Thirteenth apostle : the diaries of Amasa M. Lyman, 1832-1877 / edited by Scott H. Partridge.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lyman, Amasa M. (Amasa Mason), 1813-1877, author.

Contributor:

Partridge, Scott H., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lyman, Amasa M. (Amasa Mason), 1813-1877--Diaries.

Lyman, Amasa M.

Lyman, Amasa M. (Amasa Mason), 1813-1877.

Latter Day Saint churches--Apostles--Diaries.

Latter Day Saint churches.

Latter Day Saint missionaries--Diaries.

Latter Day Saint missionaries.

Apostles (Latter Day Saint churches).

Genre:

Diaries.

Autobiographies.

Physical Description:

xxviii, 1050 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Salt Lake City : Signature Books, 2016.

Summary:

Originally from New Hampshire, Amasa Mason Lyman converted to Mormonism over the objection of his family at age nineteen. Compelled to leave home with a total of eleven dollars in his pocket, he ventured some 700 miles to Ohio, where Joseph Smith told him to return east and serve a mission despite his unfamiliarity with the church's doctrines and procedures. Ten years later Lyman temporarily replaced Orson Pratt in the Quorum of Twelve Apostles. This made him a kind of fifth wheel (thirteenth apostle) when Pratt was reinstated. Lyman would nevertheless regain his position in the quorum two years later and serve faithfully until his expulsion in 1867 for denying the divinity of Jesus. He then gravitated toward the anti-Brighamite spiritualist movement in Utah. Tracing the arc of this transformation from firm believer to prominent heretic, Lyman's diaries are a window into the thinking of pioneer Mormons and the ideological issues that sometimes divided them.

Contents:

Countering the Pharisees of Babylon: 1832-1844

The long road to the Great Basin, 1845-1847

The Deep South and the California gold fields, 1847-1852

Colonizing San Bernardino, 1853-1855

"To save the effusion of blood," 1855-1858

Mementoes of the old world, 1860

"Poverty encircles Heaven's brightest gems," 1861

Proclaiming the Savior's mission, 1862

"Reward of the just," 1863-1864

"The spirit of the new movement," 1868-70

"Attended séance," 1871-72

False religion, 1873-1874

"Free from pain but very weak," 1875-1877.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781560852360

1560852364

OCLC:

945072466