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Deuteronomy 17:17; “Neither shall he multiply wives to himself, that his heart turn not away…”

Joseph Smith General of NauvooToday we’re looking at the once busy, and always questionable, life of Joseph Smith, Jr. A good friend of the ministry, Lee Baker, posted an open letter/question on our Facebook page to a prominent LDS attorney asking a vital question, which in reality all Mormons should concern themselves with.

 

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Mormon Decisions 10Intimate Disciple, a Portrait of Willard Richards, by Claire Noall, 1957, p. 407; “Willard realized that Emma had refused to believe that any of theRichards Willard young women boarding at the Mansion when it was first used as a hotel had been married to Joseph. She had struck Eliza Snow at the head of the stairs, and Eliza, it was whispered, had lost her unborn child.”

 

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Mormon Decisions 10Solemn Covenant, p 150; “Matthias F. Cowley, testimony under oath, May 10, 1911, The Trials of Apostle John W. Taylor and Matthias F. Cowley, ‘The Manifesto was not a divine production but something manufactured to outwit the church’s enemies.’” – B Carmon Hardy

 

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Mormon Decisions 10Doctrine and Covenants 3:4; “For although a man may have many revelations, and have power to do many mighty works, yet if he boasts in his own strength, and sets at naught the counsels of God, and follows after the dictates of his own will and carnal desires, he must fall and incur the vengeance of a just God upon him.” – Joseph Smith, Harmony, PA, July 1828

 

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relief society logo originalAs most of our readers know, Melissa submits a small info page on the monthly LDS publication for the Visiting Teaching Messages.  The intended audiences for these publications are the women in their Relief Society program and their purpose is to provide encouragement and directions for living a godly life while following Christ.

All that got me to wondering what female Mormons today think of those in the Relief Society back in the days of Emma Smith.

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