A Collection of Facts, Relative to the Course Taken By Elder Sidney Rigdon

In the States of Ohio, Missouri,
Illinois and Pennsylvania.

By Jedediah M. Grant,
One of the Quorum of Seventies.

BROWN, BICKING & GUILBERT, PRINTERS,
NO. 56 NORTH THIRD STREET. 1844.

PHILADELPHIA
BROWN, BICKING & GUILBERT, PRINTERS,
NO. 56 NORTH THIRD STREET.

1844.

Table of Contents:

To the Reader
Part I. Elder Sidney Rigdon in Ohio
Part II. Elder Sidney Rigdon in Missouri
Part III. Elder Sidney Rigdon in Illinios
Part IV. Elder Sidney Rigdon in Pennsylvania and Illinois
The Course Taken By Mr. Rigdon After His Excommunication
Conclusion
A Song of Zion

To the Reader.

Please read this before you proceed; by so doing you will save time, and comprehend more perfectly the contents of the following pages.

PART I contains some facts which did not come under my observation, as they occurred before my acquaintance with Elder Rigdon; you will therefore understand that men of the strictest veracity have written and related the same to me, as they witnessed them when they transpired.

After the summer of 1833, you will please consider me a witness, with others, of the course taken by Elder Rigdon, in Ohio. All the circumstances in PART II that I did not witness, have been related to me by those whose words I rely on with the same confidence that I rely on the uniformity of the course of nature.

In the same light you may read PART III.

PART IV contains a collection of important facts, taken from the statements of men whose words may be relied on with the most implicit confidence. I have before me the testimony of a highly respectable gentleman of the State of Delaware, who was taken into one of the secret meetings held in the city of Nauvoo, at which time four men were ordained, under the hands of Elder Rigdon, to be Prophets, Priests and Kings unto the Gentiles, the same witness relates the titles claimed by Elder Rigdon, also the facts relating to the Army, Officers, &c. In the testimony given at the trial you will find the same subject carried out.

PART V. shows the disordered state of Mr. Rigdon's mind, his course, &c. It will be for the candid reader to judge, whether the facts collected justify the conclusion or not.

J. M. G.

COLLECTION OF FACTS, &c.

A Song of Zion

Come all ye sons of Zion,
And let us praise the Lord;
His ransom'd are returning,
According to his word.
In sacred songs, and gladness,
They walk the narrow way,
And thank the Lord who bro't them
To see the latter day.
Come, ye dispers'd of Judah,
Join in the theme, and sing.
With harmony unceasing,
The praises of your King
Whose arm is now extended
(On which the world may gaze)
To gather up the righteous,
In these, the latter days.
Rejoice, rejoice, O Israel!
And let your joys abound;
The voice of God shall reach you,
Wherever you are found;
And call you back from bondage,
That you may sing his praise
In Zion and Jerusalem
In these, the latter days.
Then gather up for Zion,
Ye saints, throughout the land,
And clear the way before you,
As God shall give command;
Tho' wicked men and devils
Exert their pow'r 'tis vain,
Since him who is Eternal
Has said you shall obtain.