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  • Times and Seasons/1/7
    | NAUVOO, ILLINOIS, MAY, 1840 ...rtridge, and to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, in Quincy Illinois, and to those scattered abroad, throughout all the regions round about.
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  • GospeLink quick links
    ** [http://gospelink.com/library/contents/890 Illinois]
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  • Question: Why did Emma Smith and Brigham Young dislike one another?
    ...re, Brigham and Emma did not agree on the disposition of Joseph's estate. Illinois law at the time held that no church could hold more than ten acres of prope
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  • Kinderhook Plates
    ...f ancient appearance, were purported to have been unearthed in Kinderhook, Illinois, in April 1843. The so-called "Kinderhook plates" have been something of an
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  • Times and Seasons/2/5
    | NAUVOO, ILLINOIS, JAN. 1, 1841. For publishing at the City of Nauvoo, Hancock County Illinois, a Semi-monthly periodical, to be entitled the
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  • Primary sources/Nauvoo Expositor Full Text
    NAUVOO, ILLINOIS, JUNE 7, 1844. <br> State of Illinois,
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  • Primary sources
    ...Times and Seasons (1839–1846)]: This newspaper was published in Nauvoo, Illinois between November 1839 and February 1846. It was the successor to the Elders
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  • Times and Seasons/2/9
    | CITY OF NAUVOO, ILLINOIS, MARCH 1, 1841. ...ision, and members of both Houses of the General Assembly, of the State of Illinois, as an evidence of our gratitude
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  • Book of Mormon/Geography/Statements/Nineteenth century/Joseph Smith's lifetime 1829-1840/Joseph Smith/Zelph
    ...udents of Book of Mormon geography is the account of the 1834 discovery in Illinois of the "white Lamanite," called "Zelph" by members of Zion's Camp. Those wh
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  • Question: Why doesn't Joseph Smith's 1832 First Vision account mention a "new dispensation"?
    ...ds' 1843 record of a First Vision statement made by the Prophet in Nauvoo, Illinois.
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  • Mountain Meadows Massacre/FAQ
    ...sted of participating in the violence against Mormons in both Missouri and Illinois, poisoned a spring, and that they threatened to destroy one of the Mormon s
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Video/Search for the Truth DVD/Prophecy and Revelation
    ...en himself did not survive until the spring. A council was held in Quincy, Illinois in March to decide what obligations the Twelve had towards fulfilling D&C 1
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Video/Search for the Truth DVD/Polygamy
    ...sh;B. Carmon Hardy, ''Solemn Covenant'' (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1992), 9.</small>
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Video/Search for the Truth DVD/The "Occult"
    ...member of these bodies. This would have been impossible, since Masonry in Illinois at the time (1842) did not have the Scottish Rite at time and there is no r ...nprecedented procedure, and Grand Master Abraham Jonas (the grand lodge of Illinois grand master who raised the Prophet) was well within his rights in making J
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Video/Search for the Truth DVD/Summary
    Governor Ford of Illinois then asked Joseph to appear before the Carthage judge to satisfy the anti-M
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  • Book of Mormon/Anachronisms/Language/"Adieu"/Further examples
    ...w Message'', January 17, 1844, Vol. I. No 4.&mdash;A newpaper from Warsaw, Illinois
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  • Times and Seasons/1/6
    |L8=AGENTS FOR THE TIMES AND SEASON IN ILLINOIS. | COMMERCE, ILLINOIS, APRIL, 1840.
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  • Times and Seasons/2/10
    | CITY OF NAUVOO, ILLINOIS, MARCH 15, 1841. Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois represented in the general Assembly, that Sidney Rigdon, George W. Robinson
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  • Times and Seasons/1/5
    | COMMERCE, ILLINOIS, MARCH, 1840. ...mounting to about 15,000 souls, fled into the other States, principally in Illinois, where they now reside.
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  • Topical Guide/Temples/Endowment
    ...then claim that since Joseph Smith was initiated as a Freemason in Nauvoo, Illinois shortly before he introduced the full endowment to the Saints (as opposed t
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  • Question: Was Zarahemla located near present-day Nauvoo?
    ...e river on foot. The Des Moines Rapids, located between Nauvoo and Keokuk, Illinois were, according to Wikipedia, "one of two major rapids on the Mississippi R
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  • Question: Does what Joseph Smith taught about the creation of spirits contradict the scriptures?
    ...rnized; from a discourse given by Joseph Smith on Apr. 7, 1844, in Nauvoo, Illinois; reported by Wilford Woodruff, Willard Richards, Thomas Bullock, and Willia
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  • Mormonism and politics/California Proposition 8
    ...hurch have experienced significant intolerance ranging from expulsion from Illinois in the dead of winter to an extermination order by the Governor of Missouri
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  • Mormonism and politics/California Proposition 8/Post-Election Events
    ...hurch have experienced significant intolerance ranging from expulsion from Illinois in the dead of winter to an extermination order by the Governor of Missouri
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Nauvoo Polygamy
    ...ear-old Joseph Smith, hiding from the law down by the Mississippi River in Illinois, confessed:
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  • Lucy Mack Smith's biography of Joseph Smith
    ...h] of the Prophet Joseph Smith set their feet upon the hospitable shore of Illinois, I became acquainted with them. I frequently visited them and listened with
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Nauvoo Polygamy/Loaded and prejudicial language
    *p. 34: The author claims that in Illinois Joseph "was still hunted by law officials for old offenses." *p. 38: "…Smith and fellow prisoners escaped to join their people in Illinois, where they proceeded to found a theocratic society."
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Use of sources/An Example of Biased Histories
    ...aunius, ''Cultures in Conflict: A Documentary History of the Mormon War in Illinois'' (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 1995), 2-3. [The balance of the ...is virtually no cultural context for understanding the Mormon conflict in Illinois. Also, they treat the Mormons as idealized figures whose motives are sacred
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Use of sources/Joseph Smith's Narcissism
    Nauvoo, Illinois, Nov. 13, 1843.
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  • Question: Was the Mormons' use of the Nauvoo city charter to invalidate writs from other jurisdictions improper?
    ...idate writs from other jurisdictions was improper. Carlin, the governor of Illinois at the time, characterized it as an "extraordinary assumption of power….m ...charter was correct—that Nauvoo was subject only to the constitution of Illinois and not to its laws. The whole habeas corpus question was mooted in January
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Nauvoo Polygamy/Chapter 2
    ...aim: 79 - Presendia Buell "did not take the prophet's advice" to leave for Illinois while he was in Liberty Jail "prior to his escape from jail on April 16. N *Smith, Letter to "Brother and Sister [Newel K.] Whitney, and &c.," Nauvoo, Illinois, Aug. 18, 1842, Church Archives, Salt Lake City.
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Nauvoo Polygamy/Chapter 1
    #''Revised Laws of Illinois, 1833; Revised States of the State of Illinois, 1845,'' secs 121, 122.
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Nauvoo Polygamy/Preface
    ...m: xiv - "The cyclical nature of this suppression of information, first in Illinois and later in Utah, left a brief window in Mormon history from which most of ...h to "Brother and Sister, [Newel K.] Whitney, and &c. [Sarah Ann,] Nauvoo, Illinois, August 18, 1842, Joseph Smith Collections, The Church of Jesus Christ of L
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  • Times and Seasons/1/4
    |L9=AGENTS FOR THE TIMES AND SEASONS. IN ILLINOIS. | COMMERCE, ILLINOIS, JANUARY, 1840.
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Nauvoo Polygamy/Chapter 3
    ...he book "The Peace Maker" claims that Latter-day Saints were expelled from Illinois "primarily because of the dominant sense they betrayed public trust" ...eth W. Godfrey, “Causes of Mormon Non-Mormon Conflict in Hancock County, Illinois, 1839–1846” (PhD diss., Brigham Young University, 1967), 96-97.
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Nauvoo Polygamy/Chapter 4
    ||"Antagonism against the Latter-day Saints arose [in Illinois] as it had in Missouri, from bloc-voting influence on local elections and t ...ess of Nauvoo was in part due to the collapse of any police force when the Illinois legislature rescinded the Nauvoo charter.
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Nauvoo Polygamy/Chapter 7
    ...h was "due to an angry mob, without caring to know specifically what those Illinois neighbors had been angry about" ...uitur]]''. Oaks (and Firmage and Mangrum) demonstrate at length that both Illinois and U.S. law had ample precedent in case law and practice for the abatement
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Introduction
    ...aunius, ''Cultures in Conflict: A Documentary History of the Mormon War in Illinois'' (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 1995), 2-3.
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Chapter 9
    ...similar to the Danites? The militia was organized with the sanction of the Illinois legislature, the state supplied arms, and its officers received commissions ...overnor, a probate judge, the U.S. District Attorney for Illinois, and the Illinois Supreme Court found that the arrest warrant from Missouri was illegal.<ref>
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  • Question: Did Joseph Smith have a long history of "womanizing" before practicing plural marriage?
    ..., Mormon Enigma: Emma Hale Smith, 2nd ed. (Urbana, Illinois: University of Illinois Press, 1994), 64.</ref> At best, he is repeating Levi's early tale.)
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  • Question: Do Mormon histories have a long history of omitting mention of plural marriage as a cause for the Saints' troubles in Illinois?
    ...ención del matrimonio plural como causa de los problemas de los santos en Illinois?]]
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  • Question: Did Joseph Smith mismanage the estate of two orphans, Maria and Sarah Lawrence by marrying these sisters polygamously in order to use the marriage to enrich himself?
    ...cites “Gordon Madsen, ‘The Lawrence Estate Revisited: Joseph Smith and Illinois Law regarding Guardianships,’ Nauvoo Symposium, Sept. 21, 1989, Brigham Y
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  • Question: Was William Clayton an example of the evils and problems of plural marriage?
    ...he Story of William Clayton, a Mormon'' (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1987), 33–4; see also 130–34.</ref>
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  • Primary sources/Brigham Young/8 October 1861 discourse on plural marriage
    ...s, and the Oneida Community'' (Urbana and Chicago, Illinois: University of Illinois Press, 1984), 162.
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Use of sources/Debauchery and despotism at Nauvoo
    The jury of Lee county, Illinois, awarded $40 damages and the costs against Joseph H. Reynolds and Harmon T.
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Use of sources/Demolish Endowment House
    ...: The Mormon Quest for Utah Statehood'' (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1986), 113; citing A. H. Cannon Journal, Oct. 7, 17, 1889; Grant Jou
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Use of sources/Wilford Woodruff 1889 revelation
    ...: The Mormon Quest for Utah Statehood'' (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1986), 38–39, n. 42</ref>
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  • Times and Seasons/1/3
    | COMMERCE, ILLINOIS, JANUARY, 1840. ...x co. Massachusetts, to his daughter Elizabeth Haven of Quincy, Adams co., Illinois.
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  • Question: Did Joseph Smith give a false prophecy by claiming that queens would pay respect to the Relief Society within ten years?
    ...ood," A Sermon Delivered on 28 April 1842, from the Minutes of the Nauvoo [Illinois] Relief Society, original in Church Archives; reproduced in {{wordsjs1|star
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  • Times and Seasons/2/1
    | NAUVOO, ILLINOIS, NOVEMBER 1, 1840. ...Certain, and Final Cure for Salt Rheum, Tetter, Michigan or Prairie Itch, Illinois Mange, Scald Head, Scrofula, Ringworm, Obstinate Old Sores, of long standin
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/The Mormon Hierarchy: Origins of Power
    |L4=Response to claims made in "Chapter 4: The Kingdom of God in Nauvoo, Illinois" by D. Michael Quinn
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Nauvoo Polygamy/Chapter 1a
    |L21=Response to claim: 34 - The author claims that in Illinois Joseph "was still hunted by law officials for old offenses" ...laim: 38 - Joseph and the other prisoners "escaped to join their people in Illinois, where they proceeded to found a theocratic society"
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  • Primary sources/Reed C. Durham on 1974 talk
    ...pril 20, 1974, at the Mormon History Association Annual Meeting at Nauvoo, Illinois, I delivered the Presidential Address entitled, “Is There No Help for the
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Nauvoo Polygamy/Use of sources
    ...le, after detailing the many factors that contributed to animosity between Illinois and the Mormons, Elder B.H. Roberts concludes that events were “awaiting
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Nauvoo Polygamy/Presentism
    ...n sequitur. Oaks (and Firmage and Mangrum) demonstrate at length that both Illinois and U.S. law had ample precedent in case law and practice for the abatement
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Nauvoo Polygamy/Censorship
    ...openess. "The cyclical nature of this suppression of information, first in Illinois and later in Utah, left a brief window in Mormon history from which most of ...th was due to an angry mob, without caring to know specifically what those Illinois neighbors had been angry about." (p. 449)
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Nauvoo Polygamy/Assumptions and presumptions
    *In Illinois Joseph "was still hunted by law officials for old offenses." (p. 34)
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  • Book of Mormon/Geography/Statements/Nineteenth century/Joseph Smith's lifetime 1829-1840/Joseph Smith
    ====4 June 1834: (Zion's Camp) Joseph Smith believes that Illinois is the "plains of the Nephites"==== ...ry month, on the corner of Water and Bain Streets, Nauvoo, Hancock County, Illinois, by JOSEPH SMITH"
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  • Question: What is the history and origin of the term "anti-Mormon?"
    “Illinois. Termination of the Mormon War. “To the Anti-Mormon Citizens of Hancock "The Anti-Mormons, in Hancock county, Illinois, says the St. Louis Reveille, of the 16th ult., are endeavoring in a lawles
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  • Book of Mormon geography/Models/Limited/Meldrum 2003/Section 3:Joseph Smith
    ...ry month, on the corner of Water and Bain Streets, Nauvoo, Hancock County, Illinois, by JOSEPH SMITH." This statement was signed "ED," which attributes it dire
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Online documents/A Letter to an Apostle/The Letter
    ...t the Saints lived in Nauvoo, Illinois, not New York State. And, in fact, Illinois Governor Thomas Ford at age 28 was married to 15-year-old bride Frances Ham ...30%) was slightly higher than a reasonable estimate for his peers in 1840s Illinois (20%), it was far from being historically high. One might wonder if America
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  • Question: Has the Church tried to hide the fact that Joseph fired a pepperbox pistol at the mob which murdered him?
    *George T. M. Davis, of Alton, Illinois, ''An Authentic Account of the Massacre of Joseph Smith, the Mormon Prophet ...n of Joseph and Hiram Smith, the Mormon Prophet and Patriarch At Carthage, Illinois, June 27th, 1844, By an Eye Witness'', T[HOMAS]. A. LYNE (NY: 1844): 9-10.
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/The Mormon Hierarchy: Origins of Power/Index
    ...od baths—one in Carthage and another when anti-Mormons (and probably the Illinois militia) retaliated by laying siege to Nauvoo for insurrection. To avoid ci
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/The Counterfeit Gospel of Mormonism
    |summary=In 1997 InterVarsity Press of Downers Grove, Illinois, published a book coauthored by moderate Baptist minister Craig L. Blomberg
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/American Massacre/Chapter 3
    ...RLDS church was organized in Amboy, Illinois. Emma Smith lived in Nauvoo, Illinois until her death. Emma did not encourage or organize the RLDS church; when
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/American Massacre/Chapter 10
    ...alled his enemies "Christians" and that the Latter-day Saints left Nauvoo, Illinois because they "had been unable to live in peace with their neighbors" ...alled his enemies "Christians" and that the Latter-day Saints left Nauvoo, Illinois because they "had been unable to live in peace with their neighbors"==
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/American Massacre/Chapter 15
    ...'Warsaw Signal'') is the first known to have used the term in print (see ''Illinois State Register'' [1 Nov 1844]; reprinted in ''Nauvoo Neighbor'' [13 Nov 184
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/The Changing World of Mormonism/Chapter 17
    *Kenneth W. Godfrey, Causes of Mormon Non-Mormon Conflict in Hancock County, Illinois, 1839-1846, Ph.D. dissertation, BYU, 1967, pp.63-65"
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  • Question: Did Joseph Smith plagiarize Shakespeare's ''Hamlet''?
    ...Advocate'' (29 April 1835). Reprinted from ''The Pioneer'' (Rock Springs, Illinois), March 1835. {{link|url=http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/cdm4/document.php?CIS
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  • Primary sources/Brigham Young/7 October 1863
    Joseph Smith that now is living in the state of Illinois, the son of Joseph the Prophet, will never lead the Latter-day Saints: he m ...the sons of Hyrum and Samuel Smith with us. They visited their friends in Illinois when they went to England on their last mission and held a conversation wit
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  • Alleged hiding of facts in Church history
    ...ix original plates) brought in 1843 to the Prophet Joseph Smith in Nauvoo, Illinois, appears to solve a previously unanswered question in Church history, helpi
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  • Specific works/DNA Evidence for Book of Mormon Geography (DVD)/Geographical claims
    ...ry month, on the corner of Water and Bain Streets, Nauvoo, Hancock County, Illinois, by JOSEPH SMITH." This statement was signed "ED," which attributes it dire
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  • Journal of Discourses/1/6
    ...ousands and thousands of dollars' worth of property in Ohio, Missouri, and Illinois? though I have never looked back upon it, it is as ashes under my feet. I a
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  • Journal of Discourses/1/13
    ...murdered general, (murdered while under the sacred pledge of the State of Illinois,) his paternal grandfather; I say, was at the elbow of Colonel Ethan Allen,
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  • Journal of Discourses/1/40
    ...requently speaking upon the building of temples in Kirtland, Missouri, and Illinois. When the people refused in Kirtland to build a temple, unless by a special ...n Jackson County persecutions, or were not driven from Ohio, Missouri, and Illinois, and stripped, robbed, and plundered of all your property. Do not mourn and
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  • Journal of Discourses/1/44
    ...e troubles in Kirtland, Ohio; in Davis and Caldwell Counties, Missouri; in Illinois; and up to this place. And what of it? I have not known or seen a single sa
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  • Journal of Discourses/2/3
    ...ng my goods there, and preparing for living; I left all behind and went to Illinois. Well, the revelation was that several of the brethren must start on missio
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  • Journal of Discourses/2/6
    ...rner stones of Temples, in Zion and her Stakes, and then had to retreat to Illinois, to save the lives of those who could get away alive from Missouri, where f
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  • Journal of Discourses/2/18
    ...if they had known that many of us had more than one wife when we lived in Illinois? They would have broken us up, doubtless, worse than they did. They may bre
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  • Journal of Discourses/2/29
    |>=[[../30|The Constitutions of the United States and Illinois, etc.]]
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  • Journal of Discourses/2/30
    |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 CORPUS
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  • Journal of Discourses/2/31
    |<=[[../30|The Constitutions of the United States and Illinois, etc.]] ...to remain in peace, and a desire to plunder, accomplished our exodus from Illinois. Perhaps, however, in this last case our enemies might have entertained som
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  • Journal of Discourses/2/32
    ...the politicians. How long would it have been before the whole election of Illinois would have been controlled by the Latter-day Saints? Our enemies saw this, I will take the Government of the United States, and the laws of Missouri and Illinois, from the year 1833 to 1845, and if they had been carried out according to
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  • Journal of Discourses/2/34
    ...o deed of conveyance of real estate, executed by any of you in Missouri or Illinois, after you were warned to leave, and threatened with violence if you did no
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  • Journal of Discourses/2/35
    ...orseback, and took possession of all the roads between the Mississippi and Illinois rivers, and some set out on a steamboat, with a determination to examine ev ...then done. The news spread all over the United States that the Governor of Illinois had treacherously pledged the faith of the State for the safety of Joseph S
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  • Journal of Discourses/2/47
    While we were in Illinois, if every trangressor [transgressor] of the law of that State, in our commu
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  • Journal of Discourses/2/48
    ...cing as they did when they massacred him in Carthage Jail, in the State of Illinois. It is not any particular doctrine or men and women that they are opposed t
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  • Journal of Discourses/2/51
    ...Did it not always stir up the devil? It was so in Kirtland, Missouri, and Illinois; and will it not be so in the City of the Great Salt Lake? It will. Are you ...to obey counsel when the Lord speaks. We have escaped our difficulties in Illinois, and got a possession in these goodly valleys, by obeying the commandments
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  • Journal of Discourses/3/6
    ...or people by their enemies. For instance, read Governor Ford's History of Illinois, and you will find that he will contradict himself half-a-dozen times in on
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  • Journal of Discourses/3/19
    Go to Illinois and Missouri, and mention Joseph Smith to the mob that tried to butcher and
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  • Journal of Discourses/3/45
    ...re the Battalion went to California, or when we were first driven out from Illinois, that we should ever be prospered, clothed and fed until we could come here
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  • Journal of Discourses/3/51
    ...l be millions of them ready to communicate the news to devils in Missouri, Illinois, California, Mexico, and in all the world. And the question will be, "What
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  • Journal of Discourses/4/19
    ...ocality of the afflictions that have come upon this people. Take Missouri, Illinois, and Iowa, and they are the places where we {{page break|90|top}} have been
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  • Mormonism and Wikipedia/First Vision/Recorded accounts of the vision
    ...h] of the Prophet Joseph Smith set their feet upon the hospitable shore of Illinois, I became acquainted with them. I frequently visited them and listened with
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  • Mormonism and Wikipedia/Joseph Smith, Jr./1838 to 1839
    made their way to Illinois and searched for land to purchase.
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  • Mormonism and Wikipedia/Joseph Smith, Jr./1839 - 1844
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    but while a prisoner in [[Carthage, Illinois|Carthage]], it was too late to clarify his preference. Joseph Smith that now is living in the state of Illinois, the son of Joseph the Prophet, will
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  • Journal of Discourses/4/42
    ..., as I am that I was acquainted with my earthly father who died in Quincy, Illinois, after we were driven from Missouri. My recollection is better with regard
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    I recollect once walking up to a house in Illinois, where a young woman was sitting just within the door dressed up, I may say ...to live? Many of them will merely manage to stay, just as a family did in Illinois. During a conference held in their neighbourhood, we would sit down at the
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    ...ingdom of God with all their hearts. Some may have done so in Missouri, in Illinois, in other parts of the United States, in Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Germany,
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    ...Saints, I say it is true; and Joseph Smith the Prophet, who was killed in Illinois, in Carthage Jail, is the author of it; or, in other words, he was the inst
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    ...could whip out the "Mormons," and then they thought that a few counties in Illinois could do it; but of late they have come to the conclusion that it will take ...the work, if possible. It was so in Kirtland; it was so in Far West and in Illinois; and I expect it will be so here; but it will all tend to roll on the work
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    When we were in Nauvoo, at the beginning of the last winter we spent in Illinois, about the time the clouds were gathering so thick, and the last storm bega
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    | NAUVOO, ILLINOIS, DECEMBER 15, 1840. ...and rode forty miles, through a level farming country, something like the Illinois prairies, we passed through Oxfordshire, leaving the Oxford university a li
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    ...not be many years before they cannot raise a spoonful in that land, nor in Illinois, nor in any other land where they fight against God. Mildew shall come upon
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    ...s return from there, being driven from that State in 1839, in Pike County, Illinois. He had been in the Church some years, and had been faithful.
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    Whom did we rebel against in Illinois? We staid in Illinois, lived there as peaceable citizens, and had a city charter, and under its p
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    ...ere broken up, which was a serious time, and in Far West, in Missouri, and Illinois, the priests of the day, the bigger portion of them, and those they call th What did they say in Missouri, in Kirtland, in Illinois,—the Methodist priest, the Baptist priest, the lawyer, the judge, and the
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    ...case, but have allowed wholesale murderers to run at large in Missouri and Illinois. And many of the people and of their rulers have consented to the shedding ...mobbed and plundered again and again, till eventually we were driven into Illinois.
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    ...old senators, Stephen A. Douglas, recently said before his constituents in Illinois, that nine-tenths of our people were aliens. We have a larger proportion of
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    ...the persecutions through which this people have passed in Ohio, Missouri, Illinois, and the various places where we have been located; and when has the Lord b
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    ...o. That was one of the most. productive seasons ever known in the State of Illinois. It has been asked me by some of the brethren, "Do you think we shall have
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    ...ish for any better laws than are the most of those enacted in Missouri and Illinois. What, then, was the difficulty with this people? Magistrates, sheriffs, co
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    ...by the poor, miserable devils from Kirtland to Missouri, and from there to Illinois, then across to Mississippi, and over the Plains to the valleys of the moun
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    ...aries that killed our men and burned our grain and houses on Green Plains, Illinois. Nor yet, until they punish Missouri and cause the wrongs of the Saints in When we were driven from Missouri and Illinois, leaving all our property, except what little we could take in the hurry, t
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  • Journal of Discourses/6/13
    ...s an individual but would have preferred to inhabit the vacant prairies of Illinois, Iowa, or Missouri, than to have been under the necessity of wandering {{pa ...persecution we had suffered in Missouri, and that we were then enduring in Illinois.
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    ...e last days of Joseph, which resulted in the expulsion of this people from Illinois. ...ns, making good, as far as money and means can do it, their losses;—when Illinois shall have done the same, and the General Government shall take action to m
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    ...e troubles in Missouri, after again being driven from our homes in Nauvoo, Illinois, and after being led to this secret retreat and sustained all the time by t
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    ...another. Why cannot you pursue that course, just as you did in England, in Illinois, in Missouri, or in the Southern States, or in Massachusetts and in Vermont
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    ...et the people go to work and trim off such bitter branches as Missouri and Illinois, because of their wickedness and mobocracy; and then the nations will begin
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    Suppose we had been permitted to remain in the city of Nauvoo, Illinois, could the words of the Prophets have been fulfilled concerning this people
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    |S=Synopsis of an Address delivered by President JOSEPH SMITH, in Commerce, Illinois, Tuesday, June 2, 1839.
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  • Journal of Discourses/6/41
    ...we had just survived the bloody persecutions of Missouri, and had got into Illinois, and were all as poor as a church mouse ever was, and many of us felt almos Finally, however, the people of Illinois became hostile, and would not let us live in their midst; and we were force
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    ...he whole of it. Two fellows were stump speaking for office in the State of Illinois: one of them was a lawyer, of flowery, eloquent speech; and the other was a
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    ...ngs, and not have implicit confidence in everything they do. How was it in Illinois? Under the pledge of the Governor of that State, when he pledged himself mo ...of this Territory, and left his poor wife desolate and forsaken in Oquaka, Illinois. This is one of those immaculate characters they sent out here to ameliorat
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    ...uri testify; let the tribulation this people had to endure in the State of Illinois bear witness. We will not refer to persecutions in Utah, for here we have h
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    ...some fifteen or twenty thousand were forcibly expelled from their homes in Illinois. In the summer following, the sick, and the poor, and the aged, whose circu ...as to irrigate the land, and spend as much labour in that one thing as the Illinois farmer would in raising his whole crop. Independent of all this, look at th
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  • Journal of Discourses/7/36
    ...Brigham Young is an Apostle and a Prophet. If the people in Carthage or in Illinois had known these things, they never would have killed Joseph.
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    ...difficulties. I never was more happy in my life than I was in Missouri and Illinois, when we were passing through those trying scenes; and I can say that I nev
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    ...ily. They said that they would drive us from Ohio, from Missouri, and from Illinois, and they did so; but they cannot drive us from these mountains we now inha
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    ...were comparatively beneath my feet. "Why could you not live in Missouri or Illinois?" I believed that Joseph Smith, jun., was and is a Prophet, and that Jesus
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    ...n I had not been there long before they requested us to leave the State of Illinois. Well, we came along to Winter Quarters; and we found very good quarters: a
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    ...to the rolling forth of this great and mighty work. In our expulsion from Illinois, our journeyings across the Plains, our settlement in this Valley, all has
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    ...he plans for destroying the Prophet as did those in Carthage or in Warsaw, Illinois. It was planned by some of the leading men of the nation. I have said here
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    ...e and not there. You cannot ride from here to Carthage, in Hancock County, Illinois, before breakfast, if you try; and every one that now tries to come from Wa ...e my witnesses. Joseph said that the bones of hundreds of the Missouri and Illinois mobocrats, who drove the Saints from those States, should bleach on the pla
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    ...ur wives and children, in Jackson county, Missouri, and in Hancock county, Illinois, just as well as we can here, and none would dare to molest us. And until t
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  • Journal of Discourses/9/3
    ...rights of others? We have been outraged and abused in Ohio, Missouri, and Illinois; but whom have we interfered with? We are at the defiance of the world to p
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    Now, were we to take a man from the broad prairies of Missouri or Illinois and show him the narrow flats of the Rio Virgin, he would be apt to describ
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  • Journal of Discourses/9/19
    ...Counties, and last of all from Caldwell County, from whence they fled into Illinois, have been scattered over the Plains—gnawed and broken by wild beasts, an
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  • Journal of Discourses/9/20
    We found the same doctrine held good in Illinois, and the same principle has been carried out precisely by the action of the
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    ...as any in the State, and I expect to go back to it. Do we own anything in Illinois? Yes. In Ohio? Yes. The Lord will call back the Latter-day Saints, although
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  • Journal of Discourses/9/29
    ...ext, I shall want the State of Illinois. All this Territory, Missouri, and Illinois are not going to be sufficient territory for Heber and me, to say nothing o
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  • Journal of Discourses/9/34
    ...ighty had not interfered, they would have killed us all. We then went into Illinois, and had not been there long before they began to serve us in like manner.
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    ...cupy the position we do in these mountains. Do we now feel very sorry that Illinois drove us from our homes? What say you? The Lord has preserved us thus far; ...when he first received the plates, and continued in Ohio, in Missouri, in Illinois, and in the various cities, towns, counties, and states that we have occupi
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    ...e is better off than he would have been if he had remained in the State of Illinois, yet, as one of the poet's has said:—
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    ...is considerable authority upon this subject, he was Secretary of State in Illinois when we lived in Nauvoo, and no particular friend of ours. If we have not a
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    ...but preached the Gospel to his brethren. They put him in Carthage Jail in Illinois, under the same false allegation, and slew him without a trial before his p
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    ...the old man out of the window. Then how much safety was there in Missouri, Illinois, or anywhere else in the Eastern States? Could we stay there, gentlemen? No
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  • Journal of Discourses/10/10
    ...t to make laws and appoint administrators of the law for California, Ohio, Illinois, or Missouri. This, however, is done by the Congress of the United States; ...ive us our rights, and under them we could have served God in Missouri and Illinois as well as in the courts of high heaven, But the administrators of the law
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    When the Saints escaped from Missouri and subsequently from Illinois; when we wandered over the prairies and found a resting place for a season
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    ...e. It forced us from Ohio to Missouri, from Missouri to Illinois, and from Illinois into the wilderness. We were accused of disloyalty, alienation, and apostac ...ouri and Iowa, and other States, if necessary, and to call volunteers from Illinois, from which State we had been driven, to destroy the camp of Israel. This s
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    ...y the benevolent Christians of the State of Missouri, and driven away into Illinois, and from exposure and over-exertion and suffering reduced by disease and s
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    ...o go to. We had to leave our homes and possessions on the fertile lands of Illinois to make our dwelling places in these desert wilds, on barren, sterile plain
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    ...uthless hand of mobocracy to the four winds; driven from Missouri and from Illinois by their enemies in the dead of winter and exposed to the severity of the s
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  • Journal of Discourses/10/48
    ...of Missouri; I think of what we passed through and endured in the State of Illinois, and I shall not soon forget our wearisome and toilsome journey from Nauvoo
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  • Journal of Discourses/10/50
    ...have already built two Temples: one in Kirtland, Ohio, and one in Nauvoo, Illinois. We commenced the foundation of one in Far West, Missouri. You know the his
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    ...hen they were driven from Jackson county, in Missouri; and from Nauvoo, in Illinois and they had as much confidence in it when they were struggling here for a
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    ...here for? To live in peace. Were they those who robbed us in Missouri and Illinois? No.
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    Did you not think brethren, you who were in Missouri and Illinois, that the inhabitants of those places did just as they pleased with regard
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    ...ersecution in Arizona—An American Siberia—Persecutions in Missouri and Illinois not the Result of Polygamy—Affecting Reference to the Martyrdom of Joseph
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  • Journal of Discourses/26/5
    ...were in years gone past in Missouri, as our Prophet and Patriarch were in Illinois, as our revered President was shot to pieces at the same time—men's blood
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  • Journal of Discourses/26/8
    ...so on the religious question there is not much love lost. We had to leave Illinois and come here. It was not very agreeable, as I have said, to have to leave
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    ...e promise that punishment would not be inflicted. But like the Governor of Illinois, who pledged his honor and the honor of the state to protect our Prophet an
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    ...PERSECUTION IN ARIZONA—AN AMERICAN SIBERIA—PERSECUTION IN MISSOURI AND ILLINOIS NOT THE RESULT OF POLYGAMY—AFFECTING REFERENCE TO THE MARTYRDOM OF JOSEPH ...PERSECUTION IN ARIZONA—AN AMERICAN SIBERIA—PERSECUTION IN MISSOURI AND ILLINOIS NOT THE RESULT OF POLYGAMY—AFFECTING REFERENCE TO THE MARTYRDOM OF JOSEPH
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  • Journal of Discourses/26/18
    ...us off in troubles and in tribulations while in Ohio, in Missouri, and in Illinois, and the God that has been with us through these troubles will not forsake
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    ...and with Saints of our own times who suffered in Kirtland, in Missouri and Illinois. The brethren referred to have expressed regrets that they had not been ass
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    ...land. Ohio, westward through the State of Ohio, State of Indiana, State of Illinois, State of Missouri, to the western boundaries thereof. There he pointed out
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  • Journal of Discourses/11/3
    ...n Missouri, before we were driven out altogether; then we were driven from Illinois to this Territory. But what of that? I know some men who thought the work w
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    | NAUVOO, ILLINOIS, JULY, 1840 ...napped], when he escaped out of their hands and returned into the State of Illinois.
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    ...here for? To live in peace. Were they those who robbed us in Missouri and Illinois? No.
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    ...Governor Thomas Ford wrote as follows in the title page of his History of Illinois:—"An account of the rise, progress, and FALL of Mormonism." Notwithstandi Go to Pottawatomie, Iowa; Nauvoo, Illinois; or Kirtland, Ohio, and ask for apples and peaches, and you will find them
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    ...State of Missouri, or subsequently, when we were driven from the State of Illinois, and compare it with the present day, that to-day is {{page break|310|top}}
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  • Journal of Discourses/12/21
    ...in Missouri and apostatized. When the persecuted and driven Saints reached Illinois, the word of the Lord through the prophet Joseph was—gather up to Commerc
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    ...one for us. When we reflect upon the situation of this people in Missouri, Illinois, Iowa, Ohio, and other places, and contrast our present position with our c
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    Why all this? They killed the Prophet. The mob that collected at Carthage, Illinois, to commit that deed of blood contained a delegation representing every Sta
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    ...ace; and I was {{page break|235|top}} with the Saints in their troubles in Illinois and Missouri." And they speak of it as though they were proud to have been ...mpled under foot and they were expelled from the State. It was the same in Illinois, and in every place where they gathered together. In view of this it was a
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    ...settle west of the Rocky Mountains. When we were dwelling in the State of Illinois, and had had a few years of comparative peace, the Spirit of the Lord reste ...ur farms and property they, in the midst of a severe winter, drove us into Illinois.
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    ...s people have been broken up, and the last time, when we left the State of Illinois, we cut our road through the timber, we hunted our path over the prairies, ...o? When we were in Missouri we had a place we could go to; when we were in Illinois we had a place we could go to, but now, that we have come here to the middl
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    ...ary, 1846. The commencement of the settlement in Commerce, Hancock county, Illinois, was in the summer of 1839. ...t of Latter-day Saints, were murdered in Carthage jail, in Hancock county, Illinois, while under the pledge of the Governor, Thos. Ford, who had plighted the f
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    The Lord softened the hearts of the people of Quincy, Illinois, and while the hundreds of Saints were fleeing over the snow-clad prairies As soon as Joseph Smith escaped from Missouri to Illinois, he purchased lands at a place known as Commerce, in Hancock county, and co
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  • Journal of Discourses/13/16
    ...south of the great lakes in the great Mississippi Valley in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, New York, etc., must have understood the Hebrew characters; and not only t ...unty to Ray, and out of many counties in the western part of Missouri into Illinois.
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    ...deal of property in different States, considerable in Ohio, Missouri, and Illinois. Do I care anything about it? No, we have more land here than we can occupy
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    ...of the Temple to be laid, as directed in the revelation, the Church was in Illinois, having been expelled from Missouri by an edict from the Governor. Joseph a
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    ...had shoes to their feet, after leaving every thing you had in the State of Illinois?" I do not think that more than one or two of my wives had shoes to their f ...you ever did this? You who came from England, or from the rich prairies of Illinois or Missouri never did. Well, this was my education. "Did you not go to scho
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    ...seph in 1843. It was known by many individuals while the Church was yet in Illinois; and though it was not then printed, it was a familiar thing through all th
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    ...exatious lawsuits by the State of Missouri and by the State authorities of Illinois, and all means that could be taken within reach of the law were used to bri ...m, and we knew how to build more; we had tried it twice in Missouri and in Illinois; and when they drove us again we thought that we would go into a country so
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    ...thout entering into details, that, at the time the Saints were driven from Illinois to this land, he was called upon and sent east, as one of the agents of the
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    ...ide-spread, that it was barbarous to kill him, under the plighted faith of Illinois, yet the general feeling was that it was a good thing that he was dead. But
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    ...ity unless we did as He told us. Finally, we were driven into the State of Illinois, where we purchased a beautiful spot of ground on the eastern bank of the M
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    ...would have been, when driven, peeled and scattered, we were coming out of Illinois, to have said we should yet lay the foundation of a great State, such as we ...wn us when he was a boy in Illinois; now himself a professor in one of the Illinois colleges, and a man of some note in the scientific world. He had seen or he
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    ...the nations of the earth, to the State of Ohio, then to Missouri, then to Illinois, and then to these valleys.
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    ...t to this country, or take them to California, Oregon, or to the plains of Illinois, Wisconsin, &c., and make a town, settle up the country, and make these poo
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    ...Joseph Smith, even when he had the pledge of the governor of the State of Illinois that he should be preserved, and when not one scratch or law could be found
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    ...n the wonderful deliverances that God has wrought out for us since we left Illinois. Up to that period or up to the time that the temple was partly finished an
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    ...Illinois. This gentleman was not a "Mormon" when we went from Missouri to Illinois, neither was he when we left that State, and he was in a position to know w ...so we were not persecuted for that, sure. We did not leave Ohio, Missouri, Illinois, or any other State or neighborhood within the confines of civilization for
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    ...people, and robbed and peeled them of the property they had accumulated in Illinois, and in 1847 the pioneers' advanced guard, led by President Young, succeede
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    ...Missouri, Jackson County, and the northern counties in Missouri, and from Illinois, and how they have passed through all this and everything by way of sufferi
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  • Journal of Discourses/14/43
    ..., fled into Illinois, and there laid the foundation of a temple at Nauvoo, Illinois, the finest building then in the western country, and the admiration of eve
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  • Journal of Discourses/15/2
    ...het while in Illinois? Where are they who drove the Latter-day Saints from Illinois into these mountains? Trace their whole history and see for yourselves. The
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  • Journal of Discourses/15/6
    ...the roads from the Missouri river here. The ample property we possessed in Illinois we had left there; and we made the roads, about 300 miles, or nearly across ...times driven from our homes. We had left our inheritances in Missouri and Illinois, and had got nothing for them, and here, whatever other things we lacked, w
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  • Journal of Discourses/15/18
    ...tell us what the Lord did with the elements in Wisconsin, and in Chicago, Illinois, last Fall? They made a flaming fire of the heavens, the elements were melt
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  • Journal of Discourses/15/41
    ...issouri; again from Far West and Caldwell County; driven from the State of Illinois, though we were prospered there until the people waxed wealthy through thei
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  • Journal of Discourses/16/10
    ...born in these mountains. What do they know about what we passed through in Illinois, Missouri, Kirtland, or New York State? I will give you one item. I lived c
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  • Times and Seasons/1/8
    | NAUVOO, ILLINOIS, JUNE, 1840 ...d the Demoin [Des Moines ?] Rapids, in the county of Hancock, and state of Illinois: the Rapids on the river affords food privileges for all kinds of machinery
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  • Journal of Discourses/19/1
    ...lled Joseph and Hyrum Smith, while under the pledged faith of the State of Illinois; and at Haun's Mill, Missouri, they massacred about eighteen of our {{page
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  • Journal of Discourses/19/3
    ...driven from Ohio, expelled from Missouri, or banished from their homes in Illinois. Such has always been and such is to-day the spirit of the world towards us
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  • Journal of Discourses/19/12
    ...last they succeeded in driving us {{page break|62|top}} from the State of Illinois. ...had staid [stayed] long enough with them; we agreed to leave the State of Illinois in consequence of that religious prejudice against us that we could not sta
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  • Journal of Discourses/19/37
    .... The first Temple we built was in Kirtland, Ohio; the next was in Nauvoo, Illinois, and a foundation of a third was laid in Far West, Missouri. Since our comi
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  • Journal of Discourses/20/5
    ...every other place east of us. In travelling through the broad prairies of Illinois, with the continuous fields of grain; and through Iowa and Nebraska, so far
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  • Journal of Discourses/20/12
    ...thage Jail and to the treatment generally of the "Mormons" in Missouri and Illinois for the true and faithful answer.
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  • Journal of Discourses/17/1
    ...d we interfere with anybody's rights. They drove us from Missouri and from Illinois, and here we are, and what now? We were on Mexican territory when we arrive
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  • Journal of Discourses/17/4
    ...his servants should go forth, two by two, preaching through Indiana, Ohio, Illinois and Missouri, that they should meet together in general Conference on the w
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  • Journal of Discourses/17/10
    ...sition that we have occupied in this nation, in the States of Missouri and Illinois, and in the various countries of those States, and the history of this peop We commenced again in Illinois, just on the same principle. There we built a Temple, and performed the ord
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  • Journal of Discourses/17/15
    ...exander McRae of the 11th Ward, escaped and made their way to the State of Illinois. ...you." Joseph accordingly returned to his friends in the western border of Illinois, and they commenced purchasing lands in the vicinity of Nauvoo, and they la
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  • Journal of Discourses/17/26
    ...and again, the same thing occurred in Ohio, in Missouri, and, finally, in Illinois, where, contrary to the plighted faith of the governor of the State, he was
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  • Journal of Discourses/17/41
    ...e hold the deeds to the present day. After that we settled in the State of Illinois, in Nauvoo. We were there but a few years when the Prophet, his brother and
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  • Journal of Discourses/17/44
    ...tigate for themselves and to know for themselves. When we started out from Illinois and traveled over these plains, were we following President Young because h
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  • Journal of Discourses/18/12
    ...ong been held in bondage; and instead of being in a little city or town in Illinois, where we were not permitted to dwell, we are here in the valleys of the mo ...sition to be gratified to cause the exodus of his people from Missouri and Illinois, and they were finally kicked right into the middle of the floor, into thes
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  • Journal of Discourses/18/19
    Was that the way we dwelt in Missouri or Illinois? Did we live in quietness and with assurance continually in those States? O
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  • Journal of Discourses/18/20
    ...ople in the State of Missouri, neither did he follow us up to the State of Illinois; but we often heard of him, and whenever we did so we heard of him telling,
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  • Journal of Discourses/18/26
    ...her's family gathered with the Saints; he went to Missouri and returned to Illinois, and got married. And this afternoon we have heard one of his sons speak to
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  • Journal of Discourses/18/35
    ...te the State. We then found ourselves assuming a little more importance in Illinois, and we learned too, that as we increased there in strength and importance,
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  • Journal of Discourses/18/45
    ...eturned from Nauvoo, he said: "I will pledge you the faith of the State of Illinois for your safety." But as soon as he was gone, the mob murdered both Joseph
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  • Journal of Discourses/22/6
    ...its early history, and suffered the persecutions in Ohio, in Missouri and Illinois, thought that their persecution was very great, even greater than that of a
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  • Journal of Discourses/22/12
    ...previous ages—they slew the Prophet of God. His blood stains the soil of Illinois, and of the United States, his blood smokes up to God with the blood of Abe
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  • Journal of Discourses/22/16
    ...stles. As for myself, I never left any place with more gladness than I did Illinois. To launch into the wilderness, to grapple with all the difficulties incide
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  • Journal of Discourses/22/17
    ...egard to misrule and mob violence, for under the pledge of the governor of Illinois, made to me and to Dr. Bernhisel, (who is here presented) Joseph and Hyrum
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  • Journal of Discourses/22/18
    ...driving ten thousand of this people beyond their borders into the State of Illinois; and what excuse the people of this nation had who took part in, and those
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  • Journal of Discourses/22/32
    ...ak|249|top}} Arizona, for instance, we had found an admirable country like Illinois, like Ohio and the Mississippi Valley and the Middle States that are watere
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  • Journal of Discourses/22/33
    ...s not a faithful woman, who crossed the Mississippi River when driven from Illinois, but felt and knew that it was right for us to go into the wilderness and t
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  • Journal of Discourses/22/42
    ...d of our fellow-men. And when five hundred men—after we were driven from Illinois in 1846—were required to make up the Mormon Battalion for the Mexican war
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  • Journal of Discourses/22/50
    ...d sustained under such circumstances. When I reflect upon our journey from Illinois, through the wilderness, destitute of everything, women carrying infants wi
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  • Journal of Discourses/23/3
    ...e not stay in Missouri? Because people would not let us. It was just so in Illinois. Why did we leave there? Because, as I have heard Brother George A. Smith s
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  • Journal of Discourses/23/6
    ...re once members of the Church, who during the trying times of Missouri and Illinois, or at some other time in, the history of the Church, had stopped by the wa ...lavery that if a negro and his wife could be taken out of Missouri through Illinois, that they were entitled to their freedom because they were then upon free
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  • Journal of Discourses/23/7
    ...thern and Western States, is in advance of the great States of Indiana and Illinois, and I believe in advance of the general average of the entire Union. ...you have been fraudulently {{page break|62|top}} despoiled in Missouri and Illinois, you will again possess, and that without force, or fraud or violence. The
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  • Journal of Discourses/23/8
    ...ossessed before, a city charter granted to them by the State government of Illinois, They soon became notable for their union and their tenacity to the princip After the expulsion of the Saints from Nauvoo, and from the State of Illinois, our enemies thought surely the "Mormons" are now broken up, and that this
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  • Journal of Discourses/23/11
    ...ovidence, through the acts of our enemies. Had we remained in the State of Illinois, or in Missouri, we should have been compelled—unless we had chosen to oc
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  • Journal of Discourses/23/17
    ...er these circumstances the Lord moved upon the legislature of the State of Illinois to grant us a city charter in which there were favorable provisions that we
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  • Journal of Discourses/23/24
    ...the patriarch Hyrum Smith, at Carthage in the free and sovereign State of Illinois. Unappeased with the blood of martyrs, it devastated cities, villages and f
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  • Journal of Discourses/23/35
    ...ecutions of Missouri; and I wish I had been with the Saints in the days of Illinois, etc.; I can promise every Latter-day Saint that is faithful, that he will
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  • Journal of Discourses/24/2
    ...ve done. He founded colonies in the States of New York, Ohio, Missouri and Illinois, and pointed the way for the gathering of the Saints into the Rocky Mountai
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  • Journal of Discourses/24/12
    ...o flee in the depth of winter, and cross the Mississippi into the State of Illinois. Now, whoever heard then of plural marriage? It was not practiced. It was t
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  • Journal of Discourses/24/16
    ...uence of their suffering. Our track can be traced, or could be traced from Illinois by the graves of our people—[p.140|top}} men, women and children—who di
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  • Journal of Discourses/24/24
    ...s exhibited in the mobbing and drivings of our people from Ohio, Missouri, Illinois, and other places, in the martyrdom of Joseph Smith and his brother Hyrum i ...welve were told to go to the Far West, some 200 miles distant from Quincy, Illinois, where many of the Saints were then staying. We did not have railroads then
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  • Journal of Discourses/24/26
    ...e mobbers of Missouri when they drove us from our homes there, or those in Illinois when they drove us from there. We should learn a lesson from these things;
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  • Journal of Discourses/24/29
    ...elded an influence which controlled the county of Hancock, in the State of Illinois, {{page break|249|top}} and which materially affected the political status
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  • Journal of Discourses/24/30
    ...ere. not because the United States had taken steps against us, but because Illinois and Missouri had expelled us from their borders, and we could secure no red
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  • Journal of Discourses/24/34
    ...istory, and dwell on events as they transpired in Ohio, in Missouri, or in Illinois. Let all those things pass. You can read them in our history. But as I have ...ese "Mormon outlaws," these people who were considered unworthy to live in Illinois and in Missouri have come here, and we behold to-day hundreds of settlement
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  • Journal of Discourses/24/42
    ...s of the mountains? Because we had to flee from Missouri to Illinois; from Illinois into these mountains, to seek for that protection among the savages of the
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  • Journal of Discourses/25/9
    ...in in this land; that we may not be removed as we were from Missouri, from Illinois, and from Ohio? What shall we do that we may not be brought into bondage, b
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  • Journal of Discourses/25/14
    ...the covering was "too thin" from the fact that the then Governor Ford, of Illinois was really aiding and abetting all those movements; he did nothing to restr ...the Saints, drifted up and down the Mississippi into the various towns of Illinois, Iowa and Missouri, and back into the Eastern States, while others of the p
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  • Journal of Discourses/25/17
    ...h Smith were religious teachers, and the mobs in Missouri, and the mobs in Illinois, were led by religious teachers. Even the mob that murdered our beloved {{p
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  • Journal of Discourses/25/18
    ...Missouri, was to give the work fresh impetus. The exiled Saints settled in Illinois, started to build a great city, and began the erection of a noble temple, a
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  • Journal of Discourses/25/20
    ...e idea of their destination than the Latter-day Saints had, when they left Illinois; because the children of Israel knew that the promises which had been made
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  • Journal of Discourses/25/25
    ..., to pay them for doing it. Persecution still followed us in the States of Illinois, Iowa, and Missouri, and finally the Saints fled to these Rocky Mountains w
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  • Journal of Discourses/25/29
    ...fore. When we were driven out by violence, by bloodshed, from the State of Illinois, and compelled to launch forth into the wilderness, for a while it was thou
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  • Journal of Discourses/25/41
    ...ther name for them. (Laughter.) We helped one another out until we reached Illinois. I was there, and I know what I am talking about. Did I feel very unhappy?
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  • Times and Seasons/1/10
    | NAUVOO, ILLINOIS, AUGUST, 1840 ...of oppression, and were scattered far and wide on the extensive plains of Illinois. But have the enemies of the truth triumphed, as the religion of heaven ext
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  • Question: Did Joseph and others with him remove their garments in order to avoid being identified as polygamists?
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Mormonism 101/Chapter 10
    ...rpretation and in the Setting of Early Christian Worship'' (Downers Grove, Illinois: InterVarsity Press, 1997), 49.] It will be observed that verse 8 reads "be ...101|pages=144}} They quote Leon Morris, ''The Atonement'' (Downers Grove, Illinois: InterVarsity Press, 1983), 84.</ref> Later the authors point out "{{b||Heb
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  • Mormonism and Wikipedia/Golden plates/Background
    ...Shipps, "Mormonism: The Story of a New Religious Tradition," University of Illinois Press, pp. 7 ...ipps, ''Mormonism: The Story of a New Religious Tradition,'' University of Illinois Press, 11.
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  • Mormonism and Wikipedia/Golden plates/Origin and historicity
    ...Shipps, "Mormonism: The Story of a New Religious Tradition," University of Illinois Press, pp. 23.
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  • Mormonism and Wikipedia/Joseph Smith, Jr./Early years/051909
    ..., ''Joseph Smith and the Beginnings of Mormonism'' (Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1984), 39-40. Early accounts of the First Vision, including one han
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  • Mormonism and Wikipedia/Joseph Smith, Jr./1838 to 1839/051909
    |next=[[../1838 - 1844: Nauvoo, Illinois|1838 - 1844: Nauvoo, Illinois]] ...Missouri’s 1838 Extermination Order and the Mormons’ Forced Removal to Illinois'', Mormon Historical Sites Foundation Studies, Spring 2001], (accessed Augu
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  • Mormonism and Wikipedia/Joseph Smith, Jr./1839 - 1844/051909
    |section=1838 - 1844: Nauvoo, Illinois === 1838 - 1844: Nauvoo, Illinois ===
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  • Mormonism and Wikipedia/Joseph Smith, Jr./Death/051909
    |previous=[[../1838 - 1844: Nauvoo, Illinois|1838 - 1844: Nauvoo, Illinois]] ...h of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1830-1900'' (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1988), 106-113.
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  • Mormonism and Wikipedia/Joseph Smith, Jr./Legacy/051909
    Joseph Smith that now is living in the state of Illinois, the son of Joseph the Prophet, will It was clear that Saints would have to leave Illinois. By the fall of 1846, Nauvoo was a virtual ghost town.
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  • Mormonism and Wikipedia/Joseph Smith, Jr./Distinctive views and teachings
    ...s, as the Mormon people became involved in conflicts with the Missouri and Illinois state governments, Smith taught that "congress has no power to make a law t
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  • The Burrows Cave artifacts
    ...ws Cave collection is a group of "artifacts" supposedly found in a cave in Illinois - These items are considered to be a hoax=== ...ws Cave collection is a group of "artifacts" supposedly found in a cave in Illinois, named after Russell Burrows, the person who initially found the cave. To t
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  • Times and Seasons/2/2
    | NAUVOO, ILLINOIS, NOVEMBER 15, 1840. If the laws of Illinois will not protect them, they ought to protect themselves. They as men ought
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/No Man Knows My History: The Life of Joseph Smith/Chapter 5
    #Thomas Ford, ''History of Illinois'', Chicago, 1854, p. 257.
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/No Man Knows My History: The Life of Joseph Smith/Chapter 21
    ...on and jurisprudence, or a new system of religion and politicks'' (Nauvoo, Illinois, 1842)
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/No Man Knows My History: The Life of Joseph Smith/Chapter 25
    ...: 355-356 - Joseph "had become a law unto himself" and totally disregarded Illinois state law ...: 355-356 - Joseph "had become a law unto himself" and totally disregarded Illinois state law==
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  • Censorship and revision of LDS history/LDS histories over many years omit plural marriage
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  • Joseph Smith's First Vision/Church Hides Accounts (1984-1989)
    ...rd L. Bushman, Joseph Smith and the Beginnings of Mormonism (University of Illinois 1984): 55-59.
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  • Joseph Smith hid polygamy from the general Church membership
    |L4=Question: Was Joseph Smith ever charged with adultery under Illinois law? |L5=Question: Were there any similar cases under Illinois adultery statute which demonstrate that Joseph was not breaking the law?
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  • Question: Was the practice of polygamy against the law in Illinois in the 1840s?
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  • Times and Seasons/1/11
    |L5=MEDICAL CONVENTION OF ILLINOIS. | NAUVOO, ILLINOIS, SEPTEMBER, 1840
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    ...f>Manuscript (and printed) records of Salem Regular Baptist Association of Illinois, 1835-1870. </ref>
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Online documents/For my Wife and Children (Letter to my Wife)/Chapter 1
    ...lford Woodruff became the superintendent of the printing office in Nauvoo, Illinois where the ''Times and Seasons'' newspaper was published on 3 February 1842
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    | NAUVOO, ILLINOIS, OCTOBER, 1840 Nauvoo, Illinois, July, 28th, 1840.
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Online documents/For my Wife and Children (Letter to my Wife)/Chapter 6
    ...aders were Freemasons. There was a Masonic Lodge (now restored) in Nauvoo, Illinois.
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Online documents/For my Wife and Children (Letter to my Wife)/Chapter 7
    ...Expositor and rising tensions between the Nauvoo militia and the state of Illinois, cause his last incarceration.
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Articles/Reinventing Lamanite Identity
    ...on, “Zelph Revisited,” ''Regional Studies in Latter-day Saint History: Illinois'', 97–111
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  • Messenger and Advocate/1/5
    ...n, who were laboring at the time they wrote, in Lebanon, St. Clair county, Illinois, give us the following account of their success in that region, dated Jan.
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  • Messenger and Advocate/1/6
    ...es the pleasing intelligence of the spread of truth in the western part of Illinois. We have previously received letters from the same neighborhood from elders
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  • Messenger and Advocate/1/7
    After leaving Cleveland on board the brig Illinois, which is a fine craft, we arrived at Buffalo after three days' sail, and w ...e some few of the elders of the church of the saints have been laboring in Illinois, these very pious people, seem to be greatly alarmed again, or anew. "The P
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  • Messenger and Advocate/1/12
    | Communication from Elder L. Jackman and C. Baldwin, Clear Creek, Illinois,
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  • Messenger and Advocate/2/1
    ...ion!" '' and here, wo[e]ful to adopt the language, in part, of a writer of Illinois, and say, "that even New England with all the flood of light, pouring from
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  • Messenger and Advocate/2/4
    ''Hamilton co. Illinois, Nov.'' 2, 1835.
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  • Messenger and Advocate/2/5
    ...tablishing a branch of the church, of Latter Day Saints, in Edwards county Illinois, containing 25 members: In Laurence county, same state, we baptized three.
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  • Messenger and Advocate/2/11
    ...are situated in the various branches of the church abroad; some of them in Illinois, some in Indiana, some in the south and west part of this State, some in Pe
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  • Messenger and Advocate/3/2
    ...hing at a great variety of towns on its banks, in Ohio, Virginia, Indiana, Illinois and Kentucky, either to discharge or receive freight and passengers, and up
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  • Messenger and Advocate/3/3
    ...state of Missouri, in which we have settled, is preferable to the state of Illinois, or any other country that we have ever seen, for richness of soil, good wa ...called upon a man by the name of Jones, in Sangamon county in the state of Illinois to buy a little corn to feed our teams: he had corn enough in his cribs for
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  • Messenger and Advocate/3/7
    Elder G. M. Hinkle writes us from Illinois, stating that he has labored in that state and in the region West of it; th ...et is now here from the Far West having travelled and built up churches in Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio & Missouri. The Elder has recently been laboring i
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  • Messenger and Advocate/3/9
    Brother AARON HOLDEN writes us from Carthage, Illinois, under date of May 21, expressing his anxiety to have the papers sent him, ...state, been to Missouri, and on the 29th of January left there and came to Illinois, where he has preached in various places, and been always well received, wi
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  • The Evening and The Morning Star/1/1
    ...f disturbances having broken out between the Indians, and the frontiers of Illinois. The Indians are undoubtedly the aggressors, and it is said they have murde
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  • The Evening and The Morning Star/1/3
    ...upon our borders. We have not force enough here to compete with them. The Illinois militia are disbanded and has left us to fight our own battles, defend our
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  • The Evening and The Morning Star/1/4
    ..., the Indian War in the Upper Mississippi region, is about closed, and the Illinois militia have been disbanded. The carpet manufactory of Tarifville, Conn. ha Massachusetts, . 610,100 Illinois, . . . 157,575
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    ...war, which has been a source of considerable trouble upon the frontiers of Illinois, there is raging, to an alarming extent, a war of opinion for political pow
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  • The Evening and The Morning Star/1/6
    come together from New England, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Tennessee and Missouri, to worship God and keep his commandments, on the l ...but the laborers are few.-New churches have been built up in Missouri; in Illinois; at Fulton, near Cincinnati, Ohio; at Guyandotte, Virginia; in Spafford, On
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  • The Evening and The Morning Star/1/7
    ...eceived, since out last, from Liberty, and Walnut farm Missouri; Ewington, Illinois; Canton, and Pittsburg [Pittsburgh], Pennsylvania; Hollis, Main; and Kirtla
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    ...of this church abroad, as has been heretofore published, viz: in Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Virginia, Pennsylvania, New York, Vermont, New Hampshire, M
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    ...from Kirtland, Ohio; two from Bluffdale, and two from Mississippi-bottom, Illinois; one from Eugene, Indiana; one from Troy, and one from Rutland, Pennsylvani
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  • The Evening and The Morning Star/2/13
    ...aves to the elders. One man said that when he was moving from the state of Illinois, he met several wagons, loaded with coffins, filled with guns and ammunitio
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  • The Evening and The Morning Star/2/14
    ...erday brother Daniel took leave of us and started to visit the churches in Illinois and Indiana; to labor with them and prepare their hearts for Zion. It seeme Pleasant Grove, Illinois, May 25, 1833.
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  • Times and Seasons
    ...and Seasons'' was an early Latter-day Saint newspaper published in Nauvoo, Illinois between November 1839 and February 1846. It was the successor to the ''Elde
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  • Times and Seasons/1/1
    | COMMERCE, ILLINOIS, NOVEMBER, 1839. ...d by day, and after suffering much fatigue and hunger, I arrived in Quincy Illinois, amidst the congratulations of my friends and the embraces of my family.
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  • Times and Seasons/4/21
    ...ry month, on the corner of Water and Bain Streets, Nauvoo, Hancock County, Illinois, by JOHN TAYLOR AND WILFORD WOODRUFF.
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    ...oppression; in fact, it is said that they have revolutionized the state of Illinois. [New York State Mechanic. ...ceful attempt to palm upon his political party, and the good people of the Illinois generally, a list of lies of the blackest kind would certainly fail until t
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    | CITY OF NAUVOO, ILLINOIS, FEB. 15, 1841. City of Nauvoo, Illinois, Feb. 3rd, 1841. Gentlemen of the City Council;
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    | NAUVOO, ILLINOIS, OCT. 1, 1842. ...nd faithful, for whether they have builded a city in Ohio, or Missouri, or Illinois, they shall enter into the joys of their Lord, and inherit the kingdom prep
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  • Times and Seasons/6/1
    ...inence. Here we lost one horse, On Sunday the 25 we arrived at the edge of Illinois, We had no meeting but attended to washing and baking to prepare for our jo ...ng weeds for murdered men, whom we promptly surrendered up to the State of Illinois for an equitable trial-And now we see in embryo another campaign to spill y
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  • Times and Seasons/6/2
    On Monday, June 2nd, we crossed the Illinois river. The enemies had threatened that we should not pass over here, but we ...eral of us, with Joseph Smith jr. to the top of a mound on the bank of the Illinois river, which was several hundred feet above the river, and from the summit
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    ...f grief and surprise, the proceedings of the highest court in the State of Illinois, in taking away the chartered rights of Nauvoo.-If they were granted wrong: ...ry month, on the corner of Water and Bain Streets, Nauvoo, Hancock County, Illinois, by JOHN TAYLOR, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
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    ...t, with just as much hopes of success, as I could go to the legislature of Illinois, to ask a favor for the Latter-day Saints. They very well know the wrong an ...ry month, on the corner of Water and Bain streets, Nauvoo, Hancock County, Illinois, by JOHN TAYLOR, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
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  • Times and Seasons/6/5
    ...their society are now preaching through the states of New York, Ohio, and Illinois, and that their numbers are increased beyond every rational calculation; al ...us to emigrate, is an indirect invitation to the free brethren of color in Illinois, to come up, like the rest, to the land of Zion.-True, they say this was no
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    ...of our inspired prophet and patriarch; notwithstanding the legislature of Illinois have feloniously robbed us of our charter, and notwithstanding a knot of va ...ry month, on the corner of Water and Bain Streets, Nauvoo, Hancock County, Illinois, by JOHN TAYLOR, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
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    In the fall of 1839, he removed to Naples, Scott county, Illinois. Here he lived in all the enjoyments which could naturally attend a good ma ...ry month, on the corner of Water and Bain Streets, Nauvoo, Hancock County, Illinois, by JOHN TAYLOR, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
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    Princes Grove, Peoria county, Illinois, April 26, 1845. ...the length and breadth of our land. Pennsylvania riots, Missouri mobbers, Illinois assassins, and ten thousand other crimes, call louder for the voice of huma
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  • Times and Seasons/6/9
    ...ful city, upon the banks of the majestic Mississippi, under the banners of Illinois; but, again have they been deceived, in this boasted land of liberty; and t ...month, on the corner of Main and Kimball Streets, Nauvoo, Hancock County, Illinois, by JOHN TAYLOR, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
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    ...in consequence of the hardships she there endured. Soon after she came to Illinois, she was taken sick with the dropsy, which continued to prey upon her syste ...month, on the corner of Main and Kimball Streets, Nauvoo, Hancock County, Illinois, by JOHN TAYLOR, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
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    ...month, on the corner of Main and Kimball Streets, Nauvoo, Hancock County, Illinois, by JOHN TAYLOR, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
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    ...month, on the corner of Main and Kimball Streets, Nauvoo, Hancock County, Illinois, by JOHN TAYLOR, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
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    ...month, on the corner of Main and Kimball Streets, Nauvoo, Hancock County, Illinois, by JOHN TAYLOR, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
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  • Times and Seasons/6/14
    ...y; Philadelphia and Vicksburg could take the law into their own hands; and Illinois could shut up the prophets and martyr them in cold blood, while the Governo Illinois, where satan flatters, And we'll give the whole world a sample,
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    ...ry month, on the corner of Water and Bain Streets, Nauvoo, Hancock County, Illinois, by JOHN TAYLOR, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
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  • Times and Seasons/6/16
    |L2=GREAT PERSECUTION OF THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS IN ILLINOIS. .... And when we came here, the Lord said, that if the people of the State of Illinois would maintain us in our rights, they would be blessed; if not, we might fi
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  • Times and Seasons/6/17
    We cannot better show this principle, than by copying from the Illinois State Register, and a New York paper, the following:- ...their farms, and their Church; their blood shed by lawless adventurers of Illinois and the State, either unable or unwilling to protect them! How are we as a
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  • Times and Seasons/6/18
    ...we us millions for the destruction of life and property in Missouri and in Illinois. The blood of our best men will preserve it till God comes out of his hidin ...ry month, on the corner of Water and Bain Streets, Nauvoo, Hancock County, Illinois, by JOHN TAYLOR, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
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    ...ry month, on the corner of Water and Bain Streets, Nauvoo, Hancock County, Illinois, by JOHN TAYLOR, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
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    ...day 21st, we forded While river.-Sunday 25th, arrived at the State line of Illinois. We had no meeting but attended to washing, baking and prepairing [preparin ...y were very civil. Our enemies had threatened that we should not cross the Illinois river, but on Monday the 2nd we were ferried over without any difficulty. T
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    ...month, on the corner of Main and Kimball Streets, Nauvoo, Hancock County, Illinois, by JOHN TAYLOR, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR
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    Unlimited censure has been heaped upon Governor Ford, of Illinois, for his refusal to order out the militia of the State to aid in the arrest ...t the same remark would apply to the tribe who are now persecuting them in Illinois.
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    ...month, on the corner of Main and Kimball Streets, Nauvoo, Hancock County, Illinois, by JOHN TAYLOR, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR
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  • Times and Seasons/5/1
    Nauvoo, Illinois, Jan. 2, 1844 ...ry month, on the corner of Water and Bain Streets, Nauvoo, Hancock county, Illinois, by
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  • Times and Seasons/4/4
    ...ccessary [accessory] to an attempt to murder him; and that Gov. Carlin, of Illinois, in the face of Superabundant testimony, and law, gave a warrant to arrest ...rmative. As a people we perform military duty, as the laws of the State of Illinois enjoin and require. The Legion answers the purpose to keep the lawless and
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    ...on, and presented letters of introduction, from Thomas Carlin, Governor of Illinois, to Martin Van Buren, he looked at it very insignificantly and said, 'Gover ...to Dr. Richards of Nauvoo) which states, that Elder Burnham after leaving Illinois, visited his mother in the east part of the State of New York; thence trave
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    ...ry month, on the corner of Water and Bain Streets, Nauvoo, Hancock County, Illinois, by JOHN TAYLOR AND WILFORD WOODRUFF.
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    ...Several times, since leaving Missouri, he has been tried in the courts of Illinois and the federal courts, and has always been honorably acquitted. Pekin, Illinois, Dec. 1, 1843.
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    ...rch of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, and now an exile in the state of Illinois, begs leave, most respectfully to represent to your honorable body, that he ...ve been sent, all of which have been set aside by the legal authorities of Illinois; and yet they cease not their persecution. Our people are kidnapped, and ca
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  • Times and Seasons/5/4
    ...r been any cause for alarm as to the Latter Day Saints. The legislature of Illinois granted a liberal charter for the city of Nauvoo; and, let every honest man ...ry month, on the corner of Water and Bain streets. Nauvoo, Hancock County, Illinois, by
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  • Book of Mormon/Geography/Statements/Twentieth century/Joseph Fielding Smith
    ...ion's camp was marching on the way to Jackson County, near the bank of the Illinois River they came to a mound containing the skeleton of a man. The history of ...t last struggle between the Nephites and Lamanites and was buried near the Illinois River.
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  • Question: Was Joseph Smith found guilty of being a "con man" in 1826?
    ...ph Smith to William W. Phelps, "Dear Brother Phelps, 22 July 1840, Nauvoo, Illinois; cited in {{HC|vol={{NC}}|pages=162-164}}</ref>
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  • Times and Seasons/5/5
    ...digging a well on the property of Smith, Brothers, & Co., at Bunker Hill, Illinois, at the distance of fifty-three feet beneath the surface, they came to a ce NAUVOO, ILLINOIS.
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  • Times and Seasons/5/6
    ...mes a week. I baptized two at Mackenaw, stopped at Bloomington, McLean Co. Illinois, and baptized three. I proceeded NAUVOO, ILLINOIS.
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  • Times and Seasons/5/7
    Brother Taylor:-I spent with my family the last winter in Tazwell county, Illinois, three miles south of Pekin, where we engaged in spiritual and temporal lab Nauvoo, Illinois, April, 1, 1844.
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    NAUVOO, ILLINOIS. ILLINOIS.
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  • Times and Seasons/5/9
    ...Joseph Smith, all of which has been set aside by the legal authorities of Illinois. These warrants were based upon the pretext (though false.) that Joseph Smi FOR PRESIDENT, GEN. JOSEPH SMITH, NAUVOO, ILLINOIS.
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  • Church history/Censorship and revision/LDS histories over many years omit plural marriage
    ...omitting mention of plural marriage as a cause for the Saints' troubles in Illinois?]]
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  • Mormonism and Wikipedia/First Vision/Interpretations and responses to the vision
    ..., Mormonism: The Story of a New Religious Tradition (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1985), 30. The first extant account of the First Vision is the manus ...Mormonism: The Story of a New Religious Tradition'' (Urbana: University of Illinois, 1985), 30-32.
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Online documents/For my Wife and Children (Letter to my Wife)/Chapter 4
    ...facsimiles of the six brass plates found near Kinderhook, in Pike county, Illinois, on April 23, by Mr. Robert Wiley and others, while excavating a large moun
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  • Question: Was Helen Mar Kimball's plural marriage to Joseph Smith consummated?
    ...''Heber C. Kimball: Mormon Patriarch and Pioneer'' (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1981), 98.</ref>
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  • Approaching history
    ...and James B. Allen, ''Mormon History'' (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2001), 117.</ref>
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  • Joseph Smith/Polygamy/Illegal in Nauvoo
    #REDIRECT [[Question: Was the practice of polygamy against the law in Illinois in the 1840s?]]
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  • Kinderhook Plates/Accounts
    ...ce of Brass have lately been dug out of a mound by a gentleman in Pike Co. Illinois. They are small and filled with engravings in Egyptian language and contain ...the Brass Plates Recently Taken from a Mound near Kinderhook, Pike County, Illinois,” (Taylor & Woodruff, June 24, 1843).</ref></blockquote>
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  • Accounts of Joseph Smith's First Vision/1844 (Daniel Rupp account)
    “Latter Day Saints, by Joseph Smith, Nauvoo, Illinois,” in I. Daniel Rupp, HE PASA EKKLESIA: An Original History of the Religio
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Websites/MormonThink/Polygamy
    ...t as clear on this issue as the critics assume. It was later realized that Illinois law would probably support the practice of Latter-day Saint plural marriage {{:Question: Was Joseph Smith ever charged with adultery under Illinois law?}}
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Websites/MormonThink/The Witnesses/Source quotes without commentary
    #Illinois Governor Thomas Ford
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Websites/MormonThink/Lying for the Lord
    ...Salt Lake would be the place the saints would settle after leaving Nauvoo, Illinois) was a later addition to the official church history and not predicted by J {{:Question: Was Joseph Smith ever charged with adultery under Illinois law?}}
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Online documents/For my Wife and Children (Letter to my Wife)/Chapter 16
    ...gy at Arizona State University, PhD in Anthropology from the University of Illinois.
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Websites/MormonThink/The Kinderhook Plates/Source quotes without commentary
    ...fac-similes of the six brass plates found near Kinderhook, in Pike county, Illinois, on April 23, by Mr. Robert Wiley and others, while excavating a large moun ...ve been discovered in a mound, in the vicinity of Kinderhook, Pike county, Illinois, by Robert Wiley, in 1843, and taken to Joseph Smith. Now, I wish to ask: 1
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Websites/FutureMissionary.com/The Prophet Joseph Smith
    ...s. In fact, the restored Masonic Lodge is one of the tour sites in Nauvoo, Illinois.
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  • Times and Seasons/2/3
    | NAUVOO, ILLINOIS, DECEMBER 1, 1840. ...h and rode forty miles through a level farming country, something like the Illinois prairies; we then took the railroad, and travelled [traveled] seventy miles
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  • Detailed response to CES Letter, First Vision
    ...'Joseph Smith and the Beginnings of Mormonism'' (Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1987); ''Joseph Smith Rough Stone Rolling'' (New York: Alfred A. Kno
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  • Detailed response to CES Letter, Polygamy and Polyandry
    *[[Question: Was Joseph Smith ever charged with adultery under Illinois law?]] *[[Question: Were there any similar cases under Illinois adultery statute which demonstrate that Joseph was not breaking the law?]]
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  • Detailed response to CES Letter, Temples & Freemasonry
    ...e exact version that Joseph Smith was exposed to in his March 1842 Nauvoo, Illinois initiation?
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  • Detailed response to CES Letter, Other
    ...d, Ohio, and was later baptized as proxy for deceased relatives in Nauvoo, Illinois. There is no reliable evidence that any black men were denied the priesthoo
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  • Firesides/28 November 2010 - Sweden/5
    ...The Mormon Polygamous Passage. Appendix I. B. Carmon Hardy. University of Illinois Press Urbana and Chicago, 1992.) -->
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  • Firesides/28 November 2010 - Sweden/6
    ...on this. It’s called ''Victims''. It was published by the University of Illinois Press in 1992. Go to that book for answers on that one.<br>
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Websites/MormonThink/Media efforts by MormonThink managing editor Tom Phillips/Responses to claims made in Thomas S. Monson summons
    #The Illinois newspaper called the Nauvoo Expositor had to be destroyed because it printe ...shed serially in the Times and Seasons beginning March 1, 1842, at Nauvoo, Illinois. <ref>Introduction to the Pearl of Great Price (2013 edition), LDS.org {{li
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  • Question: Did any twentieth century leader after Joseph Smith report divine visions?
    ...n, ''Adventures of a Church Historian'' (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1998), 176-177</ref>
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  • Alleged whitewashing of polygamy in Church history
    ...it to polygamy's role in the vicious persecution suffered by the Saints in Illinois, including the murder of Joseph Smith and his brother Hyrum. ...th was due to an angry mob, without caring to know specifically what those Illinois neighbors had been angry about,” writes one critical author, citing five
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  • Plural marriage and the law
    ...and divorce law of the day. Accusations about illegal marriage activity in Illinois have likewise been full of misunderstanding. |L4=Was the practice of polygamy against the law in Illinois in the 1840s?
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  • John C. Bennett and plural marriage at Nauvoo/Sarah Pratt
    ...ch dated Bennett's first immoralities to October 1840.<ref>Joseph wrote to Illinois Governor Carlin, and claimed that "more than twenty months ago," Bennett be ...by Mormon votes in 1845 (see Robert Bruce Flanders, "The Kingdom of God in Illinois: Politics in Utopia," ‘‘Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought’’ 5/1
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  • John C. Bennett and plural marriage at Nauvoo/Rise and Fall of Bennett
    ...Mormonism, ed. Andrew F. Smith, 3rd ed. (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2000), 5–6, italics in original.</ref></blockquote> ...mith and Mormonism, ed. Andrew F. Smith (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2000, xvii.</ref> One such historian was H. H. Bancroft, who repli
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  • Joseph Smith/Polygamy/John C. Bennett Prior to Nauvoo
    ...ted in John C. Bennett, "MISCELLANEOUS. Inaugural Address. City of Nauvoo, Illinois, Feb. 3rd 1841," Times and Seasons 2/8 (15 February 1841): 317; also cited ...ph Smith to William W. Phelps, "Dear Brother Phelps, 22 July 1840, Nauvoo, Illinois; cited in {{HC|vol=4|pages=162–164.</ref></blockquote>
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  • John C. Bennett and plural marriage at Nauvoo/Nancy Rigdon
    ...ers, ‘’Nauvoo: Kingdom on the Mississippi’’ (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1965), 262.</ref> With Bennett's help, a Masonic Lodge was establi ...added; from a discourse given by Joseph Smith on Apr. 28, 1842, in Nauvoo, Illinois; reported by Eliza R. Snow}}; also in {{HC|vol=4|pages=605–607}}</ref></b
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  • Question: Was Brigham Young a Mason?
    When the Latter-day Saints occupied Nauvoo, Illinois, in the year 1842, there were approximately four thousand residents inside
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  • Question: Was Brigham Young a "33rd degree" Mason?
    ...or Brigham Young to become such, since that degree was first introduced in Illinois masonic lodges (the only lodges to which Brigham had access prior to the ex ...the Northern Jurisdiction of the Scottish Rite of which the Grand Lodge of Illinois is a member or in the Southern Jurisdiction of which the Grand Lodge of Uta
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  • Question: How many times was Joseph Smith involved with legal issues?
    ===Illinois=== In 1838-1839 the Saints settled in Nauvoo, Illinois, after their wrongful expulsion from Missouri. To avoid the "legal" persecu
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  • Times and Seasons/2/7
    | CITY OF NAUVOO, ILLINOIS, FEB. 1, 1841. ...the proper penalty for larceny, arson, or murder, as the case may be. Let Illinois repeat the bloody tragedies of Missouri and one or two other States follow,
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Passing the Heavenly Gift/Joseph received sealing powers in 1829
    ...The Story of William Clayton, a Mormon (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1987), 29]. </ref> Thus, the two uses of “sealing” must not be
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Passing the Heavenly Gift/The Nauvoo temple was not built with enough speed
    ...idency of the Church to the Saints Scattered Abroad, Greeting,” Nauvoo, [Illinois], 15 January 1841. It was also discussed by Joseph in a report in Times and
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  • Times and Seasons/1/2
    |L5=Proceedings of the general Conference, held at Commerce, Hancock County, Illinois, on Saturday the 5th day of October, 1839. | COMMERCE, ILLINOIS, DECEMBER 1839.
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  • Question: What did B.H. Roberts say about ''View of the Hebrews'' and the Book of Mormon?
    ...of the Book of Mormon'', ed. Brigham D. Madsen (Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1985).</ref>
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  • Question: Is there a link between Ethan Smith, author of ''View of the Hebrews'', and Oliver Cowdery?
    <blockquote>On 19 Janaury 1885, Thomas Gregg of Hamilton, Hancock County, Illinois, wrote to Lorenzo Saunders living near Reading, Michigan, requesting inform
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  • Question: Did Wilford Woodruff have knowledge of the First Vision prior to his 1855 remarks about an angel?
    ...bruary 1842 he became the superintendent of the printing office in Nauvoo, Illinois where the ''Times and Seasons'' newspaper was published<ref>{{HoC1|vol=4|st
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  • Question: At what age did Joseph Smith become concerned about religion?
    ...the Beginnings of Mormonism'' (Urbana and Chicago, Illinois: University of Illinois Press; Reprint edition, 1987), 53.</ref>
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  • Question: Did any of Joseph's scribes ever say anything about Joseph's story of the vision changing over time?
    ...ion account which explicitly refers to the Father was published in Nauvoo, Illinois on 1 April 1842. It is known that Williams was with the Prophet in Nauvoo s
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  • Question: Why did Joseph keep the doctrine of plural marriage private?
    ...if they had known that many of us had more than one wife when we lived in Illinois? They would have broken us up, doubtless, worse than they did.<ref>{{JDfair
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  • Question: Was Joseph Smith ever charged with adultery under Illinois law?
    |L=Question: Was Joseph Smith ever charged with adultery under Illinois law? |H=Question: Was Joseph Smith ever charged with adultery under Illinois law?
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  • Question: Why did Joseph Smith say "I had not been married scarcely five minutes...before it was reported that I had seven wives"?
    ...," manner, they were not guilty of breaking any civil law then in force in Illinois. Furthermore, this reality explains some of Joseph's public denials, since ...s in Nauvoo secret, Joseph effectively kept them legal, at least under the Illinois adultery statute.<ref name="defining">{{Article:Bradshaw:Defining Adultery/
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  • Question: Were there any similar cases under Illinois adultery statute which demonstrate that Joseph was not breaking the law?
    |L=Question: Were there any similar cases under Illinois adultery statute which demonstrate that Joseph was not breaking the law? |H=Question: Were there any similar cases under Illinois adultery statute which demonstrate that Joseph was not breaking the law?
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  • Question: Did Joseph Smith have any children through any of his polyandrous marriages?
    ...Mormon Enigma: Emma Hale Smith'', 2nd ed. (Urbana, Illinois: University of Illinois Press, 1994), 136. See also discussion in Danel Bachman, "Plural Marriage
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  • Times and Seasons/2/6
    | CITY OF NAUVOO, ILLINOIS, JAN. 15, 1841. ...y to our necessities, as the citizens of Quincy en masse and the people of Illinois, generally, seemed to emulate each other in this labor of love. We would, h
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  • Question: What is the value of a ritual presentation?
    ...of all white adults 20 and older in Illinois couldn't read or write. <ref>Illinois Census 1850: A) Total population: 851,470. This is made up of 1) Total whit
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  • Question: Why do we continue to use such a participatory style of teaching in the 21st century?
    ...ymbolic than literal by design: even to the extent that early 19th century Illinois was "literate," that might not have meant much by present day standards. Ma ...exposure was memorization and recitation, not poring over the pages. As an Illinois frontier resident in 1840, one would not have spent most evenings curled up
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  • Question: How did Joseph Smith use his seer stones as a youth
    ...Smith and the Beginnings of Mormonism'' (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1984), 70.</ref></blockquote>
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  • Gospel Topics: "During the first two decades of the Church’s existence, a few black men were ordained to the priesthood"
    ...d, Ohio, and was later baptized as proxy for deceased relatives in Nauvoo, Illinois. There is no evidence that any black men were denied the priesthood during
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  • Question: What did the husband of Ruth Vose Sayers know about her sealing to Joseph Smith for eternity?
    ...ay of February A.D. 1843 at the City of Nauvoo County of Hancock, State of Illinois, She was married or Sealed to Joseph Smith President of the Church of Jesus
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  • Question: What did the husband of Presendia L. Huntington know about her sealing to Joseph Smith for eternity?
    ...y of December A.D. 1841, at the City of Nauvoo, County of Hancock State of Illinois, She was married or Sealed to Joseph Smith, President of the Church of Jesu
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  • Question: What did the husband of Zina D. Huntington know about her sealing to Joseph Smith for eternity?
    ...y of October A.D. 1841, at the City of Nauvoo, County of Hancock, State of Illinois, She was married or Sealed to Joseph Smith, President of the Church of Jesu
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  • Joseph Smith's marriage to Helen Mar Kimball
    ...attended a higher one on the hill, and through our moving to Missouri and Illinois we lost sight of each other. After the party was over I stopped the rest of
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  • Question: Was Helen Mar Kimball's marriage to Joseph Smith ever consummated?
    ...''Heber C. Kimball: Mormon Patriarch and Pioneer'' (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1981), 98. See also Stanley B. Kimball, "Heber C. Kimball and Famil
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  • Question: What were the characteristics of the rings which held the gold plates together?
    ...18 November 1831): 184. Reprinted from ''Illinois Patriot'' (Jacksonville, Illinois) (16 September 1831). {{link|url=http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/cdm4/document
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  • Question: Where did 19th-Century Latter-day Saints believe that Freemasonry came from?
    ...eber C. Kimball: Mormon Patriarch and Pioneer'' (Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1981), 85.</ref>
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  • Question: What criticisms are associated with the temple ritual and its relationship to Freemasonry?
    ...and claim that since Joseph Smith was initiated as a Freemason in Nauvoo, Illinois shortly before he introduced the full endowment to the Saints (as opposed t #Joseph Smith, Jr. was initiated as a Freemason in Nauvoo, Illinois on the 15th and 16th of March 1842; his brother Hyrum and (possibly) his fa
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  • Question: What are the Kinderhook Plates?
    ...f ancient appearance, were purported to have been unearthed in Kinderhook, Illinois, in April 1843. The so-called "Kinderhook plates" have been something of a
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  • Question: Why does ''History of the Church'' say that Joseph Smith said "I have translated a portion of them..."?
    ...fac similes of the six brass plates found near Kinderhook, in Pike county, Illinois, on April 23, by Mr. R. Wiley and others, while excavating a large mound. T
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  • Question: Why is the statement of William Clayton regarding the Kinderhook Plates in ''History of the Church'' written as if Joseph Smith himself said it?
    ...iles of the six brass plates found near Kinderhook,</span> in Pike county, Illinois, on April 23, by Mr. Robert Wiley and others, while excavating a large moun ...fac similes of the six brass plates found near Kinderhook, in Pike county, Illinois, on April 23, by Mr. R. Wiley and others, while excavating a large mound. T
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  • Question: Do Joseph Smith's personality and temperament indicate that he was not a true prophet of God
    Dr. John M. Bernhisel, related his impressions of Joseph Smith to Illinois Governor Ford in 1844. He wrote:
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  • Source:Bradshaw:Defining Adultery:Joseph Smith could not have been properly convicted of adultery under the law of Illinois in 1844
    ...Smith could not have been properly convicted of adultery under the law of Illinois in 1844"== ...ave been properly convicted of adultery under the law of Illinois in 1844. Illinois law only criminalized adultery or fornication if it was "open". Had Joseph
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  • Source:Madsen:Defining Adultery:Joseph Smith could not have been properly convicted of adultery under the law of Illinois in 1844
    ...Smith could not have been properly convicted of adultery under the law of Illinois in 1844]]
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  • Church History in the Fulness of Times (2003): "The law of celestial marriage, as outlined in this revelation, also included the principle of the plurality of wives"
    ...y-one-growing-conflict-in-illinois Chapter Twenty One: Growing Conflict in Illinois]," ''Church History In The Fulness Of Times Student Manual'', (2003).</ref>
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  • Question: Is interracial marriage prohibited or condemned within the Church?
    ...Mormon Church and Blacks: A Documentary History'' (Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2015), 70.</ref> Bruce R. McConkie,<ref>Ibid., 73.</ref> and Delbert
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  • Question: What is the story of Zelph?
    | valign="top"|Place|| Illinois River||Illinois River||--||Illinois River||Pike County||-- ...h Smith said in 1834 as he reflected on the ruins his group encountered in Illinois.<ref>{{JBMS-2-1-11}}</ref>
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  • Question: How reliable are the accounts of the discovery of Zelph?
    ...ould be assured that the members of Zion's Camp dug up a skeleton near the Illinois River in early June 1834. Equally sure is that Joseph Smith made statements
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  • Question: What are the different levels of knowledge that members may have about Church history?
    ...late Stanley B. Kimball (a Latter-day Saint scholar who taught at Southern Illinois University and published extensively on both European and Latter-day Saint
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  • Question: When was Lucy Mack Smith baptized?
    ...the Beginnings of Mormonism'' (Urbana and Chicago, Illinois: University of Illinois Press; Reprint edition, 1987), 53. </ref>
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  • Practice TOC page
    ...hort, I expect to be yet, through your influence, governor of the State of Illinois.<ref name="hc6" />{{Rp|72, {{ea}}}} ...], June 6, 1832, Greenville, Indiana; Chicago Historical Society, Chicago, Illinois.</ref>
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  • Question: How do critics of the Church portray Joseph Smith's letter to the Whitney family as a "love letter"?
    ...ear-old Joseph Smith, hiding from the law down by the Mississippi River in Illinois, confessed:" <br>
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  • Question: Did Joseph Smith believe that the Book of Mormon explained local legends associated with the "Mound Builders" of the Eastern United States?
    ...ted in the Book of Mormon. In fact, as Zion's Camp passed through southern Illinois, Heber C. Kimball and several other participants claimed that Joseph identi
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  • Did Joseph Smith believe that he was better than Jesus Christ?
    ...], June 6, 1832, Greenville, Indiana; Chicago Historical Society, Chicago, Illinois.</ref>
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  • Question: Was Utah's second governor, John W. Dawson, beaten by Latter-day Saints?
    ...rritory During the Civil War'' (Urbana, Chicago, and London: University of Illinois Press, 1981), 48.</ref>
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  • Plural marriage/Twentieth century LDS publications on plural marriage
    ...tes east of the Mississippi in the capacity of a missionary; and at Plano, Illinois, at a meeting of the so-called Reorganized Church of the Latter-day Saints, ...lity of Wives. Given through Joseph, the Seer, in Nauvoo, Hancock County, Illinois, July 12th, 1843.
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  • Question: Did Latter-day Saints wish to avoid being classified as Christians?
    ''We lived in Illinois from 1839 to 1845, by which time they again succeeded in kindling the spiri
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  • Question: Did Mormons only recently claim to be Christian?
    ...<ref>Extract from a Letter in the ''Juliet Courier'', dated from Monmouth, Illinois (June 1841); cited in {{HoC1|vol=4|start=381}}</ref> ;1842: Mormons are described as – “A ''Christian'' sect in Illinois.” (''Alton Telegraph and Democratic Review'', vol. 7, no. 25, 18 June 184
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  • Question: Was there an oath in a former version of the Mormon temple endowment that required vengeance upon the government of the United States?
    ...es in Missouri, including the next governor, conspired to kidnap Joseph in Illinois and bring him to Missouri to face trumped up charges.
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  • Question: How was the decision reached to destroy the ''Nauvoo Expositor''?
    ...were sixteen episodes of mob violence against controversial newspapers in Illinois from 1832 to 1867, and so the leaders’ fears of civil unrest were likely
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  • Question: Did Joseph Smith father children by polyandrous plural wife Prescindia Buell?
    ...het’s direction. Joseph did not regain the Saints until reaching Quincy, Illinois, contrary to Brodie’s misreading.<ref name="hc"></ref>{{Rp|315, 319, 322-
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  • Question: Was a pregnant Eliza R. Snow pushed down the stairs by a furious Emma, resulting in a miscarriage?
    ...ed. Roger D. Launius and Linda Thatcher (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1994), 319–37.</ref> Far from endorsing Smith’s view of the stai
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  • Question: When did Joseph Smith receive the revelation on plural marriage?
    ...Mormon Enigma: Emma Hale Smith'', 2nd ed. (Urbana, Illinois: University of Illinois Press, 1994), 141, 332.</ref>
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  • Question: Was Joseph Smith responsible for an assassination attempt on former Missouri governor Lilburn Boggs?
    ...ged Orin Porter Rockwell in the deed. Joseph easily proved he had been in Illinois on the day of the shooting (hundreds of miles from Missouri) and obtains a ;December 1842: the state Supreme Court of Illinois finds that the writ voiding the governor’s warrant was illegal. However,
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  • Question: What was John C. Bennett's role in the events leading up to the death of Joseph Smith?
    ...n people. Prior to that, and subsequently, he was Quartermaster-General of Illinois. Bennett professed great sympathy for the Saints. He joined the Church and Governor Thomas Ford, in his history of Illinois, styles Bennett "probably the greatest scamp in the western country." But t
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  • Question: Does a Mesoamerican limited geographical Book of Mormon setting contradict D&C 54:8, which discusses the "borders of the Lamanites" being in North America?
    ...ph]] identifies a potential Lamanite who lived in the area of Pike County, Illinois. During this period of time Joseph Smith clearly considered the lands of th
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  • Question: Was there a brothel in Nauvoo near the temple?
    ...Mormon Enigma: Emma Hale Smith'', 2nd ed. (Urbana, Illinois: University of Illinois Press, 1994), 112.</ref> After Bennett's departure, they "took the buildi
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  • Question: Did Joseph Smith write a pro-polygamy pamphlet called The Peace Maker in 1842?
    ...d States [March 19, 1840], Illinois State Historical Library, Springfield, Illinois); cited by {{BYUS1|author=Kenneth W. Godfrey|article=A New Look at the Alle ...nneth W. Godfrey, "Causes of Mormon Non-Mormon Conflict in Hancock County, Illinois, 1839-1846," PhD thesis, Brigham Young University (1967), 90&ndash;110.</re
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  • Question: Were Joseph Smith's final words, "O Lord, my God!" a cry for help or mercy from Freemasons in the mob at the Carthage jail?
    Most adult men in Hancock County, Illinois, were Masons, and there were Masons in the mob that attacked the jail. If J ...f any weapons to defend themselves: had the pledged faith of the State of Illinois, by Gov. Ford, for their protection, and were then shot to death, while, ''
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  • Question: How were the missing portions of the Joseph Smith Papyri facsimiles restored?
    ...epared by Reuben Hadlock [sic] for the Times & Seasons <ref> Joseph Smith, Illinois Journal, 1841-1842, in Joseph Smith Papers: Journals, 2:39; Jessee, Papers ...he Large cut, illustrating the principles of Astronomy."<ref>Joseph Smith, Illinois Journal, 1841-1842, in Joseph Smith Papers: Journals, 2:39; Jessee, Papers
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  • Question: Was Joseph Smith's prophecy that the Independence, Missouri temple "shall be reared in this generation" a failed prophecy?
    After the Saints settled in Nauvoo, Illinois, Joseph recorded another revelation rescinding the earlier revelation given
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  • Question: Did Joseph Smith set up a bar to sell liquor in Nauvoo?
    ...ef>{{TS1|author=John C. Bennett|article=Inaugural Address. City of Nauvoo, Illinois, Feb. 3rd 1841|date=15 February 1841|vol=2|num=8|start=316}} See also {{HC
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  • Question: Did Joseph Smith institute polygamy because he had a "voracious sexual appetite"?
    ...venant: The Mormon Polygamous Passage'' (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1992), 9; an account of this encounter between Joseph and William ca
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  • Joseph Smith's Rocky Mountain prophecy
    ...l of ice water. Judge Adams, the highest Masonic authority in the State of Illinois, had been sent there to organize this lodge. He, Hyrum Smith and J. C. Benn ...ts. Samuel Richards was one of that company. I heard of it when we were in Illinois, and I remember an old lady coming in and talking to mother about what Jose
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  • Question: Did Joseph Smith boast of his "violent deeds"?
    ...f March, 1843, Joseph met William Wall, the most expert wrestler of Ramus, Illinois, and had a friendly bout with him. He easily conquered Wall who up to that
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  • Question: Did Hosea Stout have three men flogged because they "were not in good fellowship"?
    ...e burning out-lying Mormon homes and who would again drive the Saints from Illinois in winter weather. The Saints had to make plans to maintain the peace of t
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  • Question: Are there government records that prove that the apostles were involved in counterfeiting in Nauvoo?
    ...ll learn that Warren Snow and Dominicus Carter have been jailed in Quincy, Illinois, for passing counterfeit money. Bishop Joseph L. Heywood confirms that they The grand jury of the United States district court of Springfield, Illinois, in January 1846, issued twelve indictments against prominent Church leader
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  • Question: Did federal officials flee Utah because they feared for their lives?
    ...governments for redress (though they had already done so for Missouri and Illinois and failed), Brigham Young replied:
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  • Question: Did Joseph Fielding Smith remove the 1832 account of Joseph Smith's First Vision from its original letterbook and hide it in his safe?
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  • Question: What happened to the original Book of Mormon manuscript?
    ...ove manuscript unto the Lord in the south-east corner of the Nauvoo House, Illinois. I stood within eight or ten feet of him, heard and saw what he said and di
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  • Question: Did Joseph order Jonathan Dunham, head of the Nauvoo legion, to rescue him?
    ...od baths—one in Carthage and another when anti-Mormons (and probably the Illinois militia) retaliated by laying siege to Nauvoo for insurrection. To avoid ci ===Joseph returned to surrender himself to the Illinois governor, Thomas Ford, after being appealed to by Emma and others===
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  • Oliver Cowdery: "My eyes saw, my ears heard...It was no dream, no vain imagination of the mind—it was real"
    ...and to their mutual experiences during the troublous times in Missouri and Illinois. Finally father put this question to him: "Oliver," said he, "I want you to
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  • Question: What LDS publications between 1840 and 1877 include references to Joseph Smith's First Vision?
    :Nauvoo, Illinois. :Nauvoo, Illinois.
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  • Question: When and how often did Brigham Young refer to elements of Joseph Smith's First Vision in his discourses?
    ...ficial version of the First Vision as published by Joseph Smith in Nauvoo, Illinois=== ...ficial version of the First Vision as published by Joseph Smith in Nauvoo, Illinois. And it is almost beyond comprehension to believe that President Young was
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  • Question: Does Doctrine and Covenants 121:28 contradict the First Vision?
    ...e this extract was taken<ref>Joseph Smith, Letter to the Church at Quincy, Illinois (20 March 1839), cited in {{PWJS1|start=13}}</ref> will quickly discover th
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  • Question: What was the prevalence of polygamy in Utah and how many wives did most polygamist males have?
    ...e Mormon Marriage System, 1840–1910'' (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2001), 130.</ref>
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  • Question: Is DNA Haplogroup X2a proof that the Book of Mormon fits best in a geography located in the Great Lakes region?
    ...comes from the Levant (i.e., Israel/Palestine), and then reaches Missouri, Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan, Indiana, Ohio and Western New York with the Lehi colo
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  • Question: Did the use of metal swords mentioned in the Book of Mormon persist?
    ...Eastern Woodlands Prehistory'', edited by Anne-Marie Cantwell, (Evanston, Illinois: Northwestern University Center for American Archaeology, 1984), 73.</ref>
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  • Question: What do wordprint studies say about the Book of Mormon?
    ...ition of Newly Identified Works of the Young Hobbes'' (Urbana and Chicago, Illinois: University of Chicago Press, 1995). </ref>
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  • Question: Is there a revealed Book of Mormon geography?
    ...viz [that is]: that Nephites found their way into what is now the state of Illinois; that the plates of the Book of Mormon were found in a hill in northwestern
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  • Source:Joseph Smith:15 Jul 1842:Stephens and Catherwood's researches in Central America abundantly testify of this thing
    ...ry month, on the corner of Water and Bain Streets, Nauvoo, Hancock County, Illinois, by JOSEPH SMITH"</small>
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  • Source:Times and Seasons:15 Sep 1842:these wonderful ruins of Palenque are among the mighty works of the Nephites
    ...ry month, on the corner of Water and Bain Streets, Nauvoo, Hancock County, Illinois, by JOSEPH SMITH."</small>
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  • Source:Times and Seasons:1 Oct 1842:The city of Zarahemla, burnt at the crucifixion of the Savior, and rebuilt afterwards, stood upon this land
    ...ry month, on the corner of Water and Bain Streets, Nauvoo, Hancock County, Illinois, by JOSEPH SMITH."</small>
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  • Source:John Taylor:1 Apr 1845:cities have been discovered by Mr. Stevens in Central America'', exactly were the Book of Mormon left them
    ...ry month, on the corner of Water and Bain Streets, Nauvoo, Hancock County, Illinois, by JOHN TAYLOR, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR."</small>
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  • John A. Widtsoe (Jul 1950): "under the Prophet's editorship Central America was denominated the region of Book of Mormon activities"
    ...viz [that is]: that Nephites found their way into what is now the state of Illinois; that the plates of the Book of Mormon were found in a hill in northwestern
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  • Countercult ministries/The Interactive Bible/Difficult Questions for Mormons/Book of Mormon Geography
    ...1834 in which JS identified a skeleton found in an Indian burial mound in Illinois: ". . . the visions of the past being opened to my understanding by the Spi
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  • Question: Isn't the inverted five-pointed star on some Mormon temples really a symbol of evil?
    ...onted star was first displayed on the exterior of an LDS temple in Nauvoo, Illinois in the early 1840s. (See [http://www.templestudy.com/wp-content/uploads/200
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  • John C. Bennett and plural marriage at Nauvoo/John C. Bennett Prior to Nauvoo
    ...ted in John C. Bennett, "MISCELLANEOUS. Inaugural Address. City of Nauvoo, Illinois, Feb. 3rd 1841," Times and Seasons 2/8 (15 February 1841): 317; also cited ...ph Smith to William W. Phelps, "Dear Brother Phelps, 22 July 1840, Nauvoo, Illinois; cited in {{HC|vol=4|pages=162–164.</ref></blockquote>
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  • Question: Did Joseph Smith run for President because he had delusions of grandeur?
    ...neither Whigs or Democrats; this could help avert anti-Mormon sentiment in Illinois, since the party which did not receive LDS support would have further reaso
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  • The King James Version
    ...ol student.<ref name="NLT">''Holy Bible New Living Translation'' (Wheaton, Illinois: Tyndale House, 1996)</ref>{{Rp|xvii}}
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  • Question: When and how did plural marriage begin in the Church?
    ...Mormon Enigma: Emma Hale Smith'', 2nd ed. (Urbana, Illinois: University of Illinois Press, 1994), 141, 332.</ref>
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  • Question: Is there any evidence for important meetings on September 27, 1886, when President John Taylor reportedly received a revelation and gave men priesthood power to continue polygamy outside of the Church?
    ...Covenant: The Mormon Polygamous Passage (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1992), appendix (unnumbered pages after 394) and www.familysearch.co
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  • Question: Did Joseph Smith actually shoot and kill two men at Carthage Jail?
    ...f the Accused Assassins of Joseph Smith'' (Urbana, Illinois: University of Illinois Press, 1975), 79.</ref>
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  • Question: Was Joseph Smith a "serial practitioner of statutory rape" or a "pedophile"?
    ...f conscience or humanity?" For example, even if murder was not illegal in Illinois, if Joseph repeatedly murdered, we might well question his morality. ...''Heber C. Kimball: Mormon Patriarch and Pioneer'' (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1981), 98.</ref>
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/The Mormon Hierarchy: Origins of Power/Chapter 4
    |H=Response to claims made in "Chapter 4: The Kingdom of God in Nauvoo, Illinois" |H=Response to claims made in "Chapter 4: The Kingdom of God in Nauvoo, Illinois" by D. Michael Quinn
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  • Question: What was unique about the city of Nauvoo's charter and why did it anger some non-Mormons?
    ...to the city, but it was not unique in this respect: The other charters in Illinois were similar=== ...he city, but it was not unique in this respect&mdash;the other charters in Illinois were similar. Nauvoo's court system was more restrictive than other cities
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  • Historical summary of the Mountain Meadows Massacre
    ...were the first vanguard of Church members who had been driven from Nauvoo, Illinois, by angry mobs. At the time of its first settlement, the area that came to ...the hardships of being forcibly (and violently) expelled from Missouri and Illinois, and were resolved not to be driven from their homes again. The mood in the
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  • Question: Did Parley P. Pratt claim that only God appeared to Joseph Smith during his First Vision?
    ...ntworth, Editor of “The Chicago Democrat,” and Member of Congress from Illinois'' (New York City: Joseph W. Harrison, 1844), 3-6. [Wentworth Letter]
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  • Question: Did Heber C. Kimball deny that the Father appeared in the First Vision?
    ...he First Vision which was published by the Prophet Joseph Smith in Nauvoo, Illinois in 1842. There were also several other publications placed inside the templ
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  • Question: Did Joseph Smith produce any children by his plural wives? The case against children
    ...rophet’s direction, who did not regain the Saints until reaching Quincy, Illinois.<ref>{{Book:Smith:HC|pages=315, 319, 322_323, 327|vol=3}}</ref>
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  • Question: What do we know about Joseph Smith's "polyandrous" sealings or plural marriages?
    ...rty Jail, Emma and her children were welcomed into the Cleveland's Quincy, Illinois home. Following his release in May 1839, Joseph rejoined his family and th ...st of the Church migrated to the Nauvoo region, the Clevelands remained in Illinois for a time. Though not a member, John continued to provide shelter and hel
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  • Question: Did Oliver Cowdery privately admit to his law partner that the Book of Mormon was actually a hoax?
    ...ever gave me a full history of the troubles of the Mormons in Missouri and Illinois, but I am sure that the doctrine of polygamy was advocated by Smith and opp ...letter, Thomas Gregg, was a long time newspaper publisher in the Hancock, Illinois, area. His intermittent associate in the newspaper business, Thomas Sharp,
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  • Censorship and revision of Church history/LDS histories over many years omit plural marriage
    ...omitting mention of plural marriage as a cause for the Saints' troubles in Illinois?]]
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  • Question: How does aversion therapy performed at BYU in the 1970s relate to medical and psychological science as understood at that time?
    Illinois State University
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  • Question: What did John Taylor have to say about Joseph Smith's First Vision?
    ...ecame one of the editors of the ''Times and Seasons'' newspaper in Nauvoo, Illinois on 3 February 1842.<ref name="roberts">{{Book:Roberts:Life of John Taylor}}
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  • Question: Was polygamy illegal?
    |L2=Contrary to popular belief, the plural marriages in Illinois were ''not'' illegal under the adultery statutes of the day ===Contrary to popular belief, the plural marriages in Illinois were ''not'' illegal under the adultery statutes of the day===
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  • Times and Seasons/2/11
    | CITY OF NAUVOO, ILLINOIS, APRIL 1, 1841. Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois represented in the General Assembly, That George Miller, Lyman Wight, John
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  • Times and Seasons/2/12
    | CITY OF NAUVOO, ILLINOIS, APRIL 15, 1841. ...vil and religious liberty, guaranteed by the constitution. The citizens of Illinois have done themselves honor in throwing the mantle of the constitution over
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  • Times and Seasons/2/13
    -in Payson, Adams co., Illinois, on the 31st of March, by Elder Chauncy G. Webb, Mr. John Harvey, to Miss E ILLINOIS. City of Springfield, I. H. Bishop.
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  • Times and Seasons/2/14
    ...the Supreme Court and Judge of the fifth Judicial Circuit of the State of Illinois, and Cyrus Walker Esq. of Macomb, who expressed great pleasure in visiting ...wing legal opinion of Judge Douglass, of the Supreme Court of the State of Illinois, than whom no man stands more deservedly high in the public estimation, as
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  • Times and Seasons/2/15
    City of Nauvoo, Illinois,} ILLINOIS. City of Springfield, I. H. Bishop.
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  • Times and Seasons/2/16
    ...ven wagons passed through this place with families for the City of Nauvoo, Illinois, the Mormon city. More, we learned from one of them are to follow soon. The ...pression and floods of injustice, and had sought a shelter in the State of Illinois. It was an effort worthy of a high minded and honorable gentleman, such as
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  • Times and Seasons/2/17
    To thy own Illinois, where the saints have found rest: Who've decreed in the name of the Ruler ILLINOIS. City of Springfield, I. H. Bishop.
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  • Times and Seasons/2/18
    ...h was yesterday arrested, between Nauvoo and Quincy, by the authorities of Illinois, on a requisition from the Governor of Missouri. May justice be meted out t ...tnesses to the Book of Mormon, and who has been for some time lecturing in Illinois against the Mormons, was found dead last week, having been shot through the
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  • Times and Seasons/2/19
    ...illages]-the flight of citizens-the rising of the Indians-the commotion in Illinois-the distress in Iowa, the consternation and flight of the Missourians, the ...Mississippi-by a large section of Iowa, and by the surrounding country in Illinois. Having spent some time in admiring the beautiful view which is afforded fr
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  • Times and Seasons/2/20
    ...assemblage of individuals could hardly be convened in the northern part of Illinois. There were ministers, doctors, lawyers, farmers, and mechanics, and amongs ...e purpose of general parade-the militia officers of the County of Hancock, Illinois; and the County of Lee, Iowa; and respectfully invited to attend.
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