Sidney Rigdon, the Real Founder of Mormonism
William H. Whitsitt
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Add to basketFormer library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.
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I am the author of an elaborate work (completed in 1885) in the manuscript, entitled: The Life of Sidney Rigdon, the Real Founder of Mormonism, which is an effort to demonstrate with original documents and history that Mormon theology and church constitution were conceived and produced by Rigdon and not by Joseph Smith . . .
Yours very truly,
William H. Whitsitt
The key word being the adjective “elaborate,” which means “involving many carefully arranged parts or details (theory, policy, system); complicated in design and planning.” Its synonyms are “complicated,” “complex,” “intricate,” and “involved.”
To its credit, the Library of Congress accepted the offer to preserve the manuscript, and to the chagrin of more than a few so-called Mormon history scholars since then (showing Whitsitt’s scholarship to be much too commanding for them to superintend), the “elaborate work” has been, ostensibly with perceptible envy, almost entirely disregarded.
William Heth Whitsitt, D.D., LL.D (1841-1911), Baptist scholar with honors, was born near Nashville TN on Novermber 25, 1841, to Reuben Ewing Whitsitt and Dicey McFarland Whitsitt. Reuben’s father, Rev. James Whitsitt, was a Scotch-Irish pioneer Baptist in post-colonial Tennessee. As a youth, William attended Juliet Academy and then studied for the Christian ministry at Union University in Tennessee, graduating in 1861. In 1861 he joined the army and was ordained a Baptist minister and officer, serving as a Confederate chaplain. After the war he attended the University of Virginia and then Southern Baptist Seminary (1866-9). As a seminarian, he was accepted by the University of Leipzig and the University of Berlin, where he completed graduate studies. Returning to the US in 1872, he served as a pastor in Albany, Georgia, and then applied for a professor’s position in Ecclesiastical History at Southern in Greenville, South Carolina. Whitsitt joined the seminary staff of Southern in the Fall of 1872 and moved with them when the seminary was relocated to Louisville, Kentucky, in 1877. Meanwhile, receiving his D.D. from Mercer University in 1874, Whitsitt taught at Southern as a respected Church History and Polemical Theology professor until his elevation as President, when he became the third head of the seminary since its original founding in South Carolina, serving with distinction, beginning in 1895, which tenure ended in 1899 due to a dispute with Landmarkists (who erroneously believed Baptists had continuously practiced baptism by immersion since apostolic times). He joined the University of Richmond in 1901, retiring in 1911 after which he died January 20, 1911, at age 69. Prior to his Southern presidency he married Florence Wallace of Woodford, Kentucky, and they produced and raised a son and daughter in Louisville. After his death, his widow, at his earlier request, conveyed the Rigdon biography MS to the Library of Congress in 1912 for safe keeping.
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