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Jacob Hamblin, a narrative of his personal experience, as a frontiersman, missionary to the Indians and explorer, [microform] disclosing interpositions of Providence, severe privations, perilous situations and remarkable escapes. Fifth book of the faith-p - Page 21 |
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Show SIDNEY RIGDON'S PRESUMPTION. 19 CHAPTER, III. SIDNEY RIGDON STRIVES FOR THE GUARDIANSHIP OF THE CHURCH HE URGES HIS CLAIMS AT THE CONFERENCE BRIGHAM YOUNG, PRESIDENT OF THE TWELVE, AND OTHERS OF THE QUORUM APPEAR IN THE STAND A REMARKABLE TESTIMONY THAT THE MANTLE OF JOSEPH HAD FALLEN UPON BRIGHAM YOUNG PERSECUTIONS OF THE SAINTS BAPTISM OF MY PARENTS PREPARA-TIONS FOR THE EXODUS SICKNESS A METHODIST COMFORTER ANSWER TO PRAYER HARVEST OF QUAILS MIRACULOUS INCIDENTS ON THE JOURNEY TO UTAH. AT Nauvoo I found Sidney Kigdon busy among the Saints, trying to establish his claim to the presidency of the Church. He was first Counselor to the Prophet Joseph at the time of the latter's death. The Church was fourteen years old, and he claimed that it was its privilege and duty to appoint a guardian ; and he wished the people to sanction his guardianship. I was much dissatisfied with the course he was taking, and, as I could not sustain him, 1 felt to leave Nauvoo for a season. I went into the country, where I had left my wife and two children with my sister Melissa. When I met my sister, she threw her arms around my neck and thanked the Lord that I had returned. She had seen an account of a man being drowned in the Ohio river, and, from the description, thought that it might have been me. On the 8th of August, 1844, I attended a general meeting of the Saints. Elder Bigdon was there, urging his claims to the presidency of the Church. His voice did not sound like the voice of the true shepherd. When he was about to call a vote of the congregation to sus-tain him as President of the Church, Elders Brigham Young, Parley P. Pratt and Heber C. Kimball stepped into the stand, |
