Autobiography Volume 1 circa 1842-1865
On the of the following month—
June, I sat in council with the Twelve and we decided that
Elder Hiram Clark should go to Liverpool and take the
place of Elder Fielding who was to return with his family
to Nauvoo
Four days afterwards the citizens of
Nauvoo both male and female to the number of many
thousands assembled in Mass Meeting at the Grove
near the Temple.
Joseph the Seer arose and spoke in
great plainness concerning the corruption and wickedness of
Gen. John Cook Bennet. He also prophesied that if
the merchants of the city and the rich did not open their
hearts and contribute to the poor they would be cursed by
the hand of God and cut off from the land of the living
