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Opening Hymn: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3K44L2lWY8

Intro
i. You're looking good today and it feels good to be with you.
II. Theme: "Cornerstone: Beautiful Nauvoo!"
i. Series of colonizing setbacks: church tramping various areas, Kirtland, Zion (Missouri), Far West, Quincy, etc. Latest place Commerce, Ill
ii. Knew had to build
iii. Seven elements To Nauvoo:
1. Revelation D&C 124: Spiritual organization
2. Nauvoo Charter: Political/Civic organization
3. Nauvoo Temple: Family Organization
4. Nauvoo House: Outreach to visitors
5. University of Nauvoo: Education
6. Nauvoo Agricultural and Manufacturing Association: trades
7. Nauvoo Legion: military/Self defense
III. Point I. Major Points
i. Proclamation
1. Previous proclamations: "The Voice of Warning and a Letter to Queen Victoria were published by Parley P. Pratt. Orson Hyde wrote An Address to the Hebrews and a pamphlet addressed more particularly to the German nation. The Book of Mormon has been presented to at least two Sovereigns; to Queen Victoria, in 1842, by Elder Lorenzo Snow, and to King Oscar II., of Sweden, on the 22nd of September, 1897, by Elder Janne M. Sjodahl. "
2. Setbacks, counselors apostatized, PPP
3. Second Coming subtext
ii. Nauvoo House
1. Hotel, Close to river.
2. Contemplate "word of the Lord" and "corner-stone." Missionary tool. Welcoming great ones to City (Proclamation)
3. Cf. Hotel Utah, temple patron housing
4. Equally as important as temple. Limited manpower, have to go back and forth to staff contraction. Not finished. Emma Smith's husband roofed it.
5. "Quorum of Nauvoo House"
6. Stock: $50-$15,000. Revelation to set up a company with stock.
a. Get out of debt, emergency fund, index funds.
iii. Nauvoo Temple
1. Call for materials (wood from Wisconsin), and "antiquities and knowledge of antiquities"
2. House unto His name
3. Baptism font
4. And again, verily I say unto you, how shall your washings be acceptable unto me, except ye perform them in a house which you have built to my name?
5. Therefore, verily I say unto you, that your anointings, and your washings, and your baptisms for the dead, and your solemn assemblies, and your memorials for your sacrifices by the sons of Levi, and for your oracles in your most holy places wherein you receive conversations, and your statutes and judgments, for the beginning of the revelations and foundation of Zion, and for the glory, honor, and endowment of all her municipals, are ordained by the ordinance of my holy house, which my people are always commanded to build unto my holy name.
6. For I deign to reveal unto my church things which have been kept hid from before the foundation of the world, things that pertain to the dispensation of the fulness of times.
7. Office space (last verse. In old Provo, cramped chapels)
iv. v. 32. Rejected as church and dead. C of C cites this as a fault. JFiS, and issue work of dead not finish temple. DS 1, Ch. 15.
IV. Point II. People
i. Assignments
1. John C. Bennett and William Law given promises, but failed them
a. v. 87. Therefore, let my servant William put his trust in me, and cease to fear concerning his family, because of the sickness of the land. If ye love me, keep my commandments; and the sickness of the land shall redound to your glory.
2. Almon Babbet
a. And with my servant Almon Babbitt, there are many things with which I am not pleased; behold, he aspireth to establish his counsel instead of the counsel which I have ordained, even that of the Presidency of my Church; and he setteth up a golden calf for the worship of my people.
b. Stake President in Kirytland, sent a letter to JS questioning the call to Nauvoo
i. " I, the Lord, will build up Kirtland, but I, the Lord, have a scourge prepared for the inhabitants thereof."
ii. https://www.josephsmithpapers.org/paper-summary/letter-from-almon-babbitt-19october-1841/1#full-transcript
iii. Now my brethren I do not want to be rebellious the Lord Knows my heart it is that the Kingdom may roll forth in the Earth; but I want something tangible to act upon if you want all the brethren to leave this place Say it in so many words that th[e]y may know it there is now about 500 members in this place and a good many churches adjacent to this Stake8 we have got the house of the Lord in middling good repair9 we are now about laying a new bell deck we have mad[e] provision ] for the poor and you must know that there was one hundred poor English Saint left here at one time who could not get any further and most of them are doing well
iv. Trying to talk JS out of counsel.
v. "We got a good thing going here ..."
vi. Programs running well, etc
vii. Mark 8:33 "Get thee behind me, Satan: for thou savourest not the things that be of God, but the things that be of men."
3. People called to invest in Nauvoo House
4. Many names and targeted council
ii. Ends with church organization, First Presidency, Patriarch, Q12, etc.
V. Point III Stock
i. It's interesting to see how people react to this. Revelation to set up a company with stock, and people commanded to buy stock.
ii. Bad experiences with United Firm, and Kirtland Safety Society.
iii. Church and Stock Portfolio ( like you don't have one)
VI. Christ Quotient
i. Reframing failure: Bishop Caussé April 2025.
1. Verily, verily, I say unto you, that when I give a commandment to any o9f the sons of men to do a work unto my name, and those sons of men go with all their might and with all they have to perform that work, and cease not their diligence, and their enemies come upon them and hinder them from performing that work, behold, it behooveth me to require that work no more at the hands of those sons of men, but to accept of their offerings. ...
2. Therefore, for this cause have I accepted the offerings of those whom I commanded to build up a city ...
3. And I will answer judgment, wrath, and indignation, wailing, and anguish, and gnashing of teeth upon their heads, unto the third and fourth generation, so long as they repent not, and hate me ...And this I make an example unto you, for your consolation concerning all those who have been commanded to do a work and have been hindered by the hands of their enemies, and by oppression ...
4. Helps us understand why so many false starts, and partial completion in church history. We wish Nauvoo could have succeeded, but..
ii. Atonement Quotient
1. Temple work and Atonement.
a. First hurdle, connection between ordinances and atonement
b. Second, what ordinances are necessary
2. Work for Dead?
a. Saved regardless?
b. No hope, like Virgil in Dante's Inferno?
iii. Second Coming quotient
1. Proclamation to Kings
2. "Call ye, therefore, upon them with loud proclamation, and with your testimony, fearing them not, for they are as grass, and all their glory as the flower thereof which soon falleth, that they may be left also without excuse— And that I may visit them in the day of visitation, when I shall unveil the face of my covering, to appoint the portion of the oppressor among hypocrites, where there is gnashing of teeth, if they reject my servants and my testimony which I have revealed unto them.
3. Notice small, subtle references to Second Coming
4. Our ward having a Harry Potter Party today. Shouldn't we be having firesides talking about the Second Coming?
iv. Commerce, Nauvoo, City of Joseph, a pattern for all our communities, wards and stakes. We can make our ward a Nauvoo, a city unto his name: and his name is Christ, that's the point.