Show biography of brigham young by M R now running in ladies home journal at kirtland young oI bin film old oid trader trades of painter glaziou and cur twitter and und he lie built und adorn I 1 many coumos tor for the fulth ful ID in february of 1834 ho lie was wa rind by sidney to mary ann angel 1 it kirtland girl during tho the all fall and und winter haj h built and painted thom attended atte tided hebrew school and made himself ingolf hl ge norall useful to the prophet dur hig tho the spring nl and summer ho lie trav lod oil an a throughout the Fau mautern tern united atatim and an apt a young an inore than any ully of ills hl brothern brn thorn tin tho council of the ll 11 tw al 11 astles in february 1835 joaeph smith organized tho the of ancl of the tile twelve apostle Alost let and brigham young aas up ono one of them although ho he now occupied hn important place in tho the affair affairs of the tile church ho lie was not one of tho tile close advisers of the prophet ono one of tho th moat most import ant project of tho the church was thu construction of a tempio temple for the proper worship of verily verity I 1 rny ray unto you aid said the revelation that it hall be bo bulli built fifty civo by itty sixty five foot feet in width thereof and in length thereof in the inner court 11 brigham dzung did much of the actual labor performing carpenter work while it waa was in fit the course of construction und and painting it after it was built early in 1837 1937 the saints began to speculate apparently with church T money anky because of speculative land v and exco sarve issues of paper money financial conditions condl tlona throughout through lout the country were bad bail the tile kirtland safety society anti banking company issued paper money which was finally by other bunk bunko after brigham young had succeeded Bucce eded in disposing of ton thousand dollars do llara worth of it on a missionary trip to the eastern states in the tile interest of the company the church suddenly found itself on the verge of bankruptcy the people were thoroughly aroused by theao these financial disasters dis astere and many began for the first time to deny tho the divino divine infallibility of joseph smith jr brigham toung young had already been compelled to flee flea from kirtland A meeting was held in the tempi to investigate tho the prophet and hia his chief associate sidney rigdon rigdon waa wan led into the meeting for he claimed to be too III to walk lie ile made a sick nick mang mans plea to the congregation and the sentimental qualities ot 0 hie his oratory seemed to sway part of the congregation joseph smith then arose and declared that the rep arts of hia his conduct were false and he threatened to excommunicate all those who circulated cu them tho the opposition presented its plausible cae case against him but before beford ita its representative bad finished In felted the prophet suggested to tho the congregation that all those opposed to him should be excommunicated first and heard atte afterward iward during the great disorder which I 1 followed ollo wod this naive suggestion it was decided to postpone the hearing for a few ow days toward dusk on tho the evening of january 12 1835 1839 joseph smith and sidney rigdon now somewhat cured of hie his ills left kirtland on horseback they traveled at night and fast and they waited for their families to join them only after they had put sixty miles between them and the outraged citizens of kirtland before they had traveled far they met brigham young younk and the prophet told him that be depended upon him to get got money for them to continue their journey to zion in missouri all three were so pressed for money that the prophet sought a job cutting and sawing wood at dublin indiana but they soon found relief brigham young met a brother in the church who old told him film that lie li wan trying to moll 11 ills form arm hut but that he could not get aa an offer Ur fiam young tomlinson to 10 trust in tho lord nl and the be authorities of hu the church and chat that ho would oun soon be able lo 10 poll hie his farm bituin I thin three say days there thero was an for it tomlinson gave tho the prophet hundred dollar dollars tim three leaders continued their journey in fit covered wagons until thoy they ur rived with their camilli s at far west aurl cheru tho tile mormon had find u settlement tho this offer 1 there is evidence that polygamy was practiced at kirtland Ki rlland that this was wag charged gullet tho us during tho tile kirtland period 1 Is certain fur in n tho tile first edition of tho tile book of doctrine and tharo appears thie this significant inasmuch an thin church of his been oI with tho the crime 0 of 11 wu we declare that wo we bellevo believe that one man ahal have one wife and one woman wor tian one no husband except in case oc of death when either elther ie fit at liberty to marry again if it in g eald said that wae wait first 1 conceived by jc auh amith whilo he lie was tran tho the dook book of Abrah Abr ahurn atit tho tile lives of tho the old testament characters especially those of 0 abraham jacob david and Soto moa tod led him to the conclusion that they nere ere right and that vie he world win wrong tho the 1 of wore than ono onu wlad s nt t only permissible but compulsory to complete salvation hut but tho tile time atia not riot ripe rive for proclamation of thie this con cluelon ovon even among hie his own followers whilo ho he mag us carrying on an aten emten give reK loua and financial operations in kirtland ohio a number of faithful mormons wore were with great difficulty building a revealed beat of or zion in missouri flor yerral liev ral years they moved from county to county welcomed at first by the other and finally driven out by thorn them the citizens of clay county missouri nil assembled in maas mooting meeting rave gave some of their reasons for sop opposition position to tho the mormons cormons Mor mons they thor are eastern men whose manners man nere habits customs and even dialect are essentially different from our own they are don non and opposed to td slavery 1 which in this peculiar pecullar period when abolition ismias reared ite its deformed and haggard visage in our land Is well wel calculated to excite deep and land abiding prejudices in any community where slavery la in tolerated and protected the religious tenets 0 of r lill this pecala are so different from the churchea chur chi La of or the age that they always have and always will excite deep prejudices them in any populous country where they may locate another unexpressed reason for opposition to the mormons was the fact that they harder than their western who preferred a fixed amount of loafing accordingly the mormons usually prospered more rapidly and more regularly their neighbors as a community comi earni and ns as the re I 1 i suit envy and jealousy at the election in 1838 it was ae ne aided to prevent the mormons from voting A fight wa was the result and men were killed on both idea sides mob mobs began to collect rapidly for the avowed purpose of driving the mor mons from missouri and killing as many as a pos possibly in tue process pr ocee from that time on all wits wa con fusion and violon viole neek col mormon mormons wore were tarred und feathered in the be effort to make them deny their cfaith in lk the hook of mormon their houses burned and their farms destroyed the mormons did not riot lybold without resisting rox lating the no banit wore oro organized thie this wan a order the existence of which has frequently been denied by th cormons mormons Mor mons hut but it la Is established by tho tile ton of too many ninny men ithac hat here there wan nuch an organization I 1 it wae was established in 1837 or 1838 1 under duvid W patten a leader of o f the tile church who won was known as cap tain fearnot of his reputed couracos tho the order wan 14 ed tho daughters of but it 1001 occurred to someone that it ann ridiculous for boarded and alo ilent lont men to operate under a fenian ino name and the tile name was chang boil wl to destroying angels 1 thie thin I 1 i too did not seem exactly appropriate and land finally the nnnie name bone sons of dan or banit wan was adopted from the passage in genesis which read reads dan shall be a serpent by tho the way nn an adder in tho tile path that bileth the tho horse heels no so that big his rider shall fall backward there were secret claths and alleged awful pen alalea in the course of a battle with the missouri mabs captain fearnot david da W patten was w an killed but the are said euid to have in mormon history until long after the migration to utah by ily the treachery of a colonel hinkle who joseph smith thought wag was working for his interest Int erast erastA smith hibdon 1119 fort parley pratt and evrial other leaders adera lo except brigham young were to the missouri militia which had been called out tout for the purpose of aiding tho missouri mobs rather than aub doing them general lucas commanding the militia issued tho the fol lowin curt order brigadier general Dont donaphan phan sir you will take joseph smith and the other prisoners into tho the public square of far west and shoot thorn them at 9 tomorrow morning samuel D lucaa lucas major general command ing but fortunately for the prophet b he bad had some weeke weeks before retained d general donaphan Donl phan as an his lawyer a w yer ond and doniphan Donl phan had been teach teaching ing smith and rigdon law the general a according r to joseph asmith thought tho unlit that they wore were good students and that they could be admitted to abb bar within twelve months donaphan Donl phan who later became famous in the war between the united states and mexico sent the following reply to his commanding officer it Is cold blooded murder I 1 will not obey your order my brigade shall march ifor for liberty tomorrow morning at 8 and if it you execute these men I 1 will hold you responsible before an earthly tribunal so help me god A W doniphan Donl phan briga dier iler general |