History of Utah, 1540-1886 - Brigham Young University

CHAPTER V.
THE STORY OF MORMONISM.
1835-1840.
President Smith at Kirtland—First Quorum of Twelve Apostles—The
Kirtland Temple Completed—Kirtland Safety Society Bank—In
Zion Again—The Saints in Missouri—Apostasy—Zeal and Indiscretion—Military
Organization—The War Opens—Depredations
on Both Sides—Movements of Atchison, Parks, and Doniphan—
Attitude of Boggs—Wight and Gilliam—Death of Patten—Danite
Organization—Order Lodge—Haun Mill Tragedy—Mobs and
Militia—The Tables Turned—Boggs' Exterminating Order—Lucas
and Clark at Far West—Surrender of the Mormons—Prisoners-
Petitions and Memorials—Expulsion—Gathering at Quincy—
Opinions.
Meanwhile, although the frontier of Zion was receiving
such large accessions, the main body of the
church was still at Kirtland, where President Smith
remained for some time.
On the 14th of February, 1835, twelve apostles
were chosen at Kirtland, Brigham Young, Orson
Hyde, and Heber C. Kimball being of the number;
likewise a little later Parley P. Pratt. Thence, the
following summer, they took their departure for the
east, holding conferences and ordaining and instructing
elders in the churches throughout New York and
New England, and the organization of the first quorum
of seventies was begun. Classes for instruction, and
a school of prophets were commenced, and Sidney
Pigdon delivered six lectures on faith, of which Joseph
Smith was author. 1 Preaching on the steps of a
'They were printed and bound in Doctrine and Covenants. See Hyde's
Mormonism, 202; Remy's Journey, 504; Pratt's Autobiography, 139. Mather,
in Lippincott's Mag., Aug. 1880, states that the twelve apostles started in
May.
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