"Seeing Salt Lake City" being an illustrated description of a tour through Salt Lake City on the observation cars of the American Sight-Seeing Car and Coach Company .. . ent head of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, is Joseph Fielding Smith, son of the martyredPatriarch llyrum Smith, who with his brother, the Prophet-was murdered in Carthage jail. Illinois. June 27. 1844. Heis the sixth President of the Church, his predecessors, count-ing backward, being Lorenzo Snow, Wilford Woodruff, JohnTaylor, Brigham Young and Joseph Smith. The creed, faith,aims and purposes of the Church a
"Seeing Salt Lake City" being an illustrated description of a tour through Salt Lake City on the observation cars of the American Sight-Seeing Car and Coach Company .. . ent head of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, is Joseph Fielding Smith, son of the martyredPatriarch llyrum Smith, who with his brother, the Prophet-was murdered in Carthage jail. Illinois. June 27. 1844. Heis the sixth President of the Church, his predecessors, count-ing backward, being Lorenzo Snow, Wilford Woodruff, JohnTaylor, Brigham Young and Joseph Smith. The creed, faith,aims and purposes of the Church are the same a- originallypromulgated. From July. to September, 1890, theChurch authorized under strict regulations, the practice ofpatriarchal or plural marriage, commonly called polygamy,and about two per cent, of its members entered into thatorder, which to them was a sacred and holy principle, re- BRIGHAM YOUNG. ,ir r-jr ? 1 ij , , _ ,. „ . „ „. vealed from God tor man s physical and moral regeneration. Second President of the Mormon Church. ...... Founder and first Governor of Utah. The practice of this principle, however, was made punishable. by Congressional enactments in 1862, 1882 and 1887, and in deference to these laws, and after much suffer-ing and many sacrifices in the premises, the Church finally issued a Manifesto, doing away with pluralmarriage, and since then polygamy among the Latter-day Saints has been obsolete.
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