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The Words of Joseph Smith

The Contemporary Accounts of the Nauvoo Discourses of the Prophet Joseph
Andrew F. Ehat and Lyndon W. Cook, Editors
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7 April 1844 (1) (Sunday Morning). Grove 1/4 Mile East of Temple

[1] A very pleasant morning. the people began to assemble. and by 10 oclock there was the largest congregation ever seen in Nauvoo….

Prest. J. Smith requested that the congregation would keep good order—and in the name of the constitution, continental congress & God Almighty I command the public to keep good order.

—7 April 1844 (1)

Notes

[1] See History of the Church, 6:297. Not in Teachings. The entry in History of the Church is based on the Joseph Smith Diary, by Willard Richards.