Nine years later Tanner handed the prophet the personal note. “What would you have me do with it?” Joseph asked him, and Tanner replied: “Brother Joseph, you are welcome to it.” * Such open-handedness Joseph loyally repaid with positions in his ever expanding hierarchy. He wrote quite frankly in his journal that George Boosinger was ordained to the high priesthood “in consequence of his having administered unto us in temporal things in our distress.” f There were no men, however, to whom he felt so indebted as the members of Zion’s Camp. These were tested Saints, deserving of rank. In the
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