94. Stoux City Academy of Science and Letters. 
region around Kanesville in Pottawatamie county, lowa, 
as the place for their colony, that many land claims 
were vacant there because of the Brigham Young col- 
ony migration west, that the country north was mostly 
vacant, but no specific spot was selected. 
Thompson duly published this in his paper, the “Har- — 
binger and Organ” for October, 1852, and advised those 
that could to go that fall, and when there to appoint a 
committee to select lands for those who might write to 
them, and Thompson also asked for contributions to move 
himself and his paper to Kanesville that fall. Owing to 
lack of funds Thompson was unable to move that year, 
but notified his followers in his paper that Kanesville 
was the place where the Church, meaning the old organi- 
zation of Mormons went to pieces, and that it was ex- 
ceedingly proper that there “Jehovah’s Presbytery of 
Zion” should take its place. A branch Solemn Assembly 
of Thompson’s followers was held at the house of Job V. 
Barnum, near Kanesville, December 27, 1852, at which 
about twenty-five persons were present. 
The committee on location had bought a house and 
lot at Kanesville, but no funds were coming to Thompson 
to enable him to move there, and in the February, 1853, 
number of his paper, he took his followers to task for 
their neglect, in a long article, and did what before and 
after that was characteristic of him, when not supported 
when he wished; laid down the law of special revelation 
and commandment and for the first time published such 
revelation in detail, though he assumed it had actually 
been given months and years before. In this case he 
published the recorded command given to this committee 
to be: ‘To search out a location and to let them make 
provision for Chas. B. Thompson and his family that he 
may be speedily located in a proper place to qualify my 
servants in their great and last mission, etc. That the 
time set by revelation for the opening of the second de- 
partment of the School of Works was December 28, 18538, 
and that Thompson must be there by that time, or the 
curse would rest on them.” 
In the March, 1853, number of his paper, Thompson 
published a revelation made by Baneemy the previous 
January 28, 1852, as to their assemblies and feasts, and 
