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Official LDS Church historian B. H. Roberts removed the quote from his History of the Church compilation, saying he found evidence that W. W. Phelps wrote that paragraph and that it was " based on inaccurate premises and was offensively pedantic.
LDS historian Todd Compton, in his book In Sacred Loneliness, described various instances where some wives in polygamous marriages were unhappy with polygamy.
LDS historian Todd Compton documented that Joseph Smith married girls of age 13 or 14.
Although the LDS church held considerable real estate, estimated at approximately $ 60, 000 in equity by historian Larry T. Wimmer, it also needed liquidity to repay outstanding loans.
As the LDS historian Richard Bushman has written in his authoritative biography, Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling, " At first, Joseph was reluctant to talk about his vision.
Writing of the " unusual excitement on the subject of religion " described in the First Vision story canonized by the LDS Church, Milton V. Backman, associate professor of history and religion at Brigham Young University, said that although " the tools of the historian " could neither verify nor challenge the First Vision, " records of the past can be examined to determine the reliability of Joseph's description regarding the historical setting.
In the words of LDS historian Richard Bushman, " For most modern readers, the plates are beyond belief, a phantasm, yet the Mormon sources accept them as fact.
Michael Quinn, a historian and former member of the LDS Church, takes issue with the Tanners ' work.
For instance, the historian Daniel C. Peterson, chairman of the LDS apologetics group Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies ( FARMS ) at Brigham Young University, suggested the Tanners ' willingness to debunk false documents regardless of their content was a sign of integrity:
Brigham Henry Roberts ( March 13, 1857 – September 27, 1933 ) was a Mormon leader, historian, and politician who published a six-volume history of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( LDS Church ) and was denied a seat as a member of United States Congress because of his practice of plural marriage.
Notable contributors include Mormon historians Leonard J. Arrington, and Thomas G. Alexander, former Salt Lake City mayor Ted Wilson, noted non-Mormon LDS historian Jan Shipps, authors Steven R. Covey, Gerald N. Lund, and Richard Eyre, respected scholar and apologist Hugh Nibley, and a few members of LDS hierarchy like Paul Evans, H. David Burton, and Jeffery R. Holland.
* Mormon War Letters, the battle correspondence leading up to, and including, the Extermination Order-presented by LDS historian Mel Tungate.
LDS historian Reed Durham writes:
Western historian Leonard Arrington asserts that within ten years of the LDS arrival in the Salt Lake Valley, “… nearly 100 colonies had been planted ; by 1867, more than 200 ; and by the time of ( Brigham Young ’ s ) death in 1877, nearly 400 colonies .” These colonies had four distinct purposes: "... first, settlements intended to be temporary places of gathering and recruitment, such as Carson Valley in Nevada ; second, colonies to serve as centers for production, such as iron at Cedar City, cotton at St. George, cattle in Cache Valley, and sheep in Spanish Fork, all in Utah ; third, colonies to serve as centers for proselytizing and assisting Indians, as at Harmony in southern Utah, Las Vegas in southern Nevada, Fort Lemhi ( north-central Idaho near the Lemhi Pass ), and present-day Moab in eastern Utah ; fourth, permanent colonies in Utah and nearby states and territories to provide homes and farms for the hundreds of new immigrants arriving each summer.

LDS and George
In 1861, George A. Smith organized an LDS branch in the town.
Kurt Widner states that it was primarily through " the post 1883 sermons of LDS Apostle George Q. Cannon that the modern interpretation and significance of the First Vision in Mormonism began to take shape.
" By 1939, even George D. Pyper, an LDS Sunday School superintendent and manager of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, found it " surprising that none of the first song writers wrote intimately of the first vision.
* George Albert Smith ( 1870 – 1951 ), eighth president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( LDS Church )
* George A. Smith ( 1817 – 1875 ), American leader in the Latter Day Saint movement and the LDS Church
These included the early church's Presiding Patriarch and Apostle William Smith ( Joseph's only surviving brother ); Book of Mormon witness Martin Harris ( who left and later rejoined the LDS Church in Utah ); Nauvoo Stake President William Marks ; second Bishop of the Church and church trustee-in-trust George Miller, Apostle John E. Page ; former Apostle William M ' Lellin ; and many others.
LDS leader President George Albert Smith responded to this issue thus: "... the Lord reveals anything to men He reveals it in language that accords with their own.
Early in his time as an Apostle, Kimball was directed by LDS Church President George Albert Smith to spend extra time in religious and humanitarian work with Native Americans, which Kimball did throughout his life.
Smith married Ethel Georgina Reynolds ( born 23 October 1889 ), the daughter of prominent LDS Church leader George Reynolds, on November 2, 1908.
In January 1866, City Hall was dedicated by George Q. Cannon, a prominent LDS leader.
The literary development in this period then stimulated the development of the first professional LDS publishing company independent of the Church, George Q. Cannon and Sons, now part of Church-owned Deseret Book.
George Quayle Cannon ( January 11, 1827 – April 12, 1901 ) was an early member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( LDS Church ), and served in the First Presidency under four successive presidents of the church: Brigham Young, John Taylor, Wilford Woodruff, and Lorenzo Snow.
His descendant George I. Cannon was a general authority of the LDS Church from 1986 to 1991.
Marion George Romney ( September 19, 1897 – May 20, 1988 ) was an apostle and a member of the First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( LDS Church ).
George Teasdale ( 8 December 1831 – 9 June 1907 ) born in London, England, was a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( LDS Church ).
George Franklin Richards ( February 23, 1861 – August 8, 1950 ) was a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( LDS Church ) from April 9, 1906 until his death.
After George Richards ' death, one of his sons, LeGrand, became a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of the LDS Church, thus making the Richards family only the third Latter-day Saint family in history with three consecutive generations with members in the Quorum ( the others being the three-generation combination of George A. Smith, John Henry Smith, and George Albert Smith and the three generation combination of Amasa M. Lyman, Francis M. Lyman, and Richard R. Lyman ).
Richards was the longest-lived LDS Apostle until David B. Haight ; Both his father George F. Richards and grandfather Franklin D. Richards had served as President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles.
George Quayle Morris ( February 20, 1874 – April 23, 1962 ) was a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( LDS Church ) from 1954 until his death.
George Reynolds was a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( LDS Church ), charged with bigamy under the Morrill Anti-Bigamy Act after marrying Amelia Jane Schofield while still married to Mary Ann Tuddenham in Utah Territory.
However when Carey failed to keep his promise and arrested George Q. Cannon, the LDS Church leaders decided that they would no longer cooperate with him.
George Albert Smith, Sr. ( April 4, 1870 – April 4, 1951 ) was the eighth president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( LDS Church ).

LDS and D
* Quinn, D. Michael ( 1985 ), " LDS Church Authority and New Plural Marriages, 1890-1904 ," Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 18. 1 ( Spring 1985 ): 9-105.
There is also a replica of this statue in the LDS Visitor Centers at the Mesa Arizona Temple, the Laie Hawaii Temple, the Mexico City Mexico Temple, the Los Angeles California Temple, the Portland Oregon Temple, the Washington D. C. Temple, and the Hamilton New Zealand Temple.
* Morris D. Rosenbaum-prominent businessman in early Utah and one of the few Jewish people to join the LDS Church during the 19th century.
In 1893, married LDS Church member John D. Miles traveled to England and proposed to Caroline Owens, assuring her that he was not polygamous.
LDS doctrine also states that archangel Michael was the first man, Adam ( D & C 128: 20-21 ).
Bronze statue on the LDS Church | LDS Church's Temple Square ( Salt Lake City, Utah, USA ) depicting Peter, James, son of Zebedee | James, and John the Apostle | John conferring the Melchizedek priesthood ( Latter Day Saints ) | Melchizedek priesthood in A. D. 1829 to Joseph Smith and Oliver Cowdery
* Mormon Choir of Washington, D. C .-80 singers and musicians selected by audition from about 50 congregations in the Maryland and Virginia regions of The Church of LDS
There have been many LDS and non-LDS scholars and historians who have noted the similarities between the Mormon belief of eternal progression and the espoused beliefs of the fathers of the early Christian Church, especially in relation to those patristic writings of the first, second, and third centuries A. D.
LDS apologist Hugh Nibley and BYU Egyptologists John Gee and Michael D. Rhodes have offered detailed rebuttals to the criticisms and explanations of the differences.
In a similar vein, the earliest sections of the Doctrine and Covenants contain statements such as " if ye have desires to serve God ye are called to the work " ( LDS D & C 4: 3 ) and " whosoever will thrust in his sickle and reap, the same is called of God " ( LDS D & C 6: 4 ).
The sacramental prayers are different from most other prayers in the LDS Church in that they must be recited verbatim ( according to the prayer as found in an LDS-published translation of the D & C ).
Commanded in an 1830 revelation ( LDS D & C 27: 2-4 ) not to purchase alcohol from enemies, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints focused on producing its own wine, eventually owning and operating vineyards and wineries in Utah and California ( including Napa Valley ) during the 19th century.
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Ezra Taft Benson ( August 4, 1899 – May 30, 1994 ) was the thirteenth president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( LDS Church ) from 1985 until his death and was United States Secretary of Agriculture for both terms of the presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower.
In 1939 he moved to Washington, D. C. to become Executive Secretary of the National Council of Farmer Cooperatives, and became the first president of a new LDS Church stake there.
About half of the revelations in the Doctrine and Covenants are in some way connected to this translation process, including background on the Apocrypha ( LDS D & C section 91 CoC D & C 88 ), the three degrees of glory ( LDS section 76 CoC Section 85 ), the eternal nature of marriage and plural marriage ( LDS section 132 ), teachings on baptism for the dead ( LDS section 124 CoC Section 107 ), various revelations on priesthood ( LDS sections 84, 88, 107 CoC Sections 83 104 ) and others.

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