At the time when the Saints were
expelled from the State of Missouri in 1839, the people of Quincy, Illinois
sympathetically took them in. When the Saints were forced from Nauvoo, again
the folks of Quincy sent boat loads of supplies up the river to help the Saints
on their journey to the west. The Church never forgot this kindness. What did
the Church do to repay Quincy, Illinois for their sympathetic care?
A) The Mormon Tabernacle Choir performed
a benefit concert in Quincy
B) Joseph Smith sent the Nauvoo Legion
to Quincy to give them a 100 gun salute
C) Brigham Young sent 50 wagons of wheat
to Quincy to repay them for their kindness
D) Joseph Smith offered free passage for
anyone from Quincy wishing to ride the Church’s paddle wheeler
Yesterday’s answer:
(D)
In a coffin
Less
than two years after the dedication of this first temple, it was abandoned at
the end of 1837 because of persecution and dissension within the Church.
Faithful Latter-day Saints fled to Missouri. Joseph Smith escaped from death
threats when his friends hid him in a coffin and he was taken away from
Kirtland on a wagon on January 12, 1838.
Gilbert
W. Scharffs, Mormons and Masons (Orem,
Utah: Millennial Press, 2006), 6.
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