Amboy Conference

The Amboy Conference was the setting of the official "re-organization" of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints into the Latter Day Saint denomination known since 2001 as the Community of Christ.

Elder Zenas H. Gurley Sr. presided over the conference which was held in Amboy, Illinois, and Samuel Powers and Edmund C. Briggs were reported to preach powerful sermons and bear strong testimonies of the restored gospel.

Joseph Smith III addressed the conference and told the assembled Latter Day Saints that he had accepted the calling "in obedience to a power not my own, and I shall be dictated by the power that sent me."

Smith also denounced the practice of plural marriage, stating that it was in opposition to the doctrine contained in the Book of Mormon.

After the conference, Smith and his mother returned to their homes in Nauvoo, Illinois, from where he began to preside over the affairs of the newly reorganized church.