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History of Utah, 1540-1886 - Brigham Young University

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AFFAIRS IN MISSOURI. 113<br />

When the day arrived great numbers convened from<br />

the different churches in the country. They spent<br />

the day in fasting and prayer, and in washing and<br />

perfuming their bodies; they also washed their feet,<br />

and anointed their heads with what they called holy<br />

oil, and pronounced blessings. In the evening they<br />

met for the endowment. The fast was then broken."<br />

Midsummer <strong>of</strong> 1837 saw Parley P. Pratt in New<br />

York city, where he printed the first edition <strong>of</strong> his Voice<br />

<strong>of</strong> Warning* and where he labored with great earnestness,<br />

at first under many discouragements, later with<br />

signal success. After that he went once more to<br />

Missouri. Others were going in the same direction<br />

from Kirtland and elsewhere during the entire period<br />

between 1831 and 1838. The Messenger and Advocate<br />

having been discontinued, the Elders Journal was<br />

started by Joseph Smith in Kirtland in October<br />

1837.<br />

After the emeutes which occurred in Jackson county<br />

in the autumn <strong>of</strong> 1833, as before related, the saints<br />

escaped as best they were able to Clay county, where<br />

they were kindly received. Some took up their abode<br />

in Lafayette and Van Buren counties, and a few in<br />

Ray and Clinton counties. 5 For their lands, stock,<br />

furniture, buildings, and other property destroyed in<br />

Jackson county, they received little or no compensation;<br />

on the contrary, some who went back for their<br />

effects were caught and beaten. 6<br />

Nevertheless, there<br />

4 It consisted <strong>of</strong> 4,000 copies. The author states that • it has since been<br />

published and republished in America and Europe, till some 40,000 or 50,000<br />

copies have not been sufficient to supply the demand.' Pratt's Aulobioyraphy,<br />

184.<br />

5 Most <strong>of</strong> these fled into Clay co., where they were received with some<br />

degree <strong>of</strong> kindness, and encamped on the banks <strong>of</strong> the Missouri. Those who<br />

went into Van Buren and Lafayette counties were soon expelled, and had to<br />

move. Pratt's Persecution, 51; Mac/cay's Mormons, 78; Times and Seasons,<br />

vi. 913. The Missouri River bends to the east as it enters the state, and runs<br />

in a generally east direction through the western counties. Jackson co. ia<br />

immediately south <strong>of</strong> Clay—the river being the dividing line—and Van<br />

Buren lies next south <strong>of</strong> Jackson. All west <strong>of</strong> the state line was Indian territory,<br />

as I have said. See map, p. 121 this vol.<br />

6 The Jackson co. exiles being in a destitute condition, a conference was

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