3, pp. President Buchanan decided to replace Brigham Young as governor and, in what became known as the Utah War, sent an army to Utah to escort his replacement. . This concept, which came to be known as blood atonement, was a stock component of anti-Mormon rhetoric in the 19th century. See, for example, Polly Aird, Mormon Convert, Mormon Defector: A Scottish Immigrant in the American West, 1848â1861 (Norman, OK: Arthur H. Clark Company, 2009); and Walker, Turley, and Leonard, Massacre at Mountain Meadows, 42â43, 93. I can certainly understand the difficulties early Church members had because many of us experience similar struggles today, even though our addictions may be quite different. We would view a punishment of this character for such an act with the utmost horror, it is abhorrent to us and is in direct opposition to the fundamental principles of our creed.â (Official Declaration, Dec. 12, 1889, in James R. Clark, comp., Messages of the First Presidency of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1833â1964, 6 vols.
As the wagon train traveled south from Salt Lake City, the emigrants had clashed verbally with local Mormons over where they could graze their cattle. For primary accounts, see John Whitmer, History, 39â67, and âA History, of the Persecution,â 1839â1840, in Karen Lynn Davidson, Richard L. Jensen, and David J. Whittaker, eds., Histories, Volume 2: Assigned Historical Writings, 1831â1847, vol. Concerned about spiritual complacency, Brigham Young and other Church leaders delivered a series of sermons in which they called the Saints to repent and renew their spiritual commitments.33 Many testified that they became better people because of this reformation.34. While the Church does not require any of us to cut back on either our meat or junk food consumption, it seems clear that this is in harmony with the Lord’s counsel in the Word of Wisdom. One contemporary meaning of the word exterminate was âto drive from within the limits or borders.â (Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language [New York: S. Converse, 1828], s.v. “God has given to us a most positive promise on this subject, and we should be diligent in carrying it into effect without waiting to be counselled, getting up an excitement, or acting on the spur of the moment, and after awhile returning to old habits. He had this to say about St. John Vianney and this particular book in his own book Gift and Mystery: On the Fiftieth Anniversary of My Priestly Ordination... "With great emotion I visited the little old church where Saint John Vianney heard confessions, taught catechism, and gave his homilies. Although in the Early Church, there was no formal process for declaring a person to be a Saint, for many Centuries now the Church has had a formal process by which she investigates the lives of those who died "in the odour of sanctity" and decides whether they should be first beatified and then canonized.To learn more, read this article on the process of becoming a Saint Jane Birch is the author of Discovering the Word of Wisdom: Surprising Insights from a Whole Food, Plant-based Perspective (2013) and many articles on the Word of Wisdom.
2 of the Histories series of The Joseph Smith Papers, edited by Dean C. Jessee, Ronald K. Esplin, and Richard Lyman Bushman (Salt Lake City: Church Historianâs Press, 2012), 52â76, 202â86. Latter-day Saints feared that the oncoming armyâsome 1,500 troops, with more to followâwould renew the depredations of Missouri and Illinois and again drive the Saints from their homes. The Word of Wisdom in the First 100 Years, When Joseph Smith first revealed the Word of Wisdom to the brethren assembled at the School of the prophets, the elders “immediately threw their tobacco pipes into the fire.”[1]. On the murder of Parley P. Pratt, see Terryl L. Givens and Matthew J. As a result of their experience in Missouri, the Latter-day Saints created a large, state-sanctioned militia, the Nauvoo Legion, to protect themselves after they moved to Illinois. they will invite me to partake with them; if I refuse, they will then begin to urge; but the best policy to be observed in cases of this kind is to do as we have a mind to; if we do not want ‘the intoxicating drink,’ let them take it all; and if we do, we will take it without urging, and bear the responsibility ourselves. For instance, I call in a brother’s house, the lady of the house knows I am an Apostle, and she wishes to treat me with marked respect, and she supposes I am entirely unmindful of the precepts contained in the Word of Wisdom, makes me a cup of tea or coffee; well, I think it is a pity to throw it away, after it has spoiled half a gallon of the best American creek water, and I drink it to save it.
Edward Leo Lyman and others (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 2005), 442; and Hannah Tapfield King, autobiography, Mar. Between the first attack and the final slaughter, the massacre destroyed the lives of 120 men, women, and children in a valley known as Mountain Meadows.
(See Epsy Jane Williams, Autobiography, [1], Church History Library, Salt Lake City; and Jared Farmer, On Zionâs Mount: Mormons, Indians, and the American Landscape [Cambridge, MA, and London: Harvard University Press, 2008], 67â77.).
. ), George Q. Cannon to Brigham Young, March 23, 1876, Brigham Young Office Files.
3, pp. President Buchanan decided to replace Brigham Young as governor and, in what became known as the Utah War, sent an army to Utah to escort his replacement. . This concept, which came to be known as blood atonement, was a stock component of anti-Mormon rhetoric in the 19th century. See, for example, Polly Aird, Mormon Convert, Mormon Defector: A Scottish Immigrant in the American West, 1848â1861 (Norman, OK: Arthur H. Clark Company, 2009); and Walker, Turley, and Leonard, Massacre at Mountain Meadows, 42â43, 93. I can certainly understand the difficulties early Church members had because many of us experience similar struggles today, even though our addictions may be quite different. We would view a punishment of this character for such an act with the utmost horror, it is abhorrent to us and is in direct opposition to the fundamental principles of our creed.â (Official Declaration, Dec. 12, 1889, in James R. Clark, comp., Messages of the First Presidency of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1833â1964, 6 vols.
As the wagon train traveled south from Salt Lake City, the emigrants had clashed verbally with local Mormons over where they could graze their cattle. For primary accounts, see John Whitmer, History, 39â67, and âA History, of the Persecution,â 1839â1840, in Karen Lynn Davidson, Richard L. Jensen, and David J. Whittaker, eds., Histories, Volume 2: Assigned Historical Writings, 1831â1847, vol. Concerned about spiritual complacency, Brigham Young and other Church leaders delivered a series of sermons in which they called the Saints to repent and renew their spiritual commitments.33 Many testified that they became better people because of this reformation.34. While the Church does not require any of us to cut back on either our meat or junk food consumption, it seems clear that this is in harmony with the Lord’s counsel in the Word of Wisdom. One contemporary meaning of the word exterminate was âto drive from within the limits or borders.â (Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language [New York: S. Converse, 1828], s.v. “God has given to us a most positive promise on this subject, and we should be diligent in carrying it into effect without waiting to be counselled, getting up an excitement, or acting on the spur of the moment, and after awhile returning to old habits. He had this to say about St. John Vianney and this particular book in his own book Gift and Mystery: On the Fiftieth Anniversary of My Priestly Ordination... "With great emotion I visited the little old church where Saint John Vianney heard confessions, taught catechism, and gave his homilies. Although in the Early Church, there was no formal process for declaring a person to be a Saint, for many Centuries now the Church has had a formal process by which she investigates the lives of those who died "in the odour of sanctity" and decides whether they should be first beatified and then canonized.To learn more, read this article on the process of becoming a Saint Jane Birch is the author of Discovering the Word of Wisdom: Surprising Insights from a Whole Food, Plant-based Perspective (2013) and many articles on the Word of Wisdom.
2 of the Histories series of The Joseph Smith Papers, edited by Dean C. Jessee, Ronald K. Esplin, and Richard Lyman Bushman (Salt Lake City: Church Historianâs Press, 2012), 52â76, 202â86. Latter-day Saints feared that the oncoming armyâsome 1,500 troops, with more to followâwould renew the depredations of Missouri and Illinois and again drive the Saints from their homes. The Word of Wisdom in the First 100 Years, When Joseph Smith first revealed the Word of Wisdom to the brethren assembled at the School of the prophets, the elders “immediately threw their tobacco pipes into the fire.”[1]. On the murder of Parley P. Pratt, see Terryl L. Givens and Matthew J. As a result of their experience in Missouri, the Latter-day Saints created a large, state-sanctioned militia, the Nauvoo Legion, to protect themselves after they moved to Illinois. they will invite me to partake with them; if I refuse, they will then begin to urge; but the best policy to be observed in cases of this kind is to do as we have a mind to; if we do not want ‘the intoxicating drink,’ let them take it all; and if we do, we will take it without urging, and bear the responsibility ourselves. For instance, I call in a brother’s house, the lady of the house knows I am an Apostle, and she wishes to treat me with marked respect, and she supposes I am entirely unmindful of the precepts contained in the Word of Wisdom, makes me a cup of tea or coffee; well, I think it is a pity to throw it away, after it has spoiled half a gallon of the best American creek water, and I drink it to save it.
Edward Leo Lyman and others (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 2005), 442; and Hannah Tapfield King, autobiography, Mar. Between the first attack and the final slaughter, the massacre destroyed the lives of 120 men, women, and children in a valley known as Mountain Meadows.
(See Epsy Jane Williams, Autobiography, [1], Church History Library, Salt Lake City; and Jared Farmer, On Zionâs Mount: Mormons, Indians, and the American Landscape [Cambridge, MA, and London: Harvard University Press, 2008], 67â77.).
. ), George Q. Cannon to Brigham Young, March 23, 1876, Brigham Young Office Files.
3, pp. President Buchanan decided to replace Brigham Young as governor and, in what became known as the Utah War, sent an army to Utah to escort his replacement. . This concept, which came to be known as blood atonement, was a stock component of anti-Mormon rhetoric in the 19th century. See, for example, Polly Aird, Mormon Convert, Mormon Defector: A Scottish Immigrant in the American West, 1848â1861 (Norman, OK: Arthur H. Clark Company, 2009); and Walker, Turley, and Leonard, Massacre at Mountain Meadows, 42â43, 93. I can certainly understand the difficulties early Church members had because many of us experience similar struggles today, even though our addictions may be quite different. We would view a punishment of this character for such an act with the utmost horror, it is abhorrent to us and is in direct opposition to the fundamental principles of our creed.â (Official Declaration, Dec. 12, 1889, in James R. Clark, comp., Messages of the First Presidency of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1833â1964, 6 vols.
As the wagon train traveled south from Salt Lake City, the emigrants had clashed verbally with local Mormons over where they could graze their cattle. For primary accounts, see John Whitmer, History, 39â67, and âA History, of the Persecution,â 1839â1840, in Karen Lynn Davidson, Richard L. Jensen, and David J. Whittaker, eds., Histories, Volume 2: Assigned Historical Writings, 1831â1847, vol. Concerned about spiritual complacency, Brigham Young and other Church leaders delivered a series of sermons in which they called the Saints to repent and renew their spiritual commitments.33 Many testified that they became better people because of this reformation.34. While the Church does not require any of us to cut back on either our meat or junk food consumption, it seems clear that this is in harmony with the Lord’s counsel in the Word of Wisdom. One contemporary meaning of the word exterminate was âto drive from within the limits or borders.â (Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language [New York: S. Converse, 1828], s.v. “God has given to us a most positive promise on this subject, and we should be diligent in carrying it into effect without waiting to be counselled, getting up an excitement, or acting on the spur of the moment, and after awhile returning to old habits. He had this to say about St. John Vianney and this particular book in his own book Gift and Mystery: On the Fiftieth Anniversary of My Priestly Ordination... "With great emotion I visited the little old church where Saint John Vianney heard confessions, taught catechism, and gave his homilies. Although in the Early Church, there was no formal process for declaring a person to be a Saint, for many Centuries now the Church has had a formal process by which she investigates the lives of those who died "in the odour of sanctity" and decides whether they should be first beatified and then canonized.To learn more, read this article on the process of becoming a Saint Jane Birch is the author of Discovering the Word of Wisdom: Surprising Insights from a Whole Food, Plant-based Perspective (2013) and many articles on the Word of Wisdom.
2 of the Histories series of The Joseph Smith Papers, edited by Dean C. Jessee, Ronald K. Esplin, and Richard Lyman Bushman (Salt Lake City: Church Historianâs Press, 2012), 52â76, 202â86. Latter-day Saints feared that the oncoming armyâsome 1,500 troops, with more to followâwould renew the depredations of Missouri and Illinois and again drive the Saints from their homes. The Word of Wisdom in the First 100 Years, When Joseph Smith first revealed the Word of Wisdom to the brethren assembled at the School of the prophets, the elders “immediately threw their tobacco pipes into the fire.”[1]. On the murder of Parley P. Pratt, see Terryl L. Givens and Matthew J. As a result of their experience in Missouri, the Latter-day Saints created a large, state-sanctioned militia, the Nauvoo Legion, to protect themselves after they moved to Illinois. they will invite me to partake with them; if I refuse, they will then begin to urge; but the best policy to be observed in cases of this kind is to do as we have a mind to; if we do not want ‘the intoxicating drink,’ let them take it all; and if we do, we will take it without urging, and bear the responsibility ourselves. For instance, I call in a brother’s house, the lady of the house knows I am an Apostle, and she wishes to treat me with marked respect, and she supposes I am entirely unmindful of the precepts contained in the Word of Wisdom, makes me a cup of tea or coffee; well, I think it is a pity to throw it away, after it has spoiled half a gallon of the best American creek water, and I drink it to save it.
Edward Leo Lyman and others (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 2005), 442; and Hannah Tapfield King, autobiography, Mar. Between the first attack and the final slaughter, the massacre destroyed the lives of 120 men, women, and children in a valley known as Mountain Meadows.
(See Epsy Jane Williams, Autobiography, [1], Church History Library, Salt Lake City; and Jared Farmer, On Zionâs Mount: Mormons, Indians, and the American Landscape [Cambridge, MA, and London: Harvard University Press, 2008], 67â77.).
. ), George Q. Cannon to Brigham Young, March 23, 1876, Brigham Young Office Files.
3, pp. President Buchanan decided to replace Brigham Young as governor and, in what became known as the Utah War, sent an army to Utah to escort his replacement. . This concept, which came to be known as blood atonement, was a stock component of anti-Mormon rhetoric in the 19th century. See, for example, Polly Aird, Mormon Convert, Mormon Defector: A Scottish Immigrant in the American West, 1848â1861 (Norman, OK: Arthur H. Clark Company, 2009); and Walker, Turley, and Leonard, Massacre at Mountain Meadows, 42â43, 93. I can certainly understand the difficulties early Church members had because many of us experience similar struggles today, even though our addictions may be quite different. We would view a punishment of this character for such an act with the utmost horror, it is abhorrent to us and is in direct opposition to the fundamental principles of our creed.â (Official Declaration, Dec. 12, 1889, in James R. Clark, comp., Messages of the First Presidency of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1833â1964, 6 vols.
As the wagon train traveled south from Salt Lake City, the emigrants had clashed verbally with local Mormons over where they could graze their cattle. For primary accounts, see John Whitmer, History, 39â67, and âA History, of the Persecution,â 1839â1840, in Karen Lynn Davidson, Richard L. Jensen, and David J. Whittaker, eds., Histories, Volume 2: Assigned Historical Writings, 1831â1847, vol. Concerned about spiritual complacency, Brigham Young and other Church leaders delivered a series of sermons in which they called the Saints to repent and renew their spiritual commitments.33 Many testified that they became better people because of this reformation.34. While the Church does not require any of us to cut back on either our meat or junk food consumption, it seems clear that this is in harmony with the Lord’s counsel in the Word of Wisdom. One contemporary meaning of the word exterminate was âto drive from within the limits or borders.â (Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language [New York: S. Converse, 1828], s.v. “God has given to us a most positive promise on this subject, and we should be diligent in carrying it into effect without waiting to be counselled, getting up an excitement, or acting on the spur of the moment, and after awhile returning to old habits. He had this to say about St. John Vianney and this particular book in his own book Gift and Mystery: On the Fiftieth Anniversary of My Priestly Ordination... "With great emotion I visited the little old church where Saint John Vianney heard confessions, taught catechism, and gave his homilies. Although in the Early Church, there was no formal process for declaring a person to be a Saint, for many Centuries now the Church has had a formal process by which she investigates the lives of those who died "in the odour of sanctity" and decides whether they should be first beatified and then canonized.To learn more, read this article on the process of becoming a Saint Jane Birch is the author of Discovering the Word of Wisdom: Surprising Insights from a Whole Food, Plant-based Perspective (2013) and many articles on the Word of Wisdom.
2 of the Histories series of The Joseph Smith Papers, edited by Dean C. Jessee, Ronald K. Esplin, and Richard Lyman Bushman (Salt Lake City: Church Historianâs Press, 2012), 52â76, 202â86. Latter-day Saints feared that the oncoming armyâsome 1,500 troops, with more to followâwould renew the depredations of Missouri and Illinois and again drive the Saints from their homes. The Word of Wisdom in the First 100 Years, When Joseph Smith first revealed the Word of Wisdom to the brethren assembled at the School of the prophets, the elders “immediately threw their tobacco pipes into the fire.”[1]. On the murder of Parley P. Pratt, see Terryl L. Givens and Matthew J. As a result of their experience in Missouri, the Latter-day Saints created a large, state-sanctioned militia, the Nauvoo Legion, to protect themselves after they moved to Illinois. they will invite me to partake with them; if I refuse, they will then begin to urge; but the best policy to be observed in cases of this kind is to do as we have a mind to; if we do not want ‘the intoxicating drink,’ let them take it all; and if we do, we will take it without urging, and bear the responsibility ourselves. For instance, I call in a brother’s house, the lady of the house knows I am an Apostle, and she wishes to treat me with marked respect, and she supposes I am entirely unmindful of the precepts contained in the Word of Wisdom, makes me a cup of tea or coffee; well, I think it is a pity to throw it away, after it has spoiled half a gallon of the best American creek water, and I drink it to save it.
Edward Leo Lyman and others (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 2005), 442; and Hannah Tapfield King, autobiography, Mar. Between the first attack and the final slaughter, the massacre destroyed the lives of 120 men, women, and children in a valley known as Mountain Meadows.
(See Epsy Jane Williams, Autobiography, [1], Church History Library, Salt Lake City; and Jared Farmer, On Zionâs Mount: Mormons, Indians, and the American Landscape [Cambridge, MA, and London: Harvard University Press, 2008], 67â77.).
. ), George Q. Cannon to Brigham Young, March 23, 1876, Brigham Young Office Files.
3, pp. President Buchanan decided to replace Brigham Young as governor and, in what became known as the Utah War, sent an army to Utah to escort his replacement. . This concept, which came to be known as blood atonement, was a stock component of anti-Mormon rhetoric in the 19th century. See, for example, Polly Aird, Mormon Convert, Mormon Defector: A Scottish Immigrant in the American West, 1848â1861 (Norman, OK: Arthur H. Clark Company, 2009); and Walker, Turley, and Leonard, Massacre at Mountain Meadows, 42â43, 93. I can certainly understand the difficulties early Church members had because many of us experience similar struggles today, even though our addictions may be quite different. We would view a punishment of this character for such an act with the utmost horror, it is abhorrent to us and is in direct opposition to the fundamental principles of our creed.â (Official Declaration, Dec. 12, 1889, in James R. Clark, comp., Messages of the First Presidency of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1833â1964, 6 vols.
As the wagon train traveled south from Salt Lake City, the emigrants had clashed verbally with local Mormons over where they could graze their cattle. For primary accounts, see John Whitmer, History, 39â67, and âA History, of the Persecution,â 1839â1840, in Karen Lynn Davidson, Richard L. Jensen, and David J. Whittaker, eds., Histories, Volume 2: Assigned Historical Writings, 1831â1847, vol. Concerned about spiritual complacency, Brigham Young and other Church leaders delivered a series of sermons in which they called the Saints to repent and renew their spiritual commitments.33 Many testified that they became better people because of this reformation.34. While the Church does not require any of us to cut back on either our meat or junk food consumption, it seems clear that this is in harmony with the Lord’s counsel in the Word of Wisdom. One contemporary meaning of the word exterminate was âto drive from within the limits or borders.â (Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language [New York: S. Converse, 1828], s.v. “God has given to us a most positive promise on this subject, and we should be diligent in carrying it into effect without waiting to be counselled, getting up an excitement, or acting on the spur of the moment, and after awhile returning to old habits. He had this to say about St. John Vianney and this particular book in his own book Gift and Mystery: On the Fiftieth Anniversary of My Priestly Ordination... "With great emotion I visited the little old church where Saint John Vianney heard confessions, taught catechism, and gave his homilies. Although in the Early Church, there was no formal process for declaring a person to be a Saint, for many Centuries now the Church has had a formal process by which she investigates the lives of those who died "in the odour of sanctity" and decides whether they should be first beatified and then canonized.To learn more, read this article on the process of becoming a Saint Jane Birch is the author of Discovering the Word of Wisdom: Surprising Insights from a Whole Food, Plant-based Perspective (2013) and many articles on the Word of Wisdom.
2 of the Histories series of The Joseph Smith Papers, edited by Dean C. Jessee, Ronald K. Esplin, and Richard Lyman Bushman (Salt Lake City: Church Historianâs Press, 2012), 52â76, 202â86. Latter-day Saints feared that the oncoming armyâsome 1,500 troops, with more to followâwould renew the depredations of Missouri and Illinois and again drive the Saints from their homes. The Word of Wisdom in the First 100 Years, When Joseph Smith first revealed the Word of Wisdom to the brethren assembled at the School of the prophets, the elders “immediately threw their tobacco pipes into the fire.”[1]. On the murder of Parley P. Pratt, see Terryl L. Givens and Matthew J. As a result of their experience in Missouri, the Latter-day Saints created a large, state-sanctioned militia, the Nauvoo Legion, to protect themselves after they moved to Illinois. they will invite me to partake with them; if I refuse, they will then begin to urge; but the best policy to be observed in cases of this kind is to do as we have a mind to; if we do not want ‘the intoxicating drink,’ let them take it all; and if we do, we will take it without urging, and bear the responsibility ourselves. For instance, I call in a brother’s house, the lady of the house knows I am an Apostle, and she wishes to treat me with marked respect, and she supposes I am entirely unmindful of the precepts contained in the Word of Wisdom, makes me a cup of tea or coffee; well, I think it is a pity to throw it away, after it has spoiled half a gallon of the best American creek water, and I drink it to save it.
Edward Leo Lyman and others (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 2005), 442; and Hannah Tapfield King, autobiography, Mar. Between the first attack and the final slaughter, the massacre destroyed the lives of 120 men, women, and children in a valley known as Mountain Meadows.
(See Epsy Jane Williams, Autobiography, [1], Church History Library, Salt Lake City; and Jared Farmer, On Zionâs Mount: Mormons, Indians, and the American Landscape [Cambridge, MA, and London: Harvard University Press, 2008], 67â77.).
. ), George Q. Cannon to Brigham Young, March 23, 1876, Brigham Young Office Files.
Joseph Smith and his brother Hyrum were brutally martyred by a mob in an Illinois prison despite the promise of the stateâs governor that the brothers would be protected while in custody.13 Eighteen months later, beginning in the cold winter month of February 1846, the main body of the Saints left Nauvoo under tremendous pressure. 33 (1792). As Church president, territorial governor, and territorial superintendent of Indian Affairs, Brigham Young pursued a peace policy to facilitate Mormon settlement in areas where Indians lived. 1 (Winter 1987): 4â21. But the men Haight had sent to attack the emigrants carried out their plans before they received the order not to attack. “.
For a detailed account of the 1838â1839 expulsion from Missouri, see William G. Hartley, âThe Saintsâ Forced Exodus from Missouri,â in Richard Neitzel Holzapfel and Kent P. Jackson, eds., Joseph Smith: The Prophet and Seer (Provo, UT: Brigham Young University Religious Studies Center, 2010), 347â89. Stunning Photo Essay: Christ the Lord is Risen Today! The author has also produced a sewing kit for making a Mother Cabrini habit (complete with cross and rosary) for "American Girl"-type dolls and related craft and activity books which are available from the publisher. Latter-day Saints learned Indian languages, established trade relations, preached the gospel, and generally sought accommodation with Indians.24 This policy, however, emerged unevenly and was inconsistently applied.25, Peaceful accommodation between Latter-day Saints and Indians was both the norm and the ideal. Susan Helen Wallace, FSP, does a wonderful job of introducing us to this little known saint, whose faith journey begins with terror, fear, and unbelievable cruelty, but ends in the joy of the risen Lord. Grow, âLiberty to the Downtroddenâ: Thomas L. Kane, Romantic Reformer (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009), 149â206. ‘O, once in a while.’ How often is that? Russell M. Nelson, âBlessed Are the Peacemakers,â Ensign, Nov. 2002, 41; quoting Doctrine and Covenants 98:16 and Romans 14:19. On the âreformation,â see Paul H. Peterson, âThe Mormon Reformation of 1856â1857: The Rhetoric and the Reality,â Journal of Mormon History 15 (1989): 59â87. . perhaps they will keep the Word of Wisdom two or three days; but it makes their head ache, and then they take a little tea, and it does them good for the moment, and they think the Lord don’t know what they need as well as they do. 1 of the Journals series of The Joseph Smith Papers, edited by Dean C. Jessee, Ronald K. Esplin, and Richard Lyman Bushman [Salt Lake City: Church Historianâs Press, 2008], 231, 292â93, available at josephsmithpapers.org; and âDanites,â The Joseph Smith Papers, accessed Jan. 23, 2014.). He wrote: âThe Mormons are the Christians and we are the Heathens. Even so, many allegations of such violence are unfounded, and anti-Mormon writers have blamed Church leaders for many unsolved crimes or suspicious deaths in early Utah.43, Many people in the 19th century unjustly characterized the Latter-day Saints as a violent people. At the young age of seven, Bakhita is traumatically torn from her village of Olgossa in the Darfur region of Sudan by slave traders. His contemporary letters to his family, written from the main refugee camps in Iowa in July and August 1846, reflect similar sentiments. . Eliza […]. . Ultimately, however, conflict arose again as non-Mormons and dissenters from the Church renewed their attacks.
3, pp. President Buchanan decided to replace Brigham Young as governor and, in what became known as the Utah War, sent an army to Utah to escort his replacement. . This concept, which came to be known as blood atonement, was a stock component of anti-Mormon rhetoric in the 19th century. See, for example, Polly Aird, Mormon Convert, Mormon Defector: A Scottish Immigrant in the American West, 1848â1861 (Norman, OK: Arthur H. Clark Company, 2009); and Walker, Turley, and Leonard, Massacre at Mountain Meadows, 42â43, 93. I can certainly understand the difficulties early Church members had because many of us experience similar struggles today, even though our addictions may be quite different. We would view a punishment of this character for such an act with the utmost horror, it is abhorrent to us and is in direct opposition to the fundamental principles of our creed.â (Official Declaration, Dec. 12, 1889, in James R. Clark, comp., Messages of the First Presidency of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1833â1964, 6 vols.
As the wagon train traveled south from Salt Lake City, the emigrants had clashed verbally with local Mormons over where they could graze their cattle. For primary accounts, see John Whitmer, History, 39â67, and âA History, of the Persecution,â 1839â1840, in Karen Lynn Davidson, Richard L. Jensen, and David J. Whittaker, eds., Histories, Volume 2: Assigned Historical Writings, 1831â1847, vol. Concerned about spiritual complacency, Brigham Young and other Church leaders delivered a series of sermons in which they called the Saints to repent and renew their spiritual commitments.33 Many testified that they became better people because of this reformation.34. While the Church does not require any of us to cut back on either our meat or junk food consumption, it seems clear that this is in harmony with the Lord’s counsel in the Word of Wisdom. One contemporary meaning of the word exterminate was âto drive from within the limits or borders.â (Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language [New York: S. Converse, 1828], s.v. “God has given to us a most positive promise on this subject, and we should be diligent in carrying it into effect without waiting to be counselled, getting up an excitement, or acting on the spur of the moment, and after awhile returning to old habits. He had this to say about St. John Vianney and this particular book in his own book Gift and Mystery: On the Fiftieth Anniversary of My Priestly Ordination... "With great emotion I visited the little old church where Saint John Vianney heard confessions, taught catechism, and gave his homilies. Although in the Early Church, there was no formal process for declaring a person to be a Saint, for many Centuries now the Church has had a formal process by which she investigates the lives of those who died "in the odour of sanctity" and decides whether they should be first beatified and then canonized.To learn more, read this article on the process of becoming a Saint Jane Birch is the author of Discovering the Word of Wisdom: Surprising Insights from a Whole Food, Plant-based Perspective (2013) and many articles on the Word of Wisdom.
2 of the Histories series of The Joseph Smith Papers, edited by Dean C. Jessee, Ronald K. Esplin, and Richard Lyman Bushman (Salt Lake City: Church Historianâs Press, 2012), 52â76, 202â86. Latter-day Saints feared that the oncoming armyâsome 1,500 troops, with more to followâwould renew the depredations of Missouri and Illinois and again drive the Saints from their homes. The Word of Wisdom in the First 100 Years, When Joseph Smith first revealed the Word of Wisdom to the brethren assembled at the School of the prophets, the elders “immediately threw their tobacco pipes into the fire.”[1]. On the murder of Parley P. Pratt, see Terryl L. Givens and Matthew J. As a result of their experience in Missouri, the Latter-day Saints created a large, state-sanctioned militia, the Nauvoo Legion, to protect themselves after they moved to Illinois. they will invite me to partake with them; if I refuse, they will then begin to urge; but the best policy to be observed in cases of this kind is to do as we have a mind to; if we do not want ‘the intoxicating drink,’ let them take it all; and if we do, we will take it without urging, and bear the responsibility ourselves. For instance, I call in a brother’s house, the lady of the house knows I am an Apostle, and she wishes to treat me with marked respect, and she supposes I am entirely unmindful of the precepts contained in the Word of Wisdom, makes me a cup of tea or coffee; well, I think it is a pity to throw it away, after it has spoiled half a gallon of the best American creek water, and I drink it to save it.
Edward Leo Lyman and others (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 2005), 442; and Hannah Tapfield King, autobiography, Mar. Between the first attack and the final slaughter, the massacre destroyed the lives of 120 men, women, and children in a valley known as Mountain Meadows.
(See Epsy Jane Williams, Autobiography, [1], Church History Library, Salt Lake City; and Jared Farmer, On Zionâs Mount: Mormons, Indians, and the American Landscape [Cambridge, MA, and London: Harvard University Press, 2008], 67â77.).
. ), George Q. Cannon to Brigham Young, March 23, 1876, Brigham Young Office Files.
