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||Joseph F. Smith wrote to Orson Pratt that a “few years ago [I] tried to get affidavits regarding Joseph Smith and ‘celestial marriage.’ . . . I was astonished at the scarcity of evidence. I might say almost total absence of direct evidence upon the subject as connected with the prophet Joseph himself.” | ||Joseph F. Smith wrote to Orson Pratt that a “few years ago [I] tried to get affidavits regarding Joseph Smith and ‘celestial marriage.’ . . . I was astonished at the scarcity of evidence. I might say almost total absence of direct evidence upon the subject as connected with the prophet Joseph himself.” | ||
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− | *If the church had scant evidence in 1875, what evidence did those compiling the ''History of the Church'' more than twenty years earlier have? This speaks directly to Smith's complaints about the ''History of the Church''. | + | *If the church had scant evidence in 1875, what evidence did those compiling the ''History of the Church'' more than twenty years earlier have? This speaks directly to Smith's complaints about the ''History of the Church''. |
+ | *[[Censorship_and_revision_of_LDS_history]] | ||
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*Joseph F. Smith to Orson Pratt Sr., 19 July 1875, Joseph F. Smith Letterbooks, Ms d 1325, Joseph F. Smith Collection, Church History Library and Archives. | *Joseph F. Smith to Orson Pratt Sr., 19 July 1875, Joseph F. Smith Letterbooks, Ms d 1325, Joseph F. Smith Collection, Church History Library and Archives. | ||
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||"Mormons accepted as sufficient the explanation that Joseph Smith's death was due to an angry mob, without caring to know specifically what those Illinois neighbors had been angry about. | ||"Mormons accepted as sufficient the explanation that Joseph Smith's death was due to an angry mob, without caring to know specifically what those Illinois neighbors had been angry about. |
Chapter 6 | A FAIR Analysis of: Criticism of Mormonism/Books A work by author: George D. Smith
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"…the 1846 temple sealings, which re-comemorated previously conducted plural marriages, were carefully noted in Nauvoo temple records." |
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Censorship of Church History (edit) |
423 |
In Nauvoo, Joseph "had appropriated church members' charitable donations for real estate speculation, buying low and selling high to those immigrants who could afford to pay." |
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429 |
"A friend of Nancy Rigdon, Francis had become concerned in 1842 over Smith's advances toward her." |
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John C. Bennett (edit) |
435 |
"Dallin H. Oaks asserted that the 'abatement of newspapers publishing scandalous or provocative material' was not considered a violation of freedom of the press at the time….drawing no distinction between the destruction of a newspaper without a trial and a libel charge being tried in the courts." |
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Nauvoo Expositor (edit) |
438–439 |
G.D. Smith follows William Law's claims about Joseph mismanaging or defrauding the Lawrence estate. |
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442 |
"Instead of evaluating a difficult past in order not to repeat it, the church leadership tried to separate its troubles from their apparent causes." |
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445 |
William Clayton's "discussion of plural marriage was at once turned into a charge of having had 'unlawful intercourse with women.'" |
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William Clayton (edit)
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446 |
G.D. Smith mentions that Andrew Jenson published about plural wives, only to have Wilford Woodruff complain about him having done so. G.D. Smith has continuously argued that the Church has striven to hide or suppress knowledge of polygamy. |
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447 |
Joseph F. Smith wrote to Orson Pratt that a “few years ago [I] tried to get affidavits regarding Joseph Smith and ‘celestial marriage.’ . . . I was astonished at the scarcity of evidence. I might say almost total absence of direct evidence upon the subject as connected with the prophet Joseph himself.” |
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Censorship of Church History (edit) |
449 |
"Mormons accepted as sufficient the explanation that Joseph Smith's death was due to an angry mob, without caring to know specifically what those Illinois neighbors had been angry about. |
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INSERT SOURCES here |
450 |
"One LDS educator in 1967 wrote about the 'causes' of conflict in Nauvoo…without mentioning plural marriage." |
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Smith cites the paper as "Causes of Non-Mormon Conflict…." |
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