.
117.“We experienced great”: Ibid., 75.
117.“These days were never”: Ibid., 73.
117.“Day after day”: Waterman, 89.
118.“one of the most serious”: McGreevy, 32.
119.“without consulting any one”: Koeppel, 332.
120.“more like dog-kennels”: Way, Common Labour, 144.
122.“respect there is paid”: McGreevy, 178.
123.“at the peril of his life”: Weed, 213.
124.“must have been over-zealous”: Ibid.
124.“the vultures of Masonry”: Haigh, 14.
124.“the horrors of suspense”: Formisano, 118.
125.“for the purpose of giving”: Haigh, 4.
127.“entirely alone”: Bushman, Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling, 79.
128.“I command you”: Bushman, Joseph Smith and the Beginnings of Mormonism, 106.
128.“I beheld with my eyes”: Bushman, Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling, 78.
128.“’Tis enough”: Ibid., 78.
128.“relieved of a burden”: Ibid., 79.
129.“stout, round, smooth-faced”: Weed, 358.
130.“spindle shanked ignoramus”: Bushman, Joseph Smith and the Beginnings of Mormonism, 120.
130.“the greatest fraud”: Bushman, Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling, 82.
130.“it partakes largely”: Ibid., 112.
132.“more difficult to remove”: McGreevy, 52.
132.“The explosions (cannonading)”: Ibid., 55.
133.“One stone weighing”: Ibid., 80.
133.“on some days the list”: Ibid., 81.
133.“the rough perpendicular”: Riley, 52.
134.“retain all the advantages”: Morone, 200.
134.“freeborn Yankees”: Sheriff, 40.
134.“extraordinary kind of artillery”: Koeppel, 362.
135.“a work of the first magnitude”: Ibid., 334.
135.“strikes the traveler”: McGreevy, 134.
135.“The last barrier is past”: Ibid., 112.
135.“I was more astonished”: Sheriff, 31.
135.“September 24th”: The Orleans Whig 1, no. 15 (October 10, 1827).
136.“No feature of it was”: Weed, 315.
136.“no doubt but”: Ibid.
136.“People left their busy”: Rochester Daily Advertiser 2, no. 305 (October 19, 1827).
137.“the contradiction”: Weed, 318.
137.“That is a good enough”: Van Deusen, 41.
138.“There is no blood”: Ibid., 48.
138.“Public opinion is”: Bernard, 487.
139.“This Institution”: Ibid., 430.
139.“dark, unfruitful”: Ibid., x.
140.“strong feeling”: Ibid., xvii.
140.“What great moral”: Ibid., 476.
143.“chloroform in print”: Bushman, Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling, 84.
143.“He could never tell”: Brodie, 26.
143.“infant baptism, ordination”: Bushman, Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling, 89.
144.“every error”: Ibid., 90.
144.“It was a young city”: Finney, Memoirs, 297.
144.“one of the wonders”: Bernstein, 273.
145.“dignity and majesty”: Hambrick-Stowe, 109.
146.“When the bubbling”: Weed, 357.
146.“encouraged that soul”: McKelvey, 40.
146.“Rochester was the place”: Finney, Memoirs, 286.
146.“the duty to publish”: Numbers, The Disappointed, 21.
147.“texts would occur”: Rowe, 83.
147.“I told the Lord”: Ibid., 84.
147.“any practice”: Ibid., 94.
147.“a few Evidences”: Ibid., 96
148.“began to speak”: Bliss, 83.
148.“We are a visionary house”: Bushman, Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling, 113.
148.“I have lived to see”: Ibid., 110.
149.“Criticism, . . . even by”: Ibid., 296.
149.“a seer, a translator”: Ibid., 130.
150.“setting the country”: Ibid., 117.
150.“Let thy soul delight”: Newell, 33.
151.“alter or erase”: Bushman, Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling, 120.
151.“ his countenance change”: Newell, 32.
151.“Brother Joseph”: Bushman, Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling, 121.
153.“into the burning depths”: Sernett, 17.
153.“some measure that”: Finney, Memoirs, 288.
154.“All Rochester was moved”: Hardman, 210.
154.“The revival took”: Finney, Memoirs, 293.
155.“lady of high standing”: Ibid., 287.
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158.“by the use of accurate”: Koeppel, 367.
159.“by laborious industry”: Ibid., 366.
159.“coarse epithets”: Ibid., 372.
160.“this great work”: Monticello.
160.“marks a new era”: Koeppel, 373.
160.“in a manner suited”: Ibid., 378.
160.“smile most propitiously”: Ibid., 378–79.
161.“I always loved”: Givens, 15.
161.“the serene and penetrating”: Ibid., 88.
162.“the people stood”: Bushman, Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling, 124.
162.“We began to talk”: Hatch, 188.
163.“treated a laborer”: Ibid., 121.
163.“Hear my voice”: Bushman, Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling, 125.
163.“Simultaneously hundreds”: Hardman, 209.
164.“the divided self”: James, 185.
164.“All sin consists”: McLoughlin, 128.
164.“was the greatest work”: Hamrick-Stowe, 113.
164.“nation after nation”: Morone, 128.
165.“Why do we call”: Johnson, Sam Patch, 179.
166.“Whether in exercise”: Abzug, 61.
166.“universal insecurity”: Ibid., 58.
167.“If the church will”: Hardman, 152.
167.“There is an increasing”: Rowe, 103.
168.“I sometimes feel”: Ibid., 100.
169.“See, . . . see, the angel”: Ibid., 109.
169.“It will start”: Ibid.
170.“No time should be lost”: Numbers, The Disappointed, 39.
170.“What can an old farmer”: Ibid., 27.
171.“Newel K. Whitney”: Newell, 38.
171.“native cheery Temperament”: Bushman, Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling, 141.
171.“spirit of lightness”: Ibid., 170.
172.“I have never seen”: Newell, 217.
174.“an account of his marvilous”: Bushman, Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling, 234.
174.“rallying signals”: Adams, 288.
174.“Antimasonry is bottomed”: Goodman, 54.
175.“darkest and deepest”: Ibid., 57.
175.“Why are six hundred”: Bernard, 495.
175.“Damn him”: Adams, 186.
176.“Morgan’s abductors”: Stoler, 37.
176.“bound, hoodwinked”: Brown, 43.
179.“The waters of salvation”: Hambrick-Stowe, 213.
180.“the whole orthodox”: Johnson, Shopkeeper’s, 110.
180.“is either gathering”: Hardman, 281.
180.“the ecstasy of sanctimony”: Roth, 2.
180.“triflers and blasphemers”: Sellers, 230.
181.“I don’t give”: Johnson, Shopkeeper’s, 121.
181.“Once get that region”: Hambrick-Stowe, 116.
182.“to renounce themselves”: Finney, Memoirs, 215.
182.“Measures adopted here”: Hambrick-Stowe, 129.
183.“The City is in great”: Ibid., 138.
183.“divert the attention”: Ibid., 142.
183.“most dangerous”: Ibid., 143.
184.“truly great and wonderful”: Bushman, Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling, 189.
185.“the time had not yet”: Newell, 65.
185.“I was the first”: Ibid.
185.“tampering with our slaves”: Ibid., 49.
186.“break down the walls”: Abanes, 118.
187.“The religious tenets”: Bushman, Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling, 328.
187.“Are you not ashamed”: Ibid., 171.
187.“His language and manner”: Ibid., 231.
187.“he was a quear man”: Newell, 57.
187.“On shaking hands”: Bushman, Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling, 231.
188.“a varry nice & Comly”: Newell, 66.
188.“by no means a paternal”: Compton, 34.
189.“a dirty, nasty, filthy”: Newell, 66.
189.“of the old-fashioned”: Larkin, 40.
191.“race of non-producers”: Schlesinger, 152.