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 ".

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* 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 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.

This view is also held in a modified form by groups such as the Latter Day Saints, Christadelphians and Adventist splinter groups such as the Branch Davidians.

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Originally published in 1835 as Doctrine and Covenants of the Church of the Latter Day Saints: Carefully Selected from the Revelations of God, editions of the book continue to be printed mainly by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( LDS Church ) and the Community of Christ ( formerly the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints ( RLDS Church )).

The " Covenants " part of the book, labeled " Covenants and Commandments of the Lord, to his servants of the church of the Latter Day Saints ", contained a total of 103 revelations on church governance.

In 1835, the book was printed and published under the title Doctrine and Covenants of the Church of the Latter Day Saints: Carefully Selected from the Revelations of God.

Officials of Community of Christ ( formerly known as the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints ) first published an edition of the Doctrine and Covenants in 1864, based on the previous 1844 edition.

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.

Today several Latter Day Saint churches are represented in Jackson County, most notably the Community of Christ, the LDS Church, the Church of Christ ( Temple Lot ) and the Church of Christ with the Elijah Message — the first and last two of these have their worldwide headquarters there.

Similarly, there is a high frequency of fumarase deficiency among the 10, 000 members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, a community which practices both endogamy and polygyny, where it is estimated 75 to 80 percent of the community are blood relatives of just two men — founders John Y. Barlow and Joseph Smith Jessop.

Since the Cutlerites assert that the Nauvoo Temple was never truly completed — an allegation contested by the LDS and most other Mormon factions — they allege that the Latter Day Saint church existing from 1830 to 1844 was indeed " rejected " by God.

Her son, Joseph Smith III, became prophet / president of the Reorganization — which gathered many of the Latter Day Saints still scattered across the Midwest and elsewhere.

Joseph Smith's family — including his widow Emma Hale Smith, and her children — continued to live in Nauvoo after the departure of the majority of the Latter Day Saints.

This group was formed in September 2002, when FLDS Church president Warren Jeffs excommunicated Winston Blackmore, who for two decades was Bishop of the Bountiful, British Columbia group of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints ( FLDS Church ), The community split nearly in half — about 700 people continue to follow Blackmore, while about 500 follow Jeffs.

Since the early-20th century, there has been discussion within the Latter Day Saint movement about whether Hill Cumorah in New York is the same place described in the Book of Mormon, or whether there are two hills of the same name — one in New York and one in either Southern Mexico, Central America, or South America.

* Gladden Bishop ( 1809 — 1864 ), leader in the Latter Day Saint movement

" Strang insisted that versions of the Decalogue found in Bibles used by other churches — including other Latter Day Saint churches — contain only nine commandments, not ten.

The Missouri legislature deferred discussion of an appeal by Mormon leaders to rescind the decree, and nearly all Latter Day Saints — more than 10, 000 altogether — had been driven from the state by the spring of 1839.

The Latter Day Church of Christ has continued the practice of polygamy since inception ; additionally it practices close — occasionally incestuous — marriage to maintain " pure bloodlines " that they claim to trace to Jesus Christ.

Purportedly the final testament of an ancient American ruler named " Rajah Manchou of Vorito ", Strang asserted that this discovery vindicated his claims to be the true successor of Joseph Smith, Jr., founder of the Latter Day Saint movement — as opposed to the better-known Brigham Young.

On April 6, 1845 — fifteen years after the original organization of the church — Rigdon presided over a General Conference of Rigdonite Latter Day Saints in Pittsburgh, establishing a new hierarchy.