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Thompson seems to have had prepared at St. Louis 
a blank book in which had been written in a good legible 
hand some of his revelations and covenants, and in the 
back part if this he entered the names and contributions 
under the various tythings, gifts and sacrifices, and many 
of the members subscribed their names to some of the 
covenants written there, and this book, which I have 
examined, was regarded by them as the chief record of 
the Presbytery. The book commences with a title page 
and the three following leaves were written in a fine copy 
hand setting out the revelations of April 15, 1850, and 
one or two covenants, and the rest is mostly in Thomp- 
son’s writing. The revelation of April 15, 1850, while 
good enough for the purposes of that period was hardly 
explicit enough to sustain Thompson’s authority at later 
periods when he was managing his colony at Prepara- 
tion, and one significant interlineation in Thompson’s 
poor hand writing, as it stands beside that other fine 
penmanship is characteristic of his whole career. It had 
been written originally as follows: 
“And now behold I send unto you my servant Ban- 
eemy in the spirit and name of Elias to write in your 
heart my law,” ete. 
Thompson interlined and corrected it so as to read: 
“And now behold I send unto you my servant 
Charles B. Thompson in whom is regenerated my dear son 
Hphraim my first born with the voice of Baneemy in the 
name and spirit of Elias,” ete. 
Baneemy was evidently in his spiritual authority not 
quite potent enough to control a frontier settlement, and 
Thompson found it necessary to have a direct revelation 
as.to his own personal authority. 
One of the early acts of the quorum of Works, which 
acted as a sort of town council, was to forbid hogs from 
running at large under penalty of forfeiture at the pleas- 
ure of the Chief Steward, Chas. B. Thompson. He was 
impatient for the success of his town, and published the 
following invitation: 
“Let all those who desire to be instructed in the 
things pertaining to their salvation and deliverance with 
Israel come on speedily with their tythes, gift obliga- 
tions, and sin offerings to the House of God that they 
may be justified from sin and receive an inheritance, * 
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