Liberty Jail
Historical landmark in Liberty, MissouriWikipedia
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Oct 22, 2026
Rebecca BibliotecaHOST
And like I said, I visited, I was in Branson for Christmas.
Rebecca BibliotecaHOST
So I visited Liberty Jail and Adam on Dime and all of that.
Rebecca BibliotecaHOST
And I just got this sense that, I don't know, there was a distance, maybe the LDS church was distancing itself from all of that kind of history, because, you know, it's not as glamorous as what's happening in Abu, where they're putting a lot of money into tourism there, shows and, you know, paid people to guide people around.
Rebecca BibliotecaHOST
I don't know, I just kind of got the sense that Missouri is just like, let's not go there.
Rebecca BibliotecaHOST
Ron, what do you think? What do you think about that? Do you think that they're emphasizing other areas of church history? And maybe that's why they haven't focused on this or don't seem to want to take it under its wing? I don't know.
Ron YorgasonHOST
it seems weird that they would promote so many other areas.
Ron YorgasonHOST
Like we've got Liberty jail.
Ron YorgasonHOST
I mean, Liberty jail is right close to this thing.
Alyssa EdwardsGUEST
I mean, we see it in scriptures.
Alyssa EdwardsGUEST
We see it with Joseph Smith in Liberty Jail.
Alyssa EdwardsGUEST
We see it with prophet upon prophet upon prophet.
Alyssa EdwardsGUEST
This isn't a new pattern where we keep our covenants and everything happens so beautifully.
Jamie ForsytheHOST
Joseph Smith cried out in a time when he too was figuratively in the stocks.
Jamie ForsytheHOST
He was in Liberty Jail.
Jamie ForsytheHOST
He said, "O God, where art thou? And where is the pavilion that covereth thy hiding place? Why are you hiding from me? I'm doing what you want me to do." He continued by asking how long the Lord would stay his hand, and how long would the saints be allowed to endure these awful wrongs and oppressions.
Jamie ForsytheHOST
And then this was part of the Lord's beautiful and comforting answer to Joseph's questions.
Rebecca BibliothecaHOST
Yeah.
Rebecca BibliothecaHOST
And it's funny because I visited Branson, Missouri, and went to all these church history sites that saw Oliver Cowdery's grave, David Whitmer, Liberty Jail.
Rebecca BibliothecaHOST
And I came away from that thinking, huh.
Rebecca BibliothecaHOST
the church has really sort of dialed that back they're kind of putting all of their emphasis into nauvoo i mean they're going crazy in nauvoo right trying to make it a tourist destination and i just kind of got the sense that they were i don't know distancing themselves a little bit from missouri and that could be because missouri things didn't always with a lot of things that happened there, but I compiled a list of the things that I could come up with that happened on this Arthur Plantation.
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Rebecca BibliothecaHOST
The town has approved it.
Rebecca BibliothecaHOST
So we're not saying the LDS Church is building a data center or even leasing land to a data center.
Rebecca BibliothecaHOST
We're just saying with all these things there, why would it not be sort of a stop on the tour back there? You know, Liberty Jail and the witnesses.
Rebecca BibliothecaHOST
Why isn't that something that's protected? I don't know.
Jared HalversonHOST
And so when you talk about the struggles of later Israel and needing to hold on to those past promises in the Davidic Covenant, whether it's Isaiah pointing them in that direction when the northern tribes are scattered by Assyria, whether it's the struggle in Babylon a century-plus later, and then as you pointed out, there's Jesus in the first century.
Jared HalversonHOST
There's Joseph Smith in Liberty Jail.
Jared HalversonHOST
There's all of us in these moments where we wonder, "Where art thou? And where's your hesed? What have I..." We don't have to ask, "What have I done?" We know what we've done, and we sometimes wonder.
Jared HalversonHOST
So why is this such an essential text whenever our lives don't seem to match the promises that we thought we had been given and granted by God?
Robbie TaggartGUEST
They find themselves on the banks of the rivers of Babylon being asked to sing songs, and they can't.
Robbie TaggartGUEST
There is deep anguish in their soul.
Robbie TaggartGUEST
They ask, "How long, Lord, wilt thou hide thyself forever?" You bring up Liberty Jail.
Robbie TaggartGUEST
That's what this sounds like.
Barbara Morgan GardnerHOST
Well, we know what that says.
Barbara Morgan GardnerHOST
It's section 121, this is Liberty Jail, verse 45.
Barbara Morgan GardnerHOST
It is...
Barbara Morgan GardnerHOST
Oops, I'm on 124.
Kevin J. HathawayGUEST
Opposition comes to all, even the righteous.
Kevin J. HathawayGUEST
It can stir heartrending questions and deep emotions, like Joseph Smith's cry from Liberty Jail, O God, Where Art Thou?, or the grief and fear felt by Helaman's stripling warriors.
Kevin J. HathawayGUEST
Such questions and emotions are not sin or weakness.
Kevin J. HathawayGUEST
They can create a sacred space where agency is activated and we choose whether to turn toward Jesus Christ.
Casey GriffithsHOST
Lyman White, future apostle, who's a close friend of Sidney Rigdon and Isaac Morley.
Casey GriffithsHOST
He's gonna make it through Liberty Jail.
Casey GriffithsHOST
Edward Partridge, who becomes the first bishop of the church, the presiding bishop, him and his wife, Lydia, are key.
Casey GriffithsHOST
Um, John Murdock, who is a big figure in the town where my parents came from in Beaver, Utah.
PatrickGUEST
Um, it's just the way they spoke in that part of the country.
PatrickGUEST
So if you look in the, in the, uh, entire cannon of Joseph's writing on the Joseph Smith Papers website, um, there's only a single instance, uh, in his handwriting where a-prefixing is used, and he's in the Liberty Jail and he's writing to Emma, and he's in the Liberty Jail with, with, uh, Sidney Rigdon, and it's possible that Sidney was helping him con- compose this letter.
PatrickGUEST
Um, there's another letter that's not in his handwriting that has one instance early on, and this is, um, in Frederick G. Williams' handwriting.
PatrickGUEST
And so I didn't include that one because it's, it's not clear if that was how it was originally written in the original text.
Quentin L. CookGUEST
Some scholars have noted that the reference to happiness was understood by the Founders to be based on living a virtuous life.
Quentin L. CookGUEST
Among the touching guidance that Joseph Smith received in Liberty Jail is the declaration, Let virtue garnish thy thoughts unceasingly.
Quentin L. CookGUEST
Significantly, President McKay taught, happiness is the purpose and design of existence.
Quentin L. CookGUEST
Men are that they might have joy.
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