Ep 179 – William Brutus Marks; Rat Patrol
Naked Mormonism Podcast
Bryce Blankenagel
4.7 • 680 Ratings
🗓️ 1 November 2019
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
On this episode, we discuss William Marks, his importance to our timeline, and a special council called to determine how loyal he was to the prophet. Just like last week, some had entertained thoughts that there was a Brutus in the highest rings of Mormon leadership waiting to backstab the prophet when his back was turned. William Marks is called in and various church officials testify about secret oaths and plots in the dark alleys of Nauvoo. Some police officers camp outside Marks’s home waiting to cut him off when the time was right. Jo plays dumb and everybody goes home for want of candles.
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| 0:00.0 | I am Ryan McKnight. I'm Kara Santa Maria. I am Christopher Smith. Hi, I'm Andrew Torres. This is Naked Mormonism. The Serial Mormon History podcast. |
| 0:19.6 | Two men had been scoped out as possible enemies to the prophet and enemies to some of his deeper teachings, of course, polygamy. |
| 0:30.3 | We discussed the tribunal of William Judas Law last week, but another person was labeled as a possible traitor to the prophet and the |
| 0:38.8 | cause of building the kingdom of God. This other person is somebody who's come up before in our |
| 0:44.4 | timeline, but only tangentially when his name was mentioned in Revelations or he was called |
| 0:49.3 | to various leadership positions. However, this man, William Marks, is going to occupy an increasing amount of our |
| 0:55.9 | timeline moving forward. A few days after the special counsel was called to answer William Judas Law's |
| 1:02.1 | complaint that Joe was, you know, trying to remove him by use of the Danite police force, |
| 1:08.2 | William Marks petitioned for a similar hearing, which was answered. |
| 1:12.6 | We're going to read through the proceedings of William Marks Special Counsel as he reveals |
| 1:17.0 | an even deeper troubling trends in the Navu government system. But first, let's spend a little |
| 1:22.7 | time getting to know William Brutus Marx. Marks was born in Rutland County, Vermont in 1792. He was 13 years |
| 1:30.6 | senior to Joseph Smith. He married Rosanna Robinson in May of 1813 at age 20, and they moved to |
| 1:38.7 | Portage County, New York when missionaries came knocking on their door. The Marks family was baptized into the church around probably about April of 1835, and William |
| 1:49.9 | Marks was inducted into the office of priest. |
| 1:52.2 | He was ordained an elder the following year, after which he moved to Curtland when the church |
| 1:58.1 | was amidst considerable turmoil during the Fanny Algera scandal. |
| 2:02.3 | Clearly, William Marks showed promise in leadership as he was inducted into the High Council |
| 2:08.3 | of Kirtland in September of 1837, and he was eventually elevated to Kirtland's stake president |
| 2:14.1 | in 1838, when Joe Rigden and the majority of the Corm of Apostles had |
| 2:19.8 | removed to Missouri in order to flee legal and ecclesiastical consequences for their conduct |
| 2:26.2 | in Kirtland. Joe instructed William Marks directly to move to Far West to be state president there, |
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