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Minutes, 21 April 1834

 
Norton

Area first settled, 1814. Formed from Wolf Creek Township, 1818. Reported location of “great Mormon excitement,” 1832–1838. Population in 1830 about 650. Primarily populated by immigrants from New England states. Increased German Pennsylvanian immigration...

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 Medina Co. Ohio April 21, 1834.
This day a conference

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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 of the elders

An administrative and ecclesiastical office not associated with age. The Book of Mormon explained that elders ordained priests and teachers and administered “the flesh and blood of Christ unto the church.” The articles and covenants of the church directed...

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 of the church of Christ

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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 assem bled at the dwelling house of bro. Carpenters at 10 o’clock A.M.
Opened by singing, “How firm a foundation, &c.” Bro. Joseph  Smith Junr. read the 2nd. chapter of the prophecy of Joel &  took the lead in prayer; after which, he commenced addressing  the congregation, as follows. It is very difficult for us to comm unicate to the churches all that God has revealed to us, in  consequence of tradition; for we are differently situated from  any other people that ever existed upon this earth: Consequently [p. 43]

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Minutes, 21 April 1834
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