Constitution of the Council of Fifty, between circa 11 March and 18 April 1844, Draft
Source Note
Constitution of the Council of Fifty, , Hancock Co., IL, between ca. 11 Mar. and 18 Apr. 1844; in Council of Fifty, “Record,” pp. [146]–[155]; handwriting of William Clayton; CHL.
of the nation; are as enduring as the hills of eternity, and as omnipotent as the voice of Jehovah:— To hasten the accomplishment of his purposes: To fulfil the predictions of the prophets to establish a pure government; to lift up an ensign to the nations, and establish a standard for all people, that the strength, and the power, and the glory, and the exaltation, and the kingdom, and the dominion under the whole heavens, may become the kingdom of our God and of his Christ, as has been predicted by all the holy prophets since the world began, to be brought to pass on the earth in the last days; where peace, union, harmony, fellowship, phi [p. [151]]