| Reynolds Cahoon is
not to go to Zion in the spring. He is to go on his mission. |
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| D&C 107:59-100, announcing the need for a president of the High Priesthood, was received November 11, 1831. Reynolds Cahoon's diary states that "the President
of the high Preas[t]hood" was "ordained" at a general conference in Amherst, Ohio on January 25, 1832, but Orson Pratt's history indicates at this
conference "the Prophet Joseph was acknowledged President of the High Priesthood,
and hands laid on him by Elder Sidney Rigdon, who sealed upon his head the
blessings which he had formerly received." If Sidney only sealed blessings "formerly received," could Joseph have been ordained on or shortly after November 11, and only the blessings associated with that ordination were "sealed upon his head" at the January 25, 1832 general conference? |
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November 11, 1831 [Friday] |
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FWR
Far West Record: Minutes of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1830-1844, edited by Donald Q. Cannon and Lyndon W. Cook (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Company, 1983).
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30–31. |
| Location |
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Hiram, Portage County,
Ohio. |
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| Description |
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… a Special Conference
… |
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| Clerk |
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Oliver Cowdery |
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| Present |
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Joseph Smith Jr.
Oliver Cowdery
Peter Whitmer Jr.
Sidney Rigdon
Reynolds Cahoon
William E. McLellin
Luke Johnson
Lyman Johnson |
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| Open |
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Prayer by Reynolds Cahoon |
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| Reynolds
Cahoon to Zion? |
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Reynolds says he wants
to know if it is the will of the Lord for him to go to Zion in the spring. |
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| Oliver
reads revelations |
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Oliver reads "Commandments
concerning the duties of the Elders." |
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¶ D&C 20:38–45 (
BCR
Book of Commandments and Revelations, titled "Revelation Book 1" in Manuscript Revelation Books, edited by Robin Scott Jensen, Robert J. Woodford, and Steven C. Harper, (Salt Lake City: The Church Historian's Press, 2009). This is the first volume in the Revelations and Translations series of The Joseph Smith Papers.
Apr. 10, 1830)
Reynolds journalized that he is "not at liberty to go to
the land of Zion yet." |
| No. |
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Voted that it is the mind of the conference that our br. Reynolds is
not yet commanded to go to Zion in the spring by any thing yet written;
Therefore, Voted that our br. Reynolds be not sent up to Zion in the coming
spring. |
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| Thomas Marsh mission |
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A commandment to Thomas
B. Marsh (h) is read. |
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D&C
31, given in late September 1830, urges Thomas to go on his mission
and not worry about his family. |
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Sidney ordains Harvey
D. Redfield a priest. |
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Minutes of November 12–13,
1831
Minutes of November 9, 1831
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