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no curse on it when Lord comes |
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& I hold forth & deign to give unto you greater [51] Riches even a land
of promise a land flowing with milk & Honey upon which there shall
be no
curse <when the Lord cometh> |
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Cursings |
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& I will give it
unto you for the land of your enheritance if you seek it with all your
hearts |
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[16] & this shall be my covenant with you ye shall have it for the land of
your inheritance & for the inheritance of your Children forever
while the Earth shall stand & ye shall Possess it again in eternity
no more to pass away |
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earth an inheritance: ¶ D&C
45:58, March [6–7], 1831. |
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D&C 52 |
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And thus, even as I have said, if ye are faithful
ye shall assemble yourselves together to rejoice upon the land of Missouri,
which is the land of your inheritance, which is now the land of your enemies. |
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D&C 52:42,
June [6], 1831 |
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| July 1831 |
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Disappointment |
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When we arrived at the place to which our mission destined us, we perceived to our mortification, that disappointment, instead of being confined to the State of Ohio, had journeyed thither before us. We would gladly have avoided here an interview with this, our old companion; but this was impossible, she met us, and stared us in the face which way so ever we turned, nor was it possible to look her out of countenance, or put the blush upon her pallid features, or expel her from our society. Some were for making the best of her they could; but for myself, I resolved that she should be expelled, or at any rate, that her visits should be less frequent, or I would abandon the habituation entirely. |
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DC 58 |
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I give unto my servent Sidney a commandment that he shall write a discription of the Land of Zion & a statement of the will of God … an Epistle & subscription to be presented unto all the Churches to obtain money to be put into the hands of the Bishop to purchase lands for an inheritance for the children of God … & the children of men should ooen their hearts even to purchase this whole region of country as soon as time will permit behold here is wisdom let them do this lest they reserve none inheritance, save it be by the shedding of blood |
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BCR, 97 // D&C
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| November 1831 |
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D&C 69 |
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Oliver Cowdery and John
Whitmer are
to take the commandments and the money for printing them to "the land of
Zion." Members abroad are to send "the accounts of their stewardships to
the land of Zion; For the land of Zion shall be a seat
and a place to receive and do all these things. |
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D&C
69:1, 5–6, 8. |
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Rising generations … shall
grow up on the land of Zion, to possess it from generation to generation,
forever and ever. |
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| December 19, 1831 |
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Land purchase |
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On December 19, 1831 Edward Partridge purchases 63 acres near the courthouse in Independence. |
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| December 26, 27, 1831 |
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Land purchase |
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On December Edward Partridge purchases 80 acres @ $2.80 for $224, and 80 @ $2.50 for $200. The next day he buys another 80 acres $2.00 for $160. |
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Life in Zion |
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Mount Zion, New Jerusalem
No true church without miracles
Deaths
Frontier civilization
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Dwelling as I do among a people called Mormonites, and on
the very land which they sometimes call Mount Zion, at other times the
New Jerusalem; and where, at no distant period, they expect the re-appearing
of the Lord Jesus to live and reign with them on earth a thousand years,—I
have thought that it might be a part of duty, to inform those who may feel
interested in relation of this subject, that although there has, from first
to last, four or five hundred Mormonites in all—men, women, and children—arrived at this place, yet there is no appearance here different from
that of other wicked places. The people eat and drink, and some get drunk,
suffer pain and disease, live and die like other people, the Mormons themselves
not excepted. They declare there can be no true church, where the gift
of miracles, of tongues, of healing, &c. are
not exhibited and continued.—Several of them, however, have died; yet
none of them have been raised from the dead. And the sick, unhappily, seem
not to have faith to be healed of their diseases. One woman, I am told,
declared in her sickness, with much confidence, that she should not die,
but here live and reign with Christ a thousand years; but unfortunately
she died, like other people, three days after. They tell indeed of working
miracles, healing the sick, &c. &c.—These things, however, are
not seen to be done, but only said to be done. People, therefore who set
their faces for the Mount Zion of the West, (which by the by is on a [site]
of ground not much elevated,) must calculate on being disappointed, if
they believe all that is said of the place, or expect much above what is
common in any new country of the West. |
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B. Pixley, "Mormonism," letter
to editor of the Christian Watchman, reprinted in the Cincinnati Journal. |
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