Heber C. Kimball
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It is
claimed that Heber C. Kimball did what that shocked those that were in
attendance. What did Heber do?
a.
Disagreed with
Brigham Young
b.
Laughed while
giving a prayer
c.
Joked in the
Nauvoo Temple
d.
Disagreed with
Joseph Smith
Yesterday’s
answer:
(D) Secular affairs
In reference to the Council of Fifty: Although some have seen this council as a
separate or even superior center of “Church” or “priesthood” authority, there
is no hint of that in the record. The organization was involved only in the
temporal or political or practical program of protecting the Church and
providing space for it to flourish; it focused on the “temporal” or political
or external program of interfacing between the Church (and its leaders) and the
larger world. There is in the record no discussion of or exercise of priesthood
keys, no ordinations, no ordinances, and no explanation of temple teachings or
other Church doctrine.
The program of the council might be described in terms
of its short-term practical projects, it overarching long-term goal, and its millennial
aspirations. The practical program of the council during Smith’s lifetime was
straightforward. Those initiatives, some of which before the council was
organize and were brought into the council, included managing Joseph Smith’s
presidential campaign, uniting the western Indians, and petitioning Washington
for authority to protect emigrants to the West. Even as they faced immediate
exigencies, the council and its members remained committed to the longer-range
project of establishing a new home for the Saints outside the boundaries of the
United States where they might have a government of their own that would
protect their rights and those of any who chose to join them. As Heber C.
Kimball said to the council in March 1845, “I feel as though there was
something deficient all the time when I reflect that we have not yet sent out
men to find a location where we can erect the standard of liberty. When we get
that done the nations will flock to it and many of us will live to see it.”
Ronald K. Esplin, Understanding the Council of Fifty
and Its Minutes, BYU Studies, Vol.
55, No. 3, 20-21.
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