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− | *[[Brigham Young's | + | *Brigham stated that the distillery was needed for "rational purposes": |
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+ | When there was no whisky to be had here, and we needed it for rational purposes, I built a house to make it in. When the distillery was almost completed and in good working order, an army was heard of in our vicinity and I shut up the works I did not make a gallon of whisky at my works, because it came here in great quantities, more than was needed. I could have made thousands of dollars from my still, which has ever since been as dead property. | ||
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+ | *[[Brigham Young's whiskey distillery]]{{nw}} | ||
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− | * | + | *{{JDwiki|author=Brigham Young|url=http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Journal_of_Discourses/Volume_10/Home_Manufactures%E2%80%94the_Necessity_of_Greater_Attention_to_Them%E2%80%94Tithing|vol=10|pages=206}} |
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==Endnotes== | ==Endnotes== | ||
#{{note|faulring.1}} {{AmericanProphetsRecord| pages=331, entry for Saturday, 11 March 1843}} | #{{note|faulring.1}} {{AmericanProphetsRecord| pages=331, entry for Saturday, 11 March 1843}} |
Chapter 17 | A FAIR Analysis of: Criticism of Mormonism/Books A work by author: Jerald and Sandra Tanner
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Chapter 19 |
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468 |
The admonition not to eat meat is mostly ignored by the Church. |
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469 |
Joseph Fielding Smith said that drinking tea can bar a person from the Celestial Kingdom. |
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469-470 |
Church members feel that Joseph "carefully observed" the Word of Wisdom. Joseph wouldn't be able to get a temple recommend today. |
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470 |
Joseph sometimes drank wine. |
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470 |
Joseph smoked a cigar. |
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471 |
The words "pipe and some tobacco" were replaced by the word "medicine" in History of the Church. References to buying whisky [check spelling] and beer were removed. |
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471 |
Joseph wrote in his diary that he had tea with breakfast. Joseph prophesied that he would drink wine with Orson Hyde in the east. |
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472 |
George A. Smith reported that some church members left the church after finding that their leaders drank tea and coffee. |
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472 |
Almon W. Babbitt was brought to church trial for breaking the Word of Wisdom, but he said that he was following Joseph's example. |
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472-473 |
Joseph Smith sold liquor in Nauvoo. |
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474 |
Brigham Young broke the Word of Wisdom by taking "snuff and tea." |
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474 |
Brigham Young chewed tobacco for many years. |
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474 |
Brigham Young told Church members to "make beer as a drink" and sponsored a bar in Salt Lake City. |
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475 |
Brigham built a whiskey distillery. |
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