item: #1 of 33 id: 17 author: Smith, Joseph, Jr. title: The Book of Mormon An Account Written by the Hand of Mormon, Upon Plates Taken from the Plates of Nephi date: None words: 292055 flesch: 77 summary: But behold, your days of probation are past; ye have procrastinated the day of your salvation until it is everlastingly too late, and your destruction is made sure; yea, for ye have sought all the days of your lives for that which ye could not obtain; and ye have sought for happiness in doing iniquity, which thing is contrary to the nature of that righteousness which is in our great and Eternal Head. Helaman 13:39 39 O ye people of the land, that ye would hear my words! For behold, except ye shall keep the commandments of God ye shall all likewise perish; and because of the words which have been spoken ye need not suppose that the Gentiles are utterly destroyed. keywords: alma; behold; brethren; children; christ; city; come; day; earth; ether; faith; father; hath; hearts; helaman; holy; jacob; king; know; lamanites; land; lord god; men; mormon; moroni; mosiah; nephi; nephites; o lord; pass; people; power; saw; son; spirit; thee; things; thou; thy; time; wilderness; words; yea; year cache: 17.txt plain text: 17.txt item: #2 of 33 id: 35556 author: Roberts, B. H. (Brigham Henry) title: Succession in the Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints date: None words: 41317 flesch: 67 summary: It is my purpose first to give an account of how this organization came into existence, and then consider the claims of Mr. Joseph Smith to be of right the President of the church founded, under God, by his father. Let us now consider the claims of Mr. Joseph Smith to be of right the President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. keywords: authority; christ; church; father; footnote; god; joseph; joseph smith; josephite; keys; lord; man; men; nauvoo; people; power; president; priesthood; prophet joseph; revelation; rigdon; saints; time; william; work; world; young cache: 35556.txt plain text: 35556.txt item: #3 of 33 id: 35562 author: Widtsoe, John Andreas title: A Rational Theology, as Taught by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints date: None words: 43356 flesch: 72 summary: Intelligent man dwelling in a universe containing many superior intelligent beings will often find need of the help that higher intelligence only can give. If so, then intelligent man will be bound to render obedience to the system, even if it is exercised through imperfect man. keywords: authority; beings; chapter; church; earth; god; gospel; intelligence; knowledge; law; laws; life; man; matter; men; plan; power; priesthood; spirit; truth; universe; work cache: 35562.txt plain text: 35562.txt item: #4 of 33 id: 36791 author: Beers, R. W. title: The Mormon Puzzle, and How to Solve It date: None words: 52722 flesch: 64 summary: But with regard to _Mormon_ polygamy, it will be seen that _slavery_ and _polygamy_ do not occupy with reference to each other the relation of twin sisters, but rather the relation of _mother_ and _daughter_: And in an editorial written less than two years ago, the official Mormon Church paper states that of twenty-eight men constituting the general authorities of the Church, twenty-four were born in the United States and eighteen were of New England birth or origin. keywords: american; bondage; book; brigham; christian; church; city; day; doctrine; fact; god; government; history; joseph; lake; land; law; leaders; life; man; mormon; mormon church; mormonism; new; people; place; plan; polygamy; power; priesthood; property; puzzle; saints; salt; schools; smith; social; states; system; territory; time; united; utah; way; women; world; years; young cache: 36791.txt plain text: 36791.txt item: #5 of 33 id: 42238 author: Talmage, James E. (James Edward) title: The Articles of Faith A Series of Lectures on the Principal Doctrines of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints date: None words: 178199 flesch: 66 summary: And such was the power that followed this call, that all Israel from Dan to Beersheba knew that Samuel was established a prophet of the Lord.[544] Time fails to permit the mention of many other men of might, who received their power from God, whose histories portray the honor with which the Lord regarded His chosen ministers. ] Unto Moses and assembled Israel God appeared in a cloud, with the terrifying accompaniment of thunders and lightnings, on Sinai: And the Lord said unto Moses, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, Ye have seen that I have talked with you from heaven. keywords: acts; adam; ancient; apostles; authority; baptism; belief; believe; bible; book; children; christ; church; come; cov; day; days; dead; death; divine; doc; doctrine; earth; evidence; existence; faith; father; general; ghost; glory; god; good; gospel; heaven; history; holy; human; iii; israel; jerusalem; jesus; jesus christ; john; joseph; kingdom; knowledge; land; law; laws; lecture; life; lord; lord god; man; matt; men; mormon; moses; nations; nature; nephi; new; note; people; place; plates; power; present; priesthood; prophet; record; resurrection; revelation; saints; salvation; savior; scriptures; sins; smith; son; spirit; state; testament; testimony; things; thou; time; truth; words; work; world; years; zion cache: 42238.txt plain text: 42238.txt item: #6 of 33 id: 44896 author: Pratt, Parley P. (Parley Parker) title: The Autobiography of Parley Parker Pratt One of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Embracing His Life, Ministry, and Travels date: None words: 157729 flesch: 69 summary: You have been indebted to other men in the first instance for evidence; on that you have acted; but it is necessary that you receive a testimony from Heaven for yourselves; so that you can bear testimony to the truth of the Book of Mormon, and that you have seen the face of God. In the summer of 1855 he returned over the Sierra Nevada mountains to his home, and occupied a part of his time in preaching in the various settlements of Utah, and at other times laboring with his own hands in the cultivation of his farm. keywords: book; brethren; brother; camp; chapter; children; christ; church; citizens; city; company; conference; county; course; court; day; days; distance; earth; elder; evening; family; father; following; friends; general; god; good; gospel; governor; hands; heaven; history; holy; home; house; illinois; jesus; john; joseph; journey; joy; know; lake; land; law; leave; left; length; liberty; life; lord; man; meeting; members; men; miles; mission; missouri; mormon; morning; near; new; night; order; people; place; power; pratt; preach; present; president; prison; prisoners; public; rest; return; river; saints; smith; spirit; state; taylor; things; time; town; truth; voice; way; west; wife; winter; work; world; years; york; young cache: 44896.txt plain text: 44896.txt item: #7 of 33 id: 45054 author: Smith, Joseph Fielding title: Essentials in Church History A History of the Church from the Birth of Joseph Smith to the Present Time (1922), with Introductory Chapters on the Antiquity of the Gospel and the "Falling Away" date: None words: 221143 flesch: 66 summary: Twelve Apostles Chosen On the 14th of February, 1835, Brigham Young and his brother Joseph came to the house of President Joseph Smith and sang for him. A charge was given to these brethren by President Oliver Cowdery, and items of valuable instruction were imparted by President Joseph Smith. keywords: action; age; apostles; april; book; brethren; brigham; camp; case; chapter; children; christ; church; citizens; city; company; conference; continued; council; county; court; cowdery; day; day saints; days; death; earth; elder; enemies; father; following; general; george; god; good; gospel; government; governor; hands; home; house; hyrum; hyrum smith; illinois; john; john smith; joseph smith; journey; judge; july; june; justice; kirtland; lake; lake city; land; law; left; life; little; lord; man; march; meeting; members; men; miles; mission; missouri; mob; mormon; nauvoo; new; number; october; officers; oliver; order; organization; orson; people; place; power; pratt; president; president brigham; president joseph; president smith; president young; priesthood; prophet; prophet joseph; revelation; rigdon; river; saints; salt; salt lake; second; set; sidney; spirit; states; taylor; temple; territory; things; time; trial; united; utah; valley; way; west; whitmer; william; witnesses; work; world; years; young; zion cache: 45054.txt plain text: 45054.txt item: #8 of 33 id: 45464 author: Roberts, B. H. (Brigham Henry) title: The Mormon Doctrine of Deity: The Roberts-Van Der Donckt Discussion To which is added a discourse, Jesus Christ, the revelation of God; also a collection of authoritative Mormon utterances on the being and nature of God date: None words: 99856 flesch: 70 summary: But where does this leave Jesus? Was and is Jesus God--true Deity? And now I ask, as I did in my discourse, _is Jesus God_? keywords: angels; beginning; bible; body; day; der; doctrine; donckt; earth; existence; father; flesh; footnote; form; ghost; glory; god; gods; heaven; holy; image; infinite; jesus; jesus christ; john; life; light; lord; lord god; man; men; nature; person; power; revelation; son; spirit; subject; things; thou; time; truth; unto; van; words; world cache: 45464.txt plain text: 45464.txt item: #9 of 33 id: 45846 author: Spencer, Orson title: Letters Exhibiting the Most Prominent Doctrines of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints date: None words: 62076 flesch: 65 summary: Now, sir, that you may be convinced beyond controversy, I will beg your attention to the marvellous coincidence between the matter of fact, as related by a guileless _young_ man, and the declaration of John and Zechariah; but first, you must readily admit, that according to the testimony of two prophets of God, an angel must come down through the midst of heaven to earth, in _some_ period of the last days, subsequent to the lifetime of John, with such a gospel as was not on the earth; and that angel must communicate his gospel message to some certain _young_ man which the finger of God should point out to the angel. Paul also instructs Timothy how he can _save_ men and himself. keywords: angels; apostles; blood; body; character; christ; christianity; church; day; days; death; earth; faith; father; ghost; glory; god; gospel; heaven; holy; jesus; jesus christ; kingdom; knowledge; lord; man; men; miracles; modern; nations; new; order; people; person; place; power; priesthood; prophets; revelation; saints; sir; spirit; things; time; truth; world cache: 45846.txt plain text: 45846.txt item: #10 of 33 id: 46028 author: Woodruff, Wilford title: Leaves from My Journal: Third Book of the Faith-Promoting Series Designed for the Instruction and Encouragement of Young Latter-Day Saints date: None words: 36014 flesch: 76 summary: I had been declaring the word of the Lord through the islands many days, the Spirit of God was working among the people, prejudice was giving way, and the power of God was manifest by signs following those who believed. I had labored hard for many days for the temporal and spiritual welfare of the inhabitants of those islands, and the Lord had blessed my labors and given me many souls as seals of my ministry, for which I felt to praise Him; and now I felt to labor quite as zealously to gather out those who had embraced the gospel, and lead them to Zion. keywords: brother; chapter; church; company; day; days; elder; family; father; god; good; gospel; house; island; joseph; journey; lord; man; meeting; men; miles; mission; night; people; power; prophet; saints; spirit; time; wife cache: 46028.txt plain text: 46028.txt item: #11 of 33 id: 46208 author: Hyde, Orson title: A Voice from Jerusalem Or, A Sketch of the Travels and Ministry of Elder Orson Hyde date: None words: 15189 flesch: 66 summary: * UNITED STATES OF NORTH AMERICA, State of Illinois, } ss: I, Alexander P. Field, Secretary of State, of the State of Illinois, one of the United States of North America, and keeper of the great seal of said State, do hereby certify that Thomas Carlin, who took and signed the foregoing certificate, is now, and was at the time of signing the same, Governor of the State aforesaid, duly elected and qualified to office, with full power by the laws of this State to issue certificates as aforesaid; that said certificate is in due form of law, and that full faith and credit are due his official attestations. We may labour, and other men may enter into our labours. keywords: brother; church; day; god; good; heart; heaven; hyde; jerusalem; jews; land; letter; lord; people; place; state; thou; thy; time cache: 46208.txt plain text: 46208.txt item: #12 of 33 id: 46243 author: Pratt, Orson title: Divine Authority; Or, the Question: Was Joseph Smith Sent of God? date: None words: 14110 flesch: 63 summary: The revelation in the Book of Mormon, pointing out the location of man [sic] ancient cities, the ruins of which were subsequently discovered by Catherwood and Stephens--the direct and palpable fulfilment of many of the prophecies of Joseph Smith, which no human sagacity could have foreseen, all natural appearances and circumstances being entirely against their expected fulfillment--the raising up of numerous other witnesses who also testify to the ministering of angels and the manifestations of the power of God confirmatory of this message--the performance of many splendid miracles by Mr. Smith and his followers, and the bold unequivocal promise of the miraculous gifts to all who should believe and embrace this message, are all evidences such as no impostor ever has given, or ever can give. Whether Joseph Smith was such an one is the all important question. keywords: authority; book; church; doctrine; evidence; god; joseph; joseph smith; lord; saints; smith cache: 46243.txt plain text: 46243.txt item: #13 of 33 id: 46244 author: Pratt, Orson title: The Kingdom of God, Part 1 date: None words: 6503 flesch: 68 summary: The rebellion soon became so general, that all the inhabitants of the earth, except Melchizedek, Abraham, Lot, and a very few others, engaged themselves in it, supporting and upholding kings and other officers in their usurped authority, and suffering themselves to be governed by human laws, instead of revealed laws from God. The Kingdom of God Part 1. keywords: ghost; god; holy; kingdom; man; power; spirit cache: 46244.txt plain text: 46244.txt item: #14 of 33 id: 46635 author: Ward, J. H. (Joseph Harvey) title: Gospel Philosophy Showing the Absurdities of Infidelity, and the Harmony of the Gospel with Science and History date: None words: 51116 flesch: 66 summary: Does any one think that such men could not tell the handwriting of the apostle who had lived among them for years or that they cared less for the documents of the gospel, for which they risked their lives, than we would care about the genuineness of a ten dollar check? Now there was about this time, Jesus, a wise man, if it be lawful to call Him a man, for He was a doer of wonderful works, a teacher of such men as receive the truth with pleasure. keywords: age; animals; bible; body; cause; chapter; church; creation; day; divine; earth; existence; eye; fact; faith; god; gospel; hand; heat; heaven; history; human; infidel; john; laws; life; light; living; man; matter; men; miles; nations; nature; new; page; paul; period; place; power; present; religion; revelation; rome; science; stars; sun; testament; things; time; truth; work; world; years cache: 46635.txt plain text: 46635.txt item: #15 of 33 id: 46974 author: Penrose, Charles W. (Charles William) title: Rays of Living Light on the One Way of Salvation date: None words: 26096 flesch: 69 summary: This tract is but preliminary to others, in which the one everlasting way of life and plan of salvation will be plainly pointed out, for the benefit of mankind and the glory of the supreme and eternal God, to whom be honor and praise forever. To say that God is the author of the conflicting religions which distract mankind, is to charge him with inconsistency and folly. keywords: apostles; authority; christ; church; earth; faith; father; ghost; god; gospel; heaven; holy; jesus; jesus christ; lord; man; men; people; revelation; spirit; world cache: 46974.txt plain text: 46974.txt item: #16 of 33 id: 47091 author: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints title: History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Volume 1 date: None words: 260642 flesch: 71 summary: In this history I shall present the various events in relation to this Church, in truth and righteousness, as they have transpired, or as they at {2} present exist, being now the eighth [1] year since the organization of said Church. I then laid my hands upon Oliver Cowdery, and ordained him an Elder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; after {78} which, he ordained me also to the office of an Elder of said Church. keywords: amen; behold; bishop; book; brethren; brother; children; christ; christian; church; commandments; concerning; conference; county; covenants; cowdery; day; days; doctrine; earth; elders; faith; father; following; glory; god; good; gospel; great; hands; hath; hearts; heaven; history; holy; house; jackson; jesus; john; joseph; jun; kingdom; kirtland; land; law; letter; life; light; lord; lord god; man; men; missouri; mob; mormon; new; number; oliver; order; pass; people; place; power; priesthood; prophet; receive; religion; revelation; rigdon; said; saints; second; servant; sidenote; sidney; smith; son; spirit; state; testimony; thee; things; thou; thy; time; truth; voice; way; whitmer; words; work; world; yea; zion cache: 47091.txt plain text: 47091.txt item: #17 of 33 id: 47192 author: Smith, Joseph, Jr. title: History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Volume 2 date: None words: 226201 flesch: 66 summary: [5] Whereas the Church of Christ, recently styled the Church of the Latter-day Saints, contumeliously called Mormons, or Mormonites, has suffered many privations, afflictions, persecutions and losses on account of the religious belief and faith of its members, which belief and faith are founded in the revealed Word of God, as recorded in the Holy Bible, or the Book of Mormon, the Revelations and Commandments of our Savior Jesus Christ; and whereas the said Church, through revelation, commenced removing to the western boundaries of the State of Missouri, where lands were purchased of the government, and where it was calculated to purchase of those who were unwilling to reside with the Church, as a society, all lands that could be bought, for the purpose of building up a holy city unto God, a New Jerusalem, a place which we were desirous to call Zion, a place of refuge from the scourges and plagues that are so often mentioned in the Bible by the {127} prophets and apostles, which should be poured out upon the earth in the last days; and whereas the inhabitants of Jackson county, Missouri, have leagued and combined themselves against said Church, and have driven the Saints from their lands, and have taken their arms from them, and burned down many of their houses without any provocation; and whereas, we have petitioned the governor of this state and the President of the United States for the redress of wrongs--the law being put to defiance in Jackson county--and for the redemption of rights, that we might be legally repossessed of our lands and property; and whereas the said inhabitants of Jackson county have not only bound themselves to keep us out of that county, but have armed themselves _ I say the High Council because it is a case affecting the Presidency of said Church. keywords: bishop; blessings; book; brethren; brother; camp; case; children; christ; church; clay; company; concerning; conference; council; county; cowdery; david; day; days; doctrine; duty; earth; elder; evening; faith; father; following; god; good; gospel; hands; heaven; high; holy; home; house; hyde; jackson; jesus; john; johnson; joseph; joseph smith; jun; kingdom; kirtland; law; letter; lord; lyman; man; meeting; members; men; minutes; mission; missouri; morning; new; office; oliver; order; orson; people; phelps; place; power; pratt; prayer; present; president; president joseph; president smith; priesthood; priests; prophet; remarks; return; revelation; rigdon; right; said; saints; school; sidenote; sidney; smith; spirit; subject; sylvester; testimony; things; thou; thy; time; truth; voice; west; whitmer; william; work; world; young; zion cache: 47192.txt plain text: 47192.txt item: #18 of 33 id: 47707 author: Smith, Joseph, Jr. title: History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Volume 3 date: None words: 228803 flesch: 66 summary: Sir:--Application has been made to the commander-in-chief, by the citizens of Daviess county, in this state, for protection, and to be restored to their homes and property, with intelligence that the Mormons, with an armed force, have expelled the inhabitants of that county from their homes, have pillaged and burnt their dwellings, driven off their stock, and were destroying their crops; that they (the Mormons) have burnt to ashes the towns of Gallatin and Millport in said county; the former being the county seat of said county, and including the clerk's office and all the public records of the county, and that there is not now a civil officer within said county. To the Keeper of the Jail of Clay County_: Greeting:--Whereas, Joseph Smith, Jun., Hyrum Smith, Lyman Wight, Alexander McRae, and Caleb Baldwin, as also Sidney Rigdon, have been brought before me, Austin A. King, judge of the fifth judicial circuit in the state of Missouri, and charged with the offense of treason against the state of Missouri, and the said defendants, on their examination before me, being held to answer further to said charge, the said Joseph Smith, Jun., Hyrum Smith, Lyman Wight, Alexander McRae, and Caleb Baldwin, to answer in the county of Daviess, and the said Sidney Rigdon to answer further in the county of Caldwell, for said charge of treason, and there being no jail in said counties; these are therefore to command that you receive the said Joseph Smith, Jun., Hyrum Smith, Lyman Wight, Alexander {215} McRae, Caleb Baldwin, and Sidney Rigdon into your custody in the jail of the said county of Clay, there to remain until they be delivered therefrom by due course of law. keywords: adam; brethren; brother; business; caldwell; caldwell county; camp; cause; children; christ; church; citizens; city; clark; colonel; committee; company; concerning; council; counties; county; course; court; david; daviess; daviess county; day; day saints; days; doniphan; elder; evening; families; family; far; father; following; general; george; god; good; governor; guard; hands; high; history; house; hyrum; illinois; jackson; jackson county; jesus; john; joseph; joseph smith; journey; judge; jun; king; kirtland; law; leave; left; letter; liberty; lord; lucas; man; meeting; men; miles; militia; missouri; mob; mormons; morning; near; new; night; number; order; people; place; power; pratt; present; president; prisoners; property; prophet; public; quincy; richmond; rigdon; river; said; saints; sidenote; smith; spirit; state; subject; things; thomas; time; town; trial; way; west; william; world; young; zion cache: 47707.txt plain text: 47707.txt item: #19 of 33 id: 47708 author: Snow, Eliza R. (Eliza Roxey) title: Biography and Family Record of Lorenzo Snow One of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints date: None words: 198779 flesch: 61 summary: Many times, and with intense interest, have their children listened to recitals of the hardships our parents encountered, and the privations they endured in that new and heavily timbered country, so very forbidding when compared with the beautiful prairie landscapes of the West. Although it greatly augmented the trial of his nature in going forth to preach without purse or scrip, particularly the purse, it has fortified and many times enabled him to rise superior to circumstances. keywords: address; appearance; blessings; box; brethren; brigham; brigham city; brother; building; business; cause; chapter; children; christ; church; circumstances; city; co.; company; condition; conference; country; course; day; day saints; days; dear; death; earth; elder; england; evening; fact; faith; family; father; feelings; feet; following; friends; general; god; good; gospel; great; hand; head; heart; heaven; holy; home; honor; house; interest; italy; jesus; john; joseph; kingdom; knowledge; labor; lake; land; law; leave; left; length; letter; life; little; lord; lorenzo; lorenzo snow; love; making; man; marble; means; meeting; men; miles; mind; mission; mormon; morning; mountains; nations; new; night; number; occasion; order; past; people; place; power; present; president; principles; prophet; return; sacred; saints; salt; salvation; saw; sea; set; smith; snow; son; spirit; state; temple; testimony; things; thought; thousands; time; truth; united; utah; view; way; wisdom; work; world; years; young; zion cache: 47708.txt plain text: 47708.txt item: #20 of 33 id: 48668 author: Skanchy, Anthon L. (Anthon Lornsen) title: Anthon L. Skanchy A Brief Autobiographical Sketch of the Missionary Labors of a Valiant Soldier for Christ date: None words: 16777 flesch: 79 summary: Nevertheless, we were of good faith, though we were many times utterly exhausted by the long distances that we had to cover on foot, without proper food. He who desired to meet an elder of the Church lived in Ofjorden, west of the island, nearly thirty-five miles away, over great mountains and morasses. keywords: christiania; church; city; day; elder; good; gospel; home; house; lord; man; mission; night; norway; people; place; time; work; years cache: 48668.txt plain text: 48668.txt item: #21 of 33 id: 49327 author: Various title: Labors in the Vineyard Twelfth Book of the Faith-Promoting Series. Designed for the Instruction and Encouragement of Young Latter-Day Saints. date: None words: 34356 flesch: 73 summary: I had such feelings; and, in consequence of being acquainted with so many that were connected with missions on the continent, felt sometimes a little uneasy, like Elders at home who think it probable that they may be called at conference time. Boat making fine time, said he. keywords: brother; church; city; companion; day; days; elder; england; family; god; good; gospel; home; house; lord; man; meeting; men; mission; new; night; people; place; president; saints; spirit; time; town; way; work; zurich cache: 49327.txt plain text: 49327.txt item: #22 of 33 id: 49386 author: Parry, Edwin F. title: Sketches of Missionary Life date: None words: 17729 flesch: 69 summary: In less than two hours he had the news spread all over town, so that when meeting time arrived we had over sixty people to talk to, and they paid us very respectful attention. People that become thus friendly are sometimes those who are earnestly seeking the truth and are interested in the Gospel message, at other times they do not accept the Gospel, but continue to remain friendly with the Elders, and go to considerable trouble and expense, and at times even risk their lives, to assist and defend them. keywords: brother; chapter; day; elder; gospel; home; house; lord; man; meeting; missionaries; missionary; people; time; way; years; young cache: 49386.txt plain text: 49386.txt item: #23 of 33 id: 49739 author: None title: Gems of Reminiscence Seventeenth Book of the Faith Promoting Series, Designed for the Instruction and Encouragement of Young Latter-day Saints date: None words: 54215 flesch: 66 summary: He also had the place pointed out to him where the sacrifice so nearly occurred, and heard the circumstance incidentally alluded to many times in connection with the folk lore of the island, or as a legend of the days of heathendom. Except that they were in the first person, they were the same that my invisible monitor had many times repeated to me during the preceding hour, an hour of impatient chafing on my part. keywords: anson; brother; brown; captain; chapter; church; company; day; days; elder; ernest; family; father; following; god; good; gospel; home; house; lake; land; left; life; lord; man; men; mission; mormon; new; parkin; people; place; president; prophet; saints; ship; spirit; time; utah; vessel; water; way; west; wife; work; years; young cache: 49739.txt plain text: 49739.txt item: #24 of 33 id: 51730 author: Wilson, Lycurgus A. (Lycurgus Arnold) title: Life of David W. Patten, the First Apostolic Martyr date: None words: 21456 flesch: 74 summary: But the subjoined letter, dated at Provo, Utah, will explain the matter: President Joseph F. Smith, Salt Lake City: Dear Brother:--In relation to the subject of the visit of Cain to Brother David W. Patten in the State of Tennessee, about which you wrote to me, I will say that according to the best of my recollection it was in the month of September, 1835. In closing his account of the tragedy, the Prophet Joseph says: Brother David W. Patten was a very worthy man, beloved by all good men who knew him. keywords: brethren; brother; church; david; day; god; gospel; house; joseph; life; lord; man; men; patten; power; prophet; saints; things; time; years; zion cache: 51730.txt plain text: 51730.txt item: #25 of 33 id: 52840 author: Smith, Joseph Fielding title: Salvation Universal date: None words: 12261 flesch: 70 summary: The knowledge of temple building and temple work was made known to the prophet from time to time subsequently to the 3rd of April, 1836, and he commenced to reveal these things to the Saints. Those who have passed beyond will then be in a position to furnish to their mortal kin all necessary names for temple work; and thus the labor for their salvation will be facilitated and more accurately done than it possibly can be done today. keywords: children; christ; day; dead; footnote; god; lord; saints; salvation; temple; time; work cache: 52840.txt plain text: 52840.txt item: #26 of 33 id: 54298 author: None title: Scrap Book of Mormon Literature, Volume 2 (of 2). Religious Tracts date: None words: 248961 flesch: 70 summary: Great man! When we remember that Mr. Quincy had the rare opportunity of being personally and intimately acquainted with the great men of America, of his period; that he was acquainted with Lafayette, and that John Quincy Adams, the Second President of the U. S., was his personal friend when he was a young man; his statement that Joseph Smith was one of two men from whom there emanated a certain peculiar moral stress and compulsion which he had not felt in other men, has peculiar significance. keywords: acts; angel; apostles; authority; baptism; bible; body; book; children; church; come; coming; day; day saints; days; dead; death; divine; doctrine; earth; everlasting; evidence; faith; father; ghost; glory; god; good; gospel; hands; hath; heaven; history; holy; house; human; jesus christ; john; joseph; kingdom; know; knowledge; law; life; living; lord; lord god; lord jesus; man; men; mormon; nations; necessary; new; order; ordinances; paul; people; peter; place; power; preach; principles; prophet; record; remission; repentance; resurrection; revelation; saints; salvation; savior; scriptures; shall; sins; smith; son; spirit; testimony; things; thou; time; truth; water; way; words; work; world; years cache: 54298.txt plain text: 54298.txt item: #27 of 33 id: 56684 author: Smith, Joseph, Jr. title: The Lectures on Faith date: None words: 24320 flesch: 83 summary: Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God: so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear. By this we understand that the principle of power, which existed in the bosom of God, by which the worlds were framed, was faith; and that it is by reason of this principle of power existing in the Deity, that all created things exist--so that all things in heaven, on earth, or under the earth, exist by reason of faith as it existed in HIM. 16. keywords: exercise; existence; faith; father; god; knowledge; life; lord; power; things; years cache: 56684.txt plain text: 56684.txt item: #28 of 33 id: 56700 author: Penrose, Charles W. (Charles William) title: "Mormon" Doctrine Plain and Simple; Or, Leaves from the Tree of Life date: None words: 21691 flesch: 70 summary: And by faith men and women can overcome the influences of earth and time, and rise to communion with angelic beings, and even with God, the highest and holiest of all. The believing, repentant sinner, after making covenant with God to forsake evil and keep His commandments, is taken down into the water by the duly authorized and ordained representative of the Lord Jesus, and, being dead to his old sins by repentance, is buried from his old life by immersion in the watery grave; and then, raised up again to newness of life, is born of the water, and stands on earth a new creature in Christ Jesus. keywords: authority; body; christ; church; dead; death; divine; earth; faith; god; gospel; holy; jesus; life; man; men; power; priesthood; sin; spirit; truth; world cache: 56700.txt plain text: 56700.txt item: #29 of 33 id: 59993 author: Widtsoe, Osborne J. P. title: The Restoration of the Gospel date: None words: 61749 flesch: 73 summary: [O] [Footnote O: Doc. and Cov. 82:13.] In the dedicatory prayer offered in the Kirtland Temple, 1836, the Prophet Joseph Smith said: We ask thee to appoint unto Zion other Stakes, besides this one which thou hast appointed, that the gathering of thy people may roll on in great power and majesty, that thy work may be cut short in righteousness. Indeed, so early did this desire manifest itself that in July, 1830, only three months after the organization of the Church, the Prophet Joseph Smith was already engaged on the compilation of the revelations.[B] keywords: authority; book; christ; church; cov; day; doc; earth; father; footnote; god; gospel; history; holy; jesus; john; joseph; joseph smith; life; lord; man; men; mormon; oliver; order; organization; people; priesthood; prophet; prophet joseph; restoration; revelation; testimony; time; vision; work; world; years cache: 59993.txt plain text: 59993.txt item: #30 of 33 id: 60056 author: None title: Scrap Book of Mormon Literature (Vol. 1 of 2) Religious Tracts date: None words: 243380 flesch: 71 summary: In relation to God faith is, indeed, a confession of our weakness and utter inability for everything that is good; and yet, as to success in all things pertaining to our {417} exaltation and glorification, it is omnipotent. For for this cause was the gospel preached also to them that are _dead_, that they might be judged according to _men in the flesh_, but live according to God in the spirit. keywords: acts; angel; apostles; authority; away; baptism; bible; body; book; children; christ; christian; church; city; coming; day; day saints; days; dead; death; divine; doctrine; earth; elder; fact; faith; father; ghost; gifts; glory; god; good; gospel; great; hands; heaven; history; holy; jesus christ; john; joseph; kingdom; knowledge; law; life; light; lord; lord jesus; man; men; message; mormon; nations; new; order; ordinances; paul; people; peter; place; plates; power; preach; present; priesthood; prophecy; prophet; religion; remission; repentance; revelation; saints; salvation; sins; smith; son; spirit; states; testimony; things; time; truth; utah; water; way; words; work; world; years cache: 60056.txt plain text: 60056.txt item: #31 of 33 id: 60708 author: Smith, Joseph, Jr. title: History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Volume 4 date: None words: 277517 flesch: 64 summary: They are likewise instructed and authorized to procure loans in behalf of the Church, for carrying into operation the above and other important works necessary to the well being of said Church. To the High Council of the Church of Jesus Christ at Nauvoo_: For and in behalf of said Church, I prefer a charge against Elder Oliver Walker, for several different offenses hereinafter set forth, as said to be by him done, performed, said, and committed, as well as various duties omitted, all of which was done at different times, periods, places, and seasons, subsequent to September 1st, A. D. 1838, to-wit.: keywords: abraham; bennett; blessings; book; brethren; brigham; brother; building; business; cause; children; christ; church; citizens; city; clerk; come; committee; company; conference; council; county; court; day; day saints; days; dead; death; doctrine; earth; elder; elder john; england; evening; faith; family; father; following; friends; general; george; god; good; gospel; governor; hands; heaven; higbee; high; holy; house; hyde; hyrum; illinois; james; jesus; john; john smith; joseph; joseph smith; judge; kimball; kingdom; kirtland; law; leave; left; legion; letter; life; lord; man; meeting; members; men; minutes; mission; missouri; mob; monday; mormon; nauvoo; new; number; office; officers; order; orson; people; persons; place; power; pratt; prayer; present; president; priesthood; priests; property; prophet; richards; saints; saturday; seasons; sec; servant; set; sick; sidenote; smith; spirit; state; subject; sunday; taylor; temple; things; thy; time; truth; united; way; west; willard; william; woodruff; work; world; years; york; young cache: 60708.txt plain text: 60708.txt item: #32 of 33 id: 60736 author: Smith, Joseph, Jr. title: History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Volume 5 date: None words: 247433 flesch: 69 summary: Said Reynolds and Wilson dined with said Smith at his own house, and were hospitably entertained; and after dinner, say in two hours after the arrival of the party in said city, a writ of habeas corpus was issued by the municipal court of the said city of Nauvoo in favor of said Smith, which was served upon said Reynolds. I never heard him say anything derogatory to the character of Joseph Smith, until after he had been exposed by said Smith, on the public stand in Nauvoo. keywords: arrest; authority; believe; bennett; boggs; book; brethren; brigham; brother; business; carlin; case; children; christ; church; citizens; city; company; conference; constitution; corpus; council; county; course; court; day; days; earth; elder; emma; evening; family; father; following; friends; general; george; god; good; governor; great; habeas; hands; heaven; holy; home; house; hyrum; hyrum smith; illinois; james; jesus; john; john c.; joseph smith; judge; justice; kingdom; know; knowledge; land; law; laws; left; letter; life; like; little; lord; man; matter; meeting; men; missouri; mormon; morning; nauvoo; nauvoo city; nauvoo house; new; o'clock; office; order; orson; people; person; place; power; pratt; present; president; prophet; prophet joseph; public; return; revelation; reynolds; richards; right; river; said; saints; set; sidenote; spirit; state; subject; temple; testimony; things; time; truth; united; way; william; wilson; work; world; writ; young cache: 60736.txt plain text: 60736.txt item: #33 of 33 id: 60758 author: Smith, Joseph, Jr. title: History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Volume 6 date: None words: 261682 flesch: 71 summary: We, the undersigned, state under oath that we traveled in company with Joseph H. Reynolds, the agent of the State of Missouri, from Dixon to Nauvoo, at the time he had Joseph Smith in custody with the intention of taking him to Missouri, between the 26th of June last and the 1st instant; and that the Mormons, friends of Mr. Smith, who met us on said journey, before we arrived at Nauvoo, conducted themselves, so far as we could perceive and were able to judge, with the strictest propriety; and to our knowledge made use of no means of intimidation towards either H. T. Wilson or said Reynolds; but, on the contrary, several of them, and said Smith among that number, pledged themselves that said Wilson and Reynolds should be personally safe; and that said Mormons, none of them as we could perceive, were armed, so far as was discernible; and further, that the statement made in the _Old School Democrat_ of the 12th instant, over the signature of T. H. Reynolds, that he and said Wilson were disarmed soon after they were arrested on the trespass suit commenced against them by said Smith, and that their arms were not returned to them until after the said Smith's discharge at Nauvoo, was incorrect. On the same evening, about sundown, there was a man by the name of Milton Hamilton came into my house and told me to arm and equip myself according to the law and stand in readiness; that the Governor bad demanded Joseph Smith according to law, and that he would not come it (meaning that Joseph Smith would not surrender); that the General had issued orders for the militia to be in readiness to take said Smith. keywords: a. smith; a.m.; affidavit; brethren; brother; carthage; case; christ; church; citizens; city; city council; committee; company; conference; congress; council; county; course; court; day; days; earth; elder; evening; expositor; following; ford; foster; friends; general; general joseph; general smith; george; god; good; government; governor; hancock; hands; higbee; home; house; hyrum smith; illinois; jackson; jail; james; jesus; john; john smith; joseph h.; joseph smith; judge; june; justice; land; law; laws; left; letter; life; like; lord; man; marshal; matter; mayor; meeting; men; missouri; mob; mormon; morning; nation; nauvoo; nauvoo city; nauvoo expositor; nauvoo house; nauvoo legion; new; office; order; ordinance; p.m.; peace; people; persons; phelps; power; present; president joseph; president smith; press; principles; property; prophet; public; read; richards; right; river; room; said; saints; sidenote; spirit; stand; state; subject; sworn; taylor; temple; things; thomas; time; trial; truth; united; want; warsaw; way; willard; william; witness; work; world; writ; young cache: 60758.txt plain text: 60758.txt