Minutes, 7 April 1843, as Reported by Willard Richards
Source Note
Special conference of the church, Minutes, [, Hancock Co., IL], 7 Apr. 1843. Version copied [ca. 7 Apr. 1843] in JS, Journal, 1842–1844, bk. 2, pp. [85]–[93]; handwriting of ; JS Collection, CHL. For more complete source information, see the source note for JS, Journal, 1842–1844.
no man has authority except he be sent.— while bewildering clouds spread their glooming wings over our horizons & the Almighty sits in the heavens laughi[n]g at our ignorance, <the> Midnight cry. <is raisd &> what shall I cry? all tables are b[e]come unclean.— what shall I cry? they have changed, tragessd [transgressed] <the laws. changed ordinances> broken the everlasting covenant?— what,— How shall retain my darling religion.— again[s]t this “new light” or mormonism.— I have about as much religion as others, but I have not got so much but what I Might recivee a little more, & when I pray for more light & God bestows it. I will not say as the poor Negro.— [p. [90]]