How blind and infatuated are the minds of men, when once turned from
to wickedness? They did not understand, that by taking
upon them the name of Latter day Saints, did not do away that of the
Church of Christ. Neither did they consider, that the ancient church,
was the Church of Christ, and that they were Saints. And again,
it appears that they did not consider the Prophesy, of Daniel, which
saith; ^says^ "The saints shall take the Kingom" [Daniel 7:18] &c "Again, "the Kingdom, and
the greatness of the Kingdom, under the whole Heaven, was given to
the people, (the Saints) of the most High" [Daniel 7:27] &c And the Saints
here alluded to, were certainly Latterday Saints; was much, as the
above prophesy is to be fulfilled, in the Last days; and is yet
future, as all professed readers of the bible will confess.
We have of late learned, that , and the raests of this [2 illegible words], ^combination^
have openly renounced the Book of Mormon, and becme deists.
will now Leave , and give you some acount of the move-
ment of things , as they are and have been.
You, undoubtedly, will remember the visit, which I, in company with
Elder , made to the Churches in and , in
the summer of 1836. You also may reecollect, the nature and
result, of our visit. We came to solisit assistance, for Poor
bleeding Zion: And we obtained, through the goodnes of the
Children of God, in those regeons, the sum of fourteen hundred
and fifty dollars, which we delivered unto & , on our arrival to this place. But these men, instead
of laying out the money for the benefit of Poor bleeding
Zion, purchased Land for their own emolument. They g^e^nerally
did their business, independantly of the aid, or council of ^either^ the bishop
or High Council. This gave some uneasiness to the 2 ^two^ author-
ities of Zion: not only because they purchased land With
Church funds, in their own name, for their own agrandisement,
but because they selected the place of the City Far West
and appointed the spot for the House of the Lord to be
built on, drew the plan of said house, and appointed and
ordained a committee to build the same, without
asking or seeking council at the hand of either Bishop,
High Council, or first presidency; when it was well under-
stood that these authorities wer ^appointed^ for the purpose of coun-
ciling on all important matters pertaining to the saints of
God.
These two presidents also managed to get the town plott
into their own hands, that they that they might reap the avails
ariseing from the sale of the lots. In consequence of these, with
many other things, the Council met by themselves on the 3rd day of
April 1837, and resolved to invite the two presidents, the Bishop
and his council, and the two apostles, namely T. B. Marsh and , to meet with them, on the 5th inst. to which time they
adjourned. Acordingly the above named authorities met, on the
How blind and infatuated are the minds of men, when once turned from
Rigteousness to wickedness? They did not understand, that by taking
upon them the name of Latter day Saints, did not do away that of the
Church of Christ. Neither did they consider, that the ancient church,
was the Church of Christ, and that they were Saints. And again,
it appears that they did not consider the Prophesy, of Daniel, which
says "The saints shall take the Kingom" &c "Again, "the Kingdom, and
the greatness of the Kingdom, under the whole Heaven, was given to
the people, (the Saints) of the most High" &c And the Saints
here alluded to, were certainly Latterday Saints; was much, as the
above prophesy is to be fulfilled, in the Last days; and is yet
future, as all professed readers of the bible will confess.
We have of late learned, that , and the most, combination
have openly renounced the Book of Mormon, and becme deists.
will now Leave , and give you some acount of the movement of things , as they are and have been.
You, undoubtedly, will remember the visit, which I, in company with
Elder , made to the Churches in and , in
the summer of 1836. You also may reecollect, the nature and
result, of our visit. We came to solisit assistance, for Poor
bleeding Zion: And we obtained, through the goodnes of the
Children of God, in those regeons, the sum of fourteen hundred
and fifty dollars, which we delivered unto & , on our arrival to this place. But these men, instead
of laying out the money for the benefit of Poor bleeding
Zion, purchased Land for their own emolument. They generally
did their business, independantly of the aid, or council of either the bishop
or High Council. This gave some uneasiness to the two authorities of Zion: not only because they purchased land With
Church funds, in their own name, for their own agrandisement,
but because they selected the place of the City Far West
and appointed the spot for the House of the Lord to be
built on, drew the plan of said house, and appointed and
ordained a committee to build the same, without
asking or seeking council at the hand of either Bishop,
High Council, or first presidency; when it was well understood that these authorities wer appointed for the purpose of counciling on all important matters pertaining to the saints of
God.
These two presidents also managed to get the town plott
into their own hands, that they might reap the avails
ariseing from the sale of the lots. In consequence of these, with
many other things, the Council met by themselves on the 3rd day of
April 1837, and resolved to invite the two presidents, the Bishop
and his council, and the two apostles, namely T. B. Marsh and , to meet with them, on the 5th inst. to which time they
adjourned. Acordingly the above named authorities met, on the