History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Volume 5Smith, Joseph, Jr.
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History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Volume 5
Smith, Joseph, Jr.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; Smith, Joseph, Jr., 1805-1844
_Friday, 5_.--Engaged in a variety of business, and at six in the
evening presided in the city council; Councilor Taylor brought forward
a bill to regulate proceedings in the Municipal Court under habeas
corpus--the bill was read the first time, and upon motion for a second
reading it was referred to a select committee, namely Alderman Spencer,
and Councilors Taylor and William Law, to report thereon at the next
sitting of council.
{85} [Sidenote: Prophecy that the Saints Would be Driven to the Rocky
Mountains.]
_Saturday, 6_.--Passed over the river to Montrose, Iowa, in company
with General Adams, Colonel Brewer, and others, and witnessed the
installation of the officers of the Rising Sun Lodge Ancient York
Masons, at Montrose, by General James Adams, Deputy Grand-Master of
Illinois. While the Deputy Grand-Master was engaged in giving the
requisite instructions to the Master-elect, I had a conversation with a
number of brethren in the shade of the building on the subject of our
persecutions in Missouri and the constant annoyance which has followed
us since we were driven from that state. I prophesied that the Saints
would continue to suffer much affliction and would be driven to the
Rocky Mountains, many would apostatize, others would be put to death
by our persecutors or lose their lives in consequence of exposure
or disease, and some of you will live to go and assist in making
settlements and build cities and see the Saints become a mighty people
in the midst of the Rocky Mountains. [D]
[Footnote D: It is thought important that the following statement from
a biography of Anson Call, by Edward Tullidge, should be made part of
the history of this prophetic incident, as doubtless the testimony of
Brother Call relates to the same incident as that described in the
Prophet's text of the History, notwithstanding some confusion of dates
that exists in the Call testimony. It will be seen that the Prophet
fixes the date of his prophecy on Saturday, the 6th of August, 1842.
In Whitney's History of Utah, Vol. IV.--(Biographical section of the
history, p. 143), the date on which Call heard the prophecy, is given
as the 8th of August, 1842. While in Tullidge's biography of Call the
date is given as the 14th of July, 1843, evidently an error. There is
no entry in the Prophet's journal for the 8th of August, 1842, and the
entries for the 8th of August, 1843, and the 14th of July, 1843, relate
to matters of quite a different character. Tullidge, in relating Anson
Call's recollection of the incident also says that J. C. Bennett was
present on the occasion, which must also be an error, as the rupture
between Bennett and the Church and its authorities occurred and he had
left Nauvoo previous to the 6th of August, 1842. In the Call statement
as published by Tullidge, the name of Mr. Adams, the Deputy Grand
Master Mason in charge of the ceremonies, is given as George, it should
be James.
_Statement of Anson Call_.
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