Minutes and Discourses, 6–7 April 1843, as Reported by Willard Richards
Source Note
Special conference of the church, Minutes, and JS, Discourses, [, Hancock Co., IL], 6–7 Apr. 1843. Version copied [ca. 6–7 Apr. 1843] in JS, Journal, 1842–1844, bk. 2, pp. [48]–[84]; handwriting of ; JS Collection, CHL. For more complete source information, see the source note for JS, Journal, 1842–1844.
I call upon all the brethren if they have any thing. to bring it forward & have it adjusted.
. Said he felt it his duty to defend the so far as he could. he wo[u]ld as soon go to hell as be a committee. . . . but to make a comparison for the temple committee. a little boy came in & said he saw an elephant on a tree. & the people did not beleive it. & they looked and it was only an owl.—
said when was gone. keept the books, & we have found as many mistakes again[s]t , as & in his favor . . . . voted unanimously clear in his favor—— [p. [82]]