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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