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the hands of the Lord’s Steward, he had better not 
pay it.” “That it was to be used, first, to create a capital 
for the establishment of the House of the Lord, etc.; sec- 
ond, to create a capital to be expended in establishing 
schools among the Indian tribes; third, to create a fund 
to purchase Mount Zion.” 
Thompson was profuse in his promises as to the great 
results that were to come from this organization. By 
the spring of 1854, twenty families were already estab- 
lished at Preparation, and at the April Solemn Assembly 
one hundred and twenty partook of the feast, and they 
were all from the vicinity. Monona county, lowa, was 
organized in April of that year and Thompson was elect- 
ed to the chief office, that of County Judge, and a major- 
ity of the county officers, and all the township officers for 
that township were members of the Presbytery. There 
was only one other township. So for the time the civil 
government of the township and county was in their 
hands, and soon after, when the postoffice was estab- 
lished, Thompson was appointed postmaster. 
Thompson seems also to have carried on a mercantile 
business as he advertises that “Flour, meal, pork and 
butter were for sale at the Lord’s storehouse in Prepara- 
tion,” and under the head of “Wanted, at the Lord’s 
storehouse, on tything and gift oblations, all kinds of 
country produce, money, dry goods and groceries, young 
stock, cows, horses, oxen, harness, wagons and farming 
tools.” He also republished in his paper some of the 
early proclamations or revelations that came to him in 
1848. He also had a new revelation in June, 1854, which 
begins as follows: 
“The word of the Lord by the voice of Baneemy, 
came unto Chas. B. Thompson, Chief Steward of the 
Lord’s House, in June 1854, saying: ‘Behold I say unto 
you, my son, I have beheld the works which thou hast 
done in Preparation, and am well pleased,” ete. 
Then followed a review of what had preceded, and 
a scathing rebuke on some who had evidently held back, 
who had been expected to join the settlement, and had 
not paid their tything, and of these he says, “Wo unto 
them, for their reward lurketh from beneath and not 
from above, for they have lied unto me,” ete. 
