Another Possible End Destination

 Brigham considered a number of possible end destinations to where the Saints could call their own. I’ve shared two in this blog to date—Vancouver Island in Canada and the state of Maine. Of the choices provided below, which one was considered a possible end destination?

       a.      Alabama

b.      Mississippi

c.       Tennessee

d.      Arkansas

Yesterday’s answer:
a.      Relied heavily on Almanacs.

This passage has been deleted from all the published versions of Lucy Mack Smith’s history, but it can be found in the “Preliminary Manuscript,” 77, Library-Archives, Historical Department, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Salt Lake City.

Additional interesting information:

The following from W. W. Phelps as printed in the Deseret News on 8 March 1851, 219-20:

Again Doctor, I solicit a space in your columns, to say a few words upon ‘the weather,’ which is so wonderfully foretold by the almanac maker, or the printer’s devil. In many almanacs, for the vexing consolation of farmers, travelers, and some visitng women. . . .

In addition to this kind of soothsaying, a large majority of mankind actually believe, that the moon holds an immense sway, at her changes, over the weather; and this serves to strengthen the almanac maker’s or the printer’s devil faith, or cunning, or calculations, in foretelling the hidden treasures of the weather. . . .not less that ten thousand changes of weather have happened by night and by day, among which were snow in summer, and thunder showers in winter; and yet, before, and after all; when true philosophy, which is Truth, was consulted, I never found a man of this world that knew what a day would bring forth, a year, a month, or a week ahead, unless revealed by the spirit of prophecy.