Show I 1 copyright secured 1 HISTORY OF JOSEPH S SMITH JANUARY 1842 friday 23 28 while I 1 was at my office emma and sister whitney came and spent an all hour I 1 received the ful fol following lowina revelation to the twelve concerning the times iid ald and seasons given january 28 1842 a verily thus sith the lord unto you my servant joseph go and say unto the twelve that it ia 6 my will to have them tike tae in hand the editorial department of the times and sea seamons totis according to thai that manifestation which shall be given unto them by the power nf or my holy spirit in the midst of their coun counrel counsel el s alth the lord amen I 1 also decided that elder john snider should go 0 out on a mission and if necessary some one go with him and amse raise up a church and get means to go to Englan england dand and carry the epistles required in the revelations of af december 22 and instructed the twelve brigham briham young heber C kimball wilford woodruff and willard richards being present to call elder snider into their council and instruct him in these thugs and nd if he will not do these things he shall be cut off T from he file church and anti he lie damned elias higbee of tit the temple committee came into tile the presidents office and I 1 said to him the lord Is s not well pleased with you and you must straighten up your loins lolus and do better and your family aiso also airo algo for you have not been diligent ax x you ought and as spring is approach approaching hr you oti must arise and shake yourself and be aclee acthen und and make your children industrious and help build the temple elder snider had appeared very backward about fulfill fulfilling hig the revelation revel ilion concerning him and felt that he could not do it unless the twelve would furni furnish sf 1 him 1 lin irn means when lie he was more inore able to furnish his own memis means as all the elders were obliged to do when they went ou on missions cr or go without the molt melt council heard and accepted the report or f their c committee 0 of tile the lath instant as follows tiie the tile high council of or the church of jesus christ to the saints of nauvoo greeting dear brethren As watchmen upon the walls of zion we feel it to be our duty to stir up your minds by way of remembrance remembran cey cep of things bilings which wo we conc conceive elvo to be of the tha utmost importance to the tho saints while we rejoice at the tile health and prosperity cf of the saints and the good feeling which seems to prevail among its generally and the tha willingness to aid in tiie tile building of tile the house of the tiie lord we are grieved at the conduct of some who seem to have forgotten the tho purpose for which they have ri withered gathered instead of or union appeared to be engaged in boing sowing soing strafes and animosities amon their brethren spreading evil reports brother boing going to law lav with brother for trivial causes which wo we consider a great evil and 21 altogether together unjustifiable diable except in fit extreme case cases and theu then not benore before the world we feel to advise taking the word of god for eur our ur guide and exhort you not to forgat forget you have come como up as saviors upon mount zion consequently to beek seek each others good to become one inasmuch as the llie lord lias has said except ye become one ye aro are none of mine let us ils alway always remember the tho admonitions of rho tho apos apostle tie tle dare ally any one of you having a rn matter atter go to law before the unjust and not before fa ro the saints do ye not know the saints shall judge the world and if tile the world shall be judged by you are 50 e unworthy to judge the smallest matter know ye yo not that we shall ludge jude angels now how much ch more things that pertain to this tub ilfe life if then ye have judgment of or things pertaining to this life lift set them to judge who are least esteemed in the chirch I 1 speak to your shame Is it so that there is not a wige wise 1 man unan among you no not one that shall be able to judge between his brethren bretl iren but brother zoeth goeth to law with brother and that before un believers now therefore there is utterly a fault among you because ye go to lav law one with another anther a why do co ye not rather take wrong why wh jo ao 30 ye not rather suffer yourself to be defrauded nuy kay ye a do wrong aud de defraud and that you your 1 brg bro know e not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the tile kingdom of god be not dec der deceived derived elved rived lol iol neither fornica fornicators tors nor idolaters idol aters nor adulterers nor effeminate nor abusers of themselves with will mankind nor thieves nor noy covetous nor drunk ards nor reviler nor extortion ers rrb riall biall the kingdom of god I 1 cor 6 ili iii who observing bs erving ersing these things would go to law distress ing his brother thereby giving rise to hardness evil speaking strafes and animosities those who have covenanted anted to keep the ibe ciu clu cin of god who have taken upon them then tile the name of saints and if saints are to angels and also to judge the world why then are they not competent to judge in lent lern pora matters especially iu in trivial cases taking laking the la of the lord for their gulde guide brotherly kindness char ty ac ai a well as the law of the land brethren these are evih which ought bot to eill among us we hope be tho time will speedily when hen these things wll wil will ail be done away and ever one stand in the office of his calling as a servant of god building each oilier up bearing each others and und so fulfill fulfil the law ol 01 christ william marks president samuel Bent dent D wilson david fullmer thomas grover newel newe knight if lit alro laonard leonard 11 rd soby james ailred alfred elias ellas hig beegi bee george eorge W en harris aaron Joh johnson tison ilson williton Wil wll litin liiro huntingdon sen s daniel carrier austin coles copies charles C rich counselors attest hosea hosca stout clerk sir robert sales received a letter from sha Sho ojah requiring him lo 10 evacuate Jella abad with which he lie refused to comply saturday ogi 29 09 I 1 was much touch engaged with the he tithing III in the afternoon in my office counsell ing various individuals and arid in fit the evening in council with mth brothers young kimball richards and others chewing ing forth tile the kingdom and the order thereof concerning many things and the tile will of god concerning h s servants 41 manchester england january 29 1842 to president young elders kimball Kim him balland bailand and richards beloved brethren soon after brur departure a clergyman or erthe the church of england called upon my employer to request that lie might have an interview mith with ith me as lie he had a wish to propound certain questions to me upon his request being complied with we retired to a private room when lie produced a iong long list of questions written down fowl appo ite to which lie he wrote my answers the rise of the church priesthood doctrines offices sacraments ac were the principle queries lie advanced when he demurred to any of our principles I 1 was proceeding to explain but blithe he cut my discourse short horl by baying saying he would not hold any controversy III ili his object bel g only to obtain information A ter the d sp sal sai of or his queries he be wi tiled to be informed where he be obtain the whole of the publications of the latter day saints as ag he wished to be iu in possession of them I 1 in ormed formed him at 47 oxford street and lie he promised to 0 o end send for them soon after tile tiie visit of this reverend zent gentleman leman ieman I 1 had reason to suspect that undermining operations were in progress against me I 1 Fhe therefore tendered my resignation to the di but they would not noti cceal it and very soon afterwards a public lublic accountant was employed by them to in vesti estimate gate their accounts for severne years ears back and I 1 was happy to be enabled to answer every question ques tion tiou that was asked of me cling them after this another minister sent a lengthy article extracted from an all amerian paper purporting to lo 10 the production of a mr dir anthony A ih ith a request that I 1 would read mark learn and inwardly digest the tile same I 1 replied to the statements of mr A arid and after dispo disposing slig of them thern paragraph ara graph for paragraph par pant graph I 1 told him that I 1 was obliged by his liis favoring me with ir inasmuch as it t satisfied my mind and lid was confirmatory of the pred chion of isaiah being fulfilled seeing filat bat hat mr A admitted that 14 the words of tile the book were delivered to the tho learned ac I 1 then proceeded to 0 contrast the church of england with the churches established by the apostles but he fie has not acknowledged the receipt of my letter as yet the clergy are building ten new churches in th tb s town and neighborhood and are employing additional curates ccrates to go round to the houses of their parishioners to coerce or intimidate them into liti bill an attendance upon their services in fulfill fulfil ment of the words of paul 11 in lit the lost days ic rilous times will come ac that they tiley would ave lave a form of godliness god lines but deny the tile rower and would creep into houses to lead captive silly women ac 11 see 2 timothy ch to verses these ccrates curates make repeated visits generally when the heads of families are from home and take e cecial eap ecial care to inquire where the family camily are ire employed and what place of arhip they attend ac and leave tracts for the family to read ead ond ona of the reverend hugh Stow elys ccrates curates ilat liar pad pa d several visits toh to my house but always in my ali absence ence euce although he a was waa w as requested to call when I 1 was at home and informed the time when he might meet wili with me too the following discourse took place in our own neighborhood curate what religion may you h my good woman I 1 am a churchwoman church woman sir what church do you usually attend I 1 never at tend any ier after reprimanding the woman for pretending to be one of his flock while she absented be herself relf reif from the oid old fold he went to the tile house of a gocr wo man who hid bud bid lately irined the sinta I 1 am a minister of lle ile lie tile church of jesus christ in england i and have called culled to inquire what school you send bour children to mid and what vital religion you process profess t the woman replied she was a 11 latter day saint 11 oh delusion delu delusion he rejo rejoined inea and began to rail against the saints whereupon she handed him the bible and requested him to I 1 read the place where oie die cau casually ally aily opened to namely the ahe ad chapter of or micah and to preach i her a discourse from that thai part of the but i lie he retreated from irom before her and has not tiou troubled bled I 1 i her since I 1 the tiie lord bishop of or chester and tile the protestant r clergymen have hired a it person of the ilo lie name of brindley to go about against the saints i and have commenced a monthly periodical in j I 1 which the foul sla sia slanders riders heaped upon the saints in america and arid els elb elsewhere where rire tire retailed out to satisfy the malice of the ener energies Lies lles of truth the ian man I 1 cheser chesler courier has had several articles our society and principles and the old spaulding in g I 1 R mance hs ha been resuscitated for the oc occasion caslo casio the rev charles burton doctor of laws min mia i iter of all saints has been several times to 1 see me lately and upon one occasion invited me tile toll loll to ilia is house where I 1 discussed our principles for several hours until lie he was glad to withdraw from the contest I 1 found him ignorant i in a great measure of what lle ile lie the bible conti contains lins re the falter latter clays lays he admitted that the stints would reign relga on earth j f i the great work of the lord is still progressing I 1 III in spite of all the opposition of or ii lit g priests arld and their auxiliaries othe of tile newspaper pres I 1 bap iced I 1 I 1 elizabth elizabeth smith who resided with ith us when you were in england and slie elie purposes coming out to i americ america along will us there ii I i very great distress among the opera tives fives and the poor generally and great excitement respecting tile tiie lle ile lie rigi ngi tation tallon of the repeal of or the corn laws great fires have bave occurred atthe at the commencement of this year a lage abage carrier carni carri fr ware 1 bouso w bv by gie gge fie about from 1 to oC to worth of cotton ard groin gruin ac destroyed it was the i union companas Comp anys carr earn ing ware warehouse house bouse piccadilly Pica Fica dilly t there is great depres depression siti in almost every branch t of or manura manufacture clure and gr at perplexity and I 1 am t daily mu roand more moro convinced that the tame is iff ise not far distant when babylon the great will wiil be belc belt fallen and become a desolation and the tiie birgs kings and t the merchants of the earth will weep and mourn I 1 over lier her abd and she file will be cast down even as a great millstone mill stone atone cast into the sea arid and will wilt be found round 1 no more at nil I 1 I 1 opened a pace for preaching nt at blakesley I 1 1 about holi boll t six weeks ago ogo add and there were three baptized d ard confirmed there lavt last v eek I 1 was with li elder john brotherton at middleton on sunday v last where he arid and elder hardman had obtained v a room lo 10 preach to the chartists we have 0 also a place opened at didsbury and heaton healon r aholt abolt three weeks ago there wils a letter in v sorted in lle ile lie tile linchester Min chester courier by a writer who t signs himself R P billing upon the clergymen of or the church of england and alid tile the respectable t inhabitants and the tiie most respect respectable ablo and intelli p gent pent of or the police to attend ofir meeting meetings at tit the tl carpenters hall nall as they had llad fondly hoped that 1 ilis th have fallen to 0 o tiie the ground by e the weight W of its own absurdity but they foun found d hi that thre there was meshed ana consistency in tile the I 1 in apparent madness of or these deluded people and f that experience bad had taught them that such ex were vain as thoy observed that there h was considerable consistency displayed and mei I 1 tl thod oui our arran gme its there being all ail migration emigration office established in this thia town 6 ic c I 1 01 the writer suspected there was a genuine amero i ican trick heing being kracl i led ed by the tiie interested parties at lle ile lie the head of the system to decoy the ignorant pi arid and unwary to in lit the swamps of new e orleans and that they were draining the country c of their best artists and that it m was vas as high time some steps wale wele taken to put a stop to such as practices we have since discovered that the writer is colb no lb other than robert philips esq an nil extensive manufacturer and merchant brother brot lier iier to mark M philips esq another great manufacturer and ni member of parliament for the borough of manchester ta chest rr tile tho editor of tile ilie courier br hrs has s been i th playing laying upon the same string for several weeks I 1 since and feels reels satisfied that from tile tiie exposure w which he has lias given the whole sy system sterrit it mut ini ci evit evitt ihly bly die did away ile he was therefore satisfied j w with having done clone his lis duty and could safely leave I 1 ID them to the management of the proper parties 1 I 1 of and recommend the police to do their duty it I 1 lma ira appears that the gallant officer ut lit llie tile 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