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Letter to John Corrill and the Church in Missouri, 4 September 1837
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may know how to proceed to set in order &
regulate the affairs of the Church in zion whenever they become disorganized
The minuits are as follows;
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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Minuits of a Conference assem bled in committee of the whole
Church on the 3rd.
of Sept. 1837 9 o
clock A.M. G[eorge]
W. Robin son was called upon to take the
minuits of the conference, S[idney] Rigdon then presented Joseph Smith Jr to the Church to know if they
still looked upon & would still recei ve & uphold him as the Prest.
of the whole Church And the vote was unanymous in the affirmative: Prst. Smith then presented S. Rigdon & F[rederick] G. Williams for
his councilors and to constitute with himself the three first
Prest. of the Church. Vote unanymous in
the affirmative, Prest. Smith then
introdused O[liver] Cowdery, J[oseph] Smith Sen. Hiram Smith & John Smith for
assistant Councilors. These last four together with the three first
are to be concidred the heads of the Church, Carried un anymously.
Voted that N.
K. Whitny [Newel K. Whitney] hold
his office as Bishop & continue to act as such in Kirtland &
that R[eynolds] Cahoon & V[inson] Knight continue
to act as councilors to the Bishop The Twelve Apostles were then presented
one by one When T.
B. Marsh D[avid] W. Patten B[righam] Young H. C. Kimble [Heber C. Kimball] O[rson] Hyde P[arley] P. Pratt O. Prat [Orson Pratt] Wm Smith Wm E McLellin,
were received una nymously in their Apostleship Luke & Lym an Johnson & J[ohn] F. Boynton were
rejected & cut off though privileged with conffesing and maki ng
sattisfaction, Elder Boynton (which
was the only one present at the time) arose and endeavoured to confess,
Justifying himself in <on> <in> his former con duct by reason of the failure of
the Bank &c his conduct was strongly protested by Elder [p. 20]
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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View Full BioJS, letter, Kirtland, OH, to John Corrill and the church in Missouri, 4 Sept. 1837; handwriting of George W. Robinson;
in JS, Journal, Mar.–Sept. 1838, pp. 18–20; CHL.
Located ten miles south of Lake Erie. Settled by 1811. Organized by 1818. Population in 1830 about 55 Latter-day Saints and 1,000 others; in 1838 about 2,000 Saints and 1,200 others; in 1839 about 100 Saints and 1,500 others. Mormon missionaries visited township...
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