Source Report Card
Chapter 32: Missouri, Utah, and the Refuge Stories
| Source | Who | When | Chain | Rung | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| D&C 115:6 (Zion and her stakes a refuge) | The Lord, through Joseph Smith | 1838 | 1st-hand | 1 | A+ |
| D&C 57:1-3; 84:2-4; 124:51 (New Jerusalem in Missouri); 45:66-71 (refuge, no place named); 101:17-18 ("shall return"; Missouri setting from heading); 3 Nephi 21:23-25 | The Lord, through Joseph Smith; Christ, recorded by Mormon | 1831-1841; 3 Nephi | 1st-hand | 1 | A+ |
| D&C 84:114-115 (conditional warning to New York, Albany, Boston); 107:53; 116; 117:8 (Adam-ondi-Ahman) | The Lord, through Joseph Smith | 1832-1838 | 1st-hand | 1 | A+ |
| "Strengthen the Stakes of Zion" (applies D&C 115:6 to stakes; quotes Bruce R. McConkie, then First Council of the Seventy, Aug 1972: "The place of gathering for the Mexican Saints is in Mexico") | President Harold B. Lee (then Church President) | Apr 1973 | 1st-hand | 3 | A |
| "Come: Let Israel Build Zion" | Elder Bruce R. McConkie (then Quorum of the Twelve) | 1977, Lima (Ensign May 1977) | 1st-hand | 3 | A |
| "Missouri Myths," Ensign, Apr 1979 | Graham W. Doxey (then First Counselor, Young Men general presidency; not an apostle) | 1979 | 1st-hand | 3 | B (a notch down: not an apostle) |
| JD 5:164 "till we go back to Jackson County" | Heber C. Kimball (then First Counselor, First Presidency) | Aug 1857 | 2nd-hand | 4 | C |
| JD 18:355 "As soon as the way opens up" (reporter Geo. F. Gibbs) | Brigham Young (then Church President; St. George) | 6 Apr 1877 | 2nd-hand | 4 | C |
| JD 24:156-157, "two or three hundred thousand people"; "sifting process" | Joseph F. Smith (then Second Counselor, First Presidency) | Dec 1882 | 2nd-hand | 4 | C |
| JD 3:228, "fleeing to this place for their bread" | Heber C. Kimball (then First Counselor, First Presidency) | 2 Mar 1856 | 2nd-hand | 4 | C |
| JD 10:254, temple to "endure through the Millennium" (a building goal) | Brigham Young (then Church President) | 6 Oct 1863 | 2nd-hand | 4 | C |
| JD 12:344, New York "a mass of ruins" in "a few years" (missed) | Orson Pratt (then Quorum of the Twelve) | Dec 1868 | 2nd-hand | 4 | C |
| Eden in Jackson County: Heber C. Kimball (JD 10:235); Brigham recalling Joseph, via Wilford Woodruff (D&C Student Manual) | Heber C. Kimball (then First Counselor, First Presidency); Brigham Young (then Church President) | 1863; 1873 | 2nd-hand (Heber); 3rd-hand (Joseph via Brigham) | 4 | C |
| Doniphan "chimneys" (L. M. Lawson letter, Improvement Era 1902) | Joseph Smith via Doniphan via Lawson | event 1838-39; letter 1902 | 3rd-hand, single witness, surfaced after the event | 5 | F (dropped from D) |
| "Yellow dog" (Wilcox account; read in conference by J. Golden Kimball, then First Council of the Seventy, 1930) | Brigham via Heber C. Kimball (then First Counselor, First Presidency) via Amanda Wilcox | claimed 1868 | 3rd-hand, untraceable to Brigham | 5 | F (dropped from D) |
| "A Dream," The Contributor, Aug 1894 ("fleeing to the place of safety in our mountain heights") | Charles D. Evans of Springville (a member, not a leader) | 1894 | 1st-hand ("under the caption of a dream") | 5 | D |
| Cardston Temple "preserved" (Sols Guardisto letter) | Anonymous | claimed 1920s | untraceable | 6 | F |
| New York underwater; tent cities / "the Callout" | NDE books: Visions of Glory (2012); Julie Rowe (white-tent "cities of light," Salt Lake Tribune, 15 Sept 2015; 2015 seminary "not endorsed" caution on her book, Ch. 38); AVOW forum "Callout" (East Idaho News, Feb 2020) | 2010s | 2nd-hand / 1st-hand private claims / untraceable posts | 7 | F |
| 1877 "John Taylor" vision | Anonymous | claimed 1877 | untraceable | 6 | ✖ Disavowed |
| White Horse Prophecy ("peace and love only in the Rocky Mountains") | Edwin Rushton (claimed) | claimed 1843 | 3rd-hand | 6 | ✖ Disavowed |