History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Volume 4

by Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; Jr. Joseph Smith

Footnotes:

[1]. The foregoing is an editorial in the Times and Seasons for September, 1840.

[2]. A discourse on the same subject to the Twelve will be found in vol. iii, p. 385, et seq.

[3]. This is the report referred to in the conference minutes.

CHAPTER XII.

Progress of the Work in Great Britain—The Saints at Kirtland Reproved for Their Course During the Missouri Persecutions—The Prophet's Address to the Twelve and Saints in Great Britain.

Saturday, October 10.—Elder George A. Smith returned to London, and was soon followed by Elder Woodruff.

Charges against Oliver Walker.

David Fulmer preferred a charge against Oliver Walker "for reporting certain slanderous stories of a fallacious and calumniating nature, calculated to stigmatize, and raise a persecution against the Church and individuals in it, in this place, [Nauvoo], and for other acts of unchristianlike conduct," before the High Council at Nauvoo. The defendant pleaded that "he was not prepared to meet the charge, it being too indefinite." Council adjourned till next day.