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| | The Story of the Church - The Parting of the Ways |
 | | Here Cutler finally died, but before he passed away he called some of his elders to him and told them of a land far to the north between two beautiful lakes, where they were to take a colony and preach to the Indians. |
 | | The largest single group followed Brigham Young, the president of the Quorum of Twelve, to the West, but there were defections all the way across Iowa, notably the group under Alpheus Cutler. |
 | | 4 The author may not thoroughly understand the position taken by Alpheus Cutler, but he did not, I think, claim at first to be the successor to Joseph Smith, but rather one of a certain quorum or committee of seven men, arranged and set apart by Joseph the Seer in Nauvoo. |
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