[…] any other Church in existence.” In 1955, at about the same time that Church leaders began to de-emphasize The Way to Perfection, Smith showed another side of himself when, as president of the Quorum […]
[…] Nov. 23, 1837, archives, The Auditorium, Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (RLDS), Independence, Missouri, in Fawn M. Brodie, No Man Knows My History: The Life of Joseph Smith, 2d. ed., […]
[…] over the effects of the tar and feathers, they took their horses and started for Jackson County, Missouri, a distance of about 1000 miles. They laid out the town of Independence in Jackson County […]
[…] third one in the School of Medicine is a blackened, ugly object. About 1955 a certain E. De Mar Ander son, M.D., of Seattle Stake, saw it, decided that the blackness was a result […]
[…] played a small part in that miracle, which consisted of the fact that, in a large, transient city, there is a committed, faithful community of Saints strong enough to merit a House of the Lord. […]
[…] Book of Mormon. Salt Lake City, Utah: Deseret Book, 1973. $3.95. Church History Resources on Microfilm. Independence, Missouri: Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, 1973, $1.00. Order from: Research Library and […]
[…] Utah Presses, 1974. $6.50 Reprint of 1922 edition. Etzenhouser, Rudolph. From Palmyra, New York, Eighteen-Thirty, to Independence Missouri, Eighteen-Ninty-Four. New York: AMS Press, 1972. $24.00 Reprint of 1894 edition. Evans, R. C. Forty Years […]
[…] during Smith’s administration mirrored his theological dualism with respect to war. When the Mormons in Jackson County, Missouri, were mobbed by anti-Mormons in 1833, they suffered without retaliating. Smith, however, in 1834 organized a […]
[…] because the Church was orginially founded in New York, but when they encountered pro slavery settlers in Missouri and faced the hostiltiy from the settlers early church leaders apparently changed their mind, even though […]
[…] History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Period I, B.H. Roberts, ed. (Salt Lake City, 1902-1912), 2:320, November 24, 1835. A similar expression is found in the revelation on polygamy, July […]