We do well to remind ourselves that from men and women of New England ancestry also issued the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, the Seventh Day Adventists, Christian Science, the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, the American Home Missionary Society, the American Bible Society, and New England theology.

* 1830 – The Church of Christ, the original church of the Latter Day Saint movement, is organized by Joseph Smith, Jr. and others at Fayette or Manchester, New York.

* 1860 – The Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints — later renamed Community of Christ — is organized by Joseph Smith III and others at Amboy, Illinois

Latter Day Saints believe that the soul existed before earth life and will exist in the hereafter.

Within the sects of the Latter Day Saint movement, the Articles of Faith are a list composed by Joseph Smith, Jr. as part of an 1842 letter sent to " Long " John Wentworth, editor of the Chicago Democrat.

* Apostle ( Latter Day Saints )

Joseph Smith, Jr., founder of the Latter Day Saint movement ( commonly called Mormonism ), in the Joseph Smith Translation of the Bible ( called by some the " Inspired Version ", and published by the RLDS under that title ), declared the Adamic language to have been " pure and undefiled ".

Category: Latter Day Saint doctrines, beliefs, and practices

Category: Latter Day Saint temple practices

Latter Day Saints — who consider themselves restorationists rather than Protestants — also practice ritual anointing of the sick, as well as other forms of anointing.

Category: Latter Day Saint ordinances, rituals, and symbolism

* 1829 – Joseph Smith, Jr., founder of the Latter Day Saint movement, commences translation of the Book of Mormon, with Oliver Cowdery as his scribe.

The Book of Mormon is a sacred text of the Latter Day Saint movement that adherents believe contains writings of ancient prophets who lived on the American continent from approximately 2200 BC to AD 421.

The Book of Mormon is the earliest of the unique writings of the Latter Day Saint movement, the denominations of which typically regard the text not only as scripture but also as a historical record of God's dealings with the ancient inhabitants of the Americas.

Brigham Young (; June 1, 1801 – August 29, 1877 ) was an American leader in the Latter Day Saint movement and a settler of the Western United States.

Other groups originating in this time period include the Christadelphians and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the largest denomination of the Latter Day Saint movement with over 14 million members.

Community of Christ, the former Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints ( RLDS ), is opposed to capital punishment.

It is the largest church originating on American soil, and it is the largest denomination in the Latter Day Saint movement started by Joseph Smith during the period of religious revival known as the Second Great Awakening.

The history of the The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is typically divided into three broad time periods: ( 1 ) the early history during the lifetime of Joseph Smith, Jr. which is in common with all Latter Day Saint movement churches, ( 2 ) a " pioneer era " under the leadership of Brigham Young and his 19th century successors, and ( 3 ) a modern era beginning around the turn of the 20th century as Utah achieved statehood.

However, in 1833, Missouri settlers brutally expelled the Latter Day Saints from Jackson County, and the church was unable via a paramilitary expedition to recover the land.

Other splinter groups, excommunicated from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, followed other leaders in their own interpretation of the Latter Day Saint movement.

The book has existed in numerous forms, with varying content, throughout the history of the Church and has also been published in differing formats by the various Latter Day Saint denominations.

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The history of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( LDS Church ) is typically divided into three broad time periods: ( 1 ) the early history during the lifetime of Joseph Smith, Jr. which is in common with all Latter Day Saint movement churches, ( 2 ) a " pioneer era " under the leadership of Brigham Young and his 19th Century successors, and ( 3 ) a modern era beginning around the turn of the 20th century as the practice of polygamy was discontinued.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints traces its origins to western New York, where Joseph Smith, Jr., founder of the Latter Day Saint movement was born and raised.

The early history of the LDS Church is shared with other denominations of the Latter Day Saint movement, who all regard Joseph Smith, Jr. as the founder of their religious tradition.

* Latter Day Saint Historians

Beug was a Latter Day Saint.

The Doctrine and Covenants ( sometimes abbreviated and cited as D & C or D. and C .) is a part of the open scriptural canon of several denominations of the Latter Day Saint movement.

Controversy has existed between the two largest denominations of the Latter Day Saint movement over some sections added to the 1876 LDS edition, attributed to founder Smith.

On September 24, 1834 a committee was appointed by the general assembly of the church to organize a new volume containing the most significant Latter Day Saint revelations.

A resulting schism over the legitimacy of these changes led to the formation of the Restoration Branches movement, the Restoration Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and the Remnant Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.

In the Latter Day Saint movement, an evangelist is an ordained office of the ministry.

In some denominations of the movement, an evangelist is referred to as a patriarch ( see Patriarch ( Latter Day Saints )).

Hyrum himself was killed in 1844 along with Joseph, resulting in a Succession crisis that broke the Latter Day Saint movement into several smaller denominations.

* 1844 – Joseph Smith, Jr., founder of the Latter Day Saint movement, and his brother Hyrum Smith, are murdered by a mob at the Carthage, Illinois jail.

* 1801 – Brigham Young, American leader in the Latter Day Saint movement ( d. 1877 )

Joseph Smith ( 1805 – 1844 ) was an American religious leader and the founder of the Latter Day Saint movement, which gave rise to Mormonism.

Mormons () are a religious and cultural group related to Mormonism, the principal branch of the Latter Day Saint movement, which began with the visions of Joseph Smith in upstate New York during the 1820s.

The term has been embraced by most adherents of Mormonism, most notably Mormon fundamentalists, while other Latter Day Saint denominations, such as the Community of Christ, have rejected it.

Mormonism is the religion practiced by Mormons, and is the predominant religious tradition of the Latter Day Saint movement.

Mormonism is a form of Christian primitivism that shares a common set of beliefs with the rest of the Latter Day Saint movement, including use of, and belief in, the Bible, as well as other religious texts including the Book of Mormon and Doctrine and Covenants.

** Joseph Smith, Jr., American prophet, founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints ( Mormonism ) ( b. 1805 )

* William Smith ( Latter Day Saints ) ( 1811 – 1893 ), younger brother of the founder of Mormonism, Joseph Smith, Jr., and a leader in the Latter Day Saint movement

* Penalty ( Mormonism ), an oath made during the original Nauvoo Endowment ceremony of the Latter Day Saint movement

Palmyra is the birthplace of the Latter Day Saint movement and Mormonism.

* Mormonism ( Latter Day Saint movement )

Martin Harris ( Latter Day Saints ) | Martin Harris circa 1870, age 87. Strang found his greatest support among the scattered outlying branches of Mormonism, which he frequently toured.

The church also disavows plural marriage, and is unique in the Latter Day Saint movement in that it teaches the existence of a bipartite god ( God the Father and Jesus Christ ), as opposed to the usual three part godhead of Mormonism ( God the Father, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit ).

Trinitarianism has been adopted by the Community of Christ, which is part of the Latter Day Saint movement, but not part of Mormonism.

The Latter Day Saint movement is a religious movement within Christianity that arose during the Second Great Awakening in the early 19th century and that led to the set of doctrines, practices, and cultures called Mormonism and to the existence of numerous Latter Day Saint churches.

Most Latter Day Saints trace the beginnings of Mormonism to Joseph Smith's First Vision, which he said he had in about 1820 in the woods near his home.

The doctrines of the Latter Day Saint movement, commonly referred to as Mormonism, teach that its adherents are either direct descendants of the House of Israel, or are adopted into it.

In Mormonism, all Latter Day Saints are viewed as covenant, or chosen, people ; they have accepted the name of Jesus Christ.

Other prominent individuals in the early movement included Sidney Rigdon and Parley P. Pratt, who, along with more than 3, 000 of their adherents converted to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints or " Mormonism " in the 1830s in Ohio.

Mormon () is believed by followers of Mormonism to have been the narrator of much of the Book of Mormon, a sacred text of the Latter Day Saint movement, which describes him as a prophet-historian and a member of a tribe of indigenous Americans known as the Nephites.

Joseph Smith, Jr., the founder of the Latter Day Saint movement, lived in and abided by a male-centered world ; most of the early founding events of Mormonism involved only men.

Mormonism may be considered as the primary branch of the Latter Day Saint movement.