NauvooCity of Our God

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November 1838

Israel BarlowDes Moines River to Mississippi

Isaac GallandEastern land speculatorsNothing Down, 20 years to pay!

Joseph Smith given offer in MarchJoseph and brethren escape April 16th

Commerce purchased April 30th

First Summer

Illness

Malaria (Ague)

Funerals limited to Tues and Thursdays

Families “pre-fitted” for their coffins

Heber C. KimballCharles Hubbard sent his boy with a wagon and span of horses to my house; our trunks were put into the wagon

by some brethren; I went to my bed and shook hands with my wife who was then shaking with a chill, having two children lying sick by her side; I embraced her and my children, and bade them farewell. My only well child was little Heber P., and it was with difficulty he could carry a couple of quarts of water at a time, to assist in quenching their thirst.    

"It was with difficulty we got into the wagon, and started down the hill about ten rods; it appeared to me as though my very inmost parts would melt within me at leaving my family in such a condition, as it were almost in the arms of death. I felt as though I could not endure it. I asked the teamster to stop, and said to Brother Brigham, 'This is pretty tough, isn't it; let's rise up and give them a cheer.'

We arose, and swinging our hats three times over our heads, shouted: 'Hurrah, hurrah for Israel.' Vilate, hearing the noise, arose from her bed and came to the door. She had a smile on her face. Vilate and Mary Ann Young cried out to us: 'Goodbye, God bless you.' We returned the compliment, and then told the driver to go ahead.

After this I felt a spirit of joy and gratitude, having had the satisfaction of seeing my wife standing upon her feet, instead of leaving her in bed, knowing well that I should not see them again for two or three years."

More Heber C. Kimball

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Brother Brigham had one York shilling left, and on looking over our expenses we found we had paid out over $87.00 out of the $13.50 we had at Pleasant Garden, which is all the money we had to pay our passages with.

We had traveled over 400 miles by stage, for which we paid from 8 to 10 cents a mile, and had eaten three meals a day, for each of which we were charged fifty cents, also fifty cents for our lodgings.

Brother Brigham often suspected that I put the money in his trunk, or clothes; thinking that I had a purse of money which I had not acquainted him with, but this was not so; the money could only have been put in his trunk by some heavenly messenger, who thus administered to our necessities daily as he knew we needed." (Life of Heber C. Kimball, p273)

Missionary work Expands

Germany (1843)

Ireland (1840)

Israel (1841)

Jamaica (1841)

Russia (1843)

Scotland (1839)

Tahiti (1843)

Wales (1844)

Section 124

22 Let my servant George, and my servant Lyman, and my servant John Snider, and others, build a house unto my name, such a one as my servant Joseph shall show unto them, upon the place which he shall show unto them also.

23 And it shall be for a house for boarding, a house that strangers may come from afar to lodge therein; therefore let it be a good house, worthy of all acceptation, that the weary traveler may find health and safety while he shall contemplate the word of the Lord; and the corner-stone I have appointed for Zion.

24 This house shall be a healthful habitation if it be built unto my name

124: 2…this stake which I have planted to be a cornerstone of Zion, which shall be polished with the refinement which is after the similitude of a palace

1841: The City of our GodPsalm 48:

1 Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, in the mountain of his holiness.

2 Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is mount Zion, on the sides of the north, the city of the great King.

Joseph Smith

The name of our city (Nauvoo) is of Hebrew origin, and signifies a beautiful situation, or place,

Jerusalem/Nauvoo3 God is known in her

palaces for a refuge

4 For, lo, the kings were assembled, they passed by together

5 They saw it, and so they marveled; they were troubled, and hastened away

11…let the daughters of Judah be glad…

D&C 124:10 and where shall be the safety of my people, and refuge for those who shall be left of them?

11 Awake, O kings of the earth! Come ye, O, come ye, with your gold and your silver, to the help of my people,

…to the house of the daughters of Zion.

Jerusalem/Nauvoo

Psalm 48: 8 As we have heard, so have we seen in the city of the LORD of hosts, in the city of our God: God will establish it for ever...

9 We have thought of thy loving kindness, O God, in the midst of thy temple.

12 Walk about Zion, and go round about her: tell the towers thereof.

13 Mark ye well her bulwarks, consider her palaces; that ye may tell it to the generation following.

Question:

What should the world and our children know about Nauvoo?

Elder Gordon B. Hinckley1964 General Conference

In imagination I saw my own grandfather-a young man who had been orphaned by a

plague of smallpox … With his brother and grandparents he … had gone to Springfield, Illinois-Abraham Lincoln's town-and then on

to Nauvoo. There as a boy he met Joseph Smith- the man who changed his life and the lives of all the generations to follow him.

He witnessed in Nauvoo the resurgence of the old, ugly hatred, culminating in the murder of the Prophet Joseph Smith. He saw Nauvoo threatened, then attacked, burned, and emptied of those who owned it.

He, with his young bride, started across Iowa, then followed the long trail up the Elkhorn and the North Platte in the direction of Fort Laramie. His wife grew pale and sick and died. With his own hands he chopped a tree beside the trail, made a coffin, dug a grave, left his sweetheart in a place he never again visited, and carried a three-month-old baby to the Salt Lake Valley.

Elder Hinckley Continues…I thought of him last night as we flew smoothly more than seven

miles over Nebraska and Wyoming, and reached in my case, took out my Bible, and turned to Joshua, chapter 24, and read these words of the Lord given to an ungrateful Israel:

And I have given you a land for which ye did not labour, and cities which ye built not, and ye dwell in them; of the vineyards and oliveyards which ye planted not do ye eat. (Josh. 24:13.)

I thought of how appropriately that might be applied to our own generation. You and I live in a marvelous land for which we have not labored, and we dwell in cities which we built not and eat of vineyards which we have not planted. How thankful we ought to be for the magnificent blessings we enjoy. Our society is afflicted by a spirit of thoughtless arrogance unbecoming those who have been blessed so generously.