Divine Misspelling?

Symonds Ryder was an apostate from the Church who led the mob that tarred and feathered Joseph Smith on 24 March 1832.

His apostasy is said to have commenced when his name was misspelled in the text of a revelation.  If Doctrine and Covenants 52:37 were truly from the Lord, he angrily declared, his name would have been spelled correctly.

However, his name was spelled variously in census and other records, and spelling was rather fluid in early America.

But notice, in the image above, his identification as an elder of the “Deciple Church” (aka the “Disciples Church”).

As Karl Ricks Anderson observed, it’s not written in paper.  It’s carved in stone.

Ah, the ironies of history.

Posted from Mentor, Ohio