| Show INCIDENTS OP or THE HISTORY OF V ZIONS CAMP I 1 i I 1 wo we published in our last a brief account of tile the first general 0 crai cral festivities of some of the choice men of israel known as zions camp these ion lon long iong tried members of our church were balled together C by president brigham young 0 that they might have an opportunity of enjoying C themselves and of talking over the history of their labors for the kingdom of god when it was in its infancy we give ive lve in this number some of the most moist important and to us lis interesting 0 inel incidents connected with the calling by revelation through the great seer of the 1 lath til all century the organization and travels 0 of i the men who went to ful fil tile the commandments of licay heaven tn and feeling assured that many of our readers would like to se see ta the 1 e nam names e s of the whole company we print 1 n t th them t in also in december 1833 1 1 soon after the news of tile the expulsion of the saints from J jackson eau nty missouri reached the brethren in the east cast a revelation was given which is recorded in section 98 of the book of doctrine and covenants and I 1 in ili the february following another revelation was given see see section loi iol paragraph par 5 with a full determination to render implicit obedience to these revelations president joseph smith eiders elders parley P pratt lyman wight sidney rigdon hyrum smith frederick G williams orson hyde orson pratt and other elders visited the branches of the church of jesus christ of latter day saints in in new york pennsylvania and the few pew new england states collecting together ge theras as many as could be obtained to go in fulfillment fulfilment of tho aforementioned revelations many who wiio had money were unwilling 0 to invest their means until they should hear of the thew certainty of peace tile the poor amon among the saints were awake to their duties and determined to do all ali 11 th they y could for the tiie accomplishment of the purposes of the almighty about fifty volunteers were obtained I 1 in the vicinity of kirtland and nearly I 1 ono one b hundred u adred fro floii a the easter eastern n bram braw brandies lies of til the church the main body consisting g 0 of f about one hundred left kirtland geauga geaugh county ohio on the ath of may mav 1834 and by the next sabbath the camp had hid received considerable accessions to it its numbers say in the neighborhood of sixty part of these those were from the eastern states and the tile remainder from ohio they organized into companies called tens each company being pre pie pi vided aided with the necessary tents an and dother other camp equipage messes for cooking purposes were also formed they made an in orderly 4 encampment and kept guard every night in order to protect their aill alii animals mais mals and other othen property the journey from kirtland to clay county missouri yas vas was performed in 46 days traveling days being thirty seven most of the company traveled tra velca velcH on foot much of tha country through which the they y traveled was gas new III in consequence of which they tiley were frequently obliged to tako take a circuitous cirou itous route elders eiders david W patten and william D watt satt were wore sent forward from kirtland mad Wad vanco vance of the tiie camp to carry the tho revelations to the brethren in mis bourl and apprise jiem jeni ieni tiem of what was in progress cpr the redemption of zion wion daniel dunklin Dun kiino klino then governor of Mis missouri had previously promised to reinstate instate re fhe the faints ailts upon their lands specifying 0 this very singular condition that they must defend them selves selves afterwards elders orson hyde ailo ajio parley P pratt visited the gover cover nar nor and informed II 11 him I 1 lm that the tho saints were waiting for and anxiously ly expecting li him in to fluff fulfill 11 h lils liis is promise which he h e positively retti refused sed to do I 1 the mho people county through some e gent gont gentleman lemon iemon of clay prom pron red bred to I 1 sell the their r possessions ili in the former county aty to io tho the saints or to buy of the saints at an appraised value they that to sell our possessions possessions would to a denial of our faith but the tiie cvrk ommer offer was made to accept the proposal to pur bur purchase ehase chase theirs upon which they declined to sell section in the book of doctrine and covenants is a revelation given on the banks of fishing river AU ss ouri and explains the reason why the camp broke broko up w without going into jackson county oun ty verily I 1 say unto you who lia lla have havo VO assembled yourselves together that you inay may learn my will concerning the redemption demp tion of nil mi ne no afflicted people and zion cannot be built up unless it is by the principles of the law of the celestial del dei estial kingdom otherwise I 1 cannot receive her unto myself and my people must needs be e chastened chasteney chast ened until they learn obedience if it must needs be by the things which they summer suffer for bazold behold I 1 do not require at their hands to fight the battles of zion for as I 1 said in a former commandment even so will I 1 fulfill fulfil I 1 will fight your battles behold the destroyer I 1 have sent forth foith to fb destroy and lay waste mine ei enemies ionides io niles and not many years heaps li hence onee once they shall not be left to pollute ining ming heritage and to blas bias blaspheme pheme my namo name upon the lands which I 1 have consecrated for the gathering to together ether other of my saints 12 out of the whole number that went as far as fishing river two went offee cause they had bad not a chance to fight the mob one left without his discharge and all the rest carried out the requirements of tile tilo prophet ili in good f aith faith tile the same revelation required the sal sai saints t 18 to send up wise men with money to LP purchase chase ehase all the land they could in i jackson and the countries round about in obedience t to which they subset p purchased u rel rei rellabell laseLl and acquired acquire the im in 1 mense tracts of la land nd owned by them 1 in jackson Jack soia sola clay ray bay caldwell clinton davies davics livingston Livingsto nand and carroll countley countie count lem lep from which iv inch they verc verr w re arix daon daou c 11 out of ta 14 1 state under tinder the exter ng of governor lilburn W B in the tho fah tap of prayers were had in aeh eadi aoh tent of tho the camp every morning au and aud devening evening durr durf dur ing the titine journey the thie tho camp rested on hab sub lath laih lath oath days an ilia held me megi 61 ings at which the tho sacrament was admirl ered pus if at smith A 1 ay teaching the brethren both in publics and anil private the tile ples pies ph a of the king dom all the brethren traveled on foo foot f 7 except the knap i 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