When we first went to Nauvoo the
old Patriarch Joseph came into our house one day and in a very confidential way,
giving us to understand that it was not to be made public, asked a question as
to who long we thought the Church would stay in Nauvoo and went onto say that the
Lord had told Joseph (his son the Prophet) that we would stay there just 7
years and that when we left there we would go right into the midst of the Indians,
in the Rocky Mountains—as this country, Utah, was then called.
That we have seen fulfilled. (Oliver
B. Huntington, Journal,
February 24, 1883, in Journal of Oliver Boardman Huntington, 15:54)
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