Discourse 1851-09-07

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Discourse 1851-09-07
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    The Latter-Day Saints' MILLENNIAL STAR. HE THAT HATH AN EAR, LET HIM HEAR WHAT THE SPIRIT SAITH UNTO THE CHURCHES.—Rev. ii. 7. No. 3—Vol. XIV. FEBRUARY 1, 1852. Price One Penny. MINUTES OF THE GENERAL CONFERENCE, OF THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS, HELD IN THE BOWERY, GREAT SALT LAKE CITY, SEPT. 7th, 1851. (From the Frontier Guardian). Present of the First Presidency— Brigham Young, Heber C. Kimball, Wil- lard Richards ...
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    are in this Territory, and then it always would bring peace to the hearts of those who had to be judged. He expressed his indignation and abhorrence of the scenes which transpired, in driving the Latter- day Saints from Missouri and Illinois. He then presented a description of the monument intended to be built to the memory of Gen. Washington, and finish- ed his discourse by saying, that he should always remember with deep gratitude, and respect, his interview with the Lat- ...
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    Presiding Bishops, under Bishop Edward Hunter—Carried. John Banks was nominated as another of the travelling Bishops, and carried. Ezra T. Benson, Jedediah M. Grant, and Orson Hyde, were voted as Agents of the Perpetual Emigrating Company, to gather the Poor to this place. Samuel W. Richards, Willard Snow, Abraham O. Smoot, Dorr P. Curtis, and Vincent Shurtleff, were voted to take mis- sions to
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    went the journey. General Doniphan said in St. Louis, that, "if he had one thousand Mormon Boys, the same as the Mormon Battalion, he could do more good than all the United States soldiers that were there:" I say, if he had been a Mormon he would have been charged with treason, although the government is good, and the Constitution is as good as could be framed. He then exhorted the Presiding Bishop to settle with the First Presidency and all the Bishops, and ...