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History of the Mormonites |
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Early dissident Josiah Jones provides
a glimpse into the religious life of Kirtland Saints. This is among the
first and most detailed accounts of Lamanite missionaries Oliver Cowdery,
Parley P. Pratt, Peter Whitmer Jr., and Ziba Peterson in Kirtland and the
impact of their ministry. It also provides some of the scant details we
have of Isaac Morley's common stock communities. |
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History of
the Mormonites |
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Ezra Booth
letters |
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Ezra
Booth Letters |
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Popular Methodist minister, Ezra
Booth, joins the church early in 1831, goes to Missouri with Joseph,
Sidney, and others, and comes to the conclusion that Mormonism is a hoax
and a fraud. Beginning in September 1831 he writes nine letters detailing
his experience. They are published in the Ohio Star between October
and December 1831. |
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| 1832 |
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Tarring of Joseph
and Sidney |
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Joseph and Sidney are dragged from
their beds, tarred and feathered. The mob is led by former Mormon and Campbellite
preacher Simonds Ryder. Other former Mormons include Methodist minister
Ezra Booth, brothers Eli and Edward Johnson (not sons of John Johnson Sr.)
and John Johnson Jr. |
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Tarring
of Joseph and Sidney |
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George A. Smith
on early opposition in and outside the church |
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George A. Smith (1858)
relates how Joseph and the church were scoffed at by the learned, abused
by the newspapers, and persecuted by blackguards. Early converts of all
stripes. Some departed for frivolous reasons, others to start their own
churches, but all wound up fighting against the work of God. Numerous anecdotes
about apostates to make his point that envy, hypocrisy, and adultery lead
to apostasy—and dissenters are immoral. |
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Doings
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| 1837 |
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Denunciation
of Warren Parrish and other dissenters |
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Argument
to Argument |
| August |
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August 1838 Elders'
Journal attack on Warren Parrish and other 1837 dissenters in an unattributed
article, Joseph Smith, editor. Parrish is accused of embezzling from
the Kirtland Safety Society Bank and leading the attack on the Prophet in
the Kirtland Temple. Co-conspirators: Leonard Rich, John F. Boynton, Luke
S. Johnson, Stephen Burnett, Sylvester Smith, Grandison Newell. Others denounced:
Warren Cowdery, Martin Harris, Joseph Coe, Cyrus Smalling. Rhetoric reminiscent
of Sidney Rigdon's "Salt Sermon" delivered a few weeks earlier.
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Ohio
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