Episode 51: The Church in Washington D.C. (Ken Alford)

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🗓️ 1 March 2022

⏱️ 55 minutes

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This April, the newly remodeled Washington D.C. Temple will hold its public open house for hundreds and thousands of visitors, marking the latest in a long line of historical events related to the Latter-day Saints’ presence in the nation’s capital. In this episode, Dr. Ken Alford reviews his co-edited research publication covering many of those notable events, along with his specific chapter on Latter-day Saints in Arlington National Cemetery.

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0:00.0	Anthony Swat here from BYU Church History and Doctrine. Welcome to the why
0:04.2	religion podcast from BYU religious education. As you can see from the title of
0:08.5	this episode we are taking you on a journey to some church history in
0:12.2	Washington DC. So I thought I'd read you from a letter from one of the earliest
0:16.8	sources of church history in DC when the prophet Joseph Smith and his
0:21.3	friend Elias Higby traveled to the U.S. Capitol in the winter of 1839 to meet
0:27.2	with President Martin Van Buren and some of the nation's legislators to
0:31.0	seek redress for the extermination order and some of the atrocities committed
0:35.6	against the Latter-day Saints the previous year while in Missouri. Elias Higby
0:40.6	reported on their experience in a letter dated December 5th 1839 sent to
0:44.7	Hiram Smith and the Navu High Council who had sanctioned and approved their
0:48.9	mission. Higby wrote quote, we arrived in this city on the morning of the
0:53.0	28th of November and spent the most of the day in looking up a boarding
0:57.1	house which we succeeded in finding. We found as cheap boarding as can be had in
1:02.1	this city. On Friday morning the 29th we proceeded to the house of the
1:06.3	president. We found a very large and splendid palace surrounded with a
1:10.6	splendid enclosure decorated with all the fineries and elegancies of this world.
1:15.4	We went to the door and requested to see the president. When we were immediately
1:19.8	introduced into an upper apartment where we met the president and were
1:23.2	introduced into his parlor. We presented him with our letters of
1:26.6	introductions. As soon as he had read one of them he looked upon us with kind
1:30.8	of a half frown and said, what can I do? I can do nothing for you. If I do
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