TEMES (AND. SE AMON — 
“Truth will prevan, “ 


Vou. V. No. 16.] CITY OF NAUVOO, ILL. SEPT. 2, 1844 Whole No. 100 


HISTORY OF JOSEPH SMITH. 
(Cotinnued.) 


During the mob, one of the twins received a 
severe cold, and continued to grow worse till 
Friday, and died. The mobbers were composed 
of various religious parties, but mostly Camp- 
belites, Methodists and Baptists, who continued 
to molest and menace father Johnson’s house for 
along time. Eldef Rigdon removed to Kirt- 
land with his family, then sick with the meas- 
les, the following Wednesday, and, on account 
ofthe mob he wenj to Chardon on Saturday, 
April first. Sunday, April second, I started for 
Missouri, in company with Newel K. Whitney, 
Peter Whitmer, and Jesse Gauze, to fulfil the 
revelation. Not wishing to go by Kirtland, as 
another mob existed in that neighborhood, (and 
indeed, the spirit of mobocracy was very prev- 
alent through the region of country at the time,) 
brother George Pitkin took us in his waggon, 
by the most expeditious route to Warren, wh 
we arrived the same day, and were there join 
by elder Rigdon, who left Chardon in the morn- 
ingzand proceeding onward;we arrived at Wells- 
ville the next day, and the day following at 
Stubenville, where we left the waggon; and on 
Wednesday the fifth of April, we took passage 
on board a steam packet for Wheeling, Virgin- 
ia; where we purchased ajot of paper for the 
press in Zion, then in care Of W. W. Phelps. 


After we left Hiram, fearing for safety of 


ed us all the way round, left us, and we arrived 
at Louisville the same night; Captain Brittle 
fered us protection on board of his boat, al 
gave us supper and breakfast gratuitously. A@ 
Louisville, we were joined by elder Titus B- 
lings, who was journeying with a company of 
saints from Kirtland to Zion, and we took fe» 
sage on the steamer Charleston for St. Louis, 
where we parted with brother Billings and 
company, and by stage arrived at 
Missouri, on the twenty-fourth of April, a dis 
tance of about three hundred miles from St. 
Louis. We found the brethren generally enjoy- 
ing health and faith, and extremely glad to wel- 
come us among them. 
On the 26th, 1A general council of the 
chureMf, and was acknowledged as the presi- 
dent of the high priesthood, according to a pre 
vious ordination at aconferenee of high 
elders and members, held at Amherst, Ohio, on 
the 25th of January, 1832. The right hand of 
fellowship was given to me by the bishop, Ed- 
ward Partridge, in behalf of the church. The 
scene was solemn, impeessive, and delightful — 
During the intermission, a difficulty or 
which had existed between bishop Partridge and 
elder Rigdon, was amicably settled, and when 
we came together inthe afternoon, all hearts 
seemed to rejoice, and I received the following: 
Revelation given April, 1832, showing the ovder 


given to Enoch, and the church in his day. 
my family, on account of the mob, I Wrote to Verily, verily Isay unto you, my servants, 
my wife, (in connection with bishop Whitney, ) that inasmuch as you have one another 


to have her go to Kirtland and tarry with his 
family till ourreturn. She went to Kirtland, to 
brother Whitney’s, and sister Whitney’s aunt» 
Sarah Smith, (who was then living with her,) 
inquired of her niece if my wife was going to 


your tresspasses, even 8 T the Lord g 
yous nevertheless there are those ‘ — 


ware from henceforth and refrain from sin lest 
sore judgments ſall upon your heads: for unto 
whom much is given much is required; and he 
who sins against the greater light shall receive 
the greater condemnation. e call upon my 
name for revelations, and I give them unto y⁹ 
I give unto you, ye become transgressors, 
justice and judgment iq the penalty whigh is 
fixed unto my law: — what I say pape 


one J say, unto all for ;the 2 


affirmative, said she should go away, for there 
was not room enough for both of them; accor- 
dingly sister Whitney invited my wife to leave, 
which she did immediately;having enjoyed about 
two hours visit. She then went to brother Rey- 

nolds Cahoon’s, and father Smith’s, and doctor 
Williams’, where , found her, very diseonsolate 


the night, the boat was twies on fire, 8 
the whole width of the boat 8 


and 
the mob 


* e 
— 


— | 
| 
stay there; and, and on being angwered in ö 
From Wheeling we took passage on boafl the 
steamer Trenton. While at the dock, during gpreadetilfhis dominions and darkness reig@etie 
| and theanger of God kindleth against the inhab- 
| itants of the earths apd none doeth 
have gase out of the way. * 
arrived at] And now verily J say unto you, I the N i 
bad follow- nof lay aly sin to yous charge go yor 


ways and sin no 
sinneth shall the forme ins 
Lord your God. * 

And again, I say 667 4 I give unto you a 
new commandment, that you may understand 
my will concerning you; or, in other words, I 
e unto you directions how Yoh may act be- 

me, that it may turnto you for your salva- 
tien. I the Lord am bound when ye do what I 
say, but when ye do not what I say, ye haveno 
promise. 

Therefore, verily I say, unto you, that it is ex- 


pedient for my servant Alam and Ahashdah, 


Mahalaleel and Pelagoram, and my servant Ga- 
relam, and Horah, and Olihah, and Shaleman- 
asseh, and Mehemson, be bound tog: ther by a 
bond and covenant that cannot be broken by 
transgression except judgment shall immediate- 
ly follow, in your several stewardships, to man- 
age the affairs of the poor, and all things per- 
taining to the bishopric both i the land of Zion 
and in the land of Shinehab, for I have @onse- 


gated the land of Shinehah in mine own due 


time for the benefit of the saintsof the Most 
High, and for a stake to Zion: for Zion must in- 
orease in beauty,& in holiness: her borders must 
beenlarged; her stakes must be strengthened: 

yea, verily I say unto you, Zion must arise and 
put on her beautiful garments: therefore I give 
unto you this commandment, that ye bind your- 
selves by this covenant, and it shall be done ac- 


' Poording tothe laws ofthe Lord. Behold here 


is wisdom, also, in me, for your good. And you 
are to be equal, or in other words, you are to 
have equal claims on the properties, ] for the 
benefit of managing the concerns of your stew- 
ardships, every man according to his wants and 
his needs, inasmuch as his wants are just: and 
all r the benefif of the church of the living 
God, that every man may improve upon his tal- 
ent, that every man may gain other talents; yea, 
even an hundred fold, to be cast into the Lord’s 
storehouse, to become the common property of 
the whole church, every man seeking the inter- 
est of his neighbor, and doing all things with an 
eye single to the glory of God. 

This order [ have appointed to be an everlas- 
ting order unto you and unto your successors, 
inasmuch as you sin not: and the soul that sins 
against this covenant, and hardeneth his heart 
it, shall be dealt with according to the 
of my church, and shall be delivered over 
to the buffitings of satan uutil the day a, 
tion. # 

‘And now verily I emo rs, and this is 
wisdoni,*mak@unto yo friends with the 
feammon of unrighteousness, and they will not 
rr * with me, 


you; my blessings continue with you, for even 


you fall not from your steadfastnesss even 50: 
Amen. 

On the 27th, we transacted considerable bu - 
siness for the salvation of saints who were 
settling among a ferocious set of mobbers, like 
lambs among wolves. It was my endeavor to 
so organize the church, that the brethren might 
eventually be independent of every incumbranee 
beneath the celestial kingdom, by bonds and 
covenants of mutual friendship, and mutual 
love. 

On the 28th and 29th, I visited the bretiren 
above Big Blue river, in Kaw township, twelve 
miles west of Independenc® and received a wel- 
come only known by brethren and sisters united 

as ene in the same faith, and by the same bap- 
tism, and supported by the same Lord. The 
Colesville braneh, in particular, rejoiced as the 
ancient saints did with Paul. It is good to re- 
joice with the peop'e of God. On the 30th, I 
returned to Independence, and again sat in coun- 
eil with the brethren and received the follow- 


pe: 
Revelation given April, 1832. 

Verily thus saith the Lord, in addition to the 
laws of the church eoneetning women and chil- 
dren, those who belong to the church, who have 
lost their husbands or fathers: women have claim 
on their husbands for their maintainance until 
their husbands are taken and if they are not found 
transgressors they shall have fellowship in the 

church, and if they are not faithful, they shall 
not have fellowship in the church; yet they may 
remain upon their inheritances according to the 
laws of the land. 

All children have claim upon their parents 
for their maintainance until they are of ages and 
after that they have claim upon the church; or, 
in other words upon, the Lord's storehouse, if 


their parents havé not wherewith to give them | 


inheritances. And the storehouse shall be kept 
by the consecrations of the church, that widows 
and orphans shall be provided for, as also the 
poor: Amen. 


Our council was continued on the first of May, 
when it was ordered that three thousand copies 
of the book of Commandments be printed the 
first edition; that William-W. Phelps, Oliver 
Cowdery and John Whitmer be appoipted to , 
review and prepare such revelations as shall be 
deemed proper for publication, for the press, 


dence, Mfssouri; “published by W. W. 
& Co.” It was also ordered that W. ‘Wet 


correct and print the 


yet the kingdom is yours, and shall be forever if 


is || and print them as soon as possible 33 


* 


4 625 | 
| | 
| 
| 
— | 
| 
a 0 


Smith, in falfillment of thf 


revelation. | 


Arrangements were also made for supplying 
the saints with stores in Missouri and Ohio, 
which with a few exceptions, was hailed with 
jay by the brethren. Before we left Indepen- 
dence, elder Rigdon preached two most power- 
ful discourses, which, so far as outward | 
ance is concerned, gave’ great satisfaction to 
the people. 

On the 6th of May L gave the parting hand to 
the brethren in Indepencence, and in company 
with brothers Rigdon and Whitney,commenced 
areturn to Kirtland, by stage to St. Louis, from 
thence to Vincennes, Indiana; and from thence 
to New Albany, near the falls of the Ohio river. 
Before we arrived at the latter place, the horses 
became frightened, and while going at full speed 
bishop Whitney attempted to jump out of the 
coach, but having his coat fast, enught his foot 
in the wheel and had his leg aff-foot broken in 
several places; at the same time I jtimped out 
unhurt, and we put up at Mr. Porter’s public 
house, in Greenville, for four weeks, while el- 

der Rigdon went direetly-forward to, Kirtland, 
Daring ell this time, brother Whitney lost-nc 


the revelations, 


bquickly — — inde heck 
which would take us direetly to the landing ° 
where we should s in waiting, 

we poing up the river before 10 Oelock, 
ave.a prosperous journey home. He took 
courage and told me he would go. We started 
next marning and found every thing as I 
told bimjfor we were passing rapidly up 
riv@& before 10 o’elock, and landing at 
ville, took stage coach to Chardon, from thenee 
in a geggon to Kirtland, where we arrived 
some time in June, and I rer my wife as be- 
foros mentioned. 

As soon as I could arrange my affairs, I re- 
comme the translation of the scriptures, 
and thus ['epent most of the summer. [fn Ju- 
ly we received the first number of the Evening 
and Morning Star, which was a joyods treat 
to the raints. Delightful, indeed, was it, to 
coptemplate, that the little band of brethren 
had become lage, and tro vn s, strong, in 
so ahort a space as to be abletoissue u paper 
of their own, which qontained not only some of 
t other information also 
which would gratify and enlighted the humble, 
enquirer after truth. 


a meal of vituals ora night’s sleep, and doctér|| “So embittered was the public mind againss 
Porter, our landlord’s brother, who attended the truth, thet the press universally had been 
him, said it was a d———d pity we had not got. arrayed against us; and although m@y news 
some Mormon there, they can set broken bones papers published the prospectus of our new pe 


ordo any thing else. I tarried with brother 
Whitney and administered ta him till he was} 
able tobe moved. While at this place I tre- 
quently walked out in ti woods, where I saw 
several graves; and one day when I rose 
from the dinner table, I walked directly to the} 
door and commenced vomiting most profusely. I. 
raised large quantities of blood and: poisonous 
matter, and so great were the muscular eontor- 
tions of my system, that my jaw was dislocated 
in-a few: moments. This I succeeded in repla- 
cing with my own hands, and made my way to 
brother Whitney, (who was on the bed) as spee- 
dily as pSssible; he. laid his hands on me and 
administered in the name of the Lord, and I was 
’ healed in an instant, although the effect of the 
poison had been powerful, as to cause much 
of the hair to become loosened from my head — 
Thanks be to my heavenly. Father for his inter- 
ference in my behalf at this. critical moment, in 
the name of Jesus Christ, Amen. 
' brother Whitney hed not bad hia foot mowed 
from the bed for near four week, when I went 
into hie teom, after a walk in the grove, and jf? 
toll ifthe would agree start for home it 
we would take a waggon to the 
about four miles, and there would be 


would take us 


per, yet it appeared to have been done more, 
calumniate the editor, than give publicity o 
the sheet. Editors thought to do us harm, 
while the saints rejoiced that they could do 
nothing against the truth, but ſor it. 

The following are extrlicts from the ‘Eve: 
ning and Morning Star Inégpendence, Mie- 
souri, Jupe 1832, first n 

‘ “TO 


* 


‘ 


With the help of God, the first namber of 
Star; comes 


the Evening and Morni ; to the 
world for the objects ified ia ita” 
tus, ‘which was published “Tast inte 
we should recapitulate some of i 
objects and briefly add a few rama, ~ — 
u be expected; and we cheerfully do 6 
that, this generation may know, that the Star 
comes in these last days us the friend of man, 
to persuade him yo turn to God und live, er = 
the great and terrible day of the Lérd % 
the earth of its wickedness: That 
not only as the messenger of truth. to uu 
re vel and commandments of God" 
1. 35 to pablish those that God 
5e of old, for he is ihe tame 


yesterday, to- forever; u. 


Acts, 


626 
— 
5 
* 


* 


‘ wpon them: knowing thet the great day of the || were: Syffer it tobe so now: Fer thus it be 


celestial ki 


= * 


627 * 


oonmanhents unto the apovties whem he had f philosophy and vain deceit, after the traditions 
hosen what possible reason is there to sup-fjof men and he rudiments of the world. Thas 
pose that he would neglect to do likewise} it comes to prepare the way of the Lord, thas 
swou—before he comes in his glory; he || when he comes he may bave a holy people res- 
gathers his elect, (the house of Iersel; to receive him. it comes to show that 
Isaiah, 45: 4;) and even before John the reve- Ine ean.be eo good to be saved, but that 
lator must prophesy again before my peop! be comes to de 
and nations, and tongues, and kings? gen | clare (het in doing good, nes 
We know of no reason in the Bible. mereſy in p ing is That it comes to show 
it comes as the harbinger of peace and good | that all men’s religion le vain without charity. 
vil to them that serve the Lord with agleter- } That it comes to open Phe way. for Zion to ar 
mination to have a part in the first resurrection, | and put on her beautiful garments and become 
and finally become kingsjand priests 46 God, he the glory of the earth, that her lad may te 
Father, in the celestial kingdom, “where, God || joined, or married, (according to the known 
and Christ is, and where they will be for etet- || translation of Isaiah,) to Jerusalem again and 


nity; and where ll be also, the general ag-|/they be one as they were in the days of Peleg. | 


sembly of the first born, the church of Enoch,||Thusit comes. 
wao walked with God and built up Zion in the Man, being created 


tsanslated to paradise before the flood; 
Isaiah says; Thy watchmen dhal lift 
voice; with the voice together shall they Hus: the flesh, and n with ist thousand 
‘for they shall see eye to when the Lord 


‘| by another, thaty by obeying the commands 61 


not ashamed to take upon them the name of Ans, and say: Lord I amthine! The fret worde 
Garist, and walk lowly in the valley of trunm#l-|\ofwhich we have account, that Jesus Christ 
dation, znd let the solemnities of eternity rest|/spake concerning the things of eternal lifer 


Lord wil usher in the Sabbath of crea” cometh us to fulfill all, righteousness. Then 
„ for the rest of the saints: that the Savior | he was baptized t and truly, if it became the 
thousand years of peace upon the || Savior of tive world, holy as he wag, to be bap- 


earth, while satan js boand. That it comes 2 in the meritian of time, to fulfill all 


mecknessand mercy to alf mankind that they || righteousness, how more n is 
may,do works meet for repentance and. he saved|| for man, to be baptized upon the very ‘eve of 
da the fret 2 afterwitt dwell the Sabbath of creation, to be saved? Let the 
with the spirits gig Wn made perfect in the heart answer the head, that the body may save 
> Mich transcends the glory the soul. As this paper is devoted to the great 


of the 


onde the. prison imperfect. That it} ing of the world, and many other matters, fer 
comes ng | of great joy to all} their proper channels. endeavoring by all mn 
people, Gut mare esfectally the honse of Israel set an example before the world. which, 
om abroad, that the day of tr redemp- 
don is dir, for the Lord hath sgt bis hand 
gain the second time to restore them „. 
land of their inheritance, réady to receive | 
Savior in the clouds of heaven. That it comes 
to show that the ensign is ngw set up, unto bet 
which all nations shell come, and worship the || the 
Land, the God of Jacob, acceptably. itl the 

n war, and the plague r pestilence, , meas 


gates of glory, whets. the wicked cease from 
troubling, and whéte {he weery will find res. 
There may be errors both in ty and in che pe- 
. We readily admis, and we mean to grow 
till, from little ghildren, we all come in 
tive faith, and of the knowledge of 
God, ant a perfect man, unto the 
of jhe stature of the fulness of Chr 


ii is called. are sweeping their tho and |i which we may be the happy lot of thous 
tun of thousands, to show that the f trib-4 before he comes with the hundred forty. 


wation spoken, of by our Savior, are/nigh At and four thousand that are without guile... 
hand, even gfthe doors. That it comes to re- : 


peat the great caution of FN: Beware lest Fone, 1832. 
any you, (the diseiples af Christ,) throug 


4 but ligle below the ans © 
first days, which Zion and Enoch the Lord gels, only wants to knbw for himself, and mot 


he his Creator, he q rise again, After death, in 
ears on the eagth, without sin h be changed in, 


shall bring 4% Zion, Thetjt comes eccor- |i the twinkling of an eye, and become a king — 
ding to the will of God. From thos who are | and a priest to im,eternity—to forsake his 


as Mush as the terre@rial Jconcerns of eterna) things and the gathering * 
transaends the taléstial, or the Yelegipt”trant- fof the saints, it will leave politica, the gainsay- 


when followed, will lead our fellow mid to tb 


W. W. PHELPS... .. 


= — — — — —— — : ——ęb'ms— — — — — ͤ &Ev— — 
j 
. 
1 
i 
] 
° i 
* 
* . 


y 
TO THE CHURCH OF-CHRIST ABROAD] ceeded to state in a brief manner the object ¢ 
IN THE or which conference wascalled. A branch 
It is the duty of the chtifch of Christ, in Lot the Och of Jesus Christ of Latter Day 
on, to stand as an ensign to all nations, t nts was organized in this place, called the 
the Lord bath set hig hand the seond gf branch, consisting of twenty members. 
restore the house of Iaracl to the la Eld wiand Cobb was chosen to preside 
inheritance, &., and it"behdove over thétpranch, and S. was appoin- 
of this church, to manifest the world * 6 Merk. | 
a godly walk; by a noble example, as well a Brother R. Williams n the branch 
by sterling precept; by pludence in living; by || at Charletre Centre, consisting ef ten member» 
plainness in dress; by industry; by econdiny ; | elder and one priest. 
by faith and works, and above all, by 'solemni- discourse was delivered by elder Tyler. 
ty, humility and patiences that this isa day of on the first principles of the gospel, to an ab 
warning and not a day of many words. tentive congregation. 
This being the order in Zion, how much Adjourned til! 10 o’clock, A. M., July, 28. 
more necessary lo it, tibet the churches of Christ,|| Met pursuant “fo adjourmment and opened 
. which have not yet coma, ap to this labd, should] by singing and prayer. Elder Whipple ad 
ghow the world, ered conduct in all dipssed the asu bly on the subject of the 
things, that they J. the dhildren of the tiving | k being taken frem the Jews and given 
God? Itis Pinportant und vation off tofthe Gentiles, and the great work of the fees 


y souls depefds upon the 
ple. They wi therefotey : thers P. Williams and Asa: Horton were 
will su@dénly come ned elders, and ‘the conference adjourned. 
part in preparing the way, by”obsqv HOLMAN. 


Chairman 


Sabbeth day, and keep it hol}; —.— 
their children the gospel 24. them te} ano COBB, Clerk. 


pray; by avoiding exttemép in all matters; by | Minutes of a Conference of the Church of Jesus 
shunning every appearance ‘of evil ; by studying | Christ of Latter-day Saints, held 
te be approved, and doing uato others, as they centre. county, Michigan, 
have others de unto them; by bearing 10th and 11th of 1844, 
trouble and persecution patiently, without a | P ursmant td previous ‘appointment, ceafer 
aan knowing that Michael, the arch an- || ence met at 4 odes P. M. called to order by 
* contending with the devil, he dispu- heider G. Savage; and elder William Barton 
ihe body of Mies, Yuret not brisigl Ptegident pro tem—elder . Serrine 
ageloéthiai a railing accusation, but said, the} being absopt—and eldes W. Van Avery clerk. 
Lord gebuke thee. They will not only set an 8 wen opened’ g and pray- 
example werthy of imitdtion, but they will let 7, by the president, after * o ode ene 
Weir light so shine as that others, seeing, may | remark@respécting the 2 of the conſer - 4 
go und do like@ise. Example is the great thing | 2 libelty fo | 
| gave li r others. 
that defies'the world with all its vain glory: by der G. Savage made some very 
letting’ theft’ moderation be known unto all 


men, p dress and in living; in words and 
in desde in watching and it prayingy ia love} jPattiarch, gad was followed by otherjel 


aod in in works Solemnities Conference 

enquirer a samp! teach all christendom|} Coofere rsuant io adjournment; 

a lesson, that stadied préeching and pulpit ¢; | elder Serrine being present, took the chaitr.- , 
| | Singing and prayer by elder G. Shy e. Elder 


tence have failed to secomplish 
| Merely red a discourse —. atthew, 


‘CONFERENCE MINUT NB. chapter, 19 and 20th verses, from which 
— —— — [he vet forth the first principles of the 

Minutes of d conference held in Gerry, . . a very able manner, showing the necessity 
dus county, N. F., July; Na, 1844. | obeving all the ordianances of God’s house. 
convened pureuent io appoint-| Conference adjourned for one boat andes 
organized by calling. elder Joshua} half. he 
Conference convened; dinging and 
elder D. Hickey.* The number of 


— — ũ ⸗G.ꝶ —— — —— — — — — — — — 

£ 


= 699” 


Migh Priesu— M. Serrine and ——— Stod- 


dard. 
Seventies+-G. Savage, Wm. Mal- 


loray and Merely. 
Fourteen elders, two priests and one des- 


oon. 
The different branches were then represen- 


ted. 

Franklin branch by elder J. M. Wa, 84 
members, one high priest, — maß one 
priest, one teacher and one de 

Livonia branch by elder Did Wood, 16 
members, one elder, one priest, one teacker, 
and one deacon, 

Superior branch by elder M. Serrine, 16 
members and one teacher. 

Brownstown branth By elder G. Savage, 19 
members, one elder and one teacher. 

Redford braneh by Levi M. Rendall, 14 
hers, two elders, one priest and one deacon, 

Southfield branch by R. Hogh eight mee 
bers, one elder and one priest. 

Avon branch by elder D. Hickey, 14 mem- 
bers, 2 diders, 1 priest. 

Pleasant Valley branch by elder B. Searle, 
25 members, three elders and one priest. 

branch by brother Lathrop, 11 


ch by M. Serfine, 13 members, 
and one teacher. 


one pri 
Waterford branch by M. Serrine, 12 mem- 


"very oe elder and one teacher. 


e Run branch by elder S. Malloray, nine 
members, one elder and one teacher. | 
Rose branch by B. Searle, nine members, one 


est and one teac 
branch at. Serrine, six mem- 


ders, one elder aad one priest. 

About 40 members in the above ne not 
represented. 

Elders Peter Van Avery, jr. and Maris 
Spraguéwere called to labor in the county of 
St. Ur, J. M. Waitin Siwassee, G! vage 
Oakland and Macomb coupti 
The following brethren were then nominated 
for ordination: 4 


Brother Lathrop and Wai. Walworth . tants ot Jerusalem by our 


of elders. 
Aurore Busnes and Wm. Survies te the office 


Conference adjourned until to-morrow, at city and country left deselate. 


half past ten o’oleck, A. M. 
Conference met according to 
end 


sr the usual volémnitree, elder Burton 


appointment ſ them to the saints in this age. 
discourse front Revelations]! Lord have gatherd 


brief sketch of the rise and progress of the 
church from the time it was organized ; also the 
life and sufferings of the prophet and patriarch, 
from the time they were called to the minis 
pagtil they were avéassinated and suffered 
martyrdém for the cause ef truth. A deep so 
lemnity restod upon the congregation. 

‘Conference adjourned for one hour. 

During intermission, two were added to the 
church by baptism. > 

Conference convened; after the throne of 
grace was addressed, a discourse was delivered 
by elder Savage en the subject of faith; after 
which the cenfirmation of those that were bap” 
|| tized, blessing of children and sacrament ‘was 
administered. 

A minister of the Christian order then arose 
desiring the privilege, of addressing the con- 
gregation a few moments; he then stated be 
came there forthe purpose of hearing for him 
self concerning our principles, and said be 
must confess he heard the truth, and ina» 
much as he had embraced error, be wes willing 
to exehange iffor truth any time, and us an 


7 honest man before God, he exorted the congre- 


gation toobey the gospel if they wished to be 


saved in the kingdom of God. 


It was then motioned and seconded, that the 
minutes of this conlerence be sent to the Times 
and Seasons for publication. 

Conference then adjourned until the firs‘ 
Friday‘in November next, at Oakland Town, 
Oakland county, four miles north of Rochee 


ter. WM. BURTON 
M. SERRINE. Preat’s 


Wu. Van Avary, Clerk. 


COMMUNICATIONS. . 


A MIRROR FOR THE SAINTS TO LOOI 

IN TO SEE THEMSELVES, * 
“How oft would I have _gaghered you ws a hen gatbereth 
her chigkens under her wings, but ye would not.” 

These words were addressed to the inhabi- 
and Savier, in- 
tima ting that if they bed beef willing to heark- 

to him and to the prophets who were before 
hieß they might have remained in the quiet 
and ,dajoyment of their city and 


Ader Wm. Burton preach Joseph's and - templa and national tights and libefties. But 
rims foneral sermon, on the Sabbath at 11 o- because the 


would not hearken, they should 
their temple destroyed, and their 


O! ye Latter day Saints! How oft would the 
you, but you WouLn . 


be eadtter 


But we have quoted them in order to 


14¹ĩ — verses, giving 9° The fact in; if thé beep 


4 

| 
i 

| 

‘ 

| 

* 
% 
N. 


630 


bearken tb counsel, and to give heed to the com- 
roandments and revelations of God as publish- 
ed among them from time to time, Nauvoo 
would now have contained a hundred and fifty 
thousand souls; with, industrious work shops 
of every description, manufacturing every arti- 
cle for home use and comfort, and supplying“ 


the whole western states with every thing use- bout ei ight thousand dollars worth of land and 
ful which ingenuity could invent, or skill and | mills. He promised much, but finally instead 
industry execute, from a cambrick needle or a er fulfillin g, I believe he divided a part to hie 


pin, up tea steam engine; While Hancock and unbelieving eMdten, and trusted out a good 
half dozen other counties would have been store of the rest; and then came on and was 


- filled with a hundred and fifty thousand more) driven out of Misseuri. 
of industrious and flourishing farmers, stoek There is Captain J., an elder who rung a 

raisers, woel growers, etc. etc.; while the state sloop from Sing Sing te New York, said to be 
legislature would have been filled with our wise! werth some thousandsy who has great zeq) for 
men, to make just laws; and the exeeu@ve|| the commandments; and who has known aad 
chair with a man who would have admipister- |i testified to’the truth fer some seven years past. 
ed them in equity and justice, for the benefit | This man runs his sloop still; and his money 
end protectien of all. Every foot of vacant has never purchased a farm ef erected a work 


land would have been cultivated like Eden, shop in Zion. ‘How oft would I have gathered 
end a hundred theusand outlaws, murderers, ore, you WOULD NOT. | 


mebbers, gnd traitors, would have found it im-] There was a brother W., of New York who 
possible te have disturbed our peace, er breke joined the chureh and came out west; but he 
up the government ef the country; and these kept his gold and silver locked up fur years 
whe were opposed .to peace, order and eiviliaa- instead of laying it eut in some branch of im 
den, would have had their money for their dustry te employ the poor. He was doubtless 
lands, and would leng since have been travel- che person referred to in the scripture, who did , 
ling to Texas, California, Oregon, or the low- |} net put his money to use becausdhe wes 
@ regions.of his satanic majesty’s dominions. afraid. 

O ye Latter Day Saints, how oft would II One comes here and goes away to St. Louis 
hgve gathered you, but you wouLp nor. | Burlington, Peoria, Chicago or some other 


Wuat is the reason you would not be gather- | place, and lays out his means because he thinks 
ed asa hen gsthereth her chickens under her there is a greater prospect of gain; another 
wings? I answer; coveteusness and unbelief, || °°* to a newer country where he thinks to 
Ye have chesen your own ways, and have ney- get better or cheaper land; another pays on 
er bebn willing to hearken to che prophete and out, or lends it to some scoundrel, bo- 
servants whom God has sent-ento you; ‘Rising | eases he has not sufficient confidence in the @ 


mainder ont at interest to seme worldling in his 
own state, and then came on to Misaouri, with . 
great zeal to keep the commandments of God; 
but was driven out. Query; Hew many mobbers 
would that ten thousand dollars have purchas- 
ed out, in a new country where land was cheap! 


Old elder B, of Gennessee Flats, owned 


— 


early and sending them.“ The instructions} church to deal with them. A woman comes 
have been given you all the day long, to sell here and keeps her money sewed up in her 
ott your lands and property, aad- to gather up| stays, instead of entering into business with it. 4 


your money and substance, and come up and| Another comes here and looks about hima 
purchase lands and farms and establish all the || While, and then takes his money and yoes bac 
various branches of industry, both in town and | to England, or to Philadelphia, or wherever i 
country, and to make your purchases and es-/ came from, for fear he should spend it here in 


„ tablish your settlements according fo counsel; | doing geod. 


eo to act in unison, and us be able to with- ls Another — — cso and buyss 
stand persecution and every evil work. arm, where he neither enjoys society nor pra- 


We will now proceed to show in a ay! in- = the poor geunempleyed, and are scat 
* stances how this has been fulfilled. © 2 | tered tofend fro over the earth, to seek to earn a 
An elder by the mame of J. M., residing in|] morsel of bread; while the city 6f Nauvoe lam 

Ohio, professes great zeal and faith, abd made guishes in poverty, the Tehipte is not . 

mighty promises what he would do with his business is at a stand, and the saints of the 
money. He accordingly sold and prepared for|| Moat High ate few in number, have butlitie © 

removal. He had about ten ‘Rousand dollars means, and are persecuted, . “x and 
in! ready money, which he divided chiefly | devtroyed all the day long. 


the wsth, and as J wes informed, lei the the thousands which are to 


* 
— 
— “ 


among the members of this church whose boast 
in: that they have prophets, apostles and reve- 
lators to guide them, while the sectarians haye 
not. Nor are the rich alone to blame in these 
matters; for many of the poor either stop on 
the road, or come here and go away again, as 
by say through poverty or necessity. But if 
they are not prospered abroad, they excuse 
themselves because they have no means to 
settle here; end if they are prospered, then 
they are doing so well that theg think that they 
had better stay where they ean do the best; — 
ead they are led on by worldly schemes, and 
by drunkenness and whoredom, till they care 
nothing for the Lord, or his saints. Scores and 
hundreds ef young ladies ceme here, or start 
to come, and either on 84 

trrive, are led away and corrupted; and are fi- 
nelly made servants of Wives to some unbe- 
lieving rascal who fears not God or regards 
man; and others still more wicked and unfor- 
tunate, loose their eharacter entirely, in St. 
Luis, Warsaw, er some other place, where 
. they are placed in houses of ill fame and made 


_ merchandize of, for fear lest they should come 


* 


‘te Nauvoo and be deluded; while thousands 


an thousands stay for years in their native land 
and profess all the while to believe that God 
has 2 — the church to come together. 
Again, many who de come and stay here 
among the saints, come more with a view of be- 
ing helped to a living, while they pray, and 
ging, and tattle, and heat and tell news, than 
af entering into the strict rules of persevering 
industry and economy, in order to procare the 


-*eomforts of life. 


Again; merchants, lawyers, doctors, mechan- 
les, and others who are not of our faith, and 


here in our midst for speculation, or some- 


thing worse, are supported. and even made rich 
while our real friends are neglected, and com- 
pelled to seek employment and support. in oth- 


@ and distant towns. . 
Many persons are here who stand still, and 


4. in a great measure idle, who do ngt take 
half the pains to establish themselves in busi. 
mees, which they would be willing to do in St. 
Louis, in Lowell, in Salem, or in Boston. 

What is the result ef all these operations and 
proceedings? The answer is obvious. Our city 
is impoverished, and many go hungry and des- 
titate. Our people are scattered and not pre- 
pered to defend thir freedom and their rights. 
Mobs prowl sround us, aud overpower us, and 
vex and murder at pleasure, and we are in dan- 
ger of being scattered and driven. 

Then a general murmur commences from 


4 "4 


ir Way, or after they || er 


They say, it cannet be that God 
ua together to suffer hunger ard poverty with- 
out the means of support, and why, (if this is 
his work,) does he not defend ub from our ene- 
mies, and give us peace Fand plenty. Thus God 
and his servants have to bear the blame for all 
the consequences of their disobedience and 
neglect; while they scatter from the rest like 
wild quaile, or pheasants; and crying as they 
go: ‘the work of the Lord has failed, and the 
revelations of his prophets are falsified.’ 

O ye Latter Day Saints! how oft would Je 
sushave gathered you asahen gatheth her 
chickens under her winge, but ye would not. 
So much for those who would not. 
Butjthere are thousands who would be gatk- 

under the wing of the Almighty, and who 
have strove from the beginning to keep his 
commandments and to be counselled by his 


servants. 
What shall we say te them! 
We say dear brethren and sistere; you have 


suffered much, because of false brethren and 
traitors, and the hypocrite and the covetous.— 
But, persevere without discouragement; for 
God Almighty will gather you under his wing; 
and Jeeus will lead you and deliver you from 
all trouble and wipe all tears from your eyea 
Therefore, be of good cheer; and endure in 
faithfulness unto the end. 

As to the church at large, at home and abroad, 
if they will now repent ofall theseevils, and come 
together as the heart of one man; and be gov- 
erned by counsel,and seek to employ them 
selves and each other, and to support and build 
up in perfect union, according to the plan of 
heaven; they shell be saved; and no power shall 
scatter or destroy them; but if not, behold your 
house is left unto you desolate, and the king- 
dom of God shall come with power for the de- 
liverance of those who will do these things. 


I am as ever, your affectionate 
and humble servant, who loves 
you so well that he dares tell 
youthetruth, P. P. PRATT. 


* TO THE SAINTS. 

Whereas Elders James J. Strang and Aaron 
Smith have been cir@ulating a ‘revelation ,” 
(falsely called) pufporting to have been receiv- 
ed by Joseph Smith on the 18th of June, 1844; 
and through the*influence of which they have 
attempted and are attempting to establish a 
stake, called Voree, in Wisconsin Territory, 
thereby leading the saints astray: therefore, the 
said James J. Strang and Aaron Smith are 
cut off from the church of Jesus Christ of Lat- 


ter-day Saints, this 26th day of August, 1844. 
unbelieving and disobe- By order of the he of RICHABDS, Cleth. 


‘ 
6310 
Ly 
+ 
21 
> 
{ 


632 


TIMES AND SEASONS: 


CITY. OF NAUVOO, 

SEPTEMBER 2, 1844. 

—— 

Great excitement prevails throughout the 

world t9 know “ who shall be the successor of 
Joseph Smith !“ 

In reply, we say, be patient, be patient a little, 
dil the proper time comes, and we will tell you 
ell. Great wheels move slow.” At present, 
we can say that a special conference of the 
church was held in Natvoo on the 8th ult., 
and it was carried without a discenting voice, 
‘that the “Twelve” should preside over the 
whole church, end whén any alteration in the 
presidency shall be required, seasonable notice 
will be given; the elders abroad, will best 
exibit their wisdbm to all men, by remaining 
silent on those things they are ignorant 6f.— 
Bishops Whitney and Miller have been appoin- 
ted trustees. to manage the financial concerns 


of the church, and will soon enter on the duties 
oftheir calling. 


— 
EXTERMINATION. 
From the Boston Investigator. 

or 4 Prizst.—The last Jones- 
boro (Tennessee) Whig, edited by the Rev. 
Mr.®Brownlow, contains the following edito- 
rial expression: 

Our opinion is, that there is to be no peace 
in this vast country, till the Mormonsand Cu- 
olics are exterminated.”? 

The above is extracted fur a text, without 
an idea ef abridging the freedom of thought, or 
freedom of the press: for the Deist and the 
Priest exhibitin words what they would be 
ashamed of in deeds. The Hottentots of Afri- 
ea; the Cannibals of the islands of the sea, the 
wild Arabs of the desert, the Pirates of the 
ocean, or wild Indians of the mountains, have 
pever, to our knowledge, settled down on the 
deadly conclusion to ‘exterminate’ ther neigh- 
hore, but a CHRISTIAN PRIEST AND A LIBERAL 
Desist nave! | 
To take the text asa whole, as the fair posi- 
ton of the author; ‘there isto be no peace in 
this vast country, till the Mosmons agd Catho- 
lies are exjerminated "which is rather a vast 
calculation, allowing each tei m to express what 
N means, and mean what it expresses. ‘This 
vast country,’ about comprises the habitable 
globe, and in nearly all places where thére is 
people, there are ‘Mormons and Catholics,’ as 
well as priests in Jonesborp,’ or Deists in Bos- 


ton. Again, in this vast country,’ among al} 


— 
nations, e Mormons and Catholics’ ate «@ 
constituent part of the community. government, 
and greater or lesser power, with as many nat- 
ural rights, privileges, immunities and claims, 
on earth and in heaven, asthe clasical dicta- 
tor of Tennessee, or the pontifical free-thinker 
of Maseachusetts; and who, as a righteous 
judge, ought to say to Moses; blot out 4ma- 
lek? Has the powers that be, set up a negro- 
driving priest of the south, and a speculating 
Yankee of the north, as Aaron and Hor, to bolste® 
up public opinion, and ‘utterly put the remem- 
brance of Mormons and Catholics from under 
heaven!“ 

But this is not all. The absence of one thing 
often substitutes another, and, as there ‘is to 
be no more peace,’ wil this priestly propheey 
is tulfilled, war, calamitous war! must be 
presecuted by the whole Protestant world, 
against the ‘Mormons and Catholics’ till their 
blood, booty and utter ‘extermination’ whitens 
a peace; pure as the crystal fountains of the 
untrodden valley, or gushing spring of the 
mountains. Really we, that is the ‘Mormoas 
and Catholics’ of the enlightened nineteenth 
century, hage ‘fallen on evil times,’ for the 
great men of the south, and the wise men of the 
north, have taken counsel tegether to war fot 
the whole world, and we must be ‘egtermina- 
ted,’ or kiss the priest’s toe, and black the 
Deist’s boots. 


ioned religion embraced in the limits of our 
text: ie; if the priest of Jonesboro’ is that 
prophet spoken of as being rafed up am 


hear him, should be cut off from among 

people; and that the patriotic, philanthropic 
infidel, (Bardon the expression, it only means 
trusting in fidelity,) of Boston, is the spirit of 


children, and the hearts of the children to the 
fatherg lest the Lord comes and smites the 
who th witha curse! There is, too, an 
immense appearance of the milk of humaa 
kindness, and charity for the honer and glory 
of christianity, and the reason and wisdom of 
free-thinking, couched in the manly idea of 
‘exterminating’ the Motmens and Catholica’— 
by universal war! It savers so maeh of the 
millennium ; the instruction of Jesus, and the 
prayers of pious, praying ! It must be that 
we, ie: the ‘Mormons and Catholics, ‘heve 

@-planct, for the pions 


waked up on the wrom t 
and pompous of the a and south, of*this 
essed’ of all na- 


boasted ‘asylum of the! 
tions, have decided that 


in “thie vast country,’ and mi be 


There is certainly a good deal of old fash- 


Elias, to turn the hearts of the fathers te the 


his brethren, which, every soul that — . 


ve feht hes 


| 


— 
— 
| 
| 
— 
| 
— 
wa ba 


cbutiom, until June Sth 1794, when the inhabi-} 


ld be removed tothe Place St. Antoine, in 
front of the ruins ef the Bastile. It stood in 


Robesplerre. 


Here an event occurted which reflected greet 
credit upon Sanson, the chief executfoner, He 
was conducting the prisoners, bit observing 
the disturbance, and seeing Fauquier, the A- 
cusateur Public, passing, the court where the 
prisoners were ascending the fatal carts, on his 
way to dinner, he ventured to stop Fauquier, 
and represented to him that there were rumors 

— ſot a commotion, suggesting whether it would 
EXECUTIONS—THE GUILLOTINE. not be prudent te postpune the execution, st 
* The London Quarterly Rewew conteins an least until the morning; Fauquier roughly ro- 
daborate but interesting article upon the sys- plied that the law must take its course. He 
temized murders of the Guillotine, the origin went to dinner, and forty-nine victims went 
ef the barbarous instrument, and other matters | to the scaffold—whitlrer, in due time à follow- 
connected with this most “errible feature in ed them. 
the history of the French Revolution. The The next day the Guillotine was removed 

back to the scene of its longest triumph the 


Guillotine, it appears, was net originally de- 
signed with any view to what turned out to Place de la Revolution—where en the 28th of 


to ascertain what the great crowned herds o 
the kingdoms of the world think of universal 
war; universal extermination; universal priest- 
craft, and universal power of the lesser priest 
hood! America is waking up in wonders, and 
we sincerely hope the people will follow one 
af the old prophet’s advice: Consider your ways! 


be its most important characteristic—the great July, it avenged humanity om Robespierre and 


number of victims it could execute in à short twenty-one of his followers; the next day six- 
space ef time — but this bloedy instrument was} ty-nine; and the day ated, thirty more of his 
st first proposed on a combined ‘principle off sseociates. The writer in the Quarterly justly 
justice and mercy, the inventor contending, adde that, though France is naturally anxious 
that hanging was a lingering and creel punish- | ;,, forget these Revolutionary horrors, it bo- 


ment, while death by decapitation must be im- heoves the rest of to remember 
mediate. | 
After giving much information 4 relation to meditate upon (sem. 


this sanguinary machine, the writer of the ar | 
uele. spgaking ofthe  osition it occupies in | 
Frence, says, that the Guillotine remained in 

petfermance, in the celebrated Place de la Rev- 


REFLECTIONS, 
The abeve extract is taken from an exchange 
paper as a matter of historical vengeance. In 
fact, such specimens of the cruelty and cefrup- 


. f men serve as monuments raised over 
tants of the streets through which the suffer- — 
ere had to pags, being — of the heart-ren- ambition and folly of pest gen- 


| | erations, for the reflection, contemplation and 
Aing sight, retolved that the cruel instrument 
In good cooking various articles are used to 


jthis new position, however, but five days, the Prepare a palatable repast for the appetite of 
‘shop keepers not liking their new neighbor, [Man. Salt, pepper, spice, vinegar, catsup, 
and having in those brief five days, executed | cassia, and many other seasonables, make up 
ninety-six persons, it, was removed to the Bar-| the dish to please the taste: and thus pave we 


* rlere du Tyrone, where it stood from the 9th off brought in the Guillotine asa variation of death 


June, te the fall of Robespierre, 27:h of July, | 


1794. pip There is a consequence and a power attach- 
In the forty-nine days, in which it iqpaid tol'ed to death, that man, poor weak man, has 
have stood at the Barriere du Trome, it despateh- never Mthomed. He, to-be-sure, has sought 
ef 1270 persons of both sexes, and of all ages | out many invé@pgiong; circumnavigated the 
und ranks, and it became necessary to build a globe; brought down the lightning from the 
kind of sanguiduct to carry off the stream of clouds, and soared above them in baloons 
blood; and on the very day when Robespierre but he cannot cope with death. From the 
fell—even when the slightest interruption} merning that Cain, in his ambitious thirst for 
would have — heve stopped the fatal power, without prudence, and huntility, ghed 
procession—forty-™@ine persons passed to the] the innocent blood of his brother Abel, the 
place of execution! On the 27th‘ of July, ate 
about half past three in the afternoon, just as mankind to destrey life. Tbe opposition te life 
bas marched even handed with the anzlety & 


to please the vanity and wrath of man. 


this last batch of victims were about to leave 
the Conciergerie, a eonsideralje commotion in 
the town tock piece, caused by the 


had corrupted its wéy on the earth, the Lord 
himself sent in the floods and made whole 


~ 


of the evil one has rambled forth among 


perpetuate it. Yea, more so; for when all flesh 


na 
pa 
he 
he 
th 
ta 
& 
pt 
he 
of 
u 
le 
a 
a 


633 

sal 
ha 

By 

th 

en 

2 d 

en 

It 
po 


— 
* 


634 


sale business of the whole earth, and all that 
had life, save what was in NOah’s Ark, died.— 
By the time the saints have spent as much 
time in the next world, as they live in this, 
they will have lgarned that death isa person, 
and occupies a icuous place among the 
damned. Hell is a person too, aud death, hell 


and the devil must fill the three lower kingdoms. 


It is written in Isaiah: ‘We have made a cove- 
vant with death, and with hell are we at an 
agreement: when the overflowing scourge sball 
pase through, it shall not come upon us; for we 
have made lies ovr refuge, and under falsehood 
have we hid ourselves. Therefore thus saith 
the Lord God; Behold me establish in Zion a 
stone, a tried stons, & ptee ious corner, a foun- 
tain well founded, that en account ef unbelief 
shall be hastened.’ 

Again, while this foundation is hastening to 
prostrate the designs of wicked men, death, 
hell and the deyil, we read in the revelations 
of St. John as follews: ‘And when he had 
opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of 
the fourth beast say, come and see. And I 
looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name 
that sat on him was Death, and heil followed 
with him. And power was given unto them 
over a fourth part of the earth, to kill with 
sword, and with hunger, and with death, and 
with the beaste of the earth.’ 


But enough on this point. The great idea 
is, to shew hoe many horrible modes of des- 
troying life have been invented by the cunning, 
melice, and wisdom of men, in the various pe- 
rods ef time; stening, crucifying, frying in 
pans, boiling in oil, and beheading; were among 
the many modes of olden times; as popular as 
the Guillotine, scaffold, drawing in quarters, 
burning at the stake, and inquisition, among 
christiane; er faggots, pine knots, stuck into 
the flesh and burnt, throwing the tomahawk 
end scalping, among savages. They are all 
awful, and bespeak degradation of soul, and a 
lack of pure religion. Te incarcerate men in 
Prison, through ambition and wrath; of to nang 
them in chains; or banish among beasts 
om desert islands; or to éa them into dens of 
pions; or to plung them into furnaces, heated 
seven times hotter than they were wont to be; 
tq skin them alive—show such an insatia. 
ble thirst@er revenge, and display of power 
over life; that good men cannot endure it:—it 
will require a God to judge sueh enaggpus 
, an eternity for the puviahment, and a 
gage hardened devil to inflict x! 


“Modern times, by the invention of gun pow- 
der und fire arms, have mide the exit of life 


most ferocious of thé latter day mobs, that” 
swords and gun powder, are the dernier resort 
to destroy one another; and,perhaps,since there 
ig a consumption decreed upon the whole 
earth, this method will be the mildest one ab 
lowed among the wicked, till all the plagues 
are poured out and death is taken out of the 
world. Cowper says: 
‘Variety’s the spice of life, 
That gives it all its flavor.’ 
And, when candid men meditate upon the hom 
rid modes of destroying life, invented by ty 
rants, they can exclaim: 
Jealousy’s the bane of life 
That gives it al] its. trouble! 

Were it not for the glorious hope of a here 
after, what would be ile consolation of the Lerds 
noblemen? Ah! says the apostle, ‘if in this 
life we only have hope, we are of all men most 
miserable; eat, drink and be merry, for to 
morrow we die' There isa something in the 
inner man, which reaches beyond death; and 
like the ancients, we can exclaim: ‘Awake, 
awake, Deborah; awake, awake, utter a. song: 
arise, Barak, and lead thy captivity captive thou 
son of Abinoam. 

It seems cruel, excessive, and coal dejeo- 
ting to let wicked and corrupt men, use pow 
er, unto the death and destruction of so many 
millions as frequently are murdered, Lutchered, 
imprisoned, and otherwise inhumanly treated 
for their religion; or forthe sake of glutting 
the desire of despots; or for the gratification of 
an ignorant mob; but when the patient spirt 
of Jesus lifts up the imagination and we vi 
in visiens what must shortly come to pass 
on all the ungodly, we can pray like Hannah 
of old: ‘My heart rejoiceth in the Lord; mise 
horn is exalted in the Lord: my mouth is en- 
larged over mine enemies: because I rejoice tn 
thy salvation. There is none holy asthe Lord; 
for there is none beside thee; neither ie these 
ayy rock like our God. Talk no more se ex- 
ceeding proudly; let not arrogancy come out of 
your mouth; for the Lord isa God of know, 
edge, and by him actions are weighed. The 
bows of the mighty men are broken, and they 
that tumble are girded with strength. Theythat 
were full have hired out themselves for bread; 
and they that were hungry ceased: so that 
the barren bath borne sevgy and she that bath 
many childrea is waxed le. The Lord kf 
leth and maketh alive; be bringeth down to 
the grave, and dbringeth up. The Lord maketh 
poor, and mabeſb rich: he bringeth low, and 
lifteth up. wied up the poor out of the 
dust, and up the beggar from the dung. . 


morespeedy, It will be noticed among the aii, 


a | 
| 
| 
| | 
| 
| 
| 
| 
| 
—— ͤ — — — — — 


635 


* them inherit the throne of glory: for the pillare 
of the earth are the Lord’s, and be hath set the 
world upon them. He will keep the feet of his 
saints, and the wicked shall be silent in dark- 
ness: for by strength shall no man prevail. The 
adversaries of the Lord shall be broken to pie- 
ces; eut of heaven shall he thunder upon them; 
the Lord shall judge the ends of the earth; and 
he shall give strength unto his King, and ex- 
alt the horn of his annointed.“ 

In conclusion, our extract on the Guillotine, 
end our remarks on modes of murder, have 
perhaps exceeded the space which they should 
have occupied, but what is the use of curtail- 
ing a subject of such immense magnitude 
Were it not that there isa day coming when 
the nations of the earth shall learn war no 
more, and when death shall be swallowed up 
in victory, we should not have had moral cour- 
age to have written on such a painful theme. 
The Lord, however, having made a wholesale 
business of slaying the wicked several times 
when they became ‘too plenty,’ has promised 
that they shall be burnt up, root and branch, 
in the last days: Therefore ‘let Israel rejoice 
in him that made him; let the ehildren of Zion 
be joyful in their King. Let them praise his 
mame in the dance: let them sing praises unto 
him with timbre! and harp. For the Lord ta- 


keth pleasure in his people: he will beautify 
the meek with salvation. Let the saints be 


joyful in glory: let them sing aloud upon their 
beds. Let the high praises of God be in their 
mouth, and a two edged sword in their hand; — 
To execute vengeance upon the heathen, and 
ishments upon the people; To bind their 
inge with chains, and their nobles with fet- 
ters Of iron; To execute upon them the judg- 
ment written: this honor have all his saints.— 
Praise ye the Lord.“ 

This will be glory enough for one world, and 
joy enangb for those who have waded in blood 
to bliss, Then and only ruxx will the saints 
understand what death is; and what the 
er is, of him that conquers all, in this world 
and the world to come. 


“4 FOOL’S BOLT IS SOON SHOT.” 

The following very sage selection, by some 
wise-acre of Massachusetts, appeared in a late 
‘Boston Bee 

A Mormoy Proruecy.—Mr Editor: 
In the Book of * second edition, com- 
mencing on page 526, occurs a prophecy; in 
the course of which the Prophet Smith is 
brought into view, and the following predic- 
tion is made concerning him:—, 


although he shall be marred because of them, 
Yet I will heal-bbm ; for I will show unto them 
that my wisdom is greater than the cunning of 
the devil. 

Happening to be familiar with Mormon books 
I thought I would transcribe the above pas- 
sage for publication, in order to show how it 
squares with the violent death of Smith. 

An OBsERVER. 

This ‘marring’ which was to take place be- 
fore he brought the words of the book forth to 
the Gentiles, happened near the hill Cumo- 
rah, when Joseph Smith was knocked down with 
a handspike, and afterwards healed almust in- 
stantly! The second time he was marred, can 
be seen by reading the ‘Times and Seasons’ of 
August 15th, 1844; when his flesh was scratched 
off, and he tarred anc{feathered. He was again 
healed instantly, fulfilling the prophecy twice 
But lest the uncircumcised Philistines shoald 
triumph, we wish that An Observer“ would 
read the following paragraph in the 6th chap- 
ter of the first book of Nephi, page 54, in said 
Book of Mormon. Come ye near unto me; I 
have net spoken insecret from the beginning: 
from the time that it was declared, have I spo- 
ken; and the Lord God and his spirit hath sem 
me. And thus saith the Lord, the Redeemer, 
the holy One (Jesus Christ) of Israel; I have 
sent him; [Joseph Smith] the Lord thy God 
who teacheth thee to profit; who leadest thee 
by the way thou shouldst go, hag doneit. O 
that thou [the Gentiles] hadst hearkened to my 
commandments, then had thy peace been ase 
river, and righteousness as the waves of the 
sea: thy seed also had been as the sand: the off- 
epring of thy bowels like the gravel thereof:— 
his name [Joseph Smith’s] should not have 
been cut off, nor destroyed from before me.’ 

Perhaps Isaiah in the 48th chapter and oth- 
er places, might have mentioned the fact thet 
his name was ‘cut off.’ Read and reflect, fer 
there are more true prophecies in the Bible and 
Book of Mormon, than the sects and sioners 


But bebold the life of my servant shall be 


in my bend; therefore they shall not hurt him ;4 


ever dreamed of. Remember that. 


THE WINE CUP OF FURY. 

There is a solethd idea contained in the com- 
mand of the Lord te Jeremiah: To take the 
wine cup of his. fury at hig hand, and cause all 
the nations to whom | send thee, to drink it» 


This awful command has yet to bed@pxecuted, 


‘for the slain of the Lord’ has mever been ‘from 
one of the earth tothe other.’ If this gen- 
eration is not the one for the inhabitants of the 
earth ‘to drink and be drunken, and spue and 
fall to rise no more;’ let some divinely authen- 
ticated servant ef the Lord say. * it wee 
for it must come, 


ly. 


A — 
— — — — 0 
Dea 

| at 
He 

H 
He 
He 
He 
} He 
3 H 
De 
i H 
We 
He 
A 
U 
g 
t 

| 


— 


636 


On reflection, we think Pollock’s words for 
Death, in his ‘Course of Time,’ comes very near 
a reality. He says: 

“Earth’s cup 
ls peisoned : her renown most infamous; 
Her gold, seem as it may, is really dust; 
Her titles, slamderous names; ber praise re- 
preach; 
Her strength, an idiot’s boast ; her wisdom, blind; 
Her gain, eternal loss; her hope, a dream; 
Her Jove, her friendship, enmity with God; 
Her promises, a lie; her smile, a harlot’s; 
Her beauty, paint, and rotten within; her pleas- 
ures, 

Deadly assassine masked; her laughter, grief; 
Her breasts, the sting of Death; her total sum, 
Mer all, most utter vanity; and all 
Her lovers mad; insane mos! grieviously ; 
And most insane, because they know it net.” 


TEN VIRGINS, 

And five of them were wise, and five foolish: 
Mat. 25; 2. 

So much is said about stakes of Zion, recent- 
ly, that a few words of Revelatien on the sub- 
ject may suffice. On the 235 page of the. old 
book of Doctrine and Covenants, (366 in the 
new) we read as follows: 


“Verily, I say unto you, notwithstanding 
their sins my boweis are filled with compas- 
don towards them: I will not utterly cast them 
eff; and in the day of wroth I will remember 
mercy. I have sworn, and the decree hath 
gene forth by a former commandment which I 
have given unto you, that I would let fall the 
eword of mine indignation in the behalf of my, 
people; and even as I have said, shall it come 
te pass. Mine incignation is soon to be poured 
ant without measure upon all nations, and this 
will I do when the cup of their iniquity is full. 
And in that day, all who are found upon the 
watch tower, or in other words, all mine Israel 
all be saved. And they that have been scat- 
tered shall be gathered: and all they who have 
mourned shall be comforted; and all they who 
have given their lives for my name shall be 
crowned. Therefore, let your hearts be com- 
forted concerning Zion; for all flesh is in mine 
hands: be still, and know that I am God. Zion 
hall not be moved out of her place, notwith- 
standing her children are scattered, they that 
main and pure in heart shall return and 
me to their inheritances; they and their chil- 
en, with songs of everlasting joy; to build up 
the waste places of Zion. And all these things 
that the prophets might be fulfilled. And be- 
hold, bere is none other place appointed than 
that which I have appointed; adhe shell 


there be any other place appointed than that * 
which I have appointed for the work of the gath- 
ering ef my saints, until the day cometh when 
there is found no more room fer them; and then 
I have other places which I will appoint unto 
them, and they shall be called stakes, for the 
curtains, or the strengrh of Zion.“ 

Now, brethren, the word of the Lord is plain, 
no more ‘places of gathering, will be appoim 
ved of the Lord, till there is no- more room” In — 
Zion; and should the wicked scatter the saings 
ever so far and wide from their inheritance, 
yet, when Jacob begins to go up to the house 
of the Lord, and to the Ged of Israel, they wild 
come home. The wise Virgins will have oil 
enough in their lamps to see the ‘way marks,’ 
and walk in the old paths. Glory toGod whe 
giveth us the victory through Jesus Christ our 
Lord, by adhering to his commandments, as 
given by Joseph Smith, his servant the seer. 

PRELIMINARIES FOR RELIGION. 

In 1835, there was published in London, a 
Book of the Denominations.’ This publication, 
of about 700 pages, contains an account ef 
nearly sixty different sects, all serving God un- 
der various creeds, ceremunies and expecta 
tions. Truly was it said, ‘when the shepherd t 
smitten the sheep will scatter.’ To obviate the ' 
the objection, howeveh, se often made to reve 
lations, as believed by the Latter Day Bainu, 
we have though it advisable to make an extract 
from the writer’s preliminary remarks, It is 
not all gold that shines, neither is every pile of 
rubbish destitute of jewels: By proving eontre- 
rieties, truth often manifests itself so clearly’ s 
that he that runs may read, and he that reads 
may understand. 

Now to the extract :— 

„For eighteen centuries it has voch the sin- 
gular fate of christianity to attach to iuelſ, and- 
yet to seperate from each other, those who have 
professed to embrace it as a revelation from 
heaven. Its promulgation has been uniformly 
marked by this two-fold character of unity and 
division. The most violent zealots for oppo- 
site or different opinions, have yet ranged them- 
selves under the common standerd of the faith; 
they have all strenuously adhered to the name 
of their feunder, while they have strangely 
used that name as the watchword of dissen- 


ion and persecution. 80 rkably has thie 
malous exhibition of ristian religion 
ptéyailed, that thete bas scarcely been a mo- 
ment. during its pregress in which its friends, 
because they were its triegds, hyve not been tiie 

epponents of each other. Thus theodium of 
engendering and every ond 


637 


antisocial feeling in the human bosom, has been 


* fixed, not upon any particular sect, e hureh, or 


denomination, but upon the gospel itself; and 


‘superficial objectors have inferred, that because 


_ professing Christians in all ages and of all par- 
ties have been the persecutors of cach other, that 
_ Christianily.is nothing more than a mischievous 


_ delusion, designed to impose upon the credulity, 


and to awaken into active energy the worst pus- 
mons, of mankind. 

The preliminary duty of the author of a work 
like the present. unquestionably, is to meet 
and refute a conclusion so utterly unsupported 
by the facts from which it is ostensibly deri- 
ved. 

Assuming the facts to be true, can it indeed 
be shown, that Christianity is in the slightest 
degree responsible for the conflicting opinions 
and persecuting animesities, which have so un- 
happily diegraced its disciplesand tarnished its 
glory? 

A notion bas very generally prevailed,. that 
a revelation from beaven ought to be so clear, 
distinct and luminous, as to render uniformity 
of sentiment on the subject of its discoveries 


- the almost necessary consequence of ite pro- 


mulgation. This notion as applied to Christian- 
ity has operated very differently upon different 
minds. It has induced infidelity iv one class 
and intolerance in the other. The scéptic waits 
for the perfect agreement of all Christians, be- 
fore he will admit their religion to be divine; 
the bigot contends that among true Christians 
this agreement is indispensable, that the most 
trifling departure from Lis own opinions, which 
ere of course the only epinions founded. in 
tragb, ie a mark of heresy; in the suppression 
of which, he suffers himself to be hurried in- 
to all the extravagances of remorseless peree- 
eution. ſavocite position of both is, tha 
diversity of sentiment regarding the contents of 
alleged divine revelation is fatel' to.its preten- 
sions; perhaps the only point in which the in- 
fide] and the zealot are agreed, :he practical in- 
fluence of which is to make one the enemy of 
himeelf, and the other the enemy ofall man- 
kind. As a subtle and dangerous fallacy it 
deserves exposure; and forthie, a very little 
sagacity will suffice: those who maintain it, are 
perhaps hardly aware of its legitimate conse-. 
quences, any more than they are prepared to 
detct the sophism.gn which itis founded. Ie 
has not prepably @turred to them, that thie, 
their strongest argument for two of the worst 
things in the world, infidelity and bigotry, is 
subversive of n revealed, but of. natural 


religion. II every. thing-sssuming: the charee~ 


tes of Nen from heaven is to. be rejeo-" w 


ted simply on the ground of the differences and 
contrarieties of opinion, which may prevail 


among its advocates, then there is nothing 


true, nothing divine, in the universe. For 
what is there in the whole range of philosophy 
that has not occasioned disputation, and div} 
ded the most acute and sagacious reasoners }— 
Uniformity is, and ever has been confined with- 
in the narrow limits of self-evident truths and 
mathematical demonstrations. There are no 
dupliestes in human nature, no classes where 
individuals possess an exact resemblance. It 
is not therefore possible, unless the capacities 
of different minds could be equalized, and their 
circumstances rendered precisely similar, that 
they should entertain identieal opinions, and 
contemplate under the same aspects, and with 
the same convictions, the doctrine which they 
be li eve to be true, Universal concert. and per- 
fect agreement are utterly unknown in this 
world of ignorance, prejudice and passion, 
where a thourand influences conspire to obscure 
the most glorious truths, and to diminish the 
force of he most powerful arguments.“ 


* SPECIAL MEETING. 

On the 8th of August, 1844, at a special 
meeting ofthe Church of Jesus Christ of Lat- 
ter Day Sainte, convened at the stand in the 
eity of Nauvoo, Presippyt Brickam 
called the audience to order, and arranged the 


several quorums according to their standing, 


and the rules of the church. The meeting had 
been previously called, as stated, to choose a 
guardian, or trastee for said church, 

Elder Phelps opened the meeting by prayer, 
and President Young then proceeded to speak, 
and gave his views of the present situation of 
the church, now that the prophet and patriarch 
were taken ſrom our midst-by the wickedness 
of cur enemies. For the first time since he be- 
came a member of the church; a servant of 
God, a messenger to the nations in the nine - 
teenth century; forthe first time in the king-. 
dom of God, the Twelve Apostles of the Lamb, 
chosen by revelation, in this last dispensatien 
of the gospel: for the winding up scene, pre- 
sent themselves before the saints, to stand in. 
their lot according to appointment. Whilethe 
prophet lived, we all walked by ‘sight;’ he is 
taken from us and we mast now walk by ‘faith. 
After he had explained matiers eq 
ly that every saint could see that hen 6 mon- 
tle had truly fallen upon the Twelve,’ he ask - 


ed the saints what they wanted. Do you want 


a guardian,.a prophet, a spokesman, er what 
t o you want? If you want any of these officers, 


pignify it by raising the righthand. Not a hand 
* 10 | * 


tisfactor- 


| 
7 de 
55 H 
——— 
at 
* w 
10 
| b 
4 fc 
i 
| 
— 
| 
| 
| 
it | 
| 
| | 
| 
| 
* 


He then gave the saints his views of what the 
Lord wanted. Here are the Twelve,“ appoin- 
ted by the finger of God, who hold the keys of 
the priesthood, and the authority to set in or- 
der and regulate the church iu all the world. 
Here is elder Amasa Lyman and elder Sidney 
Rigdon; they were councillors in the first pres- 
idency, and they are couneillors to the Twelve 
still; if they keep their places; but if either 
wishes to act as ‘spokesman’ for the prophet 
Joseph, he must go behind the veil where Jo- 
seph is, He continued his remarks nearly an 
hour, opening by the spirit of God, the eyes, 
ears and hearts of the saints to the subject be- 
fore them, and to their duty and the glory of 
God. 

ELorn Amasa Lyman followed, and fully 
accorded with th» instructions and views of 
elder Young. I have been at the back of the 
prophet Joseph, andI shal} be at the back of 
the ‘Twelve.’ There is no need of choosing a 
guardian or head, the apostles have the power, 
as they had ancicntly, and this is the powgr 
that turns the key and will bear off the king- 
dom of God in all the world, triumphantly ; and 
I shall help them obtain that glory, that eye 
hath not seen, ear hath not heard, and the 


heart of man hath not conceived. His remarks 


were continued in the fall fruition of the spir- 
it, that whispers: union is strength, and peace 
ig joy. 

epoke’ next, and eontinued 
the eame spirit and feeling, having known ma- 
ny of the elders for fourteen years, and had seen 
them take their lives in Stheir hands, without 
purse or script, in summer and in winter,— 
through good and through evil report, for the 
salvation of souls, and for the benefit of Zion, 
without the hope of reward; save pleasing 
God, and obeying his commandments ;—had |} 
seen them harness for war when wicked men 
sought their lives and endeavovred to des- 
troy their wives and children; and at all times 
they were willing to set by counsel; they will 
do it now; this lake of faces does not seem 80 
pleasart without indicating good; and the el- 
ders who have stood on the right end left of 
our departed prophet, knowing the authority 
and power ofthe priesthood, will honor it.— 
Elder Rigdon must know how he obtained his 

, endowment, or what he bas; for he has not re- 
ceived all, ya small part. Let him and the 
whole of Isrtel rejoice this day, for if they 

rear that Temple and are faithful, they shall 
all be endowed, (men and women.) as God 


progenitors, as well as seoure their posterity. — 
Feet not cone ming a prophet; Joseph held the 


will, till they can save themselves. and | ia, there will the eagles be gathered together. 


63% | 


keys in this world, and hoids them in the world 
to come, andscaunsels for you now. I under- 
stand the revelations, andknow thatin them 
all things are written concerning the Twelve. 
Exper P. P Pratt aid what had been said,. 
was well said, and went into the merits of the 
subject, with his usual animation. Says he, I 
know we can ail live happy if we deal with 
honest men: Ido not like the practice when 
any one is sick or in difficulty, to run 10 a doe 
tor or a lawyer: run to the very worst men to 
be cured, or helped ou of difficulty! Let me 
die a natural death, and suffer wrong rather than 
hire a doctor to kill me,or a lawyer to fleece 
me and leave me to the beggarly elemente of 
the world. As to merchants, I say nothing og 


them; you knew what I mean. 
| Elba Vouxe again resumed: I do not ask 


this audience to take my couneel; act for your+ 
selves: if elder Rigdon is your choice manifest 
it: if the Twelve be the men to counsel you te 
finish the great work laid out by our departed 
prophet, say so; and do not break your cove- 

nant by murmuring hereafter. When the whole. 
subject was properly explained and understood, 
and counsellor Rigdon refused to have hie 
name voted for as a spokesman or guardian, the 
question was put, ‘all im favor of supporting 
the Twelve im their calling, (every quotum, 
man andwoman,) signify it by the uplifted 

hand;’ and the vote was unanimous, no hand 
being raised in the negative. The next vote 
was that the Twelve should sclect and appeint 
two bishops to act as trustees for the chureb, 
aceording to law. This vote was 
‘also, Another unanimoue vote was passed to 
use every exertion to forward the bfilding of 
the Temple, and to strengthen the hands of 
the committee. The reve'ation in relation to 


tithing was referied to, and the m@@ifestatioa 
of every saint seemed to be, we will do as the 

Lord hath commanded; and the astembly wae 

dismissed with the blessings of the Lord. 


(> The Twelve would invite the brethren 
abroad, in obedience to the commandments of 
the Lord, to gather to Nauvoo, with-their means 
tohelp build upthe city, and complete the 
Temple,which is now going forward faster than 
it has at any timesinceitcommenced. Beware 
of the speculations about the prophet! Believe. 
no tales on thesubject: Time will tell who are 
the friends of Joseph Smith, who laid down big 
life for his brethren, We ve no new com- 
mandments, but beseech the brethren to honor 
and obey the old ones. For wheresoever thecar- . 


More in the next. 


BRIGHAM 
Pres. of the 


Sept. 2, 1844. 


* 
| 
| 
r 
| 
| 
t | af 
| 
| 
| 
| 
1 
1 
| 
| | 
| 
| 
| 
| 
>