Council of Fifty, Minutes, March 1844–January 1846; Volume 2, 1 March–6 May 1845
Council of Fifty, Minutes, March 1844–January 1846; Volume 2, 1 March–6 May 1845
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Historical Introduction
Historical Introduction
See historical introduction under Council of Fifty, Minutes, March 1844–January 1846; Volume 1, 10 March 1844–1 March 1845.
to his Temple. We are the hammer of the whole earth and we will break it in peices. Would it be any more harm to send our messengers to the West to look out a place of rest than to send men to preach to the nations. It is our union which the nations fear, it is this which the whole world dreads.
Council adjourned 5 minutes during which time a collection was taken to purchase father stones family some provisions as they are in want.
Councillor referred to the manner the Lord led the children of Israel out of Egypt, and compared the history of that people with the History of this church. Have we not been put upon a reliance on God and ourselves. The State of has taken from us all she ever gave us. Our reliance cannot be here any longer. The kingdom of God is set up and we are in [p. [26]]
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See Malachi 3:1; Book of Mormon, 1830 ed., 503 [3 Nephi 24:1]; Revelation, 9 Dec. 1830 [D&C 36:8]; and Revelation, 3 Nov. 1831 [D&C 133:2].
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Probably Robert Stone, a sixty-seven-year-old barber and high priest living in Nauvoo. (Platt, Nauvoo, 91; 1850 U.S. Census, Nauvoo, Hancock Co., IL, 400; “Names of Members of the High Priests Quorum,” in Nauvoo High Priests Quorum, Record, CHL.)
Platt, Lyman De. Nauvoo: Early Mormon Records Series, 1839–1846. Vol. 1. Highland, UT, 1980.
Census (U.S.) / U.S. Bureau of the Census. Population Schedules. Microfilm. FHL.
Nauvoo High Priests Quorum. Record, 1840–1891. CHL. CR 1000 2.
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