item: #1 of 17 id: 17279 author: Dougall, L. (Lily) title: The Mormon Prophet date: None words: 100417 flesch: 80 summary: I thought it right to tell our sister Susannah Halsey that her Gentile home had suffered bereavement. Our sister Susannah Halsey, because of faithfulness when the Church was yet poor and unknown, and because of the faithfulness of her husband, who wears the martyr's crown--our sister Susannah Halsey, I say, is welcome to the hospitality of the Nauvoo House as long as she has remained and shall remain; and the money which has been given to her for the school shall be returned to her, and more shall be added to it, for she laboured faithfully. keywords: angel; child; children; church; day; door; elvira; emma; ephraim; eyes; face; faith; finney; god; good; halsey; hand; head; heart; house; husband; joseph; joseph smith; life; look; lord; love; man; men; mind; mormon; nauvoo; new; night; open; people; place; prophet; road; room; saints; set; sister; smith; soul; susannah; thing; thought; time; truth; voice; way; white; wife; woman; words; work; young cache: 17279.txt plain text: 17279.txt item: #2 of 17 id: 34362 author: Widtsoe, John Andreas title: Joseph Smith as Scientist: A Contribution to Mormon Philosophy date: None words: 44458 flesch: 66 summary: It is the degree of organized intelligence that ultimately distinguishes one man from other men; men from beasts, beasts from plants, and plants from rocks. Up to the present time, many scientific men have not found it necessary to postulate an intelligent force behind the phenomena of nature, which would explain our earthly existence. keywords: "[a; day; doctrine; earth; energy; ether; faith; footnote; forces; god; great; intelligence; joseph; joseph smith; law; laws; life; light; man; matter; men; nature; prophet; science; sidenote; smith; spirit; things; time; universe; world; years cache: 34362.txt plain text: 34362.txt item: #3 of 17 id: 35360 author: Roberts, B. H. (Brigham Henry) title: Joseph Smith the Prophet-Teacher: A Discourse date: None words: 15758 flesch: 65 summary: In regard to that monstrous doctrine that God, by the exercise of His sovereign will, had predestined some men and angels unto everlasting life, while others He ordained to everlasting death; and that, not because of the good or the evil they had done or might do, but because he had so willed it by his sovereign will; that the number of such men and angels thus predestined are so peculiarly and unchangeably known, and their number so certain and definite that it can not be either increased or diminished--against this monstrous view of the doctrine of salvation for the race of men, our Prophet declared salvation to be free, and every soul of man capable of participating therein, if happily he should seek salvation; and that man could be assured of the help and grace of God to aid him in the attainment of salvation. Notwithstanding Moses, one of the God-inspired teachers of men, said that God created man in His own image, in the image of God created He him; and Jesus, by a prophet of the New Testament, was declared to be the express image of God's person (Hebrews i: 2, 3). keywords: doctrine; god; intelligences; joseph; knowledge; law; man; men; people; power; prophet; smith; things; time; truth; universe; world cache: 35360.txt plain text: 35360.txt item: #4 of 17 id: 44907 author: Pratt, Orson title: An Interesting Account of Several Remarkable Visions And of the Late Discovery of Ancient American Records date: None words: 12308 flesch: 59 summary: Some few were called and ordained by the spirit of revelation and prophecy, and began to preach and bear testimony, as the spirit gave them utterance; and although they were the weak things of the earth, yet they were strengthened by the Holy Ghost, and gave forth their testimony in great power, by which means many were brought to repentance, and came forward with broken hearts and contrite spirits, and were immersed in water confessing their sins, and were filled with the Holy Ghost by the laying on of hands; and saw visions and prophesied. If he went to the religious denominations to seek information, each one pointed to its particular tenets, saying--This is the way, walk ye in it; while, at the same time, the doctrines of each were in many respects, in direct opposition to one another, It also occurred to his mind that God was the author of but one doctrine, and therefore could acknowledge but one denomination as his church, and that such denomination must be a people, who believe and teach that one doctrine, (whatever it may be,) and build upon the same. keywords: christ; earth; god; gospel; holy; lord; nephites; people; power; records; things; time cache: 44907.txt plain text: 44907.txt item: #5 of 17 id: 45619 author: Smith, Lucy title: History of the Prophet Joseph, by His Mother date: None words: 99972 flesch: 71 summary: _Children of Wilkins J. and Catherine Salisbury; which Catharine was the daughter of first Joseph Smith._ This history of the Prophet Joseph Smith, originally entitled, The History of Mother Smith, by Herself, was written at the dictation of Lucy Smith, mother of the Prophet, by Mrs. Martha Jane Knowlton Coray who acted as her amanuensis. keywords: book; brethren; brother; chapter; children; church; company; county; day; days; death; family; father; general; god; hands; harris; heart; home; house; husband; hyrum; joseph; joseph smith; left; life; little; lord; man; men; miles; mind; missouri; mob; morning; mother; night; order; people; place; plates; rest; room; samuel; saw; set; sick; smith; son; state; things; time; way; wife; work cache: 45619.txt plain text: 45619.txt item: #6 of 17 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: #7 of 17 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: #8 of 17 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: #9 of 17 id: 47316 author: Roberts, B. H. (Brigham Henry) title: New Witnesses for God (Volume 2 of 3) date: None words: 153219 flesch: 66 summary: My treatment of the subject here has simply to do with the physical character of the great divisions of the western hemisphere in Book of Mormon times. At other times he employed the ministry of angels, or made known his purposes by dreams. keywords: account; america; ancient; angel; bible; book; brother; central; chapter; christ; church; cities; city; civilization; colony; cowdery; david; day; days; earth; ether; evidence; fact; faith; father; following; god; gospel; government; great; harris; history; holy; jesus; joseph; joseph smith; king; knowledge; lamanites; land; left; lehi; life; lord; man; manner; martin; means; men; mormon; mosiah; native; nephite; new; north; oliver; people; place; plates; power; prophet; prophet joseph; record; revelation; ruins; smith; son; south; statement; stone; subject; testimony; things; time; traditions; translation; truth; vol; way; western; whitmer; witnesses; work; world; years cache: 47316.txt plain text: 47316.txt item: #10 of 17 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: #11 of 17 id: 54337 author: Stevenson, Edward title: Reminiscences of Joseph, the Prophet, and the Coming Forth of the Book of Mormon date: None words: 25013 flesch: 72 summary: While the prisoners were confined in this jail, young Joseph Smith and Emma, his mother, visited their husband and father. The picture herewith presented is one of the few produced of the Prophet Joseph Smith. keywords: book; chapter; day; father; god; hill; joseph; joseph smith; land; lord; man; martin; men; mormon; people; plates; prophet; smith; thee; things; time; unto; vision; words; work; years cache: 54337.txt plain text: 54337.txt item: #12 of 17 id: 56698 author: Cannon, George Q. (George Quayle) title: The Latter-Day Prophet: History of Joseph Smith Written for Young People date: None words: 55176 flesch: 79 summary: After a very pleasant two week's visit among the Saints Joseph departed for home. Soon after the Prophet Joseph came to Kirtland he sent forth Elders and Priests and he himself went for a short time to Michigan. keywords: apostles; brethren; brother; camp; chapter; church; county; day; days; god; governor; home; john; joseph; joseph smith; kirtland; life; lord; man; men; missouri; mob; morning; nauvoo; new; night; oliver; peace; people; prophet; prophet joseph; river; saints; set; spirit; time; time joseph; way; work; zion cache: 56698.txt plain text: 56698.txt item: #13 of 17 id: 59951 author: Roberts, B. H. (Brigham Henry) title: New Witnesses for God (Volume 3 of 3) date: None words: 181743 flesch: 66 summary: Moreover, notwithstanding some of these writers advance the theory that the native Americans are descendants of the ten lost tribes of Israel, and their books contain fragmentary and disconnected information concerning American antiquities--no one acquainted with these works could possibly regard them as being the source whence Book of Mormon incidents or customs of Book of Mormon peoples were drawn, a fact which will be more apparent after we have considered--as we shall later consider--the originality of the Book of Mormon. In dealing with the question of the New Testament phraseology in the Book of Mormon it is Joseph Smith that has to be dealt with, not Nephi [or other Book of Mormon writers], the translator, not the original writers. keywords: account; america; ancient; author; bible; book; chapter; christ; christian; church; colony; country; course; day; days; death; divine; earth; evidence; evil; existence; fact; father; following; forth; god; good; gospel; hebrew; history; holy; human; iii; isaiah; israel; jerusalem; jesus; jews; joseph; king; knowledge; land; language; law; lehi; life; light; lord; man; manner; manuscript; matter; men; messiah; mormon; names; nations; native; nephi; nephite; new; origin; pass; people; place; plates; power; prophecy; prophet; purpose; race; record; revelation; rigdon; scriptures; smith; son; spaulding; spirit; statement; style; subject; theory; things; time; translation; truth; vol; way; words; work; world; years cache: 59951.txt plain text: 59951.txt item: #14 of 17 id: 59970 author: Cannon, George Q. (George Quayle) title: The Life of Joseph Smith, the Prophet date: None words: 183386 flesch: 66 summary: We see from the _Nauvoo Neighbor_ that General Joseph Smith, the great Mormon Prophet, has become a candidate for the next Presidency. At this first visit the Prophet Joseph heard, for the first time, the gift of speaking in tongues. keywords: apostles; authority; blood; boggs; brethren; brother; brother joseph; carthage; cause; chapter; children; christ; church; citizens; city; conference; county; court; day; day saints; days; death; earth; elders; enemies; faith; father; ford; friends; general; god; good; gospel; governor; hands; heaven; holy; home; hour; house; hyrum; illinois; jesus; john; joseph; joseph smith; june; justice; kirtland; law; life; like; little; lord; man; meeting; men; missouri; mob; mormons; morning; nauvoo; new; night; oliver; order; people; place; power; priesthood; prophet; prophet joseph; purpose; revelation; saints; sidney; spirit; state; things; time; time joseph; truth; voice; way; west; william; words; work; world; years; young; zion cache: 59970.txt plain text: 59970.txt item: #15 of 17 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: #16 of 17 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: #17 of 17 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