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Show Page 271 differences between the original Book of Mormon and present-day editions. Orson also broke down the Doctrine and Covenants chronologically; his was the first edition to contain the 136 sections in the order given by 8 revelation. Book work and legislative duties as Speaker thus kept Orson occupied in Salt Lake while most of his brethren had been assigned to preside in outlying areas - Orson Hyde in Sanpete County, Charles Rich at Bear Lake, and Lorenzo Snow at Brigham City. Of the older apostles, John Taylor and Wilford Woodruff kept Orson company in the capital. Frequently they traveled together as Brigham Young's emissaries. Given the success of his "cooperatives" and a national economy depressed by the Panic of 1873, Brigham felt the time was right to re-establish the "Order of Enoch." Joseph Smith's vision of a millenarian community in which all things would be held in common had lapsed over the years, particularly since the financial disasters of Kirtland's "United Firm." But, at the April conference of 1874, Orson Pratt and John Taylor received orders to organize the stakes into cooperative economic ventures. The two apostles carried a list of officers for a "United Order" in the St. George Stake, but proceeded to organize the intervening communities as well. At Ephraim, they demonstrated for the people the rules of conducting the Order, called a new stake presidency, and set in order the government of Sanpete County in addition - testifying to the casual 9 relationship between church and state in early Utah. Upon return from the southern settlements, Orson presided over the formation of small Order projects in the individual wards of Salt Lake City. In Bountiful, he organized a large cooperative mercantile and manufacturing institution 10 with over $12,000 capital; the "B.C.M.I." was soon thriving." These economic experiments heartened Orson, for it meant that the order of Zion |