History of Utah: 1540-1886, Volume 26, Part 1

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History Company, 1889 - Mormon Church - 808 pages

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Page 356 - lodgeroom, the most excellent Grand Master repeating: 'I will bring the blind by a way they know not; I will lead them in paths that they have not known; I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight. These things will I do unto them, and not forsake them.
Page 136 - declared to bo forever unalterable except by common consent, reads as follows, to wit: No person demeaning himself in a peaceable and orderly manner shall ever be molested on account of his mode of worship or religious sentiments in said territory. These principles I trust will ever be
Page 435 - The seat of government was to be at Salt Lake City, and its powers were to be divided, as in other states, into three branches, the legislative, executive, and judiciary. The legislative authority was to be vested in a general assembly, consisting of a senate and house of representatives, both to be elected by the people.
Page 445 - when admitted as a state, the said territory, or any portion of the same, shall be received into the Union, with or without slavery, as their constitution may prescribe at the time of their admission.
Page 124 - finally assumed. The verse is quite significant: " Dan shall be a serpent by the way, an adder in the path, that biteth the horse's heels, so that his rider shall fall backward.
Page 159 - and sacrifice; and let mine handmaid, Emma Smith, receive all those that have been given unto my servant Joseph, and who are virtuous and pure before me. "And I command mine handmaid, Emma Smith, to abide and cleave unto my servant Joseph, and to none else.
Page 374 - And again, as pertaining to the law of the priesthood; if any man espouse a virgin, and desire to espouse another, and the first give her consent, if and he espouse the second, and they are virgins, and have vowed to on other man, then is he justified;
Page 374 - Smith to abide and cleave unto my servant Joseph and to none else. But if she will not abide this commandment, she shall be destroyed, sa.ith the Lord, for I am the Lord thy God, and will destroy her if she abide not in my law; but if
Page 471 - act to regulate trade and intercourse with the Indian tribes, and to preserve peace on the frontier," be rigidly enforced. It is true that the
Page 374 - other man, then is he justified; he cannot commit adultery, for they are given unto him; for he cannot commit adultery with that that belonged unto him, and to none else; and if he have ten virgins given unto him by this law, he cannot commit adultery, for

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