but here's some language from uh his mother who said that uh Hiram who's uh

Joseph & Hyrum’s relationship

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had a remarkable tenancy and sympathy for Joseph Smith that he might he spent hours with Joseph Smith

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um attending to him through the leg issues and and the pain that he was caused you know all her words are almost

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day and night and then um at the bottom is a quote from the

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Behrens article and I'll just quote it it's short it says Hiram would remain home for a year to attend homebound

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Joseph who um remained on crutches for most of four years to be tutored by Hiram so that's

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where this information conveys and it only is conveyed and this only makes sense

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yeah absolutely yeah so I want to add a little bit more about Dr John Smith he

Dr. John Smith’s life & influence

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passed away in 1809 and I want to just go through his credentials because he's really a remarkable guy and I'm I'm kind

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of a fan of him at this point and uh but he was a dartmouth's first Professor he

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um had a master in ancient languages theology philosophy uh and uh Newton

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science he was on the Board of Trustees he was the pastor of the White Chapel the Church of Christ he was the

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Dartmouth College Bookstore proprietor um College librarian that's where hiring

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Smith could have checked out innumerable books to take home and and study from himself and perhaps uh speculatively

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even loan to to Joseph Smith uh he developed the curriculum with John

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Wheelock now pay attention to this he was proficient in this is a bright guy

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greek latin Hebrew Chaldaic Syriac Assyria Arabic and cop Coptic uh yeah

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sounds like sounds like David bakavoy a little intelligence I I don't know but it's certainly more than mine because I

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struggle with English but uh and and keep track of that because it's going to come from a second come up again in a

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second he was the chaplain of the Hanover Masonic Lodge masonry was a big

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deal in fact that Lodge in Hanover and Hanover and Dartmouth are basically synonymous Hanover is Dartmouth and and

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uh and vice versa um with a little exaggeration there I was

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established in 1796 again before Joseph Smith was even born he died before his

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lectures could be published he had every intention of publishing the theological lectures that I had transcribed he's uh

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even to this day considered a highly respected intellectual and he was and

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and going back to what we discussed Joseph Smith seniors parents first cousin that's the that's the actual

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relationship and I'm sure the family was super proud of him right I mean how could they not be well exactly in fact

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some of the things I've read said that suggested that the reason why Hiram got in to Dartmouth was because of that

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family relationship yeah that would make sense yeah yeah so I was mentioning this to rfm and he he brought this and this

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is a bit of a tangent but it brings up again this point that there's a story about

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um uh who was it Martin Harris going off to Professor Anton to go over the

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characters from the gold plates and something that never made sense to rfm and now that he brings it up it doesn't

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make sense to me either and I'm just quoting here it says and this is Martin Harris uh yeah this is in the Pearl of Great

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Price Joseph Smith history uh section 163-65. yes thank you

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um that he showed Professor Anton um these characters which were Egyptian

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uh I can't read it from this I'll read it Egyptian calderic Assyria and Arabic

Dartmouth Themes that end up in Mormon Doctrine

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and he said they were true characters well this begs the question why on Earth

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is Martin Harris talking about these other languages these weren't on the gold plates these other Arabic what is

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that why is that list and why is that list suspiciously close to the languages

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Mastered by Joseph Smith's relative Dr John Smith so just an interesting

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question why is this even here in the first place number one and number two

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um uh why is it virtually identical to the list of Dr John Smith interesting yeah

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okay okay so uh to get into Dartmouth College I I really have a this again a

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personal belief I think Hiram Smith was an intellectual giant behind Mormonism

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um he was very very quiet I think he was content being a quiet intellectual um by all accounts he was he was very

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bright to get into uh Dartmouth um

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only one in 1500 people in the United States at that time even attended College he was one of them and to get in

Dartmouth & Moor’s academy

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at least in 1823 I think one of the times we have records you had to be

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Converse in an English Latin and Greece uh Greek and translate uh English into

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Latin and vice versa so Hiram Smith who again lived in Dartmouth Hall

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attended church of Christ across the street was a very bright guy