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- ...viction in our minds; but if any person could persuade us that the Book of Mormon is not the book predicted by the ancient Prophets, we have sufficient light ...e prophetical evidences which prove the divine authenticity of the Book of Mormon; not but that we have other proofs, that are clear and lucid, and demonstra50 KB (9,359 words) - 14:43, 13 April 2024
- ...State? And who could have believed that this could have been done in free America, without a single murderer being brought to justice? ...d; and you belong to that class who have need of milk." Now when I hear a "Mormon" talk of going back to "Ancient Mormonism," it forcibly reminds me of this39 KB (7,221 words) - 14:43, 13 April 2024
- ...f oxygen, or of hydrogen in Europe, is precisely the same in quality as in America, or any where else; it is just so with the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. The ...y the idea that the Spirit is a diffused substance. Just so in the Book of Mormon, we find many of those terms, and consequently we are left to our own conje46 KB (8,750 words) - 14:43, 13 April 2024
- ...e an opportunity of defending the mission of Joseph Smith, and the Book of Mormon, to the very best of my ability. It may be said of me that I never knew any ...portion of this congregation are what might be termed in the States, Young America, if you please, or among us, "Young Mormons," those who have been raised in29 KB (5,515 words) - 14:43, 13 April 2024
- ...by our fathers; and it is also given to us by our fathers, in the Book of Mormon, and in many other good books, and in the words of many other good men who ...will show you a man that does not obey the Gospel; he may call himself a "Mormon," a Latter-day Saint, or a brother in Christ, but that is not proving that49 KB (9,394 words) - 14:49, 13 April 2024
- ...Many here do not know anything about the history of the early settling of America. ...first {{page break|210|top}} places settled by the Europeans, after North America was discovered. St. Louis was settled long before New York, and in that reg39 KB (7,617 words) - 14:49, 13 April 2024
- ...e holes through such miserable, corrupting rascals. These characters take "Mormon" girls and debauch them, telling them that the United States will send thei We are a part of the United States ourselves; most of us were raised in America, and we are all cradled in liberty, and if the United States desires to dre15 KB (2,716 words) - 14:50, 13 April 2024
- ...ared to the three witnesses who were called upon to testify of the Book of Mormon, and who selected and ordained twelve Apostles to go forth and be special w ...ed; that they would run on the range and fat all the winter, as in Central America; this supposition must have been this winter pretty fully exploded. A syste40 KB (7,360 words) - 14:50, 13 April 2024
- ...from the difference there is in the traditions of different countries. In America a man would as soon venture to go into his neighbor's house and steal a cha ...o, for if I wish to find the rough and ready ones, I can do it as quick in America as any where else.40 KB (7,663 words) - 14:50, 13 April 2024
- ..., jun., was a Prophet called of God, and that he did translate the Book of Mormon by the gift and power of the Holy Ghost. This same testimony all can bear, ...ve nothing to say; those who are acquainted with the matter, know how "The Mormon" has been sustained. We sent brother Taylor, and other brethren with him, t34 KB (6,501 words) - 14:51, 13 April 2024
- ...ion]] which Joseph Smith, Jr. would later dictate as part of the [[Book of Mormon]] {{Harv|Bushman|2005|p=36}}. {{information|Lucy Mack Smith's 1853 history may be found in Vogel, ''Early Mormon Documents'' 1:254. Note also that this phrase was added to the 1853 history22 KB (3,480 words) - 01:04, 31 May 2024
- ...article has remarkable balance right now. Any attempts to deliberately add Mormon POV will both spark an edit war and in the end degrade the literary quality ..._Joseph_Smith&oldid=314358 "Interview with the Father of Joseph Smith, the Mormon Prophet, Forty Years Ago. His Account of the Finding of the Sacred Plates",28 KB (3,963 words) - 01:08, 31 May 2024
- ...from silence. There is no evidence for anything else but the hat and just Mormon embarrassment at how silly this method must seem to most prospective conver ...d sockpuppet "Hi540," insisting that the stone-in-hat was the only Book of Mormon translation method ever documented, 23 October 2009 {{link|url=http://en.wi75 KB (11,096 words) - 01:08, 31 May 2024
- *Van Wagoner in ''Mormon Polygamy'' describes the tar and feather incident. Unfortunately, Van Wagon The old [[Jackson County, Missouri|Jackson Countians]] resented the Mormon newcomers for various political and religious reasons.51 KB (7,348 words) - 01:05, 31 May 2024
- *{{SeeCriticalWork|author=Richard N. Ostling and Joan K. Ostling|work=Mormon America: The Power and the Promise}} Though Mormon [[general authority|general authorities]] controlled Nauvoo's civil governm45 KB (6,371 words) - 01:05, 31 May 2024
- ...89}} (describing the editorial reaction to the publication of the Book of Mormon); {{Harvtxt|Brodie|1971|pp=16–17}}.</ref> Disaffected Saints periodically ...es or Isaiah."); {{Harvtxt|Brodie|1971|p=vii}} (noting that "[i]n official Mormon biographies he has been made a prophet of greater stature than Moses").37 KB (5,309 words) - 01:05, 31 May 2024
- ...that wild spirit. I have seen the manifestations of those spirits both in America and England; they were in this Church in the first commencement of it in Ki ...mple of those characters. Do you see me? Do you see this Bible and Book of Mormon? If there were ten thousand of those books, I could raise them all to heave59 KB (11,521 words) - 14:50, 13 April 2024
- ...ellows well met.'" We are not going to leave out Joseph Smith, the Book of Mormon, nor the gathering, nor the building up of Zion. ...sappointment when they arrive here? They read in the Bible, in the Book of Mormon, and Book of Doctrine and Covenants, about Zion, and what it is to be; but19 KB (3,698 words) - 14:51, 13 April 2024
- |S= [[Category:Primary sources]]Source document in ''Mormon Publications: 19th and 20th Centuries'' online archive: [http://contentdm.l ...t place; but we are willing to acknowledge, that in our travels, either in America or Europe, we have never before found a people, from whose minds we have ha66 KB (11,923 words) - 15:51, 13 April 2024
- And as President Buchanan, the President of the United States of America, holds the keys of the government of this whole nation, so Brigham Young ho ...You may "Amen" to the whole of it, for it is true. Go and read the Book of Mormon, the Prophets, and the revelations given to Joseph the Prophet; and you wil32 KB (6,182 words) - 14:51, 13 April 2024