Hymn 183 begins with the lines, “Alas! and did my Savior bleed! / And did my Sov’reign die? / Would he devote that sacred head / For such a worm as I?” (Hymn 183, Collection of Sacred Hymns [1841], 200–201.)

A Collection of Sacred Hymns, for the Church of the Latter Day Saints. Edited by Emma Smith. Kirtland, OH: F. G. Williams, 1835.

At a 24 April 1839 conference in Quincy, Illinois, JS was appointed part of a committee to “visit the Iaway Territory immediately” to investigate purchasing property. According to JS’s journal, after this appointment he “went to Ioway made purchases & returned.” On 30 April 1839, church leaders also purchased from Isaac Galland and Hugh White around 189 acres in the area of Commerce, Illinois, which was part of what would later constitute Nauvoo. In June 1839, church leaders acquired nearly 20,000 acres of land in Iowa Territory known as the Half-Breed Tract. In August 1839, JS and his counselors in the First Presidency bought land in Commerce from Horace Hotchkiss, John Gillet, and Smith Tuttle. By June 1840, however, JS sought to be relieved from his land transaction duties. The expansion of the responsibilities of the Quorum of the Twelve at a 16 August 1841 conference was, in part, meant to accomplish that end. (Minutes, 24 Apr. 1839; Minutes, 4–5 May 1839; JS, Journal, 24 Apr.–3 May 1839; Memorial to Nauvoo High Council, 18 June 1840; Minutes, 16 Aug. 1841.)

Granger died in August 1841. He had served as JS’s agent for land and financial transactions, focusing on resolving debts in Kirtland. The “business concern left in an uncertain condition” could refer to a number of matters, but the latest letter from JS to Granger suggested that the most pressing issue involved a Mr. Davenport from New York City. (See, for example, Letter to Oliver Granger, between ca. 22 and ca. 28 July 1840; and Letter to Oliver Granger, 4 May 1841; see also Letter to Oliver Granger, 30 Aug. 1841; and Power of Attorney to Reuben McBride, 28 Oct. 1841.)

Hymn 88 begins with the lines, “Great God, attend, while Zion sings / The joy that from thy presence springs; / To spend one day with thee on earth / Exceeds a thousand days of mirth.” (Hymn 88, Collection of Sacred Hymns [1841], 97–98.)

A Collection of Sacred Hymns, for the Church of the Latter Day Saints. Edited by Emma Smith. Kirtland, OH: F. G. Williams, 1835.

This fifty-dollar note was likely a Kirtland Safety Society note, which was worthless at that time. (See Kirtland Safety Society Notes, 4 Jan.–9 Mar. 1837. For more on Kirtland debts, see Introduction to Part 5: 5 Oct. 1836–10 Apr. 1837.)

A Latin phrase loosely meaning unanimous by oral vote.

That is, JS. (See Appointment as Trustee, 2 Feb. 1841.)

About ten days after this general conference ended, Brigham Young, Lyman Wight, and others of the Twelve sent an epistle inviting Saints for “many miles distant around us to send in their teams for drawing stone, lumber, and materials for the buildings; and at the same time load their waggons with all kinds of grain and meat, provision and clothing; and hay and provinder in abundance, that the laborer faint not, and the teams be made strong; also that journeymen, stonecutters &c. come bringing their tools with them, and enlist in the glorious enterprize.” (Brigham Young et al., “An Epistle of the Twelve,” Times and Seasons, 15 Oct. 1841, 2:567–568.)

Times and Seasons. Commerce/Nauvoo, IL. Nov. 1839–Feb. 1846.

See Luke 10:37.

Hymn 104 begins with the lines, “My soul is full of peace and love, / I soon shall see Christ from above; / And angels too, the hallow’d throng, / Shall join with me in holy song.” (Hymn 104, Collection of Sacred Hymns [1841], 112–113.)

A Collection of Sacred Hymns, for the Church of the Latter Day Saints. Edited by Emma Smith. Kirtland, OH: F. G. Williams, 1835.

Hymn 274 was sung two days earlier at the morning meeting on 3 October and begins with the lines, “Come, let us anew our journey pursue, / Roll round with the year, / And never stand still till our Master appear. / His adorable will let us gladly fulfill, / And our talents improve / By the patience of hope and the labor of love.” (Hymn 274, Collection of Sacred Hymns [1841], 301–302.)

A Collection of Sacred Hymns, for the Church of the Latter Day Saints. Edited by Emma Smith. Kirtland, OH: F. G. Williams, 1835.

See Letter from Smith Tuttle, ca. 15 Sept. 1841.

The next letter JS sent to Hotchkiss was dated 10 December 1841. Prompted by this motion, however, JS wrote a letter to Hotchkiss’s business partner Smith Tuttle on 9 October 1841. (See JS, Nauvoo, IL, to Horace Hotchkiss, Fair Haven, CT, 10 Dec. 1841, in JS Letterbook 2, p. 216; Letter to Smith Tuttle, 9 Oct. 1841.)

See Brigham Young et al., “An Epistle of the Twelve,” Times and Seasons, 15 Oct. 1841, 2:567–569.

Times and Seasons. Commerce/Nauvoo, IL. Nov. 1839–Feb. 1846.

John A. Hicks, the president of the elders quorum in Nauvoo, was “objected to” for unspecified reasons at the April general conference six months earlier. (See Minutes, 7–11 Apr. 1841.)

Hymn 275 begins with the lines, “An Angel from on high, / The long, long silence broke— / Descending from the sky, / These gracious words he spoke: / Lo! in Cumorah’s lonely hill / A sacred record lies concealed.” (Hymn 275, Collection of Sacred Hymns [1841], 302–303.)

A Collection of Sacred Hymns, for the Church of the Latter Day Saints. Edited by Emma Smith. Kirtland, OH: F. G. Williams, 1835.

Hymn 104 was sung at the afternoon meeting the previous day and begins with the lines, “My soul is full of peace and love, / I soon shall see Christ from above; / And angels too, the hallow’d throng, / Shall join with me in holy song.” (Hymn 104, Collection of Sacred Hymns [1841], 112–113.)

A Collection of Sacred Hymns, for the Church of the Latter Day Saints. Edited by Emma Smith. Kirtland, OH: F. G. Williams, 1835.

See Minutes, 16 Aug. 1841.

JS may have spoken, as he did on 16 August, about the Twelve managing the “affairs of the kingdom.” (See Minutes, 16 Aug. 1841.)