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Source: Church History Vol. 1 Chapter 11 Page: 277 (~1833)

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277 to do his will that we may at last be saved in his kingdom.

"Orson Hyde.

"Hyrum Smith.

"N. B.-We stated that Brother Gilbert knew that William was in Cleveland last fall, when he was in Kirtland. We wrote this upon the strength of hearsay; but William being left at St. Louis, strengthened our suppositions that such was the fact. We stated further, respecting this matter, or this item, than the testimony will warrant us. With this exception the conference sanction this letter."-Times and Seasons, vol. 5, pp. 720-723.

These premonitions of the authorities at Kirtland and their solemn warning to the saints in Zion, taken in connection with the trouble that came upon them very soon after, are suggestive, and lead one to ask, Could they not have remained and builded Zion if they had thoroughly repented and been sufficiently humble? However, it is not the province of the historian to speculate on what might have been, but it is his duty simply to relate what was, and leave the reader to form conclusions.

Resuming the thread of history we quote from Joseph Smith as follows:-

"This winter was spent in translating the Scriptures, in the school of the prophets, and sitting in conferences. I had many glorious seasons of refreshings. The gifts which follow them that believe and obey the gospel, as tokens that the Lord is ever the same in his dealings with the humble lovers and followers of truth, began to be poured out among us, as in ancient days; for as we, viz., Joseph Smith, Jr., Sidney Rigdon, Frederick G. Williams, Newel K. Whitney, Hyrum Smith, Zebedee Coltrin, Joseph Smith, Sen., Samuel H. Smith, John Murdock, Lyman Johnson, Orson Hyde, Ezra Thayer, high priests; and Levi Hancock, and William Smith, elders, were assembled in conference, on the twenty-second day of January, I spoke to the conference in another tongue, and was followed in the same gift by Brother Zebedee Coltrin, and he by Brother William Smith, after which the Lord poured out his Spirit in a miraculous manner until all the elders spoke in tongues,

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