Re.: Brigham Young, General Epistle from the Council of the Twelve Apostles, to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints abroad, dispersed throughout the Earth, greeting, December 23, 1847. Featured version published as a pamphlet in St. Louis, Missouri, January 1848, Church History Library:
Since the murder of President Joseph Smith, many false
prophets and false teachers have arisen, and tried to deceive many, during which
time we have mostly tarried with the body of the Church, or been seeking a new
location, leaving those prophets and teachers to run their race undisturbed,
who have died natural deaths, or committed suicide, and we now, having it in contemplation
soon to re-organize the Church according to the original pattern, with a First Presidency
and Patriarch, feeling that will be the privilege of the Twelve, ere long, to
spread abroad among the nations, not to hinder the gathering, but to preach the
gospel, and push the people, the honest in heart, together from the four
quarters of the earth. (“Appendix 1: General Epistle from the Council of the
Twelve Apostles, December 1847,” in Settling the Valley, Proclaiming the
Gospel: The General Epistles of the Mormon First Presidency, ed. Reid L.
Neilson and Nathan N. White [Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017], 286)
This quote is apropos in light of the documentary produced by the Interpreter Foundation that was released earlier this month, Six Days in August.
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