Letter from Brigham Young, 29 April 1840

To Pres’t. Joseph Smith and coun selors: dear brethren, you no doubt  will have the perusal of this letter, and  minutes of our conferences

A meeting where ecclesiastical officers and other church members could conduct church business. The “Articles and Covenants” of the church directed the elders to hold conferences to perform “Church business.” The first of these conferences was held on 9 June...

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; this will  give you an idea of what we are doing  in this country. If you see any thing  in, or about the whole affair, that is not  right: I ask, in the name of the Lord  Jesus Christ, that you would make  known unto us the mind of the Lord,  and his will concerning us. I believe  that I am as willing to do the will of  the Lord, and take counsel of my breth ren, and be a servant of the church

The Book of Mormon related that when Christ set up his church in the Americas, “they which were baptized in the name of Jesus, were called the church of Christ.” The first name used to denote the church JS organized on 6 April 1830 was “the Church of Christ...

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, as  ever I was in my life; but I can tell  you, I would like to be with my old [p. 121]