Apostle Erastus Snow writes that he "could not conscientiously, and in justice to the cause we are engaged in, refuse to Brother [Orson] Pratt [Jr.] the liberty to withdraw from the [High] Council as Brother Pratt's statements of his views, doubting as he does, the divinity of the calling of the Prophet Joseph Smith and the consequent building up of the Church" Orson Pratt Jr. had asked to be released but Erastus Snow had been trying to talk him out of it.
[Source: On This Day in Mormon History, http://onthisdayinmormonhistory.blogspot.com, based on Michael Quinn's Mormon Hierarchy vols 1 & 2]
The following extract from "A Book of Mormons" in the brief article on Erastus Snow may also shed some light on the above entry.
ReplyDelete1861. When the Civil War cut off the North’s supply of cotton, Brigham Young called Erastus Snow and Orson Pratt to preside over a “Cotton Mission” in the Rio Virgin and Santa Clara Valleys of southern Utah. The two apostles did not work well together.
According to Orson Pratt, Jr., “My father had not been down here long, when he found that there was a secret influence working against him. … The person would not come out like a man against him, but would keep himself in the dark and work against him like a snake in the grass. … He would even meet my wife in the dark and try to make her divide against me, by saying to her that ‘Your husband is not in the right way, he is in the dark.’ … I will tell you who it was. The individual is Erastus Snow.”
The extract from comment no.1 is at the following source/link:
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Hmm. A little family friction. Interesting.
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