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[…] priest at Nauvoo, Illinois, wrote a long emotional letter on Christmas Day in 1844 which praised Mormonism, the martyred Mormon prophet Joseph Smith, Smith’s deceased brothers (Hyrum, Don Carlos, and Samuel), and current Mormon […]
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[…] various assumptions surrounding his presumed lack of it, has been enlisted by followers and detractors alike in order to frame Smith’s life within the narratives of divinely-inspired prophet or deceptive fraud, perhaps most acutely […]
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[…] as those conferred by any Patriarch of the church: in fact it is his right.”[13] By the order of the church as it existed in 1844, eleven-year-old Joseph Smith in could have received his […]