Minutes and Discourses, 6–8 April 1844, as Reported by William Clayton
Source Note
General conference of the church, Minutes, and JS, Discourses, Nauvoo, Hancock Co., IL, 6–8 Apr. 1844; handwriting of ; dockets in handwriting of Robert L. Campbell and Jonathan Grimshaw; thirty-eight pages; General Church Minutes, CHL.
Jacobs name named on Ephraim— wants to find where he is— speak on the subject of the land— had a key word from pres S. If Scriptures are true God is bound to establis Z in the last days— referred to David— when God bringeth out the people in the last days. David saw that the s[ons] of Is[rael] would come out of Z— Isaiah 46. 12 & 13 vs God says he will place salvation [illegible] Zion for Israel my Glory. Paul says in reasoning when G. was about to try the gentiles by grafting &c he says as it is written the delivere[r] shall come out of Zion— the principles of truth by which did Isaiah tells us about the land chap 17— looking down upon the succeeding generations— shall be a rushing of the nations. Ho to the land (under admiration) shadowing with wings— [illegible] as a winged cymball— take this land is it stands joined by the isthmus of Darian— referred to Dr Clark— it baffled men of every age to say who these messenge[r]s— what their message— We have men can tell us— See them going in rushing vessels &c— nation meted out troden under foot— terrible &c go back to old Abraham terrible— go to Egypt when they were grong [groaning] under tyranny. God calld on Moses— they were terrible from their beginning in national point— see the plagues of Egypt— smites the Red Sea &c— How many arguments does it want to prove the Jewish nation trodden under foot. Show from the book that the house of Israel stands connected with the Z of the last days. refers to the Indians being made drunk & the nation formed what they called a treaty. There lands have been spoiled— cheated robbed &c. which wing is the work to commence be a definite place where God will start the work Psalm 48 The man that tells me this is the little Z is mistaken— place beutiful for situation, joy of the earth— North wing— kings shall come to visit it. Psalm 102 Thou o lord shall endure forever &c be a time of gathering— well might C[hris]t say he shall gather. read Ld remember David in all his afflictions &c— If David was going to find it in little Z. what a fool he was— when he could a gone out. he swore he would not sleep &c until he found out a place &c. Lo we found it in the fields of the woods— in the prarie— the place where God pointed out— in [p. 4 [34]]