| Report from Hulet branch,
mission assignments, ordinations. Is all disease and medicine of the Devil? §. Members may believe whatever they want, but may not teach that Satan is the sole cause of disease or interfere with administering roots, herbs, and vegetables for health. |
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August 21, 1834 |
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FWR
Far West Record: Minutes of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1830-1844, edited by Donald Q. Cannon and Lyndon W. Cook (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Company, 1983).
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95–97. |
| Location |
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Clay County, home of
Lyman Wight. |
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| Description |
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Agreeable to adjournment
the high Council convened … |
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| President
present |
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David
Whitmer |
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| Clerk |
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Lyman Wight |
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| Substitute
high council members |
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Leonard
Rich
Zebedee Coltrin
Peter Dustin
Isaac Higbee
Elias Higbee |
for |
Parley P. Pratt (h)
William E. McLellin
Calvin Beebe
Newel Knight
Levi Jackman, pro tem. |
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| Open |
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Opened in prayer by David
Whitmer, President. |
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| Hulet
Branch accepts decision |
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Simeon Carter and Amasa
Lyman (h):
Hulet branch accepts council's decision regarding false spirits. |
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| Orson
Pratt can go on mission or stay |
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Orson
Pratt authorized to go on a mission
or stay in Zion "according as he shall obtain by the manifestation
of the Spirit of God through prayer." |
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Adjourn. |
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| Second
session |
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Convened, opened in prayer,
as usual. |
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| Mission
assignments |
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Vote Elders Morris Phelps,
Uziel Stevens, Stephen Chase, Harvey Green to go on missions "in the
due time of the Lord." |
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| Ordinations |
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Vote to ordain Alexander
Richardson a priest, Philo Dibble a teacher. Thomas B. Marsh (h)
ordains them. |
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| Lyman
Wight teaches disease of the devil |
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John
Corrill charges Lyman Wight with teaching that "all disease
in this Church is of the Devil, and that medicine is of the Devil, for the
sick in the Church ought to live by faith." |
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| Counselors
speak |
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The four counselors
assigned to speak are Christian Whitmer, Orson Pratt, Isaac Higbee, Lyman
Wight. |
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Lyman
speaks as a counselor in his own case? |
| Lyman
acknowledges |
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After which Lyman Wight
acknowledged that he had taught this doctrine, or rather believed it to
be correct. |
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| No
counseling needed |
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W.
W. Phelps: the case needs "no counselling which was agreed to by
L. Wight and J. Corrill." |
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Decision by David
Whitmer: |
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May
believe all disease is of devil
Members may administer roots, herbs, vegitables to sick |
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It is not lawful to teach
the Church that all disease is of the devil. But if there is any that has
this faith let him have it to himself. And if there are any that believe
that roots and herbs administered to the sick, and all wholesome vegitables
which God has ordained for the use of man and if any say that such things
applied to the sick in order that they may receive health, and this applied
by any member of the Church, if there are any among you that teach that
these things are of Satan, such teaching is not of God. |
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| Close |
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Council dismissed. |
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Prayer by David Whitmer. |
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