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What was Saturday afternoon’s devoted to on the trail
west to the Salt Lake Valley?
a.
Wagon repair and
baking
b.
Church meetings
c.
Horse shoe
tournaments
d.
Hunting
Yesterday’s
answer:
(B) That they would
serve as Joseph Smith’s cabinet if he was elected to the President of the
United States
In March 1844, Cutler [Alpheus] also became a charter
member of the “Kingdom of God” or Council of Fifty, as it was often called.
This group developed out of both the Anointed Quorum and Mormonism’s growing
political agendas that surfaced in the Nauvoo period. The council was
envisioned as the making of a theocratic government that, if Smith had been
elected U.S. president in 1844, would have presumably served as his cabinet. A
more feasible plan was also enacted in which the council gathered intelligence
on the potential for colonizing a Mormon state in the West. Importantly, for
the future of the Cutlerites, this council also discussed reviving efforts to
convert groups of Native Americans and anticipated the building of individual
colonies throughout the continent.
Christopher James Blythe, The Upper-Room Work:
Exotericism in the Church of Jesus Christ (Cutlerite), 1853-1912, Journal of Mormon History, Summer 2014, 54.
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