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Notice, August 1837
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CAUTION.
To the brethren and friends of the church of Latter Day Saints,
I am dis posed to say a word relative to the bills of the Kirtland Safety
Society Bank. I hereby warn them to beware of spec ulators, renegadoes
and gamblers, who are duping the unsuspecting and the unwary,
by palming upon them, those bills, which are of no worth, here. I discountenance
and disapprove of any and all such practices. I know them to
be detrimental to the best interests of society, as well as to the
principles of religion.
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...
View GlossaryLocated ten miles south of Lake Erie. Settled by 1811. Organized by 1818. Population in 1830 about 55 Latter-day Saints and 1,000 others; in 1838 about 2,000 Saints and 1,200 others; in 1839 about 100 Saints and 1,500 others. Mormon missionaries visited township...
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JS, notice, Kirtland, OH, Aug. 1837; “Caution,” Latter Day Saints’ Messenger and Advocate, Aug. 1837, p. 560.
Located ten miles south of Lake Erie. Settled by 1811. Organized by 1818. Population in 1830 about 55 Latter-day Saints and 1,000 others; in 1838 about 2,000 Saints and 1,200 others; in 1839 about 100 Saints and 1,500 others. Mormon missionaries visited township...
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