Gilbert Belnap
After
it was discovered at a meeting of a mob that one of the attendees, Gilbert
Belnap, was a spy for the Prophet Joseph Smith Jr., what was it that Brother
Belnap blessed to ensure his escape?
A)
His feet
B)
The Sheriff and his Deputies
C)
The mob
D)
His horse
Yesterday’s answer:
(D) Far
West, Missouri
The following is related by Reed Peck in 1839
In the latter part of March 1838, the Smith
families, Sidney Rigdon and many of their favorites arrived in Far West one of
the “Stakes of Zion” and found the Church in prosperous circumstances-Oliver
Cowdery, David Whitmer and Lyman Johnson had preceded them which placed in
Caldwell County all the materials for an explosion (referring to population).
The Presidency viz. Joseph Smith, Hyrum Smith and Sidney Rigdon
believing that Caldwell County was too limited for the reception of the
multitude of converts that would be flocking to Missouri, directed their
attention to Daviess County lying immediately north of Caldwell, in which they
with others of the society made numerous claims on the Congress land selected a
site and laid out a city, the third “stake of Zion” and named it
Adam-Ondi-Ahman informing their followers that it was the place to which Adam
fled when driven from the garden of Eden in Jackson County and that Far West
was the spot where Cain killed Abel.
Reed Peck Manuscript, Special Collections, University of Utah
Library.
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