An 1844 Masonic Murder

Nauvoo's Masonic Lodge

While in the Carthage Jail and recognizing some of the mob as fellow Masons, Joseph Smith uttered the Masonic distress call. What was it Joseph said in hopes of protection?

a.      “I’m a Mason”

b.      “Brothers, don’t shoot, I’m a Mason”

c.       “O Lord, my God”

d.      “Mason, but also Mormon”

Yesterday’s answer:

D)   Oliver Cowdery

In Nauvoo Joseph Smith was a confident and powerful speaker; in Fayette he was not. As with all men he had to grow up into the office that was his. Oliver Cowdery was called on to deliver the first public discourse in this dispensation. That took place five days later, on Sunday, at the home of Peter Whitmer Sr. . . .

Joseph Fielding McConkie and Craig J. Ostler, Revelations of the Restoration (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Company, 2000), 178.