On January 19th, 1841, Joseph Smith voiced a revelation that declared Nauvue is the new gathering place for the Saints.

Much had happened since we left Joseph in Section 123.

After the expulsion from Missouri, 5,000 saints scattered traveling east across Missouri to find safety in Illinois. Quincy, Illinois, was 200 miles east of

far west Missouri, and in 1838 had a population of 1,800 people. That city of 1800 people took in 5,000

Mormon refugees. The citizens of Quincy did much to welcome the saints officially,

resolving to an extent kindness to the saints to speak out against those with prejudices against

the saints. They helped them to find employment and housing and their last official resolution.

They resolved that we recommend to all the citizens of Quincy,

that in all their intercourse with the strangers they use and observe a becoming decorum and

delicacy, and be particularly careful not to indulge in any conversation or expressions calculated

to wound their feelings, or in any way to reflect upon those who by every law of humanity

are entitled to our sympathy and commiseration.

This generous example stands through time.

Quincy was an important respite for the saints,

but they soon began to move about 50 miles to the north

to another bend in the Mississippi

to a place originally called Commerce.

There they cleared trees, drained swampy land, built houses, planted crops, and began to build

a city.

What we now know is Section 124 became a sacred charter for that city, Joseph Smith called

Navu. This revelation centered the saints, enabled them to think of Navu as a new home,

and sharpened their focus as they worked to build up the city. As the Joseph Smith papers tell us,

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