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385 Appendix prove of, and raise their hands against all such parties whoever or wher­ they may be. This article was to be printed and sent out the next day to the four winds. This article was presented to the Seventies for sanction, and a vote ever called and prise, the unanimous vote a opposite vote was said there seemed to be expected. called, one But when to Elder Goold's hand was raised. sur­ Brother Goold young man back in the very grave objections, and that was why I could not raise my hand against the Heads of the Church. I knew that Joseph Smith, Sidney Rigdon, and John Taylor were then audience. I in Canada raising be off our we did it. cutting returned if their votes. will all arose one our a some money to redeem our bank paper, and it would own heads and we would hear from it when arose and said they Joseph Young said, "Hold At this several At this Brother resign opposing vote, and said that I had votes." And it was wished on! simply Joseph to resign I think we done. Brother Warren Parrish was in the Bank as cashier, and when Joseph and the other Brethren that were with him returned, it was late at night, and being very tired, they did not go up to the Bank until late the next morning. Before they got to the Bank, Parrish had issued so of money for twenty-five cents on the dollar that it could not Many of the Brethren had such confidence in the Bank that they sold everything they had to redeem the paper. I sold my last team and wagon, my last cow, and my watch out of my pocket for large a sum be redeemed. Kirtland money. At this time Joseph had to go to Missouri. Hiram incurred the the paper. Mobs began to howl. Our printing office was assailed, and I was called to guard there. My wife, not being accustomed to seeing men running balls and preparing to stand against mobs, was alarmed, and in consequence of that, lost her first born a premature redeeming of Over the child's grave grows a rose planted by a friend long years after her death. Now times began to be hard. Property went down when people had to leave. All business stopped, and money was hard to raise. The Church could not pay the money borrowed, and father had come into Kirtland with plenty, and had layed down his money to redeem the Temple Block. He had furnished the community with about $3,000, and had given his note for the church farm and had taken their indemnified bonds against birth. The Church could not pay anything. Father had bought a himself, and had to send to New York to his son-in­ couple law to sell his property there, and let father have the money to raise these This left Father without notes that were given for the Church farm. notes with Joseph and the Church which we He had those notes. of farms for anything. signed took up after we came to Nauvoo or Iowa. We were so hard pushed for means that Brother Amasa M. Lyman and myself were forced to go to