Sunday Tidbits-Book of Mormon Firsts

1.                  When was the first attempt at illustrating the Book of Mormon?

A)                 1829

B)                 1830

C)                 1888

D)                 1912

2.                  What was the first ever painting of a Book of Mormon Theme?

A)                 The Baptism of Limhi

B)                 Nephi and his brothers building the ship

C)                 Ammon defending the flocks of the king

D)                 Christ visit to the Americas

Yesterday’s answer

C)     To put down a Seminole uprising.

The Mormon Battalion of 1846 is not the first time that the government has asked the Mormons to supply men in a cause. In October of 1837, Edward Partridge wrote a letter to his brother stating that the government required 1000 natives and approximately 150 to 200 white men to help put down the Seminoles in Florida. Only a few of the Saints responded to this call from the government.

Jennings, Warren A., “What Crime Have I Been Guilty of?” BYU Studies, Summer, 1978, p. 521-522.