| Show I 1 copyright secured HISTORY OF JOSEPH SMITH ii APRIL arral 1843 april 8 at half hilf past 11 president smiths rungs tune failed him the wind blowing blow biow ing briskly at the time choir bur sur sun bun a hymn elder john tayl r roae rose and made a few re rn birks among which were the following I 1 have never said much about the beasts ac I 1 n m my preaching when wilen I 1 have done it it has been to attract attention and keep the people from running after a greater fool than myself i singing and prayer I 1 adjourned till 2 pm i A strong west wind ice floating down the tile i mississippi seen from the stand conference again opeil ed but the winro wind wina 2 pm being min g too strong the congregation 7 r made a temporary stand at the east en end d of the temple walls v when hen elder taylor Taylon resumed his remarks on the kingdom of gou goo acing set up in in the last days will be like ilke the little stone cut out of the mountain elder 0 hyde said it was three years since he met with the saints and was set apart for lub lus mission to jerusalem he had traveled in the four quarters of the globe and bee been nam among ong fourteen or fifteen din dittl erent languages ana and and ana people and they all agree that kome some some bome great cn bent ent is close at hand band maa mad prayer Suri surl Sunday sundays dayO 0 conference opened by singing b althe the spirit of god like a fire is burning T 1 prayer and singing 0 in cons consequence consequent equen e of president joseph smith I 1 eing afflicted in in his bib lungs and breast he was rot able to preach and called oh elder joshua grant to speak i who h stated that he be had bad just returned re arned from a mission of three years he had traveled through h several states arld and had in c company with sis gis his brother jedediah M grant raised up a church of two hundred members for lor I 1 or synopsis of discourse see sec times and sab seab ins page 2367 2307 7 elder antasa lyman also preached an eloquent discourse on the book of mormon resurrection of the dead and eternal judgment see times and ands seasons page 20 monday 10 10 at 10 am a special conference of elders convened and continued by adjournment journ ment from time to time till the were present of the quorum of the twelve bric Hric Bri Fliam hamo hato young president heber C kimball william smith orson hyde orson oraon latt natt wilford woodruff john taylor george A smith and willard richards richardb the tab object of the conference was to ordain elders an and send them forth into the vineyard to build up churches and the following a mants were made with united voices tl oy y the conference agreeable to requests which were made by individuals who were acquainted with the several places which they represented james M manroe and truman gillet auburn new york Domini dominicus cbs carter lockport zIn tin indiana diana dlana joshua holman and john pierce madison didiana Li diana hana wandal mace and isaac haight IIa ila ight orange co e 1 anty t newyork new york N v nyland 0 clark clarl iii lii chardson richardson settlement liwa benjamin IM clapp jahn balf bair wilkinson li lihwitt ewitt and L I 1 0 littlefield alabama alonzo whitney and J goodale dublin 01 ohio 11 i 0 william laton jaton westfield west Wesl field sullivan county 14 lwY w rk 0 zebedee coltrin graham coltrin and ane ani james smith and aW tazwell counties vir gnia g 6 nia la I 1 jonathan dann lna ica indiana 1 1 lewis robbins ant hacob gates have a raving riving commission in n with I 1 1 we ive to take ype their but to keep out of i L I 1 S ephen stephen Afat macham kham and kinman truman walte waite hui r i county 9 ow ohio I 1 john sohn D chase chass and wad A M hardin harding pitts fi id vermont I 1 i amos aroos B frillou aad d cylus cyrus 11 II wheelock 1 Y bindham count county Vermo vermont tit tet john E S cleason and lind henry jacobs west part gait of the state of new york Marcell marcellas ns L bates and norman B shearer sackets sockets harbor new york samuel brown maryland lemuel mallory and george slater wash benau county Mic michigan Ligan higan moses wade some county in new nw york where there has not been ady any preaching by the saints chillion daniels nd E robinson st lawrence county new york william brown and daniel cathcart pensacola florida eleazer Willis go where he likes john cundall Zun dall st clair county illinois crandall dunn michigan george waterloo canada samuel H rogers and harvey green cumberland new jersek jersey daniel spencer canada ta naila nakia L elias ellas las aas harmar chenango Che county new york harvey tate fort wayne indiana robert D foster and jonathan alien allen tioga county new york william wharton of philadelphia wilmington delaware leonard soby peru indiana warner hoops yore york county pennsylvania F D wilson arid and G V W brandon dyer and montgomery counties tennessee E 11 II groves and G P dykes from terre torre haute to shawneetown Shawnee town and cairo on both sides of the wabash P sessions Ses slona siona oxford count county maine john L butler and david 11 lewis ewis lexington kentucky charles C rich ottowa illinois IV W W rust worcester county massachusetts aaron 11 york Ii maine faine asaph rice pontiac michigan AlIc Iligan orson spencer new haven connecticut lorin farr connecticut ste stephen he perry amos B tomlinson E G Terril perrill lAmos mos P rogers joseph outhouse and william bird connecticut 1 francis edwards and charles ryan nyan jackson county tennessee benjamin Kemp kempton ton toc wheeling to mount vernon ohio peter hessa heba of philadelphia lancaster pennsylvania noah curtis gurtis and luman 11 calkins wayne vayne county new york stratton thornton and sandford porter I 1 S southeast south east easl part of illinois and indiana benjamin leland and eden smith erie county pennsylvania samuel orleans county new york samuel parker york county maine naine jacob E terry and err terry terr niagara b district upper canada edward P duzette duz ette and elisha Edwar edwards gs loraine and huron counties ohio edwin williams hunterdon hunterton Hunt erdon county new jersey jerrey jacob G bigler lewis county virginia orlando hovey franklin county indiana william B brink drink some place in the interior of pennsylvania fitere where the elders have not been F P B jacaway and samuel Row rowland lazie adams county ohio moses tracy perry county illinois alfred brown chautauqua county new york noah noali rogers peter lemons joseph mount B W wilson addison pratt and joha john brown vermont samuel C brown to labor on the temple james carroll carrol henry county indiana levi stewart and james pace williamson Will wiil lamson and gallatin counties illinois edwin clegg rock island illinois john carns richmond indiana edward bosley bosiey and rodman hodman clark dark livingston livingstan county new nelv york 0 james hutchins and daniel tyler Natch katciles natches katches cs mississippi george M chase geauga geaugh county ohio john royce faw new york L lyman garles in n whitney franklin county Vr vermont mont charles charies ryan jacob E terry henry moore A samuel P carter william isherwood Js herwood S samuel 1 nu rowland dorr P curtis abraham S workman jeremiah hatch james G culbertson cuibertson samuel ferrin perrin sein Seir samuel ailef crane david moore william brown benjamin B burber irber oliver B Hunting huntingdon den deD edward clegg daniel me rea william S covert william B brink james long and william empy were ordained elders with this express injunction that they quit the tise use of tobacco and keep the word of ol wisdom almon W babbitt was restored to fellowship by the conference elder eider curtis hodgel who has a wife gife in this place was cutoff from flom the church for fo his hia anti cb christi christl ristian christian in conduct in warrick county bounty indiana elders james alread john johm snider and aaron johnson yere were vere appointed to adamini eer ker I 1 bantam for the dead hi i the riven river while leuh leun ohp font forit could not be used president Pre phe young instructed the elders eiders not to eo go from church to charcho for the purpose of living themselves or begging for their families or for preaching reaching brt lint to go to their places of destination destina on journeying among lie the world and preaching by the ava way y az aa die yle tiley have hare opportunity and if it they get any thing for or themselves they must do it in those churches they shall build up or from the world a ad ard d not enter ester into other mena mens meu a labo e several elders have been represented to us as having traveled extensively the past season preaching liing but little or none living en on the brethren and begging begging for their own emolument such elders ye oe they vhey where they may far or near are instructed to repair forthwith to nauvoo and give an account of their stewardship and report the amount of leg service performed by them and on their return be sure to keep out of the churches it is wisdom for the elders to leave eave cave their families in this place when they have anything to leave with them and let not riot the eiders ciders go on their missions until they have provided for their families no man need say again 11 have a call to travel and preach while he has not a comfortable house for his family a lot fenced and arid one years provisions in store br sufficient to last his family durin during his ilia m mission Is or means to provide it the lord will not condemn any man for fo following 1 1 lowin keeping the commandments and a faithful man will have dreams about the work lie he ia is engaged in if he is engaged in building the temple he will dream about it and if in preaching he will dream about that and not when lie he is laboring on the tempie temple dream that it is hla hia duty to run off preaching and leave his family to starve such dreams are riot not of god when I 1 was sick last winter some of the sisters came and whispered in my ear 1 I have nothing to cat 2 where is your husband ilo he lie I 1 is gone a preaching who sent him said 1 I por fir tha the lord never sent him hini tp to leave his hia family to starve when the twelve went vent to en england land they went on a special mission by special commandment man dment and they left their families sick and destitute god having promised that they should be provided for tut lut but god does not re quire the me same thing tiling of the me elders n now w neither abes he promise to provide for their families when they leave them em contrary to counsel the ciders elders must provide provi defor por for their families I 1 rish wish to give divert 5 word of advice to the sisters and I 1 will give it to my wife I 1 have known elders who had bad by some means got in debty debts debt but had provided well for their families duning during durin their contemplated mission and after they had haa taken their departure their creditors would their wives for the pay due from their husbands till they would give them the last provision they had left them and they tiley were obliged to subsist on charity or starve till their husbands returned such a course of conduct on the part of the creditor is and criminal and I 1 forbid wy my uffe wife from paying one cent of my debts while mille iain lain am absent attending to the things of the kingdom andi want tes tea sisters to act on the same princ principle ipie E elder ider lder llyde hyde said if there is an elder who wiio does not provide for his family in the unrighteous mammon shall we commit lobua to hlin the true riches the priesthood missions ac no ryo elder woodruff requested the elders to remember in their travels that there was vas a printing press in nauvoo and that it is 13 in the hands finds of the church and wished the elders would procure subscribers for the papers collect pay for the same and fo forward rivard it 4 to tle the the editor in cash elder kimball the tho elders ciders e that thai when they found a place where the people wanted preaching they must stay themselves and and not run abt awty y somewhere else and write to nauvoo to have elders eldera sent to the place they had left elders woodruff and taylor requested that i when the eiders eldera had built up a church they would write a brief statement of facts cambered with useless matter and forward their communication to the editor of the times and anil Sea seasons seamona sona post paid the tae elders eiders were reminded that they thoy need not expect any attention would be given to unpaid letters directed to the Pre presidency the ile lle elders were also reminded dedi that tha although althou or 1 they were not sent oil oll out to be tau taught ht but I 1 to teach yet if it chev the would prosper in thir nals sais S they must musi be careful to teach those th se things thino s alone which would be profitable to th their air h har bar ar ers ere that they must bear their testimony cf the truth of the falness of or the gospel ard and preach notting not nothing hing bing but faith falth and repentance to this generation arid and that if they presumed to teach to babes those things b which beang to men they might expect to return to nauvoo as desi destitute tute as they went out but bue if they adhered el closely to the first principles and ar vaught caught the word of wisdom more by example than 1 by y precept precept walking before beyore god and the world in a all ail I 1 meekness and lowliness of heart living by every word that edeth out of the maili of the lord they maht expect an abundant hanest and as doves dovea return to their in ilal flocks 9 when they see eee the srm approaching BO so will vill viii multitude a by listening to theli thell voices learn earn of the hinga binga which await awalt the earth arth and arise and flee and return unto amount tkory and her stakes with hem thern m chii hil hii arball rhin I 1 t als 0 their ministry m ini stry in tho iho hi dav of f celestial light and glory BRIGHAM YOUNG toung pres president W RICHARDS clerk 2 oi gave gove O i vc a letter of attorney to D r johnron to sell ik me of the church charch property in mace doa do lia iia a A corser conf r ree was hed iteld at batavia new borkon york vork on the tho gand ab and ath of april eider elder J P green president R J coats cleil cerl 11 banche bancher b dembs 1 high hish hi priest 48 cid eid eldi eidi 2 V pr lesis amb and 3 teachers were in good standing a general spirit p ille 1 t of or inquiry n u iz prevailing vai ling 7 elders eiders were or ordained da 8 d elder eider ida greene reene and others delivered addresses to the elders ciders on i the or of the times the mission of the prophet and the building of the temple A conference was also held in the house of the lord at kirtland Kir at which was passed a resolution for the removal of all the saints in that place to nauvoo elder lyman wight the president preached several times and about one hundred apostates and a few new members were baptized during the conference J 11 II reynolds wrote to bishop N K ney on the ath as follows independence mo april 7 1843 sir at the request of orrin porter rock well who is now confined in our jail I 1 write you ou a few lines concerning his aall arrs he is held heid ed to bail in the sum of and wishes some of kis friends to bail him out he also wishes some friend to bring his ills clothes to him he is in good health and pretty retty good 8 spirits pin ts my erial own opinion is after conversing with several persons here that it would not be safe for any of mr Rock wells Fa friends to come hero notwithstanding I 1 have written the above at his request re est eat neither either do I 1 think bail would be taken nie ale unless s it was some responsible person well known here as a resident of this state any letter to mr ir rockwell post ost paid with authority expressed on the dack eack back for me to open it will be handed banded to him hlin 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