Nauvoo City of Our God

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NauvooCity of Our God

• Khinckley1_at_yahoo.com

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November 1838

• Israel Barlow
• Des Moines River to Mississippi
• Isaac Galland
• Eastern land speculators
• Nothing Down, 20 years to pay!
• Joseph Smith given offer in March
• Joseph and brethren escape April 16th
• Commerce purchased April 30th

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First Summer

• Illness
• Malaria (Ague)
• Funerals limited to Tues and Thursdays
• Families pre-fitted for their coffins

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Heber C. Kimball

• Charles Hubbard sent his boy with a wagon and
  span of horses to my house our trunks were put
  into the wagon by some brethren I went to my
  bed and shook hands with my wife who was then
  shaking with a chill, having two children lying
  sick by her side I embraced her and my children,
  and bade them farewell. My only well child was
  little Heber P., and it was with difficulty he
  could carry a couple of quarts of water at a
  time, to assist in quenching their thirst.    
• "It was with difficulty we got into the wagon,
  and started down the hill about ten rods it
  appeared to me as though my very inmost parts
  would melt within me at leaving my family in such
  a condition, as it were almost in the arms of
  death. I felt as though I could not endure it. I
  asked the teamster to stop, and said to Brother
  Brigham, 'This is pretty tough, isn't it let's
  rise up and give them a cheer.'
• We arose, and swinging our hats three times over
  our heads, shouted 'Hurrah, hurrah for Israel.'
  Vilate, hearing the noise, arose from her bed and
  came to the door. She had a smile on her face.
  Vilate and Mary Ann Young cried out to us
  'Goodbye, God bless you.' We returned the
  compliment, and then told the driver to go ahead.
  
• After this I felt a spirit of joy and gratitude,
  having had the satisfaction of seeing my wife
  standing upon her feet, instead of leaving her in
  bed, knowing well that I should not see them
  again for two or three years."

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More Heber C. Kimball

• Brother Brigham had one York shilling left, and
  on looking over our expenses we found we had paid
  out over 87.00 out of the 13.50 we had at
  Pleasant Garden, which is all the money we had to
  pay our passages with.
• We had traveled over 400 miles by stage, for
  which we paid from 8 to 10 cents a mile, and had
  eaten three meals a day, for each of which we
  were charged fifty cents, also fifty cents for
  our lodgings.
• Brother Brigham often suspected that I put the
  money in his trunk, or clothes thinking that I
  had a purse of money which I had not acquainted
  him with, but this was not so the money could
  only have been put in his trunk by some heavenly
  messenger, who thus administered to our
  necessities daily as he knew we needed." (Life of
  Heber C. Kimball, p273)

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Missionary work Expands

• Germany (1843)
• Ireland (1840)
• Israel (1841)
• Jamaica (1841)
• Russia (1843)
• Scotland (1839)
• Tahiti (1843)
• Wales (1844)

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Section 124
124 2this stake which I have planted to be a
cornerstone of Zion, which shall be polished with
the refinement which is after the similitude of a
palace

• 22 Let my servant George, and my
  servant Lyman, and
  my servant
  John Snider, and others, build a
  
  house unto my name, such a one
  as my servant
  Joseph shall show
  unto them, upon the place which
  he shall show unto them also.
• 23 And it shall be for a house for boarding, a
  house that strangers may come from afar to lodge
  therein therefore let it be a good house, worthy
  of all acceptation, that the weary traveler may
  find health and safety while he shall contemplate
  the word of the Lord and the corner-stone I have
  appointed for Zion.
• 24 This house shall be a healthful habitation if
  it be built unto my name

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1841 The City of our God

• Psalm 48
• 1 Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised in
  the city of our God, in the mountain of his
  holiness.
• 2 Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole
  earth, is mount Zion, on the sides of the north,
  the city of the great King.

• Joseph Smith
• The name of our city (Nauvoo) is of Hebrew
  origin, and signifies a beautiful situation, or
  place,

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Jerusalem/Nauvoo

• 3 God is known in her palaces for a refuge
• 4 For, lo, the kings were assembled, they passed
  by together
• 5 They saw it, and so they marveled they were
  troubled, and hastened away
• 11let the daughters of Judah be glad

• DC 12410 and where shall be the safety of my
  people, and refuge for those who shall be left of
  them?
• 11 Awake, O kings of the earth! Come ye, O, come
  ye, with your gold and your silver, to the help
  of my people,
• to the house of the daughters of Zion.

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Jerusalem/Nauvoo

• Psalm 48 8 As we have heard, so have we seen in
  the city of the LORD of hosts, in the city of our
  God God will establish it for ever...
• 9 We have thought of thy loving kindness, O God,
  in the midst of thy temple.
• 12 Walk about Zion, and go round about her tell
  the towers thereof.
• 13 Mark ye well her bulwarks, consider her
  palaces that ye may tell it to the generation
  following.

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Question

• What should the world and our children know about
  Nauvoo?

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Elder Gordon B. Hinckley1964 General Conference

• In imagination I saw my own grandfather-a
  young man who had been orphaned by a plague
  of smallpox With his brother and
  grandparents he had gone to Springfield,
  Illinois-Abraham Lincoln's town-and then on to
  Nauvoo. There as a boy he met Joseph
  Smith- the man who changed his life and the
  lives of all the generations to follow him.
• He witnessed in Nauvoo the resurgence of the old,
  ugly hatred, culminating in the murder of the
  Prophet Joseph Smith. He saw Nauvoo threatened,
  then attacked, burned, and emptied of those who
  owned it.
• He, with his young bride, started across Iowa,
  then followed the long trail up the Elkhorn and
  the North Platte in the direction of Fort
  Laramie. His wife grew pale and sick and died.
  With his own hands he chopped a tree beside the
  trail, made a coffin, dug a grave, left his
  sweetheart in a place he never again visited, and
  carried a three-month-old baby to the Salt Lake
  Valley.

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Elder Hinckley Continues

• I thought of him last night as we flew smoothly
  more than seven miles over Nebraska and Wyoming,
  and reached in my case, took out my Bible, and
  turned to Joshua, chapter 24, and read these
  words of the Lord given to an ungrateful Israel
• And I have given you a land for which ye did not
  labour, and cities which ye built not, and ye
  dwell in them of the vineyards and oliveyards
  which ye planted not do ye eat. (Josh. 2413.)
• I thought of how appropriately that might be
  applied to our own generation. You and I live in
  a marvelous land for which we have not labored,
  and we dwell in cities which we built not and eat
  of vineyards which we have not planted. How
  thankful we ought to be for the magnificent
  blessings we enjoy. Our society is afflicted by a
  spirit of thoughtless arrogance unbecoming those
  who have been blessed so generously.