April 6, 1844 ~ Saturday

A Special Conference held at Nauvoo
April 6^th AD 1844

Conference assembled at 10 oclock AM April 6
President B, Young, called the conference to
order. President Joseph Smith said he should
not occupy time in speaking of any difficulties
that might have occured in our midst,
said he was not a fallen prophet, & never in
any nearer relationship to God than at the
present time, & would show before the conferen
closed that God was with him. Prayer by
W. W. Phelps, after which Sidney Rigdon
arose & said it was with no ordinary feelings
he arose to speak, a privilege which he had
not before enjoyed in the same capacity for
five years, and the circumstances of the
occasion points out to me my text which is
the saints of the last Days. I remember in
1830 all the church met in a log cabin, whare
we conversed extensively about laying the
foundation of this kingdom, our minds
expanded far & wide while contemplating
this subject even in that day we talked
as large then as now, we spoke of Great things
that the world could not bear & that is
the reason why we were in secret the world
would laugh & consider us fools & even mob
us becaus we talked about things that wer true
& have and will come to pass yet things that
looked impossible to them because they did
not view them by faith as we do, and if we
should still convers about things in secret it
would be upon the same principle for we

April 6, 1844 ~ Saturday

A Special Conference held at Nauvoo April 6th AD 1844

Conference assembled at 10 oclock AM April 6 President B, Young, called the conference to order. President Joseph Smith said he should not occupy time in speaking of any difficulties that might have occured in our midst, said he was not a fallen prophet, & never in any nearer relationship to God than at the present time, & would show before the conferen closed that God was with him. Prayer by W. W. Phelps, after which Sidney Rigdon arose & said it was with no ordinary feelings he arose to speak, a privilege which he had not before enjoyed in the same capacity for five years, and the circumstances of the occasion points out to me my text which is the saints of the last Days. I remember in 1830 all the church met in a log cabin, whare we conversed extensively about laying the foundation of this kingdom, our minds expanded far & wide while contemplating this subject even in that day we talked as large then as now, we spoke of Great things that the world could not bear & that is the reason why we were in secret the world would laugh & consider us fools & even mob us becaus we talked about things that wer true & have and will come to pass yet things that looked impossible to them because they did not view them by faith as we do, and if we should still convers about things in secret it would be upon the same principle for we