come here to protect us but to protect their own court. He wants to get the finished and give the Elders their endowment and send them preaching every where. It is no good omen to him for the mobocrats to sell their farms. They want to get property to use against us, that they may use us up and then come back and enjoy their farms.
Er related a dream he had about having to pass over very thick muddy water.
The , also related another dream and concluded by saying that if we stick together we shall go through against the stream to the mountain.
Ers & then entered and took their seats. [p. [376]]
On 9 March 1845 Young related to the seventies of the church a dream in which he and JS climbed a mountain with a river running down it. When they arrived on the other side of the mountain, they “found a most beautiful site for a city.” (Record of Seventies, bk. B, 9 Mar. 1845.)
Record of Seventies / First Council of the Seventy. “General Record of the Seventies Book B. Commencing Nauvoo 1844,” 1844–1848. Bk. B. In First Council of the Seventy, Records, 1837–1885. CHL. CR 3 51, box 2, fd. 1.
William Smith returned from the eastern United States on 4 May 1845 and reported on his mission to the other members of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles the next day. (News Item, Nauvoo Neighbor, 7 May 1845, [2]; Richards, Journal, 4–5 May 1845.)