Utah and the Mormons: The History, Government, Doctrines, Customs, and Prospects of the Latter-day Saints. From Personal Observation During a Six Months' Residence at Great Salt Lake CityHarper and brothers, 1854 - 347 páginas "In the early part of the summer of 1852 I was solicited to discharge the duties of Secretary of the Territory of Utah ... The result has been a six months residence in the Valley of the Great Salt Lake, embracing the severe winter of 1852-3 ... The aim has been to give a strictly impartial account of the Mormons as they have been and as they are, without abstaining, however, from a free expression of opinion, whenever the facts seemed to warrant a fair conclusion ..."--Preface |
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... whole route : prairie chickens , ducks , hare , ante- lope , & c . , afford rare sport in the hunting , and furnish food fit for an emperor . But the buffalo is the most noted , useful , and interesting of all the wild game to be found ...
... whole route : prairie chickens , ducks , hare , ante- lope , & c . , afford rare sport in the hunting , and furnish food fit for an emperor . But the buffalo is the most noted , useful , and interesting of all the wild game to be found ...
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... whole train , and it was with much difficulty we stopped and quieted our mules . At another time a herd of some three thousand were feeding along the banks of the river , and never discovered us until we were pass- ing nearly opposite ...
... whole train , and it was with much difficulty we stopped and quieted our mules . At another time a herd of some three thousand were feeding along the banks of the river , and never discovered us until we were pass- ing nearly opposite ...
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... whole dis- tance . This cañon is half a mile wide , is walled in by precipitous ridges , and the rocks , in many places , are worn into the same castellated forms so common in the vicinity of Scott's Bluffs . In one place the rocks were ...
... whole dis- tance . This cañon is half a mile wide , is walled in by precipitous ridges , and the rocks , in many places , are worn into the same castellated forms so common in the vicinity of Scott's Bluffs . In one place the rocks were ...
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... whole race . Their broad features , wide mouths , low foreheads , and black , snaky , venomous eyes , make up a collection of disagreeables which they manage to heighten by paint , filth , and outlandish ornaments . Their most stylish ...
... whole race . Their broad features , wide mouths , low foreheads , and black , snaky , venomous eyes , make up a collection of disagreeables which they manage to heighten by paint , filth , and outlandish ornaments . Their most stylish ...
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... whole distance from Missouri to Oregon and Califor- nia . Gold has only been discovered in Carson Valley , near the line separating Utah from California , but there are strong indications that it abounds in other portions of the ...
... whole distance from Missouri to Oregon and Califor- nia . Gold has only been discovered in Carson Valley , near the line separating Utah from California , but there are strong indications that it abounds in other portions of the ...
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Página 209 - We believe that through the Atonement of Christ, all mankind may be saved, by obedience to the laws and ordinances of the Gospel.
Página 339 - Verily thus saith the Lord unto you, my servant Joseph, that inasmuch as you have inquired of my hand, to know and understand wherein I, the Lord, justified my servants Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, as also Moses, David and Solomon, my servants, as touching the principle and doctrine of their having many wives and concubines: Behold! and lo I am the Lord, thy God, and will answer thee as touching this matter.
Página 234 - God commanded Abraham, and Sarah gave Hagar to Abraham to wife. And why did she do it ? Because this was the law, and from Hagar sprang many people. This, therefore, was fulfilling, among other things, the promises.
Página 340 - ... neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are appointed angels in heaven, which angels are ministering servants, to minister for those who are worthy of a far more and an exceeding and an eternal weight of glory...
Página 343 - And as ye have asked concerning adultery — verily, verily I say unto you, if a man receiveth a wife in the new and everlasting covenant, and if she be with another man, and I have not appointed unto her by the holy anointing, she hath committed adultery, and shall be destroyed.
Página 114 - And again, as pertaining to the law of the Priesthood : If any man espouse a virgin, and desire to espouse another, and the first give her consent ; and if he espouse the second, and they are virgins, and have vowed to no other man, then is he justified ; he cannot commit adultery, for they are given unto him; for he cannot commit adultery with that that belongeth unto him and to no one else...
Página 345 - And if he have ten virgins given unto him by this law, he cannot commit adultery, for they belong to him, and they are given unto him, therefore is he justified.
Página 342 - This promise is yours also, because ye are of Abraham, and the promise was made unto Abraham, and by this law are the continuation of the works of my father, wherein he glorifieth himself.
Página 343 - And verily, verily, I say unto you, that whatsoever you seal on earth, shall be sealed in heaven; and whatsoever you bind on earth, in my name, and by my word, saith the Lord, it shall be eternally bound in the heavens; and whosesoever sins you remit on earth, shall be remitted eternally in the heavens ; and whosesoever sins you retain on earth, shall be retained in heaven.
Página 210 - We believe all that God has revealed, all that He does now reveal, and we believe that He will yet reveal many great and important things pertaining to the kingdom of God. 10. We believe in the literal gathering of Israel and in the restoration of the Ten Tribes; that Zion will be built upon this continent; that Christ will reign personally upon the earth; and that the earth will be renewed and receive its paradisiacal glory.
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Spokesman for the Kingdom: Early Mormon Journalism and the Deseret News ... Monte Burr McLaws Vista de fragmentos - 1977 |