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- {{QandA|Question: What must a Mormon do to attain eternal life forever with God?}} ...hat Jesus created all things, including Satan. How does this work with the Mormon view that Jesus is a created being and Satan’s brother?}}24 KB (4,127 words) - 15:40, 13 April 2024
- ...in their minds as some {{page break|61|top}} of the nations of Europe and America, who have done away with the promises, and deprived themselves of the bless ...eath, as it stalks abroad among the great and popular cities of Europe and America.45 KB (8,337 words) - 14:33, 13 April 2024
- ...Y, COLONIZATION, AND PROGRESS OF AMERICA—DESPOTIC NATIONS—INFLUENCE OF AMERICA FOR THE UNIVERSAL PREVALENCE OF LIBERTY ...Y, COLONIZATION, AND PROGRESS OF AMERICA—DESPOTIC NATIONS—INFLUENCE OF AMERICA FOR THE UNIVERSAL PREVALENCE OF LIBERTY23 KB (3,924 words) - 14:32, 13 April 2024
- ...0,000 dollars worth of goods in that store, owned by myself, or held by a "Mormon" company, in six months the goods would be gone, and we should not have 100 ...by this Conference, that we build a temple here of the best material that America affords. If this is done, it will have to be built of platina; and I do not41 KB (8,061 words) - 14:32, 13 April 2024
- ...a schoolmaster until the Messiah should come. We read also, in the Book of Mormon, of some Nephites that dwelt upon this land, who kept the commandments of G ...urope, Asia, and Africa, of which we have any knowledge: and if we look to America from the first discoveries by Columbus to the present time, where are now t45 KB (8,266 words) - 14:32, 13 April 2024
- ...o believe that the religion that is taught in the Bible and in the Book of Mormon, would amount to nothing more than a mere phantom—an imaginary thing. It ...le, they will publish abroad that you have become a "Latter-day Saint," "a Mormon," and consequently have denied the Bible you formerly believed, and have ca44 KB (8,351 words) - 14:32, 13 April 2024
- ...ded them. But the world, out of all the ancients, have selected one called Mormon, and all the principles held by all good, inspired men of all ages and coun ...zed there. But we know what the world mean when they say "Mormonism," and "Mormon." What are the principles called "Mormonism?" You may ask those who profess42 KB (7,756 words) - 14:32, 13 April 2024
- ...ery Christian nation, so called, and what do you find? If you tell them a "Mormon" has two wives, they are shocked, and call it dreadful blasphemy; if you wh ...They have a right to come and go as they please. I do not ask you to be a "Mormon." Can you point out one person who has entreated any of the emigrants to be25 KB (4,871 words) - 14:33, 13 April 2024
- ...while we contemplate upon the fulfilment of the revelations in the Book of Mormon, and in the Book of Doctrine and Covenants, and think of the events that we ...with our own and other nations living on the continent of North and South America. And when the mind's eye stretches abroad across the mighty deep, throughou16 KB (3,077 words) - 14:43, 13 April 2024
- A portion of this congregation have been brought up in America, and are more or less acquainted with the Constitution, with the Constituti Before the Book of Mormon was printed, and immediately after Joseph Smith obtained the plates, and th43 KB (8,245 words) - 14:43, 13 April 2024
- ...General Epistle of Franklin Pierce, Chief Apostle of the United States of America, written to his brethren of the Senate and House of Representatives in Gene "There can be no fellowship between Mormon and Christian. They cannot exist under the same social system. They cannot31 KB (5,668 words) - 14:43, 13 April 2024
- ...y, the Gospel as preached by the Apostles, and as contained in the book of Mormon, is the same, or agrees with the Gospel contained in the Bible. The Gospel ...ived by the laying on of hands. Was this ever taught you in England, or in America, except by the Latter-day Saints? Did you hear this at any protracted meeti28 KB (5,269 words) - 14:43, 13 April 2024
- ...e powers of darkness were arrayed against the Prophet, against the Book of Mormon, and those who believed it to be what it purported to be. ...es of the Spirit now, as well as in ancient times, as quick as the Book of Mormon was introduced into conversation, a spirit would rise in them causing them38 KB (7,119 words) - 14:43, 13 April 2024
- ...y would like to rise up and testify, and say that they believe the Book of Mormon, and that Joseph Smith was a Prophet, just as well as the few who have spok ...n came to Ephraim, for Joseph Smith was a pure Ephraimite, and the Book of Mormon was revealed to him, and while he lived he made it his business to search f18 KB (3,502 words) - 14:43, 13 April 2024
- ...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 (3,477 words) - 17:37, 11 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",27 KB (3,938 words) - 20:07, 11 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 (11,044 words) - 20:10, 11 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 (7,331 words) - 20:13, 11 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 (6,363 words) - 20:13, 11 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 (5,298 words) - 20:12, 11 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
- ...phi, in vision, saw the vast multitudes of men upon the face of this land, America, and said that there were saved two churches only. The one is the Church of ...ations upon this subject. You all know them, or ought to. Read the Book of Mormon.24 KB (4,534 words) - 14:52, 13 April 2024
- ...first thing that attracted my attention towards this work was the Book of Mormon. I happened to see a copy of it. Some man, nearly a stranger to it, and not ...to others; and while doing this, I found, as I before stated, the Book of Mormon. I read it carefully and diligently, a great share of it, without knowing t31 KB (5,734 words) - 14:52, 13 April 2024
- ...thousands of dollars over to Europe to assist the suffering poor to go to America, where they might find an asylum. You, on the other hand, that went to our ...he had revealed himself unto a young man that was born in the backwoods of America—a farmer's son, without any particular educational advantages; that this39 KB (7,123 words) - 14:52, 13 April 2024
- ...ted States Government shall begin its work of justice, at that end of the "Mormon" question it will find it not so vexed nor yet so knotty as many complain o ...eople who know their rights and dare assert them! Though every "Mormon" in America should be slain, it will only add to the enormity of the present Administra9 KB (1,621 words) - 14:53, 13 April 2024
- ...hey will point out Scriptures in the Old and New Testament, in the Book of Mormon, and other revelations of God, saying, "Don't you recollect reading so and ...that. The land of Joseph is the land of Zion; and it takes North and South America to make the land of Joseph. Suppose we are ready to go into the Temples of55 KB (10,368 words) - 14:53, 13 April 2024
- ...no information of that kind on record, except what we find in the Book of Mormon. There it was {{page break|351|top}} positively forbidden to be practised b ...tance as follows—"Except I the Lord command my people." The same Book of Mormon and the same article that commanded the Nephites that they should not marry51 KB (9,551 words) - 14:53, 13 April 2024
- |>=[[../4|Evidences of the Bible and Book of Mormon Compared]] ...ding the Book of Mormon. After a little, he rose up and said, "The land of America is the promised land; it is Zion, and we shall be gathered there, although20 KB (3,897 words) - 14:54, 13 April 2024
- |H=EVIDENCES OF THE BIBLE AND BOOK OF MORMON COMPARED |T=Journal of Discourses 7: EVIDENCES OF THE BIBLE AND BOOK OF MORMON COMPARED59 KB (10,547 words) - 14:54, 13 April 2024
- |<=[[../4|Evidences of the Bible and Book of Mormon Compared]] ...or among the Jews—whether it is in Italy or in Denmark, in Europe or in America, we will prosper, and I know it. That is my testimony.10 KB (2,042 words) - 14:54, 13 April 2024
- I remember having read in the Book of Mormon instances of a similar kind among the ancient Nephites, when the spirit of ...second time to restore the house of Israel, should commence on the land of America, and under the auspices of the Government of the United States. This work h20 KB (3,736 words) - 14:54, 13 April 2024
- ...Bible, though precious portions have been taken from it, that the Book of Mormon is true, and that the revelations given through Joseph Smith, the servant o ...living being baptized for the dead. A High Priest, who had just come from America, thinking that he could enlighten the Twelve upon the subject, said, "Broth28 KB (5,349 words) - 14:54, 13 April 2024
- I soon became acquainted with all the witnesses of the Book of Mormon, with the exception of Oliver Cowdery and Peter Whitmer, who had started we ...ance, I will give you the substance of a prophecy contained in the Book of Mormon. About six hundred years before Christ, a Prophet was raised up in Jerusale50 KB (9,344 words) - 14:54, 13 April 2024
- ...est settlements were in Central America and the northern portions of South America. However, about three hundred years after Christ, their settlements extende ...and toes. This mountain kingdom could not be found in the low countries of America, but in some high, elevated region.61 KB (10,991 words) - 14:54, 13 April 2024
- ...n; that the Book of Mormon is a Divine revelation—the history of ancient America, containing the Gospel preached in ancient times in this land; that God has55 KB (10,426 words) - 14:54, 13 April 2024
- ...n reading the revelations of heaven. We may take up the Bible, the Book of Mormon, and the Book of Covenants, and commit them to memory—at least the subjec ...brought the people from the Tower of Babel and established them upon North America. We may be informed of their history, of their numerous Prophets, concernin29 KB (5,464 words) - 14:55, 13 April 2024
- ...pers and journals, the condition of the nations of Europe, of Asia, and of America! Our own favoured land is in commotion. The political elements are heavily ...ir cold, dry, technical, husky, and spiritless reasonings from the Book of Mormon, from the Doctrine and Covenants, Bible, &c., quite voluminous, resembling22 KB (4,100 words) - 14:55, 13 April 2024
- ...is text in the predictions of Isaiah. We shall also find it in the Book of Mormon. I will repeat the words:—"Woe be unto them that are at ease in Zion." Do ...actors in some of the grand events of times to come? What says the Book of Mormon in relation to the building up of the New Jerusalem on this continent—one20 KB (3,718 words) - 14:57, 13 April 2024
- ...s 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 ...I 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 that h49 KB (9,374 words) - 14:57, 13 April 2024
- ...ederacy; and it has been preached in the British Isles, in North and South America, and the Society and Sandwich Islands, and to China, and we have even sent ...ken race of beings that are not worth saving? Do you ever read the Book of Mormon? If you do, do you believe and realize the truth of its sayings, and also w28 KB (5,445 words) - 14:57, 13 April 2024
- ...here was a highway cast up flora England to the shores of the continent of America, there are men who would be willing to measure the ground with their bodies ...ospel and embrace it, to believe all that is written in the Bible, Book of Mormon and Book of Doctrine and Covenants, is but a small matter compared with giv21 KB (3,994 words) - 14:33, 13 April 2024
- |H=THE PERSECUTIONS OF THE SAINTS-THEIR LOYALTY TO THE CONSTITUTION—THE MORMON BATTALION—THE LAWS OF GOD RELATIVE TO THE AFRICAN RACE ...25: THE PERSECUTIONS OF THE SAINTS-THEIR LOYALTY TO THE CONSTITUTION—THE MORMON BATTALION—THE LAWS OF GOD RELATIVE TO THE AFRICAN RACE27 KB (4,883 words) - 14:33, 13 April 2024
- ...postor or not; and there was a favorable opportunity to detect whether the Mormon Elder was an impostor or not, for he promised the same things that Peter pr ..., and that you was there; we were going on board of a ship and leaving for America." What was the reason of this singular dreaming? She had embraced the Gospe36 KB (6,661 words) - 14:33, 13 April 2024
- ...build up a Zion in the last days; that it would be located in the land of America, and that the Saints in England and in other countries would be gathered to ...is day nor in the days of the Apostles. How many witnesses has the Book of Mormon? Hundreds and thousands are now living upon the earth, who testify to its t34 KB (6,448 words) - 14:34, 13 April 2024
- ...LATTER-DAY SAINTS—NO ONE EVER PUNISHED, ACCORDING TO LAW, FOR KILLING A MORMON—THE SAINTS COUNSELED TO ENDURE THEIR AFFLICTIONS, TAKE CARE OF THEMSELVES ...LATTER-DAY SAINTS—NO ONE EVER PUNISHED, ACCORDING TO LAW, FOR KILLING A MORMON—THE SAINTS COUNSELED TO ENDURE THEIR AFFLICTIONS, TAKE CARE OF THEMSELVES29 KB (5,422 words) - 14:49, 13 April 2024
- ...TRED MANIFESTED TOWARDS US AFTER THE MURDER OF OUR BRETHREN IN TENNESSEE—AMERICA THE HAVEN OF FREEDOM—TRUTH HAS EVER MET WITH PERSECUTION—PROFESSED MINI ...TRED MANIFESTED TOWARDS US AFTER THE MURDER OF OUR BRETHREN IN TENNESSEE—AMERICA THE HAVEN OF FREEDOM—TRUTH HAS EVER MET WITH PERSECUTION—PROFESSED MINI28 KB (5,224 words) - 14:49, 13 April 2024
- ...is not a sexual crime that is on trial; it is a religious sentiment of the Mormon people; it is this status of their social relations founded upon their reli ...d to have said that it took very little law and less evidence to convict a Mormon in Arizona. Nevertheless there are certain forms that they have to go throu49 KB (9,074 words) - 14:49, 13 April 2024
- ...God that they are not as other men, not even as this publican, or as this "Mormon." But, brethren and sisters and friends, there is no royal road to salvatio ...ere thousands everywhere that heard the word gladly. Where? In enlightened America, in the land of Bibles, in the land of churches, in the land of culture, in42 KB (7,641 words) - 14:49, 13 April 2024
- We see in newspapers that in Egypt, China, Central America, and almost everywhere else the air is thick with the mists and clouds of w ...us when we find out how He has done it. We cannot go to the Bible, Book of Mormon or the Book of Doctrine and Covenants, to be informed how this, that and th20 KB (3,743 words) - 14:49, 13 April 2024
- ...are the words, "In God we trust;" around the face margin "United States of America" and "Twenty Dollars." On right and left scroll connecting at top of shield Well, says one, "these doctrines are scriptural and all right, but the Mormon church is nothing but a Polygamic Theocracy, alien to the Government that p41 KB (7,479 words) - 14:49, 13 April 2024
- ...nwilling to bow to the mandates of European powers not fled to the land of America, we should have had no government like this. It was founded as a refuge in ...ar enough to see! Would to God that they would pull out of their eyes the "Mormon" mote and behold the beam that threatens the nation. The occurrence at Rock29 KB (5,487 words) - 14:49, 13 April 2024
- |H=ON THE BOOK OF MORMON—DESTINY OF THE KINGDOM OF GOD AND THE SAINTS |T=Journal of Discourses 21: ON THE BOOK OF MORMON—DESTINY OF THE KINGDOM OF GOD AND THE SAINTS29 KB (5,471 words) - 14:45, 13 April 2024
- ...ages from the Book of Jacob, one of the sacred compilations of the Book of Mormon. ...r to any of the islands of the oceans, nor into South America, nor Central America, to carry out the order of things which we expect to enter into in all its29 KB (5,361 words) - 14:45, 13 April 2024
- |>=[[../20|The Book of Mormon an Authentic Record]] ...nd with things to come. This is what Jesus taught them on the continent of America. "It is expedient for you that I go away, for if I go not away the comforte43 KB (8,135 words) - 14:45, 13 April 2024
- |H=THE BOOK OF MORMON AN AUTHENTIC RECORD |T=Journal of Discourses 21: THE BOOK OF MORMON AN AUTHENTIC RECORD36 KB (6,709 words) - 14:45, 13 April 2024
- ...the fulfilment of these events. I believe the Bible; I believe the Book of Mormon; I believe the Doctrine and Covenants, and I believe that the predictions t ...d prosperous nations that once inhabited this continent of North and South America, because of their wickedness, so will he them destroy, and sooner or later21 KB (4,081 words) - 14:45, 13 April 2024
- ...in the Old and New Testaments, Book of Doctrine and Covenants, and Book of Mormon. The Book of Mormon, which we firmly believe to be the word of God to nations that flourished u31 KB (5,725 words) - 14:34, 13 April 2024
- ...This message has been proclaimed among the Christian nations of Europe and America, and in many other nations for the past forty years. Inspired men—the Eld ...er-day Saints, want anything to stir us up, let us read the Bible, Book of Mormon and the Book of Doctrine and Covenants, they contain enough to edify and in29 KB (5,691 words) - 14:38, 13 April 2024
- ...RAMENT—THE CHURCH OF CHRIST—DIFFERENT DOGMAS OF CHRISTIANITY—BOOK OF MORMON—THE TESTIMONY OF JOSEPH SMITH ...RAMENT—THE CHURCH OF CHRIST—DIFFERENT DOGMAS OF CHRISTIANITY—BOOK OF MORMON—THE TESTIMONY OF JOSEPH SMITH20 KB (3,650 words) - 14:36, 13 April 2024
- ...istory of Joseph in Egypt and that of the Latter-day Saints—Discovery of America by Columbus—Its Effect on the Work of the Last Days—Goodness of God to ...myself have felt those influences in other places besides the continent of America; I have felt them on the old battle grounds on the Sandwich Islands. I have24 KB (4,490 words) - 14:35, 13 April 2024
- |S= [[Category:Primary sources]]Source document in ''Mormon Publications: 19th and 20th Centuries'' online archive: [http://contentdm.l ...titution of the United States is true, that the bible is true, the book of Mormon is true, that Christ is true, that the ministering of angels is true; and "66 KB (11,683 words) - 15:50, 13 April 2024
- ...their friends in the old countries, and promised to work when they got to America and send it back again to them, have forgotten to do so. I am sorry to be o ...and the people would declare that it was not the Christian Bible, but the "Mormon" Bible I was reading in; and to convince them to the contrary, would have t15 KB (2,815 words) - 14:35, 13 April 2024
- ...y br. George A. Smith. When he had almost finished translating the Book of Mormon, nearly forty years ago, and some time before the Church was organized, he ..., even the centre stake of Zion. It is true this is Zion—North and South America are Zion, and the land where the Lord commenced His work; and where He comm30 KB (5,819 words) - 14:35, 13 April 2024
- ...nder my hands, and when he got to Congress I understand he denied being a "Mormon." But br. Hooper, every time he is asked if he is a Latter-day Saint, repli ...it trees are failing in the east. Right in the very land where the Book of Mormon came forth, and was translated by Joseph, there has not been an apple grown20 KB (3,873 words) - 14:35, 13 April 2024
- ...y would hear no more from that wicked book, believing it to be the Book of Mormon. Priests and deacons have declared they would hear no more from that vile r ...M. Cabot, came over with a company of several hundreds. When they came to America they found the City of Nauvoo deserted and forsaken by the "Mormons," who h28 KB (5,471 words) - 14:35, 13 April 2024
- ...|Condition of Apostates—The Young Men of the Saints—Bible Christians—Mormon Battalion—His Testimony to Strangers—Council to Mothers and Daughters o ...ildren of men. We know, from a certain declaration of Jesus in the Book of Mormon, concerning the records of heaven, that the acts and doings of all men are33 KB (6,118 words) - 14:35, 13 April 2024
- ...citizens of African descent are admitted to the polls, the adopted sons of America who have come here to obtain homes for themselves and their posterity, shou ...aborigines of this continent, there are several prophecies in the Book of Mormon to the effect that they will one day become a pure people; but that will no20 KB (3,726 words) - 14:36, 13 April 2024
- ...e various nations of the earth. When the gospel as revealed in the Book of Mormon, has been presented to the people, and they have been told that God has com ...received no new commission. My government did not commission me to come to America to act as Minister Plenipotentiary." We again ask him, by what authority th32 KB (5,954 words) - 14:36, 13 April 2024
- ...ople, have proven since the day that Joseph took the plates of the Book of Mormon from the hill Cumorah, in the town of Manchester, Ontario county, State of ...ght not have been opened up for fifty years yet if it not had been for the Mormon battalion, which went forth to fight the battles of the nation in her war w48 KB (9,182 words) - 14:36, 13 April 2024
- ...ar after year to get up an act to prevent us from owning a foot of land in America, but they are out of the way. Now we have the privilege of purchasing our l ...and New Testaments, and all the revelations given in them and the Book of Mormon, and the Book of Doctrine and Covenants. They all centre on one point in th28 KB (5,473 words) - 14:36, 13 April 2024
- |H=AMERICA A CHOICE LAND—ITS ABORIGINES |T=Journal of Discourses 12: AMERICA A CHOICE LAND—ITS ABORIGINES28 KB (5,132 words) - 14:36, 13 April 2024
- ...told that the Indians, who were wandering over the face of North and South America, were a branch of the house of Joseph, that same Joseph who was sold into E ...hem with the Urim and Thummim, consequently the manuscripts of the Book of Mormon were written by different scribes. Not long before the time he obtained the36 KB (6,606 words) - 14:36, 13 April 2024
- |H=THE LATTER-DAY KINGDOM OF GOD—DIVINE AUTHENTICITY OF THE BOOK OF MORMON—EXTERNAL TESTIMONY ...ses 13: THE LATTER-DAY KINGDOM OF GOD—DIVINE AUTHENTICITY OF THE BOOK OF MORMON—EXTERNAL TESTIMONY49 KB (8,952 words) - 14:36, 13 April 2024
- ...ze. For three hundred years the people on the continent of North and South America were benefitted by the work of the Savior in organizing his Church and reve ...s to this continent, and this land was filled with people, and the Book of Mormon or the stick of Joseph contains their writings, and they are in the hands o30 KB (5,696 words) - 14:37, 13 April 2024
- ...t bounds of the everlasting hills—the great continent of North and South America was conferred upon him. Another proof that God did not disapprove of a man ...ods, and the Lord was angry with him and, as it is recorded in the Book of Mormon, considered the acts of Solomon an abomination in His sight.45 KB (8,154 words) - 14:37, 13 April 2024
- ...ouse and says, "I am a missionary; I have {{page break|257|top}} come from America to preach the Gospel." It is not a very unusual thing for persons to cross ...es to England. He knocks at a man's door and says, "I am a missionary from America." Well, the man on whom he calls is in distress. Says he, "I am sorry I can22 KB (4,122 words) - 14:37, 13 April 2024
- ...s back and published a statement that he has visited five hundred miles of Mormon villages, and has seen a people happy and contented, and has not seen a gro ...on of the United States becomes the supreme law of this land—the land of America, every man will be protected in his religious faith, and then we will go ri27 KB (4,977 words) - 14:37, 13 April 2024
- ...aints. There are many of our brethren who have been born and brought up in America, who have never been called to pass through the ordeals of poverty that som ...and published to the world. They are in the Old and New Testament, Book of Mormon and the Book of Doctrine and Covenants; and we call upon all the earth, the34 KB (6,638 words) - 14:37, 13 April 2024
- ...eation of the world. We behold before us, in these interior wilds of North America, a great people called the Latter-day Saints—a people whose faith and doc ...y commandments to keep them, and not only my commandments, but the Book of Mormon, which I have caused to come forth and to be written for your edification,33 KB (6,118 words) - 14:37, 13 April 2024
- ...abitants of the earth—both Zion and Babylon, Jew and Gentile, Jerusalem, America, and the whole world. All nations are interested in the events which are ap ...ngs, and they are in fulfilment of revelations given in the Bible, Book of Mormon and Doctrine and Covenants, in our day and in ancient days. This is the wor20 KB (3,730 words) - 14:37, 13 April 2024
- ...a, or Australia, where we can find a multitude of nations. When we come to America, we have a large country, with every variety of climate, temperate, torrid ...ood something about the Lord Jesus Christ. If he had consulted the Book of Mormon, he would have known why they knew about Jesus.18 KB (3,151 words) - 14:37, 13 April 2024
- ...w Testaments, and then the corroborative evidence contained in the Book of Mormon, and find therein how the kingdom of God was organized, and compare our pre ...an? This would be considered a very strange proceeding among the people of America; yet in other countries it is done and is considered most sacred; and it is38 KB (7,380 words) - 14:37, 13 April 2024
- ...HE FULFILLMENT OF PROPHECY—THE EARTH HISTORY OF THE CHURCH—THE BOOK OF MORMON ...HE FULFILLMENT OF PROPHECY—THE EARTH HISTORY OF THE CHURCH—THE BOOK OF MORMON34 KB (6,263 words) - 14:37, 13 April 2024
- ...evealed to us as a people. We have the Old and New Testaments; the Book of Mormon, giving an account of the aborigines of our country, the visit of the Savio ...children, that, so far as the Christian nations are concerned, I will take America, for instance, and on the score of morals—honesty, integrity, truthfulnes29 KB (5,606 words) - 14:37, 13 April 2024
- ...capital and money out of exterminating the "Mormons," and fortunes out of "Mormon" blood, and more or less difficulty has occurred; but during that period th ...equence of oppression of this kind that they sought a home in the wilds of America; and in almost every instance, as soon as they had established a home, they26 KB (4,768 words) - 14:37, 13 April 2024
- |H=THE GATHERING—THE RISE OF THE CHURCH—THE BOOK OF MORMON—TRUE CHRISTIANITY ...nal of Discourses 14: THE GATHERING—THE RISE OF THE CHURCH—THE BOOK OF MORMON—TRUE CHRISTIANITY43 KB (7,922 words) - 14:38, 13 April 2024
- ...ITS FIRST PRINCIPLE—ACCUMULATING EVIDENCES OF THE TRUTH OF THE BOOK OF MORMON ...ITS FIRST PRINCIPLE—ACCUMULATING EVIDENCES OF THE TRUTH OF THE BOOK OF MORMON37 KB (6,846 words) - 14:38, 13 April 2024