Mormons, you so crazy
Posted: Tue Aug 28, 2007 7:56 pm
Pioneer Camp, Wednesday, May 26, 1847
To Marshall O.P. Rockwell:
Sir – You are hereby commanded to bring, wherever found, the body of Col. George Mills, before the Right Reverend Bishop [Edson] Whipple, at his Quarters, there to answer to the following charge, viz.: -- That of emitting in meeting on Sunday last, a sound, a posteriori, (from his seat of honor) somewhat resembling the rumble of distant thunder, or the heavy discharge of artillery, thereby endangering the steadiness of the olfactory nerves of those present as well as diverting their minds from the discourse of the speaker.
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Letter to Rockwell for a mock trial while the Saints were traveling (around the time they reached Chimney Rock). As cited in Schindler’s biography of OPR, Second Edition, pg. 157. Original in possession of the LDS Church Historical Department.
To Marshall O.P. Rockwell:
Sir – You are hereby commanded to bring, wherever found, the body of Col. George Mills, before the Right Reverend Bishop [Edson] Whipple, at his Quarters, there to answer to the following charge, viz.: -- That of emitting in meeting on Sunday last, a sound, a posteriori, (from his seat of honor) somewhat resembling the rumble of distant thunder, or the heavy discharge of artillery, thereby endangering the steadiness of the olfactory nerves of those present as well as diverting their minds from the discourse of the speaker.
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Letter to Rockwell for a mock trial while the Saints were traveling (around the time they reached Chimney Rock). As cited in Schindler’s biography of OPR, Second Edition, pg. 157. Original in possession of the LDS Church Historical Department.