Author: Jonathan Green

But I’m still glad we don’t have one.

The experience of persecution in Missouri was not just recent history. For Hyde, it was the literal fulfillment of prophecy about the last days.

If you survey the damage left by Donald Trump and Covid-19 in our neighborhood of the American religious landscape, a sigh of relief is warranted.

Orson Hyde, socialist?

Hyde touches on his own life and perspective for the first time.

At some point in the near future, the Missionary Training Center will likely reopen fully, and in some ways that’s unfortunate, because home MTC is good.

I think this is more about foot washing than I’ve ever read anywhere before.

Was I comfortable with the topic? the prospective client on the other end of the video call wanted to know.

Article 13 On prayer and on the manner of worship. Prayer is one of the primary obligations of the Christian, and he is reliant on it for any consideration that might stir his ambition or instill it in him, for it is just as necessary for his growth and thriving as rain is for the…

Orson Hyde blazes the trail for every Temple and Family History consultant ever since.

The teachings are familiar, but the images are surprising.

This short sections feels quite familiar.

Hezekiah didn’t consult with artists or historians before destroying the bronze snake Moses had made. He didn’t even try to preserve it somewhere else for its cultural value.

On the confession of sin and the treatment of members acting contrary to law

For Hyde, the sacrament seems to be not quite as strictly symbolical as it is for us, and more directly tied to guilt and confession. Also, will Sunday always be the Sabbath?

What is a priesthood ordinance’s method of action? What Hyde describes in this short article seems to be both less direct, and to emphasize the mediation of the priesthood and the priest conducting an ordinance, more than we typically would today. The gift of the Holy Ghost also seems conspicuously absent.

Also, Native Americans make an appearance.

Most of this article is not actually about repentance.

Orson Hyde’s lecture on faith seems a lot like the Lectures on Faith.

Everything makes sense until the last sentence.

Orson Hyde’s explication of doctrine, like the Articles of Faith, begins with the nature of God, although Hyde’s treatment is about 30 times as long.

The subject of the priesthood office has by itself already caused more contention, bitterness and jealousy between the Catholic and the Protestant church than all remaining matters of dispute combined.

The translator thought about it and…just gave up.