Zerah pulsipher biography of michael jackson
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A
Scrap Book
Containing Some of the
Phraseology—
Choice and Select Instruction—
&
Abbridged Speeches
of
INSPIRED MEN
Observed & Recorded by J. Pulsipher
G.S.L.C. U.T.
One o’clock, Thurs. 9th March 1854
Remarks of Elder J. M. Grant at the funeral of Sister Molen.
“Why should we mourn” was Sung When Bro. Grant commenced by saying:
“I see a coffin of a person past the mid<d>le age & also one of a small child” (this was a child of David Eliott that had just died-) “This is nothing strange. In all countries that I have visited, death is a common visitor! The time will soon come when we that now surround these coffins, will smulpaj to dust—but this is all right—we shall soon have a reserection. The righteous will have a glorious [p.[2]] reserection, their bodies will be made perfect. It is not so with the wicked! I have seen the wicked in a dream—they were a motley crew of all the deformed & ill Shaped beings that ever inom imagined
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Alexander L. Baugh, “Joseph Smith and the Redemption of Zion,” in Joseph Smith, the Prophet and Seer,ed. Richard Neitzel Holzapfel and Kent P. Jackson (Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham ung University; Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2010), 151–94.
Alexander L. Baugh is an associate professor of Church history and doctrine at Brigham Young University and an editor of The Joseph Smith Papers when this was published.
In 1834, the Church was still young—less than four years old. Membership was probably between 2,000 and 2,500, with approximately 1,200 Saints living in Missouri and another six to eight hundred living in Kirtland and northeastern Ohio. The remaining three to four hundred resided in scattered branches primarily in Pennsylvania, New York, Michigan, and Ontario, Canada.
Joseph Smith himself was young—a youthful twenty-eight; his wife Emma, twenty-nine. Their children were young. Julia Murdock Smith, their adopted daughter, was almost three. Joseph II
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