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- ...m the instructions recently addressed to all the Postmasters of the United States by the Postmaster General: "Postmasters may enclose money in a letter to a ...the peculiar circumstances than I am; and I feel great confidence in your united wisdom, therefore, you will excuse me for not entering into detail: if I sh68 KB (11,468 words) - 15:51, 13 April 2024
- ...r the fear of consequences: but we are no longer forced to appeal to those states that are now situated under the influence of popery for examples of injusti ...his <i>faithfu</i>l suporters, the office of governor in all the different States, for the purpose, we presume, of more effectually consolidating the governm72 KB (12,886 words) - 15:09, 13 April 2024
- *Jubilees 11:4, 7, 16, pp. 14, 15.<ref>The Book of Jubilees only states that they made molten images to themselves.</ref> ...o be thrown into a fiery furnace for his disobedience. The Book of Abraham states that he was bound on an altar and about to be sacrificed by the priest of E208 KB (32,568 words) - 14:22, 13 April 2024
- ...gration, as hundreds of families moved in from various parts of the United States and Canada.-Some time in the month of March, President Joseph Smith jr. arr ...publication, that it may have a general circulation throughout the United States.66 KB (11,467 words) - 15:50, 13 April 2024
- ...ashing, in south western Virgina [Virginia]. Perhaps no part of the United States have heard as many false reports from Mo. as the citizens of the before men ...eans-England making war upon China and Egypt, and the people of the United States strongly excited, revolutionizing their Government. To what end is the tide69 KB (12,223 words) - 15:50, 13 April 2024
- ...t; in short one system of religion, one church, or assembly of worshippers united in their doctrine, and built upon the TRUTH; and all bearing the general na P. S. Editors through the States would oblige us by publishing the above.73 KB (12,947 words) - 15:50, 13 April 2024
- ...sition 8 exercised the most sacrosanct and individual rights in the United States — that of free expression and voting.'' ...Mark Paredes, national director of Latino outreach for the American Jewish Congress (Paredes is LDS). It was "demanded that Paredes retract his financial contr39 KB (5,785 words) - 15:02, 13 April 2024
- |L8=Response to claim: 462, 617n14 - The United Order was claimed through revelation to be "everlasting," "immutable and un |claim=The book states that it was predicted that "the elect shall be gathered into one place 'aga31 KB (5,042 words) - 13:33, 13 April 2024
- ...e from uncivil authority, for if a man did not testify as he or Birch, the states Attorney taught him, he was thrust into prison and totally deprived of his ..., so as to make it a sufficient tool to commit free citizens of the United States to jail, for the testimony from beginning to end was known to be as black a66 KB (11,727 words) - 15:50, 13 April 2024
- *The most extensive research on integration was undertaken jointly by the United Lutherans, Congregational Christians, and Presbyterians (U.S.A.). They foun :If the Government of the United States, in Congress assembled, had the right to pass an anti-polygamy bill, they had also the r16 KB (2,472 words) - 16:54, 30 April 2024
- ...y did Mormon leaders oppose the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) in the United States?== ...assumed that because the Church opposed a proposed amendment to the United States constitution known as the Equal Rights Amendment, the Church must have also16 KB (2,637 words) - 22:04, 9 May 2024
- ...rom their writings and form public document no. 189, published by order of Congress, February 15, 1841, showing that Mormonism authorizes the crimes of theft, ...the presses were in continual uproar throughout New England, and all other states, bitterly opposing and lying against the saints. Anti-Mormon meetings were31 KB (4,585 words) - 12:04, 27 April 2024
- ...THE HON. Z. SNOW, JUDGE OF THE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE TERRITORY OF UTAH ...THE HON. Z. SNOW, JUDGE OF THE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE TERRITORY OF UTAH19 KB (3,551 words) - 14:32, 13 April 2024
- ...OF HON. Z. SNOW, JUDGE OF THE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE TERRITORY OF UTAH, TO THE JURY, ON THE TRIAL OF HOWARD EGAN FOR THE ...OF HON. Z. SNOW, JUDGE OF THE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE TERRITORY OF UTAH, TO THE JURY, ON THE TRIAL OF HOWARD EGAN FOR THE12 KB (2,076 words) - 14:32, 13 April 2024
- ...of Hon. Z. Snow, Judge of the First Judicial District Court of the United States for The Territory of Utah, to the Jury, on the Trial of Howard Egan for the ...with my faith, and watching with my prayer, and reap the benefits of their united operation.30 KB (5,672 words) - 14:32, 13 April 2024
- When the officers returned from this territory to the States, did we send them away? We did not. But I will tell you what I did, and wha ...t to let out. But allow me to tell you, Elders of Israel, and delegates to Congress, you may expect an eternity of cats, that have not yet escaped from the bag22 KB (4,189 words) - 14:32, 13 April 2024
- ...n the storm clouds shall lower, and fierce persecution rage, be enabled by united faith and energy to bid defiance to "Mormon" foes, whether they come in for ...would keep pace with the times, we must progress also. The youth of other States, Territories, or Nations, must not outstrip us in the arts and sciences, no13 KB (2,323 words) - 14:43, 13 April 2024
- ...s introduced to the modern world by Joseph Smith. The people of the United States abandoned him to martyrdom, and his followers to fire, and sword, and plund ...the animal magnetic phenomena, all the trances and visions of clairvoyant states, all the phenomena of spiritual knockings, writing mediums, &c., are from i15 KB (2,550 words) - 14:43, 13 April 2024
- |H=THE CONSTITUTIONS OF THE UNITED STATES AND ILLINOIS—NAUVOO CHARTER AND MUNICIPAL COURT—WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS |T=Journal of Discourses 2: THE CONSTITUTIONS OF THE UNITED STATES AND ILLINOIS—NAUVOO CHARTER AND MUNICIPAL COURT—WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS22 KB (4,164 words) - 14:43, 13 April 2024
- |H=THE CONSTITUTION AND GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES—RIGHTS AND POLICY OF THE LATTER-DAY SAINTS |T=Journal of Discourses 2: THE CONSTITUTION AND GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES—RIGHTS AND POLICY OF THE LATTER-DAY SAINTS31 KB (5,506 words) - 14:43, 13 April 2024
- |H=THE PRIESTHOOD AND SATAN—THE CONSTITUTION AND GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES—RIGHTS AND POLICY OF THE LATTER-DAY SAINTS ...: THE PRIESTHOOD AND SATAN—THE CONSTITUTION AND GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES—RIGHTS AND POLICY OF THE LATTER-DAY SAINTS43 KB (8,245 words) - 14:43, 13 April 2024
- ...sm," to know what we believe. Probably there are but few men in the United States but what know that we look up to President Brigham Young as our leader, Pro ...o unto us, and for that reason many of us have been driven from the United States; I say many of us, for a great many who are now here have not been driven h16 KB (3,164 words) - 14:43, 13 April 2024
- ...ding, of the business transactions and responsibilities of our Delegate in Congress. It is a matter this people have not immediately before them, it does not d ...tly satisfied with the labors of their Delegate during the last session of Congress; or, in other words, it would be hard to find an individual who is the leas18 KB (3,460 words) - 14:43, 13 April 2024
- ...hey are in Zion's ship. This is the main reason of so many leaving for the States, California, and other places. Send those persons among their enemies, amon Though the people in the States are daily becoming more hardened against the truth, yet if I was in New Yor34 KB (6,501 words) - 14:51, 13 April 2024
- he unsuccessfully petitioned the [[Federal Government of the United States|federal government]] for help in obtaining reparations. ...] to meet with President [[Martin Van Buren]] and [[United States Congress|Congress]] ({{Harvtxt|Bushman|2005|pp=392–94}}; {{Harvtxt|Brodie|1971|p=260}}).45 KB (6,363 words) - 20:13, 11 May 2024
- ...ongress for the Admission of Utah as a State—Condition of Society in the States—Return of Apostates]] ...that matter than any king upon his throne, or the President of the United States. Why? Because she goes in my authority.11 KB (2,143 words) - 14:51, 13 April 2024
- ...ongress for the Admission of Utah as a State—Condition of Society in the States—Return of Apostates]] ...him they show despite to the authority that sent him—to the whole United States, in case they had sent him.25 KB (4,791 words) - 14:51, 13 April 2024
- |H=THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES GUARANTEES ALL WE ASK—HOLLOW GENTILITY—POWER OF THE "MORMON" LEADERS— |T=Journal of Discourses 4: THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES GUARANTEES ALL WE ASK—HOLLOW GENTILITY—POWER OF THE "MORMON" LEADERS—21 KB (3,923 words) - 14:51, 13 April 2024
- ...e the most important information that is or has been current in the United States for the last season. I was talking with a member of Congress, who was very pious, (he was a minister, by the bye,) and he intimated that11 KB (1,930 words) - 14:52, 13 April 2024
- ...NCE BETWEEN THE SPIRIT OF ZION AND THE SPIRIT OF THE WORLD—DOINGS IN THE STATES, ETC. ...NCE BETWEEN THE SPIRIT OF ZION AND THE SPIRIT OF THE WORLD—DOINGS IN THE STATES, ETC.39 KB (7,404 words) - 14:51, 13 April 2024
- |H=APPROVAL OF THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE DELEGATION TO CONGRESS—CONDITION OF THE PEOPLE OF THE WORLD, ETC. |T=Journal of Discourses 5: APPROVAL OF THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE DELEGATION TO CONGRESS—CONDITION OF THE PEOPLE OF THE WORLD, ETC.21 KB (3,990 words) - 14:51, 13 April 2024
- |<=[[../24|Approval of the Proceedings of the Delegation to Congress—Condition of the People of the World, etc.]] And as President Buchanan, the President of the United States of America, holds the keys of the government of this whole nation, so Brigh32 KB (6,182 words) - 14:51, 13 April 2024
- ...religion, we are exiles here to-day, having been denied citizenship in the States from which we came. Our Prophets have been cruelly martyred in cold blood, ...a better solution of the matter than the waters or troops which the United States are now sending here to destroy us? God grant that the earth and the heaven24 KB (4,534 words) - 14:52, 13 April 2024
- ...k as we do, that we act as we do, that we endure as we do, that men can be united as we are, that people will leave their homes and traverse seas, oceans, de ...to the Constitution and the very genius of the institutions of the United States, they want to lay the sin at our doors that they themselves are guilty of.47 KB (8,783 words) - 14:52, 13 April 2024
- |H=THE UNITED STATES ADMINISTRATION AND UTAH ARMY |T=Journal of Discourses 5: THE UNITED STATES ADMINISTRATION AND UTAH ARMY19 KB (3,593 words) - 14:52, 13 April 2024
- You know, I said that I had wives enough to whip the United States; and why? Because they will whip themselves, and my wives would not have to Is there a collision between us and the United States? No; we have not collashed: that is the word that sounds nearest to what I25 KB (4,922 words) - 14:52, 13 April 2024
- I had the pleasure, while in the States, of being subject to the Sabbath-keeping rules of the railroad company. I w ...hese we find that scarcely any two writers agree. The Greeks were about as united in the worship of their gods as the Christians are who profess to worship J31 KB (5,845 words) - 14:52, 13 April 2024
- |H=THE WORK OF REFORMATION—THE UNITED STATES' ARMY—LABOURS OF "MORMON" MISSIONARIES—JUDGMENTS OF GOD, ETC. |T=Journal of Discourses 6: THE WORK OF REFORMATION—THE UNITED STATES' ARMY—LABOURS OF "MORMON" MISSIONARIES—JUDGMENTS OF GOD, ETC.25 KB (4,635 words) - 14:52, 13 April 2024
- |<=[[../2|The Work of Reformation—The United States' Army— Labours of "Mormon" Missionaries—Judgments of God, Etc.]] ...or {{page break|20|top}} instance; then represented our case to the United States.31 KB (5,748 words) - 14:53, 13 April 2024
- ..., without purse or scrip, and held Conferences through all the New England States, and exhorted and taught the people to go to Jackson County and purchase th ...to the house of Israel in these Valleys, and he will do it; and the United States cannot buy them. God Almighty has got them by the bit. What?—Israel? Yes.27 KB (5,231 words) - 14:52, 13 April 2024
- |H=SELF-GOVERNMENT—CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES—CHURCH GOVERNMENT, ETC. |T=Journal of Discourses 6: SELF-GOVERNMENT—CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES—CHURCH GOVERNMENT, ETC.31 KB (6,132 words) - 14:53, 13 April 2024
- ...the priests say to you? Can you recollect what they said in the different States where this Gospel was first preached?—what arguments were used against yo ...truction; disease is spreading so fast among the inhabitants of the United States, that they are born rotten with it, and in a few years they are gone." Said21 KB (3,859 words) - 14:53, 13 April 2024
- ...t upon each and every soul now waiting before thee, that our hearts may be united as one, and that we may approach thee in a manner acceptable in thy sight. May the Delegate from Utah, now in the Congress of the nation, be clothed upon with the Spirit and the power of Elijah's Go27 KB (4,934 words) - 14:53, 13 April 2024
- ...being married, like thousands and tens of thousands that are abroad in the States and in all the world among the nations of Christendom: they have to live co ...as sincere in supposing these laws to be good as the people of the United States are in supposing there should be a severe law against polygamy.51 KB (9,551 words) - 14:53, 13 April 2024
- ...nd rolled forth with as little opposition as it has received in the United States. Every species of oppression and opposition, which has aimed at the destruc ...he mother country, and landed in Connecticut; and so a number of the early States were formed by settlers who fled from their native country through religion10 KB (1,811 words) - 14:53, 13 April 2024
- ...from their possessions, and kill a great people. Revolution in the United States is progressing; but to the true spirit of Democracy and the science of gove What ought to be the Government of the United States? And what are Whiggery and Democracy as they now exist? Nothing, and a litt23 KB (4,210 words) - 14:54, 13 April 2024
- ...same intelligence, and blessed in the same manner, and, consequently, were united together in the bonds of the everlasting Gospel, and associated by the gift ...fferent nations—in Germany, France, England, Scotland, Wales, the United States, in the Canadas;—no matter where, go where you will, and let a man receiv26 KB (4,789 words) - 14:54, 13 April 2024
- ...n concerning a certain gentleman who has been in high office in the United States. The person I was conversing with placed much stress upon the circumstance ...can foresee the results of the acts of individuals, of legislators, and of Congress fifty years hence? Where is there a nation that has been able to preserve i21 KB (4,046 words) - 14:54, 13 April 2024
- ...nd death, came from the old countries, and first landed in the New England States in 1620. They are called the Pilgrim Fathers. They established morality and The American Congress do not pretend to inspiration. The Speaker, who occupies the highest and mo61 KB (10,991 words) - 14:54, 13 April 2024
- ...reside over the people of God in the North and in the South, in the United States, in South America, in Europe, and in all the nations of the earth, and of t ...ence of the persecutions of some portions of the inhabitants of the United States; and many of those who did not participate in the actual persecutions said21 KB (4,141 words) - 14:54, 13 April 2024
- ...rohibitions upon {{page break|112|top}} citizens outside the boundaries of States. ...e Constitution to interfere with that system. But the Congress, the United States as a Union, are restricted in this particular; they are prohibited from gra9 KB (1,543 words) - 14:55, 13 April 2024
- ...in intelligence in relation to national policy, the Congress of the United States, with the President at their head.15 KB (2,888 words) - 14:55, 13 April 2024
- ...e have heard this morning. Brother Andrew Moffat started from here for the States, last fall, on business; and he has labored most admirably in buying cattle ...ved nearly sixty years, and am acquainted with many portions of the United States, somewhat acquainted with Europe, and historically acquainted with many par8 KB (1,531 words) - 14:55, 13 April 2024
- ...ent, credentials, recommends, &c., the President of the United States, the Congress, and officers of state are ready to receive him with the respect due to his21 KB (4,022 words) - 14:55, 13 April 2024
- ...riven us:—the counties, States, and the General Government of the United States, proffer to take {{page break|223|top}} me back to the land of my inheritan ...the very things you are trying to avoid, like the Government of the United States, which is striving with all its might, and calling to its aid the best wisd17 KB (3,231 words) - 14:55, 13 April 2024
- During my absence on my recent mission to the Eastern States, I found but few willing to listen to the truths I had to proclaim to them. ...ed appetite which has taken possession of the people throughout the United States. There were some few who were disposed to investigate and inquire into our30 KB (5,541 words) - 14:56, 13 April 2024
- ...he did not go far enough in removing the deposits and spoiling the United States Bank. But the administration of King James Buchanan, what an administration ...ation. They are so wonderfully smart! That is the difficulty. Every man in Congress is so smart that he is looking to the presidential chair. The boys of West27 KB (5,230 words) - 14:56, 13 April 2024
- ...er; and if I have not, my name shall not remain as President of the United States," he could have reinstated us in our rights. A few words from the General G ...untains in Vermont, from whose summits you can look down upon the Atlantic States; and I feel chagrined and mortified when I reflect upon the condition of my17 KB (3,226 words) - 14:56, 13 April 2024
- ...county, in 1833, Joseph Smith prophesied that if the people of the United States would not bring to justice that mob and protect the Saints, they should hav ...et up a crusade against slavery—to make the men who live in the Southern States turn over their slaves.16 KB (3,008 words) - 14:57, 13 April 2024
- ...g up. We have as good machinery for making paper as there is in the United States or in the world. We have brought it here at a heavy expense—it has cost u ...ade than is made here. Eat the new cane sugar that is made in the Southern States, and it has a very unpleasant taste. Take our sugar and cleanse it as they30 KB (5,856 words) - 14:57, 13 April 2024
- ...Gospel being established in the minds of the people, and the people being united, there is no power in existence that is able to interfere with or mar the c ...s of the Rio Virgin, he would be apt to describe it as a certain member of Congress described the Louisiana purchase made by Mr. Jefferson. He {{page break|68|31 KB (5,843 words) - 14:56, 13 April 2024
- ...prevent it. Do you think they believe it? Yes, the Congress of the United States have more trouble about us than they have about the whole world besides.12 KB (2,269 words) - 14:56, 13 April 2024
- ...ed of it. It is time to cleanse the inside of the platter; and if a United States' official says it is mob law, let him say so until he is tired. We will tea ...uggy, but, to his consternation, found it appropriated. Now this member of Congress was not only brave, but fleet on foot; for it is said that he arrived in th14 KB (2,674 words) - 14:56, 13 April 2024
- ...God as it has been established in these last days. In regard to the United States, Great Britain, and European nations generally, they have a knowledge or a ...sure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again." The nation of the United States have got to reap that which they have sown, and to receive {{page break|1829 KB (1,564 words) - 14:57, 13 April 2024
- ...f Deseret into the union of States upon an equal footing with the original States. ...national convention, pledging the great and rising party of the country to united {{page break|263|top}} opposition to our admission in consequence of an ite6 KB (936 words) - 14:57, 13 April 2024
- ...as individuals. Compare, for instance, the colonial history of the United States with the history of the settling of the wild and desolate regions of Utah b ...ey never suffered anything in comparison to what the people in many of the States are now suffering.19 KB (3,596 words) - 14:57, 13 April 2024
- ...brother Musser has told us that we are a great deal a-head of the Western States. Really, if we are not we ought to be ashamed of ourselves. We have had wis ...the Mormons were there, and if the inhabitants and citizens of the United States were as intelligent and industrious and as thrifty as the Mormons were then15 KB (2,787 words) - 14:57, 13 April 2024
- ...this step bring upon us the disapprobation of the Government of the United States? That is not for me to say; it will be as God may direct. ...n the Constitution for Congress to act upon is reserved to the people. But Congress assumes powers that does not belong to it, and if it continues to do so, so14 KB (2,553 words) - 14:34, 13 April 2024
- |H=CONSTITUTIONAL POWERS OF THE CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES—GROWTH OF THE KINGDOM OF GOD |H=10. CONSTITUTIONAL POWERS OF THE CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES—GROWTH OF THE KINGDOM OF GOD by Brigham Young (38-42)17 KB (3,180 words) - 14:33, 13 April 2024
- ...e camp of Israel. This same Mr. Benton said to the President of the United States, in the presence of some other persons, "Sir, they are a pestilential race, ...e asked that we would not perform? No. But if the Government of the United States should now ask for a battalion of men to fight in the present battle-fields27 KB (4,883 words) - 14:33, 13 April 2024
- ...ade a treaty with the Latter-day Saints, and we agreed to leave the United States entirely. We did so, and came to these mountains, which were then Mexican t21 KB (4,000 words) - 14:34, 13 April 2024
- ...f the Scarcity of Breadstuff—the Sufferings of the Ungodly in the United States—the Popularity of the Gospel Undesirable]] ...rge them and cast them out, what course would the government of the United States take? They would declare war against Mexico, to vindicate the honor of the27 KB (5,051 words) - 14:34, 13 April 2024
- ...g and the loyalty of the Latter-day Saints to the government of the United States, than the fact that in our breasts and throughout these mountains, there pr ...ggars either at the door of the National Congress, or of their neighboring States and their fellow citizens. When other places were visited by grasshoppers,47 KB (8,780 words) - 14:49, 13 April 2024
- ...bow in humility and submission to His requirements, whether in the United States, in Canada, in Mexico, in Central or South America, in Europe, in Asia, in ...top}} would not care anything about it." When I have plead with members of Congress in Washington, and told them this institution was part of our religion, the28 KB (5,276 words) - 14:49, 13 April 2024
- ...others. In this respect we act and operate as other citizens of the United States do, and in this respect we have rights, privileges and immunities as others ...t if the law did not prevent you carrying out the law of God in the United States. If these worthy ancients had lived here, they would not have allowed them34 KB (6,490 words) - 14:49, 13 April 2024
- ...e not thou into their secret; into their assembly, mine honor, be not thou united." We expect to be associated with more honorable principles, and with more ...e states that he was approached on the subject by a gentleman, a member of Congress, who had visited here. He told Brother Cannon that when he was here he was35 KB (6,519 words) - 14:48, 13 April 2024
- ...upreme Court of the Territory, and then to the Supreme Court of the United States. ...y to be brought before and had cognizance of in the Congress of the United States to ascertain if they will make laws to oppress us, but these laws can be ta22 KB (4,152 words) - 14:48, 13 April 2024
- ...THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES—SELF-PRESERVATION REQUIRES US TO BE UNITED—ALL REPUTABLE MEN AMONG THE LATTER-DAY SAINTS HOLD THE PRIESTHOOD—WE HA ...THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES—SELF-PRESERVATION REQUIRES US TO BE UNITED—ALL REPUTABLE MEN AMONG THE LATTER-DAY SAINTS HOLD THE PRIESTHOOD—WE HA41 KB (7,851 words) - 14:48, 13 April 2024
- ...mmunities, which belong to us as individuals and as citizens of the United States, in common with others. And seeing that things were quite loose in those fa ...ade to punish us as criminals. I have never broken any law of these United States, and I presume that some of you, whom our enemies now seek to criminate and29 KB (5,422 words) - 14:49, 13 April 2024
- ...living things in the earth including man. The male and female principle is united and both necessary to the accomplishment of the object of their being, and ...forbid to marry. In one of the Epistles of Paul [1 Timothy iv. 3|top}} he states that in the latter times there would be those who would forbid to marry. We49 KB (9,074 words) - 14:49, 13 April 2024
- ...LY IMPARTIAL, JUDGMENT AND RULE WILL BE GIVEN THEM—NOT ALL IN THE UNITED STATES ARE ARRAYED AGAINST US—WEAKNESS OF THE AMERICAN GOVERNMENT—POWER OF SEC ...LY IMPARTIAL, JUDGMENT AND RULE WILL BE GIVEN THEM—NOT ALL IN THE UNITED STATES ARE ARRAYED AGAINST US—WEAKNESS OF THE AMERICAN GOVERNMENT—POWER OF SEC29 KB (5,487 words) - 14:49, 13 April 2024
- ...em without stint of numbers to the people of this great nation, the United States; have endeavored to inform them ever since the year 1830, and especially si ...n of the Holy Spirit. What did Brother Brigham say before he left us? When Congress passed the law of 1862, I heard him make this remark—rather startling at34 KB (6,446 words) - 14:49, 13 April 2024
- ...hands of their rulers is emphatically stated to be reserved to the several States or to the people. There are again other branches of government among the several nations, or States in the nations, as well as in this nation; there is martial law and civil l56 KB (10,265 words) - 14:49, 13 April 2024
- ...but a few hours or days would pass before they were again and for evermore united. And this is a characteristic in which we glory. But to illustrate this in ...rpose for which you and I have come from the Old World, from the different States in the New World, and from the different parts of Europe and the islands of33 KB (6,256 words) - 14:45, 13 April 2024
- |<=[[../18|Progress of the Saints to Union in Faith and Practice—The United Order]] ...and whether you were appointed by the legitimate authorities of the United States or not. If not, they would pay no attention to you; they would look upon yo43 KB (8,135 words) - 14:45, 13 April 2024
- ...or by the authority of the United States; and the government of the United States feels itself bound to back up his acts, the same as a mercantile firm would ...sometimes, don't we? He has shown us how and in what way our wives may be united with us in the eternities to come, and how we may have our children sealed41 KB (7,992 words) - 14:45, 13 April 2024
- ...s which bind man to man and family to family, and make of a nation a grand united whole. ...mall for her spreading population, and in all the adjacent Territories and States, those who {{page break|333|top}} have been drawn together under her instit28 KB (5,070 words) - 14:45, 13 April 2024
- In the first place, I will say with regard to our Delegate to Congress who has addressed you this afternoon, and this I will say for myself, that ...f {{page break|270|top}} polygamy a transgression of the law of the United States? How are we transgressing that law? In no other way than by obeying a revel24 KB (4,551 words) - 14:35, 13 April 2024
- ...came to negociate [negotiate] with us to leave the confines of the United States, and of the public domain. It was understood that we were going to Vancouve26 KB (4,895 words) - 14:34, 13 April 2024
- ...gree of sympathy for the suffering people of God. We think that the United States survayor [surveyor], Isaac Allen Esq. the attorney general, and Governor Lu ...until death. We say that God is true, that the constitution of the United States is true, that the bible is true, the book of Mormon is true, that Christ is66 KB (11,683 words) - 15:50, 13 April 2024
- ...ng strange, however, in this; for a great many parties, both in the United States and in the governments of the old world, have believed in the kingdom of Go Well, but do you not hold allegiance to the government of the United States also? Do you not believe in the laws and institutions thereof? Yes, we have27 KB (4,981 words) - 14:34, 13 April 2024
- ...States, we should never be troubled by them again. We did leave the United States, and now Congressmen say, if you will renounce polygamy you shall be admitt31 KB (5,910 words) - 14:34, 13 April 2024
- ...laws or the Constitution in our defence. When the President of the United States was applied to, all he would say was, "Your cause is just, but we can do no ...y, and our firm and determined adherence to the Constitution of the United States, have carried us through the whole of it.23 KB (4,077 words) - 14:34, 13 April 2024
- ...epting sometimes, by a little persecution they help us to be a little more united, that's all; and we do not thank them for this, for it does not come with t ...h {{page break|221|top}} them. It is true that in France and in the United States magistrates are authorized to officiate in solemnizing marriages. But in Fr28 KB (5,234 words) - 14:35, 13 April 2024
- ...the law; they do or should understand the law of the United States, of the States, and of the Territories and cities in which they live, and whenever they ha ...e would go to ploughing again. One lawyer has actually lived in the United States who did not depend upon the practice of the law for a living, but followed21 KB (3,982 words) - 14:35, 13 April 2024
- ...them for their good or bad opinion, that we are dependent upon the United States for peace and tranquility, and that we are dependent upon popular feeling f ...eligion before we came here. We have been mixed up with them in the United States, England, France, Germany, Switzerland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, and other27 KB (5,032 words) - 14:35, 13 April 2024
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- ...the latter should correspond with the former. When our faith and works are united we can call upon God for help to enable us to accomplish that which he requ ...he Pacific Railroad, and that it all belongs to the citizens of the United States, and not to Brigham and his crew. We speak advisedly when we say Brigham an27 KB (4,902 words) - 14:36, 13 April 2024
- ...ed and to which we had been driven by our enemies, was ceded to the United States. ...re guaranteed by the Constitution of our country. We do not ask the United States for anything more. We do not want liberty that is not thus guaranteed; but48 KB (9,182 words) - 14:36, 13 April 2024