the affairs of the Church during the absence of the First Presidency.

In January, 1839, Brigham Young called a meeting to consider what should be
done in aiding the poor Saints to remove from Missouri. President Young
presented a resolution that the brethren should never desert the poor
Saints, but that they should help them to escape from their persecutors. A
great many brethren agreed to this, and that winter and spring the move
eastward to Illinois continued. They did not travel in large bodies, but in
small companies as they got ready. Not one family who wished to go was left
behind.

The sufferings of that winter journey cannot be told you here. Many died on
the way through exposure and hardships. The mobs would not let them alone
even when they were leaving as fast as they could. Mobs often rode into Far
West, abused the people, stole horses, drove off cattle and took anything
that pleased them. The Saints traded their farms for horses and wagons in
which to get away. Sometimes fine farms were nearly given away. It is told
of one brother that he sold forty acres of good land for a blind mare and a
clock.

July 8, 1838, the Lord gave a revelation wherein he called the Twelve
Apostles to go on a mission to England. The Twelve were to take leave of
the Saints at the temple site in Far West, April 26, 1839. (Doc. and Cov.,
Sec. 118.) This time had now come, but it seemed impossible that it could
be carried out, as most of the Saints had left Far West and the mobbers
swore that this was a revelation that should not be fulfilled. They would
kill the first Apostle that came into the place, they said.

However, seven of the Twelve arrived at Far West the night before the 26th,
and early next morning they went to the temple lot, rolled a large stone to
the southeast corner of the temple grounds as a foundation, and then
proceeded to hold a meeting. Elders Wilford Woodruff and George A. Smith
were then ordained Apostles, the brethren prayed and sang and then
dismissed the meeting, bidding good-bye to the eighteen Saints present. Not
a mobber was astir that morning, and the word of the Lord was again
fulfilled.

Topics.--1. Governor Boggs' exterminating order. 2. Betrayal of Joseph
and his brethren. 3. Adam-ondi-Ahman. 4. Departure from Far West. 5. The
meeting of the Twelve at Far West.

Questions and Review.--1. How did the mob make the people believe that
the "Mormons" were burning houses, etc.? 2. What reports wer