Medal of Honor
1.
Just this week we witnessed as a nation a soldier receiving the
highest military award—the Medal of Honor (awarded for bravery in action). When
was the first Medal of Honor awarded to a private in the U.S. army (by the way,
the recipient was LDS)?
A)
During the Blackhawk War
B)
During the Korean War
C)
During the Civil War
D)
During the 1st World War
Yesterday’s answer
D. A flash of lightening
The
following incident is well recorded in both LDS and non LDS sources. This fact can be found in various books and
also affidavits, including the affidavit of Charles Foster who was one of
Joseph Smith’s most bitter enemies. I
record only the account given by George Q. Cannon. The following is in
reference to the martyrdom of the Prophet Joseph Smith. The Prophet has been
shot and plunged from the upper window in the jail when the following
occurrence takes place:
Among the murderers outside (Carthage Jail) was a man, barefoot and
bareheaded, without a coat, his shirt-sleeves rolled up above his elbows and
his pants above his knees; he lifted Joseph and propped him against the south
side of the well curb which stood a few feet from the jail. Colonel Levi
Williams then ordered four men to shoot him. They stood about eight feet from
the curb, and fired simultaneously. A slight cringe of the body was noticed as
the balls struck him, and he fell on his face. The ruffian who set him against
the well-curb, then took a bowie-knife, with the evident intention of cutting
off his head. It was reported that a considerable sum of money had been
offered, by the mob, for his head. As he raised the knife, and was in the
attitude of striking, a light, so sudden and powerful, burst from the heavens
upon the bloody scene, (passing its vivid chain between Joseph and his
murderers) that they were struck with terror. The arm of the ruffian that held
the knife fell powerless; the muskets of the four who fired fell to the ground,
and they all stood like marble statues, not having the power to move a single
limb of their bodies.
Life
of Joseph the Prophet, George Q. Cannon, Instructor, 15:110-11
Additional
interesting information:
In
the Millennial Star, in reference to the above situation, it is interesting to
note that the money offered by the mob for the head of Joseph Smith was from
his old enemies in Missouri.
Millennial
Star, Vol.
64:411-14
What
was the amount of this “reward” money?
$1000.00
When
an average man worked for $1 a day is it any wonder that Satan put into the
hearts of men the money “reward” and a man willing to mutilate the Prophet.
N.B. Lundwall, The Fate of the Persecutors of the Prophet Joseph Smith (Salt Lake
City: Bookcraft, 1952), 233.
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