Sunday Tidbits—Messing with the Lord’s anointed

1.      How did Orson Hyde narrowly miss being detected by a mob while preaching in the eastern states?

 a.      He was made invisible to the mob

b.      He dispensed the mob with one shot of his musket

c.       The 3 Nephites protected him

d.      The stripling warriors protected him

2.      While preaching the gospel in Syracuse, New York, George A. Smith was being harassed by a man armed with what?

a.      A pop-gun

b.      A sling shot

c.       Overly ripe tomatoes

d.      Tar and feathers

Yesterday’s answer:

 C)   The Rocky Mountains

In January 1836, Joseph sent for Hyrum to administer to and heal Lorenzo Young, who had become ill while working on the temple. Lorenzo described his miraculous healing and a prophecy that Hyrum uttered:

   “My disease was pronoun[c]ed to be the quick consumption. . . . Dr. Williams, one of the brethren, came to see me, and, considering my case a bad one, came the next day and brought with him Dr. Seely, an old practicing physician. . . . [H]e said to my father, as he left the house:

   ‘Mr. Young, unless the Lord makes your son a new pair of lungs, there is no hope for him!’ . . .

   “The next morning after the visit of the doctors, my father came to the door of the room to see how I was. I recollect his gazing earnestly at me with tears in his eyes. As I afterwards learned, he went from there to the Prophet Joseph, and said to him: ‘My son Lorenzo is dying; can there not be something done for him?’

   “The Prophet studied a little while, and replied, ‘Yes! Of necessity, I must go away to fill an appointment, which I cannot put off. But you go and get my brother Hyrum.’. . .

   “Brother Hyrum Smith led. The Spirit rested mightily upon him. He was full of blessing and prophecy. Among other things, he said that I should live to go with the Saints into the bosom of the Rocky Mountains, to build up a place there, and that my cellar should overflow with wine and fatness.

   “At that time, I had not heard about the Saints going to the Rocky Mountains; possibly Brother Smith had. After he had finished he seemed surprised at some things he had said, and wondered at the manifestations of the Spirit. I coughed no more after that administration, and rapidly recovered.

   “I had been pronounced by the best physicians in the country past all human aid, and I am a living witness of the power of God manifested in my behalf through the administration of the Elders.”

Joseph Smith’s Kirtland, Karl Ricks Anderson (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Company, 1989), 58-59.