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Letter to Edward Partridge, William W. Phelps, and Others, 30 March 1834

 
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in Jackson County

Settled at Fort Osage, 1808. County created, 16 Feb. 1825; organized 1826. Named after U.S. President Andrew Jackson. Featured fertile lands along Missouri River and was Santa Fe Trail departure point, which attracted immigrants to area. Area of county reduced...

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, where, ere long, he will set his  feet, when earth & heaven shall tremble!
Be united, brethren, in all your moves, and stand by  each other even unto death that you may prevail.
I remain your brother in the new covenant

Generally referred to the “fullness of [the] gospel”—the sum total of the church’s message, geared toward establishing God’s covenant people on the earth; also used to describe individual elements of the gospel, including marriage. According to JS, the everlasting...

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Joseph Smith Jun.
P.S. To bro. William

17 Feb. 1792–7 Mar. 1872. Writer, teacher, printer, newspaper editor, publisher, postmaster, lawyer. Born at Hanover, Morris Co., New Jersey. Son of Enon Phelps and Mehitabel Goldsmith. Moved to Homer, Cortland Co., New York, 1800. Married Sally Waterman,...

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— You say “my press, my  types, &c.” Where, our brethren ask, did you get them, &  how came they to be “yours?” No hardness, but a caution;  for you know, that it is, We, not I, and all things are the  Lord’s, and he opened the hearts of his Church

The Book of Mormon related that when Christ set up his church in the Americas, “they which were baptized in the name of Jesus, were called the church of Christ.” The first name used to denote the church JS organized on 6 April 1830 was “the Church of Christ...

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 to  furnish these things, or we should not have been privi leged with using them. [p. 36]

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Letter to Edward Partridge, William W. Phelps, and Others, 30 March 1834
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