According to the Chicago Times, Joseph Smith may have bribed the guards with money
for his and the other prisoners release from the Liberty Jail in Missouri. The
newspaper article claimed Joseph offered how much money?
a.
$6,000
b.
$10,000
c.
$1,000
d.
$50
Yesterday’s
answer:
c.
12
The
following question was asked by L. John Nuttall and the answer given by
President Brigham Young on Friday August 24, 1877:
At what age can children have their
endowments?
If of a naturally ripe and early
development of mind and body, as early as twelve years, but as a general rule
fifteen years old is early enough.
This may seem incredible this day in age,
although, when one considers how early people, especially women, married in
those early years of the Church, this then would all make sense.
L. John Nuttall Diary Excerpts, (Salt Lake City;
Pioneer Press, 1994), 35.
I discovered the following in the journal
of Mary Emma Langston Stout to support the above fact:
This
young lady married Alfred Fisk Stout in March of 1872 when only thirteen years
old.
Chronicles of Courage, Daughters of Utah
Pioneers (Salt Lake City; Utah Printing Company, 1990), 1:89.
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