Winchester recalls Joseph Smith getting drunk at the Kirtland temple dedication.
- Type
- News (traditional)
- Source
- Benjamin Winchester ExcommunicatedCritic
- Hearsay
- LateJournalism
- Reference
Benjamin Winchester, "Primitive Mormonism," The Salt Lake Daily Tribune, September 22, 1889, 2
- Scribe/Publisher
- The Salt Lake Tribune
- Audience
- Reading Public
- Transcription
When I returned to Kirtland the temple was nearly completed, and during that winter -- 1835 and 1836 -- its dedication occurred. That ceremony ended in a drunken frolic -- one of the worst I ever saw. Joseph Smith
BECAME BEASTLY INTOXICATED
And his father and brother, Hyrum, begged that the wine should be taken away, so that the carousal might be stopped as soon as possible. I did not know Joseph to be what is termed a "common sot," but that was not the last time I saw him intoxicated.
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