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• Source:Appleby:Mormonism Consistent:1843:I contend that it is North and South America both that includes the promised land to the branches of Joseph
  ...issionary responds to critic (1843): "I contend that it is North and South America both that includes the promised land to the branches of Joseph"]]
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• William Smith (Jan 1837): "a remnant of the branches or seed of Joseph are represented as crossing the sea, and settling this continent of North and South America"
  ...sented as crossing the sea, and settling this continent of North and South America"== ...the midst of the earth.” So much of the history of the '''aborigines of America''' is known to the world, as would render any attempt to show that they hav
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• Joseph Smith (19 Jul 1840): "speaking of the Land of Zion, It consists of all North & South America"
  ...Jul 1840): "speaking of the Land of Zion, It consists of all North & South America"== ...ren...'''The redemption of Zion is the redemption of all N[orth] & S[outh] America.'''" {{ea}} <ref>{{BYUS1|author=Martha Jane Knowlton Coray, [edited by Dean
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• Source:Levi Nicklin:18 Jan 1841:To prove the divinity of the book he assured us that a prophecy, and the description of certain cities in South America were accurately laid down
  ...assured us that a prophecy, and the description of certain cities in South America were accurately laid down"== ...assured us that a prophecy, and the description of certain cities in South America were accurately laid down, and that recent discoveries made by Stevens and
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• Source:Winchester:1 Mar 1841:The antiquities of America spread from the great lakes of the North and the West to Central America, and the Southern parts of Peru on the South
  ...rth and the West to Central America, and the Southern parts of Peru on the South"== We shall now proceed to prove; first, from various relics of antiquity, that America has been inhabited by an enlightened people, far in advance of the savage s
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• Source:Book of Mormon and the Mormonites:Jul 1841:The history of the settlements of the emigrants in North and South America
  ...1841): "The history of the settlements of the emigrants in North and South America"== The history of the settlements of the emigrants in North and South America contains some romantic and some very puerile incidents; but, passing these
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• Source:Millennial Star:2 Jul 1841:Canada on the north, Oregon on the West, Mexico on the south, together with all the tribes in central and South America
  ...st, Mexico on the south, together with all the tribes in central and South America"== ...st, Mexico on the south, together with all the tribes in central and South America. These all must come into the covenant, and be gathered and consolidated in
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• Source:John E. Page:1 Jul 1842:The city was in some region on the South of what is called at this time, North America
  ...ty...was in some region on the South of what is called at this time, North America"== ...y before it was known to exist till 1836 by any account that was extant in America, from which it could have been extracted?....
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• Missionary responds to critic (1843): "I contend that it is North and South America both that includes the promised land to the branches of Joseph"
  ==Missionary responds to critic (1843): "I contend that it is North and South America both that includes the promised land to the branches of Joseph"== ..., I said belonged to Ephraim, &c. but I contend that it is North and South America both that includes the promised land to the branches of Joseph) long before
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• Source:LDS missionary tract:1844:where has the seed of Joseph gone to?...There is no place except North and South America to which they could have gone
  ...has the seed of Joseph gone to?...There is no place except North and South America to which they could have gone"== ...d have gone, if the old world furnishes no trace of them. The Continent of America is the only place where the prophecies concerning Joseph and his seed could
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• Source:Brigham Young:15 Aug 1852:it takes North and South America to make the land of Joseph
  ==Brigham Young (15 Aug 1852): "it takes North and South America to make the land of Joseph"== The land of Joseph is the land of Zion; and it takes North and South America to make the land of Joseph.<ref>{{JDfairwiki|author=Brigham Young|vol=6|dis
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• Source:Orson Pratt:15 Feb 1871:they landed on the south-west coast of South America
  ==Orson Pratt (15 Feb 1871): "they landed on the south-west coast of South America"== ...e north country, and finally overpowered them. They were gathered together south of the great lakes in the country which we term New York. The Lord ordered
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• George F. Richards (1922): "The land of North and South America is a very much favored portion of our Father's footstool"
  ==George F. Richards (1922): "The land of North and South America is a very much favored portion of our Father's footstool"== The land of North and South America is a very much favored portion of our Father's footstool, and he has declar
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• Melvin J. Ballard (Apr 1930): "We were made to know that the Gospel message would find thousands who had the blood of Israel in their veins in South America"
  ...e would find thousands who had the blood of Israel in their veins in South America"== ...e would find thousands who had the blood of Israel in their veins in South America. Then we saw the day when it would go to the fifteen million of Father Lehi
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• Heber J. Grant (1937): "I am a firm believer that this country, both North and South America, is the choice land of the world"
  ...rant (1937): "I am a firm believer that this country, both North and South America, is the choice land of the world"== ...his country. I believe that this is the only place in the United States of America where the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints could have been estab
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• Melvin J. Ballard (Apr 1938): "for these millions who are in Mexico, Central America and South America their day must come"
  ...pr 1938): "for these millions who are in Mexico, Central America and South America their day must come"== ...in custody for these millions who are in Mexico, Central America and South America their day must come. It is coming, and I see the hand of God preparing for
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• Ezra Taft Benson (Apr 1955): "the Promised Land, the land of Zion, includes all of North and South America"
  ...55): "the Promised Land, the land of Zion, includes all of North and South America"== ...aints the Promised Land, the land of Zion, includes all of North and South America.<ref>{{CR1|author=Ezra Taft Benson|Date=April 1955|pages=48}}</ref>
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• Harold B. Lee (11 Nov 1959) "it seems all are in agreement that the followers of Lehi came to the western shores of South America"
  ...n agreement that the followers of Lehi came to the western shores of South America"== ...rom the place where the history of the people of Lehi commenced in western America.<ref>Harold B. Lee, Quarterly Historical Report for the Andes Mission, 11 N
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• Dallin H. Oaks (29 Oct 1993): "the Book of Mormon is not a history of all of the people who have lived on the continents of North and South America"
  ...y of all of the people who have lived on the continents of North and South America"== ...y of all of the people who have lived on the continents of North and South America in all ages of the earth. Up to that time, I had assumed that it was. If th
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• Ezra Taft Benson (Dec 1980): "wise and inspired men in North, Central, and South America were raised up who proclaimed the sovereign truth that all men"
  ...aft Benson (Dec 1980): "wise and inspired men in North, Central, and South America were raised up who proclaimed the sovereign truth that all men"== ...he gospel was restored, wise and inspired men in North, Central, and South America were raised up who proclaimed the sovereign truth that all men—not just t
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• Source:William Smith:Jan 1837:a remnant of the branches or seed of Joseph are represented as crossing the sea, and settling this continent of North and South America
  ...sented as crossing the sea, and settling this continent of North and South America"]]
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• Source:Joseph Smith:19 Jul 1840:speaking of the Land of Zion, It consists of all North & South America
  ...Jul 1840): "speaking of the Land of Zion, It consists of all North & South America"]]
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• Source:George F. Richards:1922:The land of North and South America is a very much favored portion of our Father's footstool
  #REDIRECT [[George F. Richards (1922): "The land of North and South America is a very much favored portion of our Father's footstool"]]
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• Source:Melvin J. Ballard:Apr 1930:We were made to know that the Gospel message would find thousands who had the blood of Israel in their veins in South America
  ...e would find thousands who had the blood of Israel in their veins in South America"]]
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• Source:Heber J. Grant:1937:I am a firm believer that this country, both North and South America, is the choice land of the world
  ...rant (1937): "I am a firm believer that this country, both North and South America, is the choice land of the world"]]
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• Source:Melvin J. Ballard:Apr 1938:for these millions who are in Mexico, Central America and South America their day must come
  ...pr 1938): "for these millions who are in Mexico, Central America and South America their day must come"]]
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• Source:Ezra Taft Benson:Apr 1955:the Promised Land, the land of Zion, includes all of North and South America
  ...55): "the Promised Land, the land of Zion, includes all of North and South America"]]
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• Source:Harold B. Lee:11 Nov 1959:it seems all are in agreement that the followers of Lehi came to the western shores of South America
  ...n agreement that the followers of Lehi came to the western shores of South America"]]
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• Source:Dallin H. Oaks:29 Oct 1993:the Book of Mormon is not a history of all of the people who have lived on the continents of North and South America
  ...y of all of the people who have lived on the continents of North and South America"]]
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• Source:Ezra Taft Benson:Dec 1980:wise and inspired men in North, Central, and South America were raised up who proclaimed the sovereign truth that all men
  ...aft Benson (Dec 1980): "wise and inspired men in North, Central, and South America were raised up who proclaimed the sovereign truth that all men"]]
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• Times and Seasons/1/7
  ...tchez bluff down the river about ten miles, bearing a considerable west of south. Sweeping across the Natchez island it crossed the point below the plantati ...rmington, baptized two, and returned to this place. I travelled [traveled] South to the city of Portland, held meetings in Saco, Buckston, Scarborough and R
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• Times and Seasons/2/5
  ...brethren are now in New Orleans, and we expect a large gathering from the South. ...kfriars, Waterloo, Westminster and Vauxhall bridges, are all stone. On the south of the river lies the Borough &c. In addition to these were hundreds of chu
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• Mormon urban legends or folklore
  ...dering Cain and Bigfoot started around 1980 with some Bigfoot sightings in South Weber, Utah== ...dering Cain and Bigfoot started around 1980 with some Bigfoot sightings in South Weber, Utah, and by 1990, those residents were associating their Bigfoot si
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• Times and Seasons/2/9
  ...ve, and showed me that it was his will that I should go immediately to the south of England. I conversed with brother William Benbow upon this subject, who ...and lay down and had a good night's rest.-Their has about 40 emigrated to America from Herefordshire, mostly thro.' the generosity of Elder John Benbow, who
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• Book of Mormon/Geography/Statements/Nineteenth century/Joseph Smith's lifetime 1829-1840
  |L1=Observer and Telegraph (Nov 1830): "the Aborigines of America; who, as they affirm, are a part of the tribe of Manasseh, and whose ancest |L2=W. W. Phelps: Ruins in Central America "good testimony in favor of the Book of Mormon"
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• Evidences that support the Book of Abraham
  ...llels in Published Sources Available to Joseph Smith in Early 19th Century America," <nowiki><http://mit.irr.org/extra-biblical-details-in-book-of-abraham-com ...to me, and withdrawn his face from me, I said in my heart: Thy servant has south thee earnestly; now I have found thee;"</ref>
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• Primary sources/Unwritten Order of Things
  ...y, an unforgettable moment. The two young elders, both converts from South America, had somehow learned something of the unwritten order of things. They were
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• Question: Did the First Presidency identify the New York "Hill Cumorah" as the site of the Nephite final battles?
  :Oklahoma City Oklahoma South Stake ...nce 1937, the Church has staged the Cumorah Pageant at this site. Entitled America's Witness for Christ, it depicts important events from Book of Mormon histo
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• Criticism of Mormonism/Video/Search for the Truth DVD/DNA
  ...en the seed from which sprouted the great achievements of Peru and Central America....''''' ...by Joseph as ancestors to the Israelites inhabiting all of North and South America from sea to sea." - Pamela Robertson</h2>
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• Criticism of Mormonism/Video/Search for the Truth DVD/Witnessing to Mormons
  ...e cities all over America that held many, many people in South and Central America. Not one city has ever been found. Not one crumb, not one remain, and yet i ...the assertion to the contrary, cities existed throughout South and Central America during the Book of Mormon timeframe and these cities were in fact filled wi
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• MormonFAQ/LDS Org
  ...rth Quorum live in Mexico, Central America, and the northern part of South America. ...venth Quorum members are located in Brazil and the southern areas of South America.
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• MormonFAQ/Terms
  ...ack or green tea. Some Latter-day Saints in the United States <!--In South America (Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay, parts of Chile and Brazil) most members of t *All of North and South America (Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, 362).
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• Question: Does the film "September Dawn" about the Mountain Meadows Massacre accurately portray the historical events?
  ...stian, may be the worst historical drama ever made...it trivializes one of America's ugliest and least understood events." - Jack Matthews, ''New York Daily N ...ry religion, when scrutinized by a skeptic, is open to mockery. Tune in to South Park if you want satire that ridicules, sect by sect, all comers in the wor
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• Times and Seasons/2/10
  ...Guilford, in N. C. also in Patrick, Grayson, Wythe, Smith, and Washing, in south western Virgina [Virginia]. Perhaps no part of the United States have heard ...m every direction of the country, inviting me to go east, west, north, and south, and when they found that I could not travel extensive enough on foot to sa
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• Times and Seasons/1/5
  ...ettled upon them, there being one township then in market which lay on the south side of the county, and immediately adjoining Caldwell on the north. Others ..., written in ancient times by a branch of the house of Israel, who peopled America, and from whom the Indians are descended.-The Book of Mormon corroborates a
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• Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Chapter 3
  ...48, 503n25 (HB) - Did Joseph decide to convert his book into a saga about America's ancient inhabitants as a money making scheme? {{disinformation|Joseph was not pronounced guilty at the 1826 South Bainbridge hearing. He was released without being fined.
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• Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Chapter 12
  |L2=Response to claim: 257 - "At the outset of their confrontation with America, the Mormons clearly had an advantage" ...l War prophecy" a false prophecy since "in 1832 a civil war beginning with South Carolina would have surprised no one"?
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• Criticism of Mormonism/Books/The Kingdom of the Cults (Revised)/Index
  {{:Source:Johnson:Men and Elephants in America:1952:Probably it is safe to say that American Proboscidea have been extinct {{:Question: What was known about iron in ancient America?}}
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• Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Use of sources/Double standard on race
  ...Smith, ''Divided by Faith: Evangelical Religion and the Problem of Race in America'' (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000).</ref>{{Rp|170}} ...been very small.<ref>Thomas F. Gossett, ''Race: The History of An Idea in America'' (New York: Oxford University Press, 1963), 447.</ref>
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• Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Use of sources/Attitude of Saints to Civil War prophecy
  ...n out of Egypt. It was necessary, equally, that the Democratic party go to South Carolina, being urged there by a silent prophetic influence; and though the ...swear to a lie, and the Government can hear that and act upon it. But when South Carolina takes possession of the public funds, of the custom-house, of the
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• Times and Seasons/2/1
  ...y, Fountain and Warren counties, Ia. in the latter, I baptized five in the south part, near the river. ...red two bright and luminous bodies, one on the north, and the other on the south side of the sun: in length about ten yards, inclining to a circle resemblin
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• Question: Is "Zion" associated geographically with only one specific location in the New World: the "New Jerusalem" that is to be built in Missouri?
  ...scripture have repeatedly taught that Zion applies to the entire North and South American areas=== ...n, as understood by the Latter-day Saints, applies to the entire North and South American areas.
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• Book of Mormon/Geography/Statements/Nineteenth century/Joseph Smith's lifetime 1829-1840/Joseph Smith
  ...escendants from that Joseph that was sold into Egypt, and that the land of America is a promised land unto them.<Ref>Joseph Smith, “Mormonism,” The ''Amer ...19, 1840: Joseph teaches that the Land of Zion consists of North and South America====
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• Book of Mormon geography/Models/Limited/Meldrum 2003/Introduction
  *The presenter claims that Central America has become a popular location for Book of Mormon lands because they had a " ...bster's 1828 dictionary as the Western continent, comprising the North and South American landmass.
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• Book of Mormon geography/Models/Limited/Meldrum 2003/Section 3:Joseph Smith
  ...laimed that the reference to "this country" refers to the United States of America. One must remember that the United States was much smaller at this time. ...bout North and South America. OK? There's a North American continent and a South American continent in Noah Webster's dictionary.}}
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• Book of Mormon geography/Models/Limited/Meldrum 2003/Section 4:Promised Land
  ...ren...'''The redemption of Zion is the redemption of all N[orth] & S[outh] America.'''" {{ea}} <ref>{{BYUS1|author=Martha Jane Knowlton Coray, [edited by Dean *Other latter-day prophets have declared that North and South America constitute the land of Zion: see [[Location of Zion]].
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• Criticism of Mormonism/Online documents/A Letter to an Apostle/The Letter
  ...nificantly higher than their near contemporaries on the frontier or in the South=== ...linois (20%), it was far from being historically high. One might wonder if America could have met its manifest destiny without adapting marital practices on t
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• Book of Mormon/Authorship theories/View of the Hebrews/Analysis of scripture use
  ...his Hebrew family from all nations and regions beyond sea; doubtless from America, as well as other nations; and it is promised, "He shall set up an ensign f ...name of the Lord from the west"<ref>This scripture is claimed to be about America, yet if he was borrowing, Joseph Smith omits it. Why?</ref>
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• Question: What is the Book of Mormon?
  ...ring Ishmael and his family to join Lehi’s group. Lehi’s group travels south through what is now Saudi Arabia and then east to the shore of the Arabian ...at the Book of Mormon civilizations extended far into both North and South America. The primary textual support for this view has been the Book of Mormon stat
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• Alleged hiding of facts in Church history
  |L1=Church sources discussing issues with Joseph's 1826 South Bainbridge court appearance = Church sources discussing issues with Joseph's 1826 South Bainbridge court appearance=
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• Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Early Mormonism and the Magic World View/Chapter 1
  |H=Response to claims made in "Chapter 1: Early America's Heritage of Religion and Magic" ...claims made in Early Mormonism and the Magic World View, "Chapter 1: Early America's Heritage of Religion and Magic"
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• Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Early Mormonism and the Magic World View/Chapter 2
  |<=[[../Chapter 1|Claims made in "Chapter 1: Early America's Heritage of Religion and Magic"]] {{:Question: What is Joseph Smith's 1826 South Bainbridge "trial" for "glasslooking"?}}
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• Specific works/DNA Evidence for Book of Mormon Geography (DVD)/Geographical claims
  *The presenter claims that Central America has become a popular location for Book of Mormon lands because they had a " ...bster's 1828 dictionary as the Western continent, comprising the North and South American landmass.
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• Questions: Are Mormons Christians
  ...he Mormon church is that Hebrew tribes came and settled in North and South America. And these were the Native Americans. Yet, DNA evidence shows Native Americ
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• Journal of Discourses/1/19
  |H=PRESIDENT B. YOUNG'S JOURNEY SOUTH—INDIAN DIFFICULTIES—WALKER—WATCHING AND PRAYER—THIEVES AND THEIR DE |T=Journal of Discourses 1: PRESIDENT B. YOUNG'S JOURNEY SOUTH—INDIAN DIFFICULTIES—WALKER—WATCHING AND PRAYER—THIEVES AND THEIR DE
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• Journal of Discourses/1/22
  ...y, Colonization, and Progress of America—Despotic Nations—Influence of America for the Universal Prevalence of Liberty]] ...me you go to the east for light? So we commence by laying the stone on the south-east corner, because there is the most light.
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• Journal of Discourses/1/24
  ...y, Colonization, and Progress of America—Despotic Nations—Influence of America for the Universal Prevalence of Liberty]] ...the east to the west, measurably so, but more extensively to the north and south. Travel through the valleys, and scan the houses, and the farms, and see th
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• Journal of Discourses/1/26
  ...his present season. These blessings are just as necessary for those who go South, as for those who go North, it makes no difference. They will all, however, ...mple of the best materials that can be furnished in the mountains of North America, and that the Presidency dictate where the stone and other materials shall
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• Journal of Discourses/1/52
  ...ted States' army, traversing the sandy deserts and scorching plains of the South, without shoes to their feet, or clothes to cover them. ...d, and observe the laws; for there is no necessity of breaking the laws in America, in {{page break|365|top}} keeping the commandments of God. When the law is
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• Journal of Discourses/2/27
  ...with our own and other nations living on the continent of North and South America. And when the mind's eye stretches abroad across the mighty deep, throughou ...e Father has commenced on the face of all the earth—in the north, in the south, in the east, and in the west; and it is seen in our midst by the progress
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• Journal of Discourses/2/40
  ...ling His Saints? He has opened up their way far into the interior of North America, they are widely removed from all surrounding civilization. ...e not yet much in their possession, but their territory is North and South America to begin with. As to the spirit of Zion, it is in the hearts of the Saints,
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• Journal of Discourses/2/42
  ...rth, or the south; from China, Russia, England, California, North or South America, or some other locality; and it is the very lad on whom father Jacob laid h
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• Journal of Discourses/2/47
  ...e Kingdom of God was now established upon the continent of North and South America, and actually held rule and dominion over what we call the United States, t ...wings of the American Eagle spread over the nations, and its DOWN fall on America." Suppose the Kingdom of God is compared to the American Eagle; when it spr
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• Journal of Discourses/2/54
  ...portion of this congregation are what might be termed in the States, Young America, if you please, or among us, "Young Mormons," those who have been raised in I say to Young America, brethren and sisters, if we have imbibed such habits, let us lay them off;
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• Journal of Discourses/3/6
  ...ain, Germany, the Netherlands, and Mexico, Guatemala, and nearly all South America, was the greatest. Others say the present dominions of Queen Victoria are t
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• Journal of Discourses/3/28
  ...Many here do not know anything about the history of the early settling of America. ...first {{page break|210|top}} places settled by the Europeans, after North America was discovered. St. Louis was settled long before New York, and in that reg
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• Journal of Discourses/3/32
  ...a man, and a true Virginian, well represented the chivalric spirit of the South, and sought the good of his country. We are a part of the United States ourselves; most of us were raised in America, and we are all cradled in liberty, and if the United States desires to dre
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• Journal of Discourses/3/42
  When I reflect that yesterday I saw the Saints coming in from the south, and some of them on foot, both men and women, bringing their children some ...o the Valleys, in 1849, to the present, I never have been to the big field south of this City, or around or through it when it was fenced, and if any other
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• Journal of Discourses/3/51
  ...His; presence I am not in the north end of this bowery, my body is in the south end of it, but my influence and my voice extend to all parts of it; in like ...is full of them. If you could see, and would walk over many parts of North America, you would see millions on millions of the spirits of those who have been s
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• Journal of Discourses/4/6
  ...that were printed, {{page break|36|top}} and sister Benbow, who started to America the same year, left names enough of her friends to receive the two hundred ...en they will think and speak many times before they act. The spirit of the South is to think, speak, and act all at the same moment. This is the difference
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• Mormonism and Wikipedia/Joseph Smith, Jr./1827 to 1830
  ...in. Before the newly baptized members could be confirmed, a constable from South Bainbridge delivered a warrant for Joseph's arrest. Doctor A. W. Benton of .... "Despite the fact that folk magic had widespread manifestations in early America, the biases of the Protestant Reformation and Age of Reason dominated the s
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• Mormonism and Wikipedia/Joseph Smith, Jr./1839 - 1844
  *{{SeeCriticalWork|author=Richard N. Ostling and Joan K. Ostling|work=Mormon America: The Power and the Promise}} He now viewed Zion as encompassing all of [[North America|North]] and [[South America]],
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• Times and Seasons/2/4
  ...t spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south; and in thee and in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed ...tchman upon Mount Ephraim shall see eye to eye, the North give up, and the South keep not back, and the sons of Jacob be gathered to the mountain of the Lor
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• Journal of Discourses/5/32
  ...e American continent, in the land Bountiful, on the northern part of South America, and did minister to the remnants of Joseph, called the Nephites, and did s ...spired record, the history of a branch of the house of Israel that live in America; that it does contain the fulness of the Gospel as revealed to them by a cr
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• Journal of Discourses/5/34
  ...and a heavy freight train were there encamped opposite to them and on the south side of the Platte. They could tell that they were soldiers, from the appea ...us a position. And I believe that the point is yielded, both in Europe and America; and I believe they acknowledge that Brigham is a man of his word; and I ha
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• Journal of Discourses/6/13
  ...British Constitution, and it is recognized as natural and eternal both in America and Great Britain; and you may trace this principle back through history to ...hat is the result? The moment that our settlements had extended far to the south and to the north—the moment that we were placed in a position that starva
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• Journal of Discourses/6/29
  ...Society Islands, and the natives of these mountains and of North and South America, or of any country where there are natives in their idolatry—those whom w
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• Journal of Discourses/6/53
  ...that. The land of Joseph is the land of Zion; and it takes North and South America to make the land of Joseph. Suppose we are ready to go into the Temples of ...bow before the Lord, from the east to the west, and from the north to the south, all over this globe, and every tongue confess before God the Father that J
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• Journal of Discourses/7/4
  ...ifies, from where they were deposited by an ancient Prophet that inhabited America some 1,400 years ago. He testifies that he was sent by an angel of God to b ...the wounds in his hands and in his feet. He descended before them in South America, and put an end to the law of Moses, which they practised on this continent
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• Journal of Discourses/7/5
  ...rd a very beautiful relation from Elder T. D. Brown, of the mission at the South. It seems that everything we undertake in righteousness prospers, and the D ...or among the Jews—whether it is in Italy or in Denmark, in Europe or in America, we will prosper, and I know it. That is my testimony.
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• Journal of Discourses/7/16
  ...9|top}} Spain must give up Cuba; England, Canada; and the United States of America must hold, as her dependencies, every country on the Western Continent, wit ...from Mexico, but the whole loaf must come. The north must give up, and the south keep not back, while the islands are waiting for thy law. The voice of God,
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• Journal of Discourses/7/29
  ...this took place on the promised land, which we call {{page break|182|top}} America. He saw the Israelites on this land become righteous, and he saw three gene ...orway, and there we find many churches of the Saints. Then return a little south into Denmark, where thousands more will be found. Then go to the northeast
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• Journal of Discourses/7/34
  ...ndred years after Christ, their settlements extended from Cape Horn in the South to the frozen regions in the North—from the Atlantic on the East to the g ...and toes. This mountain kingdom could not be found in the low countries of America, but in some high, elevated region.
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• Journal of Discourses/7/36
  ...eople of God in the North and in the South, in the United States, in South America, in Europe, and in all the nations of the earth, and of those on the island
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• Journal of Discourses/8/1
  ...present time; witness the bitter hatred that exists between the North and South in the bosoms of the Representatives in the halls of the nation at Washingt
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• Journal of Discourses/8/14
  ...that Nauvoo or Missouri is Zion; but tell the people that North and South America are the land of Zion, and that our God will finish his work where he commen ...l trade;" "I will make me a farm;" "I will go to the east, west, north, or south, and will do thus and so." Do you not know that the whole human family are
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• Journal of Discourses/8/43
  ...s to California, then to Washington Territory, in the British Provinces in America, in England, and all over the world,—"Great oppression in Utah!" because ...housands of persons will soon be on Strawberry Creek, a little east of the South Pass. What are they after? Some one, they say, has found sand with a little
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• Journal of Discourses/8/61
  ...pers and journals, the condition of the nations of Europe, of Asia, and of America! Our own favoured land is in commotion. The political elements are heavily ...n out of Egypt. It was necessary, equally, that the Democratic party go to South Carolina, being urged there by a silent prophetic influence; and though the
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• Journal of Discourses/9/25
  ...h, as I have been for a few weeks or months past, except when I was in the south. ...to return to Independence, Jackson County, in the State of Missouri, North America, just so soon will the voice of the Lord be heard, "Arise now, Israel, and
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• Journal of Discourses/9/30
  ...mportant matter? I recollect, last season, passing through the settlements south, when I was told repeatedly that the number of teams called for would paral ...that, through a family quarrel between the Northern and Southern States of America, five millions of her subjects are in danger of starvation. Some of them ar
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• Journal of Discourses/9/31
  ...lly spread itself abroad through the length and breadth of North and South America. We may now look forward into the great future that lies before us, and it ...iate them a great deal more than we do. If we were set down in New York or South Carolina for awhile, we should appreciate our home; for here we are not tro
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• Journal of Discourses/9/33
  ...has not sent us as a people to dwell in the southern extremities of South America; but he has caused us to be located here; and hence here is the place where
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• Journal of Discourses/9/41
  ...ederacy; and it has been preached in the British Isles, in North and South America, and the Society and Sandwich Islands, and to China, and we have even sent
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• Journal of Discourses/10/4
  ...here was a highway cast up flora England to the shores of the continent of America, there are men who would be willing to measure the ground with their bodies ...lth of this life. In the settlements I passed through during my late visit south, I saw comparatively. little wisdom manifested in the style and extent of t
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• Journal of Discourses/10/11
  ...or, having travelled and preached near twenty years of my life not only in America but in England, and I know the nature of men and things pretty well. When I ...The wicked are slaying the wicked, and the North calculates to use up the South in a few days; in this they will be mistaken. They will whip each other, fi
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• Journal of Discourses/10/25
  ...d with the history of the colonization of the Continent of North and South America, if they ever knew any colony of whites to get along any better with their ...masses of American citizens,—both of the people in the North and in the South, are alienated from each other, and they are divided. We would it could be
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• Journal of Discourses/10/40
  ...s to our flag, but would have added the whole continent of North and South America. What would the nation have given for the knowledge to accomplish all this?
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• Journal of Discourses/10/45
  |H=INSTRUCTION TO THE LATTER-DAY SAINTS, IN THE SETTLEMENTS SOUTH OF GREAT SALT LAKE CITY, ...of Discourses 45: INSTRUCTION TO THE LATTER-DAY SAINTS, IN THE SETTLEMENTS SOUTH OF GREAT SALT LAKE CITY,
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• Journal of Discourses/10/47
  ...that this is the largest gathering there has been in Provo since our move south in 1858. Here is an audience of from four to five thousand Latter-day Saint I am told that St. Louis is now one of the worst places to live in in America, and the inhabitants profess to be loyal to the Government, but I presume t
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• Journal of Discourses/10/48
  ...North are preaching and praying against their Presbyterian brethren in the South; and this is precisely the condition of the Baptists, Methodists, Quakers a ...el, and, said he, just as sure as the Lord lives the Saints will gather to America. I told him to prophecy on, for I knew it was of God. I name this circumsta
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• Journal of Discourses/10/51
  ...the United States, of Mexico and of the various powers of North and South America. The whole world seems to be in throes, and either actually at war or invol ...the ingenuity, skill, talent, power and wealth that exist in the North and South would be brought to bear against, each other for their mutual destruction?
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• Journal of Discourses/10/61
  ...im as a teacher to this generation. The nation called the United States of America has a right to reject the revelations given through Joseph, to reject the s ...reat many years without cotton. The first cotton factories were started in America within my remembrance. What would the Indians here, who are all but naked,
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• Journal of Discourses/26/5
  |>=[[../6|Visit to the South, etc.]] ...rom everything that disturbs and annoys, in every settlement from north to south, from east to west, wherever they have formed themselves into a community;
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• Journal of Discourses/26/16
  |H=VISIT TO THE SOUTH—PERSECUTION IN ARIZONA—AN AMERICAN SIBERIA—PERSECUTION IN MISSOURI AN |T=Journal of Discourses 26: VISIT TO THE SOUTH—PERSECUTION IN ARIZONA—AN AMERICAN SIBERIA—PERSECUTION IN MISSOURI AN
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• Journal of Discourses/26/24
  ...ngth of that education, and Utah Territory spreading from the north to the south, from the east, to the west is the product of his labors and the labors of
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• Journal of Discourses/21/36
  ...otion, or idea, that the Lord had was that this continent, North and South America, should be inhabited by the righteous who will be resurrected from the dead
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• Journal of Discourses/21/18
  ...r to any of the islands of the oceans, nor into South America, nor Central America, to carry out the order of things which we expect to enter into in all its
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• Journal of Discourses/21/33
  ...ng them that there would be a division in our nation between the North and South. "But," said they, "that cannot be; the stability of our government is of t ...d prosperous nations that once inhabited this continent of North and South America, because of their wickedness, so will he them destroy, and sooner or later
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• Journal of Discourses/15/35
  ...This message has been proclaimed among the Christian nations of Europe and America, and in many other nations for the past forty years. Inspired men—the Eld ...n nation is under condemnation on this account. This land, North and South America, is the land of Zion, it is a choice land—the land that was given by prom
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• Journal of Discourses/11/41
  ...are opposed to it. All honourable ladies and gentlemen in North and South America, and in all the world, should be ready to raise their voices against it, in
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• Times and Seasons/1/9
  ...Campbellite preacher, and his friends, are very busy in circulating in the south part of this country, that you challenged him to a discussion of Mormonism ...in Christ Jesus, who are in the east, in the west, in the north and in the south; grace be unto you, and peace from God the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ
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• Journal of Discourses/11/47
  ..., even the centre stake of Zion. It is true this is Zion—North and South America are Zion, and the land where the Lord commenced His work; and where He comm
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• Journal of Discourses/12/14
  ...ase drinking tea, coffee, and liquor, and chewing tobacco." On our journey south I saw one old lady over eighty years of age drink a little coffee, and that As I have not appeared before you since my return from the south until to-day, I will say a few words in relation to that. I designed coming
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• Journal of Discourses/12/15
  ...s. The people come here from the east and the west, from the north and the south, with all their traditions, which impede their progress in the truth and ar ...M. Cabot, came over with a company of several hundreds. When they came to America they found the City of Nauvoo deserted and forsaken by the "Mormons," who h
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• Journal of Discourses/12/19
  ...m heaven, as I have testified to hundreds and thousands of people, both in America, in England, and on the Continent in Europe. I know this great work which y ...of the lands, from the east and from the west, from the north and from the south." But David describes the country to which this people were to be gathered.
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  ...citizens of African descent are admitted to the polls, the adopted sons of America who have come here to obtain homes for themselves and their posterity, shou ...dispose of them as seems to Him good He can move them east, west, north or south, and can destroy or multiply them at pleasure. And He can preserve our crop
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• Journal of Discourses/12/50
  ...received no new commission. My government did not commission me to come to America to act as Minister Plenipotentiary." We again ask him, by what authority th ...e midst of their assemblies, in the northern portion of what we call South America. They heard Him open His mouth and teach the multitude assembled on that oc
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• Journal of Discourses/12/52
  ...in South and Central America and Mexico, and in Canada. It was planted in America by means of the sword. There were in Europe a great many conscientious men
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  ...is people of the House of Israel on these mountains and in North and South America. God has not forgotten them, though they are degraded to the level of the b
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• Journal of Discourses/12/61
  ...very one of us, no matter who we are. If we go to the West, East, North or South or to the uttermost parts of the earth, and gather up the human family and ...ericans here can remember when there was no such thing on the continent of America as a carding machine. Yet now look into the houses of the poorest sisters w
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  |H=AMERICA A CHOICE LAND—ITS ABORIGINES |T=Journal of Discourses 12: AMERICA A CHOICE LAND—ITS ABORIGINES
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• Journal of Discourses/12/66
  ...ed together in their energies, occupying a Territory, which, from north to south, is several hundred miles in extent, building up towns, cities and villages ...told that the Indians, who were wandering over the face of North and South America, were a branch of the house of Joseph, that same Joseph who was sold into E
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  ...ope, upon another person in Asia, another in Africa, and upon a fourth, in America, and again upon another on the islands of the sea, that these individuals w ...y. It is no wonder that for five hundred miles—from the extreme north to south of this Territory,—settlements have been formed, whose inhabitants dwell
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• Journal of Discourses/13/16
  ...e time of day at which Jesus was crucified, I mean the time of day here in America, was in the morning; the New Testament tells us that Jesus was crucified in ...ould only be half-past four in the morning in the north-west part of South America, where the Book of Mormon was then being written. Seven and a half hours di
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• Journal of Discourses/13/18
  A few of us have recently been on a visit South. We visited twenty settlements, and, in eleven days, held twenty-seven meet ...lives digging out coal. If you chanced to ask them, "Are you ever going to America?" the answer would invariably be, "Yes, I am going to Zion." If you asked t
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• Journal of Discourses/13/20
  ...ze. For three hundred years the people on the continent of North and South America were benefitted by the work of the Savior in organizing his Church and reve ...Germany, Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, New York, from the South, from every State in the Union; what did you expect to see? We lived with y
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• Journal of Discourses/13/22
  ...t bounds of the everlasting hills—the great continent of North and South America was conferred upon him. Another proof that God did not disapprove of a man ...is two sons and five daughters out of the land of Jerusalem to the land of America, the males and females were about equal in number. There were Nephi, Sam, L
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• Journal of Discourses/13/28
  ...s in circumstances of slavery—bondage far worse than the "blacks" in the South previous to their liberation. There was nothing before the people but the p ...ve extended their cities to the east, to the west, to the north and to the south." But it has been done by the command of the Almighty, and that is where th
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• Journal of Discourses/13/45
  ...eation of the world. We behold before us, in these interior wilds of North America, a great people called the Latter-day Saints—a people whose faith and doc ...hed us in the heart of this country. Here we have extended our settlements south, north, east and west, until the country is now populated with, as I suppos
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• Journal of Discourses/14/1
  ...abitants of the earth—both Zion and Babylon, Jew and Gentile, Jerusalem, America, and the whole world. All nations are interested in the events which are ap ...North warring against each other and that this rebellion would commence in South Carolina, and would end in the death and misery of many souls; and that in
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• Journal of Discourses/14/2
  ...a, or Australia, where we can find a multitude of nations. When we come to America, we have a large country, with every variety of climate, temperate, torrid ...look forth to the east and then to the west, then to the north and to the south. For, saith the Lord, "All the land thou seest I will give to thee and thy
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• Journal of Discourses/14/9
  ...land that has the appearance of shadowing with wings, like North and South America, the prophet says, "All ye inhabitants of the world and dwellers on the ear ...power, when the mountains and hills that are on the east, west, north and south of this valley will be leveled; when the crooked places shall be made strai
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  ...f thousands of people gathering together in the interior portions of North America, in the Rocky Mountains or vicinity, all of one religious faith. It is a ma ...f this Western hemisphere, in other words, on what we call South and North America; they built up the Church and Kingdom of God in this land, and millions of
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  ...we have left our native lands and have emigrated to the interior of North America, and have founded settlements in the Rocky Mountains under the most unfavor ...le, kept by ancient prophets, was brought to light,—the Bible of ancient America. Of course it has a little different name—we call it the Book of Mormon.
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  |H=NEPHITE AMERICA—THE DAY OF GOD'S POWER—THE SHEPHERD OF ISRAEL |T=Journal of Discourses 14: NEPHITE AMERICA—THE DAY OF GOD'S POWER—THE SHEPHERD OF ISRAEL
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  ...under, half of the mountain moving towards the north, and half towards the south, and there shall be a very great valley," and so on. And when he descends w ...so with Zion, she will be built upon the great western hemisphere in North America, and become a righteous people long before the Jews will gather home. Zion
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• Journal of Discourses/15/8
  ...urope, Asia, Africa, or the uttermost parts of {{page break|47|top}} South America, the frozen regions in the north, or the numerous islands in the great west ...the frozen regions in the north, almost to the southern extremity of South America. Here are the people called Zion, gone up into the high mountain, according
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• Journal of Discourses/15/11
  ...that have grown out of the European governments located in North and South America. ...ough it may annex the British possessions, and extend its dominions to the south and grasp the whole of this great western hemisphere, and although our nati
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• Journal of Discourses/15/16
  ...east then to the west; and then to cast his eyes to the north, and to the south, and then, behold, a great promise was made to him by new revelation, namel ...omething new. The Red Sea was before them, and there were mountains on the south and on the north, and on the west the Egyptians were pursuing them, and the
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• Journal of Discourses/15/18
  ...in me, through your preaching, that we are to assemble on the continent of America, for that is the land of Zion." And if they come here, they will not ask ho ...he privilege of voting in, independent of all other people on this land of America, or in the United States, the man who should serve as president, we should
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  ...w here, in Liverpool; and there was a vessel there and it was going off to America, and we were going to some place they called Zion. I was going, you were go ...position that we now occupy—namely, a Territory in the United States of America; and as we are here, we like other people, have to eat, drink, wear clothin
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• Journal of Discourses/15/25
  ...nd gather them from the west. I will say to the north, Give up; and to the south, Keep not back: bring my sons from far, and my daughters from the ends of t ...he instruction of the angel and visited this hill. The hill runs north and south some three quarters of a mile, and on one end of it, or near the end of it,
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  ...n the subject. This is wrong. We can go into our settlements in the north, south, east and west, and it is just as necessary to have tea, coffee and tobacco
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  ...es as they exist, scattered abroad in the earth, principally in Europe and America as well as in some parts of Africa and Asia. But whether we refer to the Pa ...somewhere and make your improvements, here is a big continent, go north or south, or where you please. Get as many to follow you as you can, and teach them
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  ...g, to inform strangers who may be present, that the inhabitants of ancient America, and those who wrote the Book of Mormon were Israelites! that when they cam ...la was their great capital city. It was located in the north part of South America, on one branch of that river that we call the river Magdalena, that runs do
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  ...the north to the equator, and from the equator to the polar regions of the south, and not one amongst them all knew anything about God, his Son {{page break ...throughout the islands of the sea, as well as those who live in Europe and America who are of the white race. All are the objects of his care. His providence
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  ...Latter-day Saints, but they were spread over the whole of North and South America. Millions on millions of people dwelt in {{page break|3|top}} large and pop ...ed people! How happy they must have been! No poor either in North or South America. No beggars in the streets of their great cities, but all the property—th
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  ...they located on the River Sidon, now called Magdalena, which runs from the south to the north. And there they found a people called the people of Zarahemla. ...om the frozen regions of the north to the very utmost extremities of South America. That all these nations should come to a knowledge of the things contained
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  ...e last 1,600 years we might have gone from east to west, and from north to south, in the four quarters of the earth, and then into the islands of the sea, s ...you behold, if you could grasp in your vision the land of North and South America? You would see a land that looked like the two wings of a bird. I seldom lo
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  ...met us and treated us with courtesy. He is a German by birth, never was in America, speaks English. We also saw a number of persons who were connected with th ...eat valley, and the land shall be turned into a plain from Geba to Rimmon, south of Jerusalem, and shall be lifted up, and men shall dwell on it. The same P
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  ...this order. They spread abroad throughout all the land of North and South America. They dwelt in righteousness, so much so that Jesus, in speaking about them
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  ...pel, when the Latter-day Saints will extend throughout all North and South America, and we shall establish the rule of righteousness and good order throughout ...word could have been sent that they might stop and help the people of the South. If they had done this they might have done a good work, they would have be
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  ...uare, where many had already collected together, and the news was that the south part of our county, adjoining Ray, was attacked by a mob, who were plunderi ...themselve [themselves].-We accordingly marched out upon the plains on the south of the city, and formed in battle array, extending our line of foot somethi
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  ...ny that came from Palestine and were located on the western coast of South America, having crossed the mighty waters under the direction of the Almighty; the ...vast continent from the frozen regions of the north to Cape Horn in South America; go and teach them the Gospel, for they are a remnant of the tribe of Josep
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  ...ions of the power of God, and the people generally of both North and South America were converted and were taught and instructed in the things of God. Yet thi
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  ...who had been sent up in the mean time from the northern portions of South America, called Zarahemla, and he informed King Limhi that the King of Zarahemla ha ...t of North America, as near as we can determine from this book, in Mexico, south of the Gulf of California. And that when the brother of Jared was coming to
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  |H=TEMPLES IN ANCIENT AMERICA—THE GOD OF MANKIND AN IMPOSSIBLE GOD—THE TRUTH IN REGARD TO HIM—MAN I |T=Journal of Discourses 19: TEMPLES IN ANCIENT AMERICA—THE GOD OF MANKIND AN IMPOSSIBLE GOD—THE TRUTH IN REGARD TO HIM—MAN I
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  ...and also in the Southern portions of Africa; and also at Gibraltar, and in South Australia, and New Zealand and in all those various countries, trying to wa ...You have sent forth a vast amount of your manufactures to the continent of America, to the people of the United States, but the scene is changing; for any per
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• Journal of Discourses/20/25
  ...be unpolluted. And this has come down to us in Christendom, in Europe and America to the present time. The fairest of Earth's daughters fall yearly sacrifice ...dwells upon this land, from the east to the west and from the north to the south. The principle must be maintained, the principle, that actuated the founder
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  ...ing in the North, and silent preparations for defence were going on in the South, none seemed to consider the cost of hundreds of thousands of lives, or the ...d into the Union from the North, a pro-slavery State was admitted from the South. Compromises were made between parties for the admission of certain States,
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  ...that it should be a terrible time of bloodshed and that it should start in South Carolina. But I tell you today the end is not yet. You will see worse thing ...its horrid forms has never accomplished this, nor never will. And in free America, the land of boasted toleration, it will be as impotent under the guise of
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  ...also the Spanish language, which is extensively used in Central and South America as well as Mexico, and which is the national language of those countries an
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  ...ed {{page break|29|top}} them to go and preach the Gospel in both the land south and the land north, and they did so. This extract gives us a little informa ...ere and there one. But all those millions, inhabiting both North and South America, were converted unto the Lord. Was not that a wonderment? If I explain a li
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  ...he brethren go over the rim of the basin." We organized every ward or town south of the rim of the basin, and left them in tolerably good working order, so ...came this side the rim of the basin, we found the people more willing than south of the rim of the basin to come forward and organize, for they felt that we
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  ...time stretch some five or six hundred miles, extending into Arizona on the south and into Idaho on the north. ...d some twelve hundred miles through a number of the settlements, north and south;{{page break|99|top}} these wires have sometimes been used to prevent the p
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  ...in this Territory and extending their settlements east and west, north and south. But we are only a very few of the people that God intends to gather togeth ...h their colonies into the north wing of the continent, which we call North America, and in process of time the whole land became peopled and overspread with m
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  ...inhabitants of North and South America; and finally the Lamanites of South America drove the Nephites from the Isthmus, and continued to burn their towns, cit ...ter his resurrection, descended to the northern part of what we call South America, and stood in the midst of a large congregation of people who saw him desce
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  ...onsidered the most dreary, desolate, barren place on the face of all North America, a land where it was supposed that no human being could subsist, or in whic ...g many cities, towns, villages, &c., for some four hundred miles north and south; we have got our farms fenced and our water ditches dug, and we have begun
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  ...e eastern continent is concerned. The kingdom of God was set up in ancient America, and it existed until between three and four centuries after Christ, conseq ...r kingdoms, and they are the kingdoms of modern Europe and the Republic of America, which has been built up by people who have come over to the American conti
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• Journal of Discourses/18/4
  ...nally upon this great western continent, and taught the ancient nations of America. He has told us by his own mouth what the sign should be for the gathering ...range, extending from the arctic regions south to the central portions of America, will tremble beneath the power of God at the approach of that people. Then
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  ...e if we had to pass through them. Think of these late earthquakes in South America, eight thousand people out of ten thousand in one city sunk in the earth in
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  ...n the adjoining States, next in the adjoining Territories, next in British America, and finally across the great ocean among the European nations. Have {{page ...de manifest, that the mountain will divide asunder, half going towards the south, and half towards the north, producing a great valley going east and west,
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  ...ossession of similar evidences concerning this book in relation to ancient America, as you are in regard to the Bible, the history of the people of Palestine; ...n this country, who understand the Spanish language, in Mexico and Central America. This intelligence seemed to revive the old man, and he began to talk about
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• Journal of Discourses/18/21
  ...o, none but a poor deluded sect called Mormons away up in the mountains of America believe any such thing; they profess that God has sent an angel from heaven ...ether to Palestine; but after his crucifixion and resurrection, he came to America, and appeared among its people, and taught them the everlasting Gospel, the
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• Journal of Discourses/18/42
  ...pe, extending in some measure into Asia, and in still greater measure into America. ...y souls. We were told also that this war would begin with the rebellion of South Carolina.
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  ...eak|168|top}} From the east and from the west, from the north and from the south, God is gathering His elect from the four quarters of the earth. This is on
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• Journal of Discourses/22/49
  ...ins from north to south, extending some 600 or perhaps 800 miles north and south, a string of settlements built up by people of various nations who have not ...s something that should be broken to pieces. It is dangerous, they say, to America. Why it is all folly. Let anybody try to drive this people, and it will be
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  ...nd they stayed a little while somewhere not far from here, some five miles south on the Santa Clara, I am told. There was a rich little settlement up there. ...d, furthermore that there might be an asylum here for those living further south to be administered to in the holy ordinances of God. I speak this for your
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  ...ision commenced in the churches, and it was the various religious sects of America that worked up the war. They divided one against another, and brought on th ...he treated upon the compact of the United States as between the North and South on this question of slavery; and proposed an easy and honorable plan of set
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  ...vilized and enlightened nations! A strange thing for men from the wilds of America to come and preach to them the truth of heaven, to tell them the contents o ...{{page break|122|top}} every valley and pass through every town north and south, night or day, without hearing a word that would be improper, without ever
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  ...e north were making a like petition to the same God against their brethren south of that line. According, however, to their own idea of God, He could hardly ...e I was fifteen years of age, I have met thousands of people in Europe and America who thought of "Mormonism" and the "Mormons" only with contempt, believing
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  ...that this desired change, the modification of this system of labor in the south, be effected on a principle of honor, equity and peace; that a fund should ...nd the Baptist church of the South. I believe the only Christian church in America that did not, over the slavery question, split the blanket, divide its prop
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  ...o. We have spread forth our towns, our villages and our settlements to the south for some 300 or 400 miles, and even after doing this we find the place is t ...and in the two adjacent Territories, Idaho in the north and Arizona in the south. We do not calculate to neglect our children in regard to their education.
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  ...their necks; they vied with each other in this labor of love from north to south, from east to west, in all the colonies which were early planted upon this ...f the sea, in all the different nations of Europe, in the various parts of America, and in all lands where the light of the Gospel has been carried and the te
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• Journal of Discourses/25/11
  ...earth, coming from the east and from the west, from the north and from the south, for the Gospel's sake; gathered together in these valleys of the mountains ...of many hundreds of thousands of dollars. In the town of St. George in the south, at the expense of nearly half a million; at Manti, in Sanpete County; at L
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• Journal of Discourses/25/14
  ...ot quite the phrase to use—but which led them out of the older States of America, where persecution had followed the Saints from their earliest history, acr ...to the Lord in Kirtland, from which Elders were sent out into all parts of America, and into Europe. Persecuted in those regions, most of them emigrated westw
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• Journal of Discourses/25/18
  ...ible. This work is indorsed by the names of 63 divines of both Europe and ,America, all noted for their scholarship. They say: ...it predicted began. As this book was widely circulated both in Europe and America, no one can ever use the old infidel argument against it—that is, that th
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• Times and Seasons/1/10
  TO OUR BRETHREN THE ISRAELITES OF EUROPE AND AMERICA. SOUTH CAROLINA Lysander M. Davis.
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• Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Mormonism 101/Chapter 8
  ...ce abandoned the idea that the Book of Mormon lands include areas of North America" *Francis W. Kirkham, ''A New Witness for Christ in America'', 2:417.
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• Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Mormonism 101/Chapter 9
  ...h threats for some time, and many felt it was only a matter of time before South Carolina would act on its threat. The authors are correct that there was a threat of rebellion in South Carolina at the time of this revelation. But the rebellion never materializ
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• Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Mormonism 101/Chapter 16
  ...."<ref>Forrest G. Wood, ''The Arrogance of Faith: Christianity and Race in America from the Colonial Era to the Twentieth Century'' (New York: Alfred A. Knopf ...Raboteau, ''Slave Religion: The "Invisible Institution" in the Antebellum South'' (New York: Oxford University Press, 1978), 167.</ref>
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• Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Studies of the Book of Mormon/Book of Mormon Difficulties: A Study/Origin
  ...postulates those lands as uninhabited” for the entirety of the North and South American continents |L3=Response to hypothesis: 142 - the Book of Mormon requires “an empty America” in 3000 years B.C.
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• Book of Mormon/Geography/Statements/Twentieth century
  |L4=George F. Richards (1922): "The land of North and South America is a very much favored portion of our Father's footstool" ...e would find thousands who had the blood of Israel in their veins in South America"
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  ...ivide said branch, by taking all that part situated in the town of Lee and south west part of Boonville, and organize them into a seperate [separate] branch ...ion. I have seen more beggars here in one day than I saw in all my life in America. I have seen delicate females gathering manure to get a living for their fa
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• Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Losing a Lost Tribe: Native Americans, DNA, and the Mormon Church/Introduction
  ...uthor assumes that the "land" referred to encompasses the entire North and South American continents.}} {{:Question: Why aren't other inhabitants of the America's mentioned in the Book of Mormon?}}
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• Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Losing a Lost Tribe: Native Americans, DNA, and the Mormon Church/Chapter 2
  |H=Response to claims made in "Chapter 2: Race Relations in Colonial America" ...claims made in Losing a Lost Tribe, "Chapter 2: Race Relations in Colonial America"
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• Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Losing a Lost Tribe: Native Americans, DNA, and the Mormon Church/Chapter 4
  ...money" to build church schools in Polynesia, Mexico and Central and South America, but "denied" these benefits to Micronesia and Melanesia ...money" to build church schools in Polynesia, Mexico and Central and South America, but "denied" these benefits to Micronesia and Melanesia==
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• Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Losing a Lost Tribe: Native Americans, DNA, and the Mormon Church/Chapter 12
  |L6=Response to claim: 172 - There were no wheeled vehicles in ancient America ...tural link between Polynesia and the Americas. A linguistic link between a South American variety and Polynesian variety of sweet potato is not yet explaine
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• Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Losing a Lost Tribe: Native Americans, DNA, and the Mormon Church/Chapter 13
  ...: 190 - Church leaders have consistently associated Lamanites with Central America ...: 190 - Church leaders have consistently associated Lamanites with Central America==
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• Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Losing a Lost Tribe: Native Americans, DNA, and the Mormon Church/Chapter 14
  ...The author presents a supposition that the Church as a history of ancient America may some day be de-emphasized ...- Apologists are unable to find an Israelite genetic signature in Central America
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• Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Becoming Gods/Chapter 2
  {{:Source:Martin:The Discovery of America:Science 179:974:No theoretical reason mastodons, horses and slots could not ...n as the Rocky Mountain goat, is a large-hoofed mammal found only in North America." <ref>Wikipedia article "Mountain goat" (accessed 8 January 2015) {{link|u
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• Criticism of Mormonism/Online documents/The Foundation for LDS Scholarship/Writing Prompt 1
  ...im: "Archaeologists who have searched throughout North, Central, and South America do not find evidence supporting the historical claims of the Book of Mormon ...im: "Archaeologists who have searched throughout North, Central, and South America do not find evidence supporting the historical claims of the Book of Mormon
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• Times and Seasons/1/12
  ...ill obey soon, I never saw such calls for preaching.-East, West, North and South, the Macedonian ...llowing is a report of a Committee appointed to examine the country in the South west corner of Iowa Territory.-ED.
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• Book of Mormon/Geography/Statements/Nineteenth century/After Joseph's death
  ...the Book of Mormon, backs up the description of immense 'ruins' in central America" ...aylor (1 Apr 1845): "cities have been discovered by Mr. Stevens in Central America, exactly were the Book of Mormon left them"
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• Book of Mormon/Geography/Statements/Twenty-first century
  ...America, while others believe that it occurred in Central America or South America. Although Church members continue to discuss such theories today, the Churc
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• Criticism of Mormonism/Articles/Reinventing Lamanite Identity
  ...completely unwarranted assumption that "this land" refers to the North and South American landmass. ...e. So it is very unlikely that the prophecy refers to the entire North and South American continents.
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• Book of Mormon/Geography/Statements/Nineteenth century/Joseph Smith's lifetime 1841
  ...assured us that a prophecy, and the description of certain cities in South America were accurately laid down" ...rth and the West to Central America, and the Southern parts of Peru on the South"
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• Book of Mormon/Geography/Statements/Nineteenth century/Joseph Smith's lifetime 1844
  ...has the seed of Joseph gone to?...There is no place except North and South America to which they could have gone" ...has the seed of Joseph gone to?...There is no place except North and South America to which they could have gone}}
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• Book of Mormon/Geography/Statements/Nineteenth century/Joseph Smith's lifetime 1843
  |L1=A critic of the Book of Mormon (1843): "the ruins of Central America...the existence of such ruins were known long before the publication of the ...issionary responds to critic (1843): "I contend that it is North and South America both that includes the promised land to the branches of Joseph"
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• Book of Mormon/Geography/Statements/Nineteenth century/Joseph Smith's lifetime 1842
  |L1=Book of Mormon Index (1842): "The discovery of America predicted" ...uated one of the immense works or fortifications of the ancient nations of America"
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• Messenger and Advocate/1/1
  ...lly find a certain market for their produce, and a large extent of country south receive their eastern merchandise at the two places. ...n at the mouth of the Cuyahoga River, and is improving. The Canal from the south has increased its trade, and it now affords a market. The harbor is good, a
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• Messenger and Advocate/1/3
  ...l the beauty and variety of season and climate, that may be found from the south line of Virginia, to the gulf of St. Lawrence! It is a great place, and eve ..., has already commenced gathering and settling the various tribes upon the south eastern limits of this grand region, I shall be justified on that point, an
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• Messenger and Advocate/1/4
  Few places in north America present to the eye, grander views than Cantonment Leavenworth. At from thre ...religion—it matters not where it was given, whether at Jerusalem, or in America, to Israelites, Nephites, Jews, or Gentiles; to Ephraim, or the lost tribes
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• Messenger and Advocate/1/6
  ...d? for whether we look to the east, or to the west, to the north or to the south, we perceive its mighty progress, upheld by the hand of Omnipotence—it mo ...for Jerusalem, for they can, in their wig wam temple, in the wilderness of America, enjoy more of God's presence than the most righteous Jew could enjoy in th
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• Messenger and Advocate/1/7
  ...he appeared the ''second'' time on {{page break|106|top}}the continent of America, and that he will soon come the ''third'' time to the Mormons." ...pe of Rome an appointment of ''"Inquisitor General of the United States of America!"'' which commission he now holds as a proper authority, with the addition
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• Messenger and Advocate/1/12
  ...ce them in their own land; by that book I learned that the poor Indians of America were some of the remnants of Israel; by that book I learned that the new Je ...many sick in this part of the land, and some are dying. The saints in the south wish to be remembered before the Lord by the saints in the north; whom we l
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• Messenger and Advocate/2/1
  The Indians occupy a large portion of the land of America, and, as they are a part of the creation of God, and are a remnant of the c ...ess of God, in sparing some of the seed of Joseph upon this choice land of America: and consider his wisdom and love in preserving a record of the progenitors
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• Messenger and Advocate/2/2
  ...nce we passed through the north part of New Hampshire into Vermont: thence south, the whole length of the state; thence through Mass. into Connecticut; and ...he fulness of the everlasting gospel, the history of the first settlers of America; even the book of Mormon, preparatory to gathering Israel from their long d
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• Messenger and Advocate/2/3
  ...s. Till then neither myself nor brother Smith knew of such relics being in America. Mr. Chandler was told that his writings could be deciphered, and very poli ...ne. I continued preaching almost daily for three weeks in Vermont, and the south part of Grafton county, N. H. I baptized three in Enfield, and have reason
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• Messenger and Advocate/2/8
  ...e doctrines of Abolitionism, there would be no safety for one of us in the South; for our enemies would grasp at it as a precious morsel, whereon to feed th ...u, it was resolved and approved, that as he had an anxious desire to go to America to see the things that are spoken of in one of your papers, brought here by
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• Messenger and Advocate/3/4
  ...sented as crossing the sea, and settling this continent of North and South America. Yes, the concurrence or identity of the prophetic allusion, with the ''fac ...ns in the midst of the earth." So much of the history of the aborigines of America is known to the world, as would render any attempt to show that they have n
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• Messenger and Advocate/3/5
  ...roll; and the sound of its march hath already echoed beyond the bounds of America. What if honest poverty has had in this case to contend with wealth, or eve ...y receiving intelligence by letter and otherwise, from the East, West, and South, of the progress of truth and correct principles concerning the religion we
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• Messenger and Advocate/3/10
  All the Republics of South America, except the Banda Oriental and the old Republic of Columbia, are mingled in
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• Messenger and Advocate/3/11
  ...but I expect to leave now immediately for Va. I hope the elders traveling South from Kirtland, will give the brethren a call in this place. ...the channel before a fair wind, under a full press of canvass: the "South America" about ten times her length astern of the Garrick, each ship carrying canva
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• Messenger and Advocate/3/12
  ...ent season. I left Kirtland in company with elder G. W. Meeks to go to the South, we bent our course to West Township, Columbiana Co. in order to attend a c Speaking of the Aborigines of America, he makes it appear pretty plausibly, that they are no less than the litera
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• Book of Mormon/Lamanites/Relationship to Amerindians/Statements/20th century
  |L3=1926: "The day will come when the Lamanites here will get the chance. The South American Mission is to be a power in the Church" ...en the seed from which sprouted the great achievements of Peru and Central America"
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• Statements from Church leaders about Polynesian origins
  ...nds of the sea…they are in nearly all the islands of the sea from Hawaii south to southern New Zealand…Today we have many Lamanite leaders in the Church ...Indians as descendants of Father Lehi, having migrated to the Pacific from America . . . .Our belief in this regard is scriptural (see {{s||Alma|63|4-10}}).<r
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• Book of Mormon/Lamanites/Relationship to Amerindians/Statements/19th century
  ...sented as crossing the sea, and settling this continent of North and South America" ...city was in some region on the South of what is called at this time, North America"
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• The Evening and The Morning Star/1/2
  ...shall be sent both to the east, and to the west, to the north, and to the south; and even now let him that goeth to the east, teach them that shall be conv ...gments which God sent upon Pharaoh in Egypt, to terrify the inhabitants of America, neither have you any direction, by commandment, to collect the calamities
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• The Evening and The Morning Star/1/3
  ...kind. Conceive two long chains of mountains running parallel from north to south, without projections, without recesses, without vegetation. The ridge on th -> Remarks. Neither the house of Joseph in America, nor the Jews among all nations, nor the Ten Tribes which went to that coun
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• The Evening and The Morning Star/1/4
  ...But the Cholera, which has swept its thousands in Asia, Africa, Europe and America, gives a solemn token to a wondering world, that it will do so. Let the rea ...actually foretold the events which are now taking place in relation to the south western Indians. It was their custom, on the occasions above mentioned, to
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• The Evening and The Morning Star/1/5
  ...re [center] of the earth, it would be perfectly natural to call the north, south, east, and west, nethermost, or lowest; and as this branch was the first th ...of California; yea, and about the middle of the continent from cape Horn, south, to the head land at Baffin's Bay, north. The world will never value the la
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• The Evening and The Morning Star/1/8
  The dissolution of South Carolina from the Union; ...ble; in the west there is fear; in the north there is no peace, and in the south there is consternation. Well may we exclaim, all things must change: but vi
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• The Evening and The Morning Star/1/9
  We are about fifty miles off St. Louis, and shall bend our course to the south among the thick settlements on the Mississippi, to search for the meek. God ====DISCOVERY OF ANCIENT RUINS IN CENTRAL AMERICA.====
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• The Evening and The Morning Star/1/10
  ...ery reason to do so: or if the elders go to preach to the north, or to the south, or to the east, or to the west, they can not go amiss, for the Lord has so The continent of America is a choice land above all others, and, ever since men have dwelt upon it,
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• The Evening and The Morning Star/1/11
  ...rds the soldiery, through the columns of their acknowledged journal in the south of Ireland, which contains the following conciliatory paragraph, presenting ...g officer who fought the battle of Navarino. At the time of sailing of the America, the 9th of December, it was reported and believed that 70,000 men had dese
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• The Evening and The Morning Star/2/13
  ...the eleventh of March, 1832, I started with brother Luke Johnson unto the south country, and on the twenty second, we left our brethren at Shalersville, an ...d the elect of the Lord gathering, as sheaves into the barn.-From north to south, from east to west, the voice of the Lord, is, Come out of her, O my people
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• The Evening and The Morning Star/2/14
  It has long been so, that if a saint went east, west, north or south, he could not go, without having his ears continually saluted by individual ...of the Scriptures published in England. It is stated that the churches in America have long since adopted the edition in question, as a standard;-if so, it i
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• The Evening and The Morning Star/2/17
  ...re to be enlarged, and they were to stretch forth to the north, and to the south, and from the river of Egypt to the great river Euphrates. The arm that was ...g that there was a country on this globe called the United States of North America, could take his journey to this place without first learning the laws of th
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• The Evening and The Morning Star/2/22
  ...perusing the history of the first introduction of the Spaniards into South America and the Mexicos, the heart of the philanthropist must shrink at those scene ...heir own industry with the blessing of heaven for their support, while the South was overspread with ambicious [ambitious] Spaniards, who made no scruple as
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• The Evening and The Morning Star/2/23
  From the south we frequently learn of the progress of truth, though bigotry and fanaticism "By it we learn the Beauties of the constitution of the United States of America, and in fact, that it is just such a one as might have been expected were t
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• The Evening and The Morning Star/2/24
  ...of which I have mentioned, and you find this to be the case. Visit the far south, and the yellow fever, with other disorders, come periodically, and take fr ...d, that this disease first made its appearance at Jessore, about 100 miles south of Calcutta, (India,) in August, 1817. To mark its rapid progress, as it la
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• Times and Seasons/3/23
  ...Darien and once embraced several hundred miles of territory from north to south.-The city of Zarahemla, burnt at the crucifixion of the Savior, and rebuilt From Stephens' "Incidents of Travel in Central America."
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• Times and Seasons/6/1
  ...g to the pattern which I have given unto you. And let the first lot on the south, be consecrated unto me for the building of an house for the presidency, fo And again, verily I say unto you, the second lot on the south shall be dedicated unto me for the building of an house unto me, for the wo
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• Times and Seasons/6/2
  ...ext one, another, except the middle range of squares, which runs north and south, in which range are the painted squares. ...st length being east and west, and by running all these squares, north and south, it makes all the lots in the city of one size.
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• Times and Seasons/6/3
  ...e Lord, in this place, and it goes on rapidly. Good news from the east and south, of the success of the laborers is often saluting our ears. A general time ...an ordinary citizen. The Roman Catholic clergy in France, Switzerland, and America, complains of persecution, because it is restrained from persecuting; and e
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• Times and Seasons/6/4
  We often lament the situation of our sister states in the south, and we fear, lest, as has been the case, the blacks should rise and spill ...in I have supposed from the eighteenth chapter of Isaiah, that the land of America (or indeed some land) had something to do in bringing to the place of the n
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• Times and Seasons/6/5
  ...t letter I told you that we left Br. Pratt about five hundred miles to the south of this, where there are no missionaries to disturb him, where he has done ...words from home, which we have not had the pleasure of doing since we left America, no, not so much as one syllable. But we live in daily hopes and expectatio
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• Times and Seasons/6/6
  |L4=THE MISSION TO SOUTH SEA ISLANDS. We, the undersigned, citizens of the republic of the United States of America, inhabitants of the State of Missouri, and residents of Jackson county, mem
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• Times and Seasons/6/8
  ...arch and iron. She is naturally ingenious, They all talk much of coming to America, and often ask where is the ship to go in? It is a spiritual feast to me to ...he Sandwich Islands, and urged me to visit them there before I returned to America.
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• Times and Seasons/6/9
  ...and elsewhere.-Our advices from the islands of the sea; especially in the South Pacific; from Great Britain and Scotland, show an increase of love and unio ...ake; one who had the hearts and affections of thousands of friends both in America and England; and whose fidelity was stronger than death to his lover, his b
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• Times and Seasons/6/10
  |L10=THE NORTH AGAINST THE SOUTH. ...e, it will be shut out from access to the slaves and colored people of the south.
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• Times and Seasons/6/13
  INDIANS OF AMERICA.-The semi-annual report of the American Indian Mission Association, held at ...ies have sailed across the seas to Asia, Africa, and Europe, and have left America for us.
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• Times and Seasons/6/14
  ...inister to my wants, and I have never been destitute of money since I left America, which is more than I could say while I was travelling [traveling] there. I ...ere raised up by Elder Burnham. Elder Henshaw is preaching successfully in South Wales to the native Welch in their own language, Capt. Dan Jones is in Wrex
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• Times and Seasons/6/16
  ...ember, the mob commenced burning the houses and grain of the saints in the south part of Hancock county. Though efforts were made by the Sheriff to stay the ...ce, whose beauty and workmanship will compare with any house of worship in America, and whose motto is: "Holiness to the Lord."
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• Times and Seasons/6/17
  ...rd Indian, which is used to personny [personify] the natives of China, and America, is probably not fully and fairly understood. The word Indian is an adjecti ...various parts of Holland, by a hurricane or waterspout that came from the south. The houses have suffered enormous damage, the roofs are carried away, and
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• Times and Seasons/6/18
  To the President of the United States of America: We, the undersigned, your petitioners, citizens of the United States of America, and residents of the county of Clay, in the state of Mo., being members of
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• Times and Seasons/6/19
  ...lding on which the Ozondah stands; and also the lot which is on the corner south of the Ozondah; and also the lot on which the Shule is situated: And all th Nor is America the only quarter of the globe that is agitated, or that manifests symptoms
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• Times and Seasons/6/20
  ...the best in the world. They have students from every European nation, and America. The university of Gottingen, though it has been established but about a ce ...Brs. Addison Pratt, B. Grouard and Br. K. Hanks, to go the Islands of the South sea, we accordingly took leave of our families, and on the first day of Jun
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• Times and Seasons/6/22
  ...other shepherds, and send three east, three west, three north,, and three south, and let them appoint other shepherds to assist them, and gather together a ..., brought the present copy with him, on his return from the Islands of the South Pacific Ocean. Read and reflect;
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• Times and Seasons/6/23
  ...t evils and coming calamities; our fore-fathers came to the goodly land of America, to shun persecution and enjoy their religious opinions and rights, as they ...al they 'all carry.' Scarcely any thing else is expected here but war with America, and the decisive point will be whether the United States claim Oregon; if
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• Times and Seasons/5/1
  ...ogether, from the east, and from the west, and from the north and from the south, by letter or some other way. ...and faithful perseverance of the servants of God, in Europe, as well as in America, and that too, through the medium of your respectably conducted periodical,
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• Times and Seasons/5/3
  ...rbarians! Listen to it O ye savages!! and hasten, yea hasten all of you to America; there you can glut your avarice by plunder, and riot in the blood of innoc ...d all men, both in the east, and in the west, and in the north, and in the south, and in the islands of the sea, that they shall write the words which I spe
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• Times and Seasons/5/4
  ...be possible, that such monstrous deeds, could be again acted in civilized America? ...reacher-came forward and was baptized. From thence we travelled [traveled] south into Tennessee, passing through Ebine, Gibson, Dyer, Madison and Henderson
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• Book of Mormon/Geography/Statements/Twentieth century/Joseph Fielding Smith
  ...ned almost entirely within the borders of the territory comprising Central America and the southern portion of Mexico-the isthmus of Tehauntepec probably bein ...over great distances such as we find within the borders Of North and South America.
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  ...ainy appearance, the wind blowing in slight squalls from the southward and south-westward, At the time above-mentioned, a loud rumbling or undulating noise ...en to heave and shake, as well as the pier walls, the iron railings at the south west corner of the quay, and the massive quay at St. Sampson's harbour [har
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• Times and Seasons/5/8
  ...in the knowledge of that book, I have not met with his equal in Europe or America. Although, if I should beg leave to differ with him in some items of faith; SOUTH CAROLINA.
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• Times and Seasons/5/9
  ...ational existence to the year 1832, can the annals of the United States of America be found, to blast the character of her noble sons, by telling the blood-ch ...m your honorable body; yet certain causes will produce certain effects. If America refuses to punish robbers and murderers, she opens the door for a tenfold i
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• Criticism of Mormonism/Online documents/For my Wife and Children (Letter to my Wife)/Chapter 11
  ...ies reveal that Israeli lineage of the natives to North, Central and South America is not the case" ...ies reveal that Israeli lineage of the natives to North, Central and South America is not the case"==
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• Elephants in the Book of Mormon
  {{:Source:Johnson:Men and Elephants in America:1952:Probably it is safe to say that American Proboscidea have been extinct <!-- {{:Video:Ash:Elephants in America}} -->
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• FAIR Study Aids/Gospel Doctrine/Book of Mormon/Lesson Five
  ...hey surely would have. Most scholars believe that Lehi’s family traveled south along this trail through Arabia, and then turned east after arriving at Nah ...provided a definition of it for his readers. This word may be traced to a South Semitic etymology meaning "watering of completeness" or "watering of (super
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• Criticism of Mormonism/Websites/MormonThink/25 items that would allegedly "make the Church true"
  ...need faith, but something to show that the ancient Jews could have been in America.}} {{Heading2|10. DNA evidence would support that the American Indians and South American peoples descended from Israel.}}
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• Criticism of Mormonism/Websites/MormonThink/Translation of the Book of Mormon/Sources and links
  **Francis Kirkham, ''A New Witness for Christ in America'' 2:417 ...ourceQuotePhrase|I was at the house of his father in Manchester, two miles south of Palmyra village,}}
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• Criticism of Mormonism/Websites/MormonThink/Translation of the Book of Mormon/Source quotes without commentary
  #William Smith, quoted by Francis Kirkham, ''A New Witness for Christ in America'', 2:417 ...There were a great many strange sights. One time the old log school-house south of Palmyra, was suddenly lighted up, and frightened them away. Samuel Lawre
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• Criticism of Mormonism/Websites/MormonThink/The Witnesses/Source quotes without commentary
  ...l the curious antiquities, found in various [280] parts of North and South America. I have recently read the Book of Mormon, and to my great surprize I find n ...him in a vision that an account of an ancient people was buried in a hill south of White River bridge, near the east line of Walworth County; and leading u
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• Criticism of Mormonism/Websites/MormonThink/Could Joseph Smith have written the Book of Mormon/Source quotes without commentary
  ...for these recitals of "the dress," "the mode of the ancient inhabitants of America of traveling," "the animals on which they rode," "their cities," "their bui ...ease as if he had spent his whole life" with these ancient inhabitants of America? Not from the Book of Mormon, which is, as yet, a sealed book to him; and s
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• Mormonism and culture/Response to "Why People Leave the LDS Church" (2008)/Historical and doctrinal issues
  ...Tried and acquitted on fanciful charge of being a “disorderly person,” South Bainbridge, Chenango County, New York. New York law defined a disorderly pe ...rmon is a history of the native Americans of Central, South America, North America and the [[Book of Mormon/Lamanites/Relationship to Polynesians|Pacific Isla
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• Helaman
  **John L. Sorenson, "Mesoamericans in Pre-Spanish South America" [http://maxwellinstitute.byu.edu/publications/books/?bookid=71&chapid=828 **John L. Sorenson, "Mesoamericans in Pre-Columbian North America" [http://maxwellinstitute.byu.edu/publications/books/?bookid=71&chapid=829
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• FAIR Study Aids/Book of Mormon Resources by chapter and verse/Helaman
  **John L. Sorenson, "Mesoamericans in Pre-Spanish South America" [http://maxwellinstitute.byu.edu/publications/books/?bookid=71&chapid=828 **John L. Sorenson, "Mesoamericans in Pre-Columbian North America" [http://maxwellinstitute.byu.edu/publications/books/?bookid=71&chapid=829
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• Elder's Journal/1/1
  ...aptized them and we returned rejoicing. On Monday following we visited the South Island to set before them the truths of the everlasting gospel. We held fiv A Methodist priest on the South Island fearing whereunto these things would grow, came over to the Island w
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• Elder's Journal/1/2
  ...ce. I have as yet, mostly, confined my labors since my return to North and South Fox Islands. I have had more calls for preaching than I can fill I find a d nothing about the gathering for they have no means to bring them to America, let alone procuring them a place to live after they get there. We all pay
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• Criticism of Mormonism/Websites/MormonThink/The Kinderhook Plates/Source quotes without commentary
  ...2. Near Kinderhook, in Pike county, Illinois-between fifty and sixty miles south and east of Nauvoo-on April 23, 1843, a Mr. Robert Wiley, while excavating |quote=There are the Kinderhook plates, too, found in America and now in the possession of the Chicago Historical Society. Controversy ha
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• Detailed response to CES Letter, Book of Mormon
  *[[#Response to claim: "Horses...did not exist in pre-Columbian America during Book of Mormon times"]] (Letter to a CES Director: Why I Lost My Tes *[[#Response to claim: "cattle...did not exist in pre-Columbian America during Book of Mormon times"]] (Letter to a CES Director: Why I Lost My Tes
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• Firesides/28 November 2010 - Sweden/14
  ...as I know there is nothing prove there have been Lamanites or Nephites in America. If we have time also could you comment on the American Indians and the DNA *'''Question: If we can see evidence of Viking visits to North America, why don't we have evidence of Nephites and Lamanites?<br>Answer: There are
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• D. Todd Christofferson
  ...ily and Church History Department. Earlier, he was president of the Mexico South Area of the Church, resident in Mexico City.
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• Forgeries related to Mormonism/Personalities
  ...ad received the items from his grandfather, who had gotten them from South America. Fuchs said that he was to give the plates to the church whose missionarie
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• Times and Seasons/2/7
  ...we have abundant proof in the Book of Mormon, which describes the land of America as being a choice land above all other lands; then if above all other lands ...Images, whatever name is given to them; are found in the United States of America. And when Israel according to the 3rd chapter of Hosea, shall seek the Lord
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• Miller and Roper: "This was long enough to bring them (mammoths) to the time of the Jaredites"
  ...ould be pointed out that the mammoth never did range as far south as South America. ...s. Its range extends as far north as the Northern United States and as far south as Costa Rica.
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• Miller and Roper: "there are sheep native to America. The most common type is the Mountain Sheep, Ovis canadensis"
  ==Miller and Roper: "there are sheep native to America. The most common type is the Mountain Sheep, Ovis canadensis"== ...eep. It appears certain that the association of sheep and man occurred in America before this animal was brought over beginning in 1493 with Columbus’ seco
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• Miller and Roper: "In post-biblical Jewish literature some Jewish writers distinguished between wild and domestic cattle such as goats"
  ...animal during Book of Mormon time, it is extremely unlikely it got as far south as Mesoamerica. A closely related, but extinct, species is Oreamnos harring
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• Question: Is prophecy only available for "after the fact" confirmation that God has acted?
  ...priesthood you see here tonight, but this church will fill North and South America it will fill the world.<ref>Cited by {{CR|author=Wilford Woodruff|date=Apri
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• Question: Did Joseph Smith teach a hemispheric, rather than a limited, geography model for the Book of Mormon?
  ...f Mormon narrative describes events occurring in North, Central, and South America. <ref name="roper">Matthew Roper, "Limited Geography and the Book of Mormon ...curred, which ranged from the area around New York to the lands of Central America===
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• Question: How valid are the names used in the Holley Map?
  ...ontained in the (Annexed) Map of the Middle British Colonies, &c. in North America,'' p. 40. (1776) </ref> ...ontained in the (Annexed) Map of the Middle British Colonies, &c. in North America,'' p. 40. (1776)]]
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• Question: Did Joseph Smith confer the priesthood on several black men?
  ...hat blacks should not be ordained while contemplating the situation in the South.<ref>''Neither White nor Black'', 61,77.</ref> These accounts must be weigh ...E.S. Abdy, ''Journal of a Residence and Tour in the United States of North America, from April, 1833, to October, 1834'', 3 Vols., (London: John Murray, 1835)
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• Question: Why did Brigham Young initiate the priesthood ban?
  ...ecame more comprehensive to include not only slaves and free blacks in the South, but all persons deemed to have inherited the curse of Cain through Ham=== ...ecame more comprehensive to include not only slaves and free blacks in the South, but all persons deemed to have inherited the [[Blacks_and_the_priesthood/T
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• Joseph Smith's marriage to Helen Mar Kimball
  |L3=The age of menarche in America in 1840 has a normal distribution close to a mean of 15.2 years and a stand ===The age of menarche in America in 1840 has a normal distribution close to a mean of 15.2 years and a stand
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• Question: What is the "White Horse Prophecy"?
  ...d England’s vaults. A terrible revolution will take place in the land of America, such as has never been seen before; for the land will be left without a Su
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• Question: Did B.H. Roberts lose his faith in the Church and the Book of Mormon?
  ...in promises in ancient times concerning the land of Zion—North and South America,” Roberts said in his address. “That is the information we get from our ...ican scripture, the word of God to the ancient inhabitants of this land of America.”
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• Question: What events resulted in Joseph Smith's 1826 court appearance in South Bainbridge?
  ==Question: What events resulted in Joseph Smith's 1826 court appearance in South Bainbridge?== [[Category:Mormon America: The Power and the Promise]]
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• Question: What is Joseph Smith's 1826 South Bainbridge "trial" for "glasslooking"?
  ==Question: What is Joseph Smith's 1826 South Bainbridge "trial" for "glasslooking"?== [[Category:Mormon America: The Power and the Promise]]
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• Ensign (June 1994): "Highlights in the Prophet’s Life 20 Mar. 1826: Tried and acquitted on fanciful charge of being a “disorderly person,” South Bainbridge, Chenango County, New York
  ...Tried and acquitted on fanciful charge of being a “disorderly person,” South Bainbridge, Chenango County, New York== ...Tried and acquitted on fanciful charge of being a “disorderly person,” South Bainbridge, Chenango County, New York. New York law defined a disorderly pe
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• Question: How is it possible that there were three days of darkness in the New World and not in the Old World?
  ...a or China, or much of anywhere else east of Judea, nor most Arabia to the south and the vast majority of the African continent--let alone the Americas, obv ...the Book of Mormon. Most LGT models place Book of Mormon lands in central America; this area is well-known for active seismic activity.
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• Question: Where is the Hill Cumorah?
  ...eaders believed that the Book of Mormon took place on the entire North and South American continents=== ...aders believed that the events of the Book of Mormon spanned the North and South American continents, that the isthmus of Panama was the "narrow neck" of la
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• Hemispheric Geography Model of Book of Mormon geography
  ...It postulates that the events in the book took place over North and South America, with the Isthmus of Panama as the narrow neck of land. ...to square with the HGT scale, which requires thousands of miles in a North-South direction
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• Plural marriage/Twentieth century LDS publications on plural marriage
  ...ganized church, and the replies thereto touching the origin of polygamy in America, an answer to the question, is timely and appropriate, although it can be g ...on three sides—the Bee Hive House on the east, the Church offices on the south, and the Lion House on the west.
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• Question: Does a Mesoamerican limited geographical Book of Mormon setting contradict D&C 54:8, which discusses the "borders of the Lamanites" being in North America?
  ...ct D&C 54:8, which discusses the "borders of the Lamanites" being in North America?== ...ent models which propose settings in other regions in North America, South America or the entire hemispheric New World. The response to this criticism is not
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• Question: Who can be called "Lamanites"?
  ...would make all of the inhabitants of the New World in both North and South America [[Book of Mormon/Lamanites/Relationship to Amerindians/Descendants of Lehi|
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• Question: Does the Book of Mormon refer to "coins"?
  ...Nephite coins is an anachronism, as coins were not used either in ancient America or Israel during Lehi's day. One critical website even speculates: "Do you ...uch) was found in Ecuador, for the first time confirming that some ancient South Americans had the idea of accumulating a fortune in more or less standard u
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• Joseph Smith's Rocky Mountain prophecy
  ...he future, when a path will be opened for the Saints through Mexico, South America, and to the center Stake of Zion.
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• Question: Did Joseph Smith prophesy that the government would be overthrown and wasted?
  ...f rural areas of the four counties ('''Jackson''', Cass, Bates and Vernon) south of the Missouri River on the Kansas border to leave their property, which w ...to the avoidance of civil war. Following the Civil War, the Whigs in the south tried to regroup, but were soon absorbed into the Democratic party.<ref>"Wh
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• Question: What is the Vernal Holley map?
  ...On Holley's map, it would be almost due east of the map's Ripliancum, not south as the Book of Mormon text requires.<br> ...ders west by the seashore" ({{s||Mormon|4|1-7}}). Yet, Holley's Angola is south of Zarahemla, and already directly on the west seashore. His geographical
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• Question: Does the fact that the Doctrine and Covenants refers to North American Indians as "Lamanites" contradict the theory that the Book of Mormon events took place in Mesoamerica?
  ...in the Doctrine and Covenants the Lord refers to American Indians in North America as "Lamanites" (e.g., {{s||D&C|28|8-9,14}}, {{s||D&C|30|6}}, {{s||D&C|32|2} ...day prophets since, have described the native inhabitants of the North and South American continents as Lamanites. So, how do these statements made by livin
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• Source:Gospel Topics:Book of Mormon and DNA Studies:The evidence assembled to date suggests that the majority of Native Americans carry largely Asian DNA
  ...aska. These people, scientists say, spread rapidly to fill North and South America and were likely the primary ancestors of modern American Indians.
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• Question: How did the Sweet Potato, which is native to the New World, arrive in Polynesia?
  ...New World, and it is believed to have originated in either the Central or South American lowlands.<ref>Patricia J. O’Brien, “The Sweet Potato: Its Orig #The plant was introduced by the Spanish conquerors of South America during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
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• Question: Why do modern day prophets and Church members in general believe that Polynesians are Lamanites?
  ...nds of the sea…they are in nearly all the islands of the sea from Hawaii south to southern New Zealand…Today we have many Lamanite leaders in the Church
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• Question: Other than the Sweet Potato, are there other possible connections between the Pacific islands and the New World?
  .../2007/jun/05/science/sci-chickens5 "Study: Spaniards didn’t get to South America first"], ''Los Angeles Times'', June 5, 2007.</ref> A variety of cotton in
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• Question: Is DNA Haplogroup X2a proof that the Book of Mormon fits best in a geography located in the Great Lakes region?
  ...ue, then, that this group actually sailed around Africa and up through the South Atlantic and into the Gulf of Mexico. They then have them landing in what ...thesis Solutrean Hypothesis]&mdash;that is, that haplogroup X got to North America (and specifically to the northeast) by people migrating from Europe on tiny
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• Question: Does the Church authoritatively identify the location of the Hill Cumorah?
  ...America, while others believe that it occurred in Central America or South America. Although Church members continue to discuss such theories today, the Churc
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• Question: How should a valid Book of Mormon geography be modeled?
  ...d to conceive of geography stretching for thousands of miles in a north-to-south direction. However, careful examination of the text revealed that the Book ...notice this, and simply read the Book as describing all of North and South America. If, as the critics insist, Joseph or a contemporary composed the Book of
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• Question: Does the Book of Mormon fit best in a geography located around the Great Lakes, between the United States and Canada?
  ...North America: Christ Visited the Nephites in the Land of Promise in North America'' (Tigard, OR: Resource Communications, Inc., 1993). ISBN 1883266246. ...held the view that Book of Mormon lands were located in Mexico and Central America but has since become persuaded that a much stronger case can be made for we
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• Mesoamerican Model of Book of Mormon geography
  Google Maps has the journey from the Tuxtla Mountain Range in south Veracruz Mexico to Manchester, NY taking 850 hours which is equivalent to a ...ct D&C 54:8, which discusses the "borders of the Lamanites" being in North America?}}
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• Question: Do references to "this continent" made by Joseph Smith refer to North America?
  ...ion: Do references to "this continent" made by Joseph Smith refer to North America?== ...Joseph Smith's day, the term "this continent" included North ''and'' South America===
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• Question: Is there a revealed Book of Mormon geography?
  ...y of all of the people who have lived on the continents of North and South America in all ages of the earth. Up to that time, I had assumed that it was. If th ...e land now known as Chile; and that under the Prophet's editorship Central America was denominated the region of Book of Mormon activities.
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• Oliver Cowdery (Jul 1835): "A history of the inhabitants who peopled this continent, previous to its being discovered to Europeans by Columbus"
  ...d [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Columbus#Fourth_voyage Central America]. (Click [[Book of Mormon/Geography/Columbus|here]] for maps of Columbus'
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• W.W. Phelps (Oct 1835): "the Indians, whose history and doings, upon this western continent, it unfolds as plainly"
  ...of God, in sparing some of the seed of Joseph '''upon this choice land of America''': and consider his wisdom and love in preserving a record of the progenit ...pose 800,000, in the northern regions of the Canadas, and 500,000 in South America, there will be 2,110,562 of the sons of Joseph, and of the remnants of the
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• William Smith (Jan 1837): "a remnant of the branches or seed of Joseph are represented as crossing the sea, and settling this continent of North and South America"
  ...sented as crossing the sea, and settling this continent of North and South America"== ...the midst of the earth.” So much of the history of the '''aborigines of America''' is known to the world, as would render any attempt to show that they hav
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• Joseph Smith (19 Jul 1840): "speaking of the Land of Zion, It consists of all North & South America"
  ...Jul 1840): "speaking of the Land of Zion, It consists of all North & South America"== ...ren...'''The redemption of Zion is the redemption of all N[orth] & S[outh] America.'''" {{ea}} <ref>{{BYUS1|author=Martha Jane Knowlton Coray, [edited by Dean
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• Orson Pratt (1840): "they were marvellously brought across the great deep to the shores of North America"
  ...hey were marvellously brought across the great deep to the shores of North America"== ...hey were marvellously brought across the great deep to the shores of North America....
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• Source:Levi Nicklin:18 Jan 1841:To prove the divinity of the book he assured us that a prophecy, and the description of certain cities in South America were accurately laid down
  ...assured us that a prophecy, and the description of certain cities in South America were accurately laid down"== ...assured us that a prophecy, and the description of certain cities in South America were accurately laid down, and that recent discoveries made by Stevens and
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• Source:Winchester:1 Mar 1841:The antiquities of America spread from the great lakes of the North and the West to Central America, and the Southern parts of Peru on the South
  ...rth and the West to Central America, and the Southern parts of Peru on the South"== We shall now proceed to prove; first, from various relics of antiquity, that America has been inhabited by an enlightened people, far in advance of the savage s
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• Source:Book of Mormon and the Mormonites:Jul 1841:The history of the settlements of the emigrants in North and South America
  ...1841): "The history of the settlements of the emigrants in North and South America"== The history of the settlements of the emigrants in North and South America contains some romantic and some very puerile incidents; but, passing these
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• Source:Millennial Star:2 Jul 1841:Canada on the north, Oregon on the West, Mexico on the south, together with all the tribes in central and South America
  ...st, Mexico on the south, together with all the tribes in central and South America"== ...st, Mexico on the south, together with all the tribes in central and South America. These all must come into the covenant, and be gathered and consolidated in
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• Source:Parley P. Pratt:Mar 1842:Mr Stephens...penetrated a dense forest, till then unexplored by modern travellers , and actually finds the ruins of those very cities mentioned by Mormon
  Parley P. Pratt in England wrote of “ruins in Central America” providing Book of Mormon evidence in the ''Millennial Star''. He cited ...tes on the "narrow neck of land which connected the north country with the south country;" and Mormon names a number of them, which were strongly fortified,
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• Source:John E. Page:1 Jul 1842:The city was in some region on the South of what is called at this time, North America
  ...ty...was in some region on the South of what is called at this time, North America"== ...y before it was known to exist till 1836 by any account that was extant in America, from which it could have been extracted?....
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• Source:Times and Seasons:1 Oct 1842:The city of Zarahemla, burnt at the crucifixion of the Savior, and rebuilt afterwards, stood upon this land
  ...Darien and once embraced several hundred miles of territory from north to south.-The city of Zarahemla, burnt at the crucifixion of the Savior, and rebuilt
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• Missionary responds to critic (1843): "I contend that it is North and South America both that includes the promised land to the branches of Joseph"
  ==Missionary responds to critic (1843): "I contend that it is North and South America both that includes the promised land to the branches of Joseph"== ..., I said belonged to Ephraim, &c. but I contend that it is North and South America both that includes the promised land to the branches of Joseph) long before
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• Source:LDS missionary tract:1844:where has the seed of Joseph gone to?...There is no place except North and South America to which they could have gone
  ...has the seed of Joseph gone to?...There is no place except North and South America to which they could have gone"== ...d have gone, if the old world furnishes no trace of them. The Continent of America is the only place where the prophecies concerning Joseph and his seed could
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• Source:Times and Seasons:15 Dec 1844:As to the original inhabitants of the continent of America, the Book of Mormon, backs up the description of immense "ruins" in central America
  ...the Book of Mormon, backs up the description of immense 'ruins' in central America"== ...day. In our last paper may be seen the "''Interesting discovery'' in South America,"....
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• Source:Parley P. Pratt:13 Mar 1852:Four-fifths, or perhaps nine-tenths of the vast population of Peru, as well as of most other countries of Spanish America, are of the blood of Lehi
  ...the vast population of Peru, as well as of most other countries of Spanish America, are of the blood of Lehi"== ...the vast population of Peru, as well as of most other countries of Spanish America, are of the blood of Lehi.<ref>Parley P. Pratt to Brigham Young, 13 March,
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• Source:Brigham Young:15 Aug 1852:it takes North and South America to make the land of Joseph
  ==Brigham Young (15 Aug 1852): "it takes North and South America to make the land of Joseph"== The land of Joseph is the land of Zion; and it takes North and South America to make the land of Joseph.<ref>{{JDfairwiki|author=Brigham Young|vol=6|dis
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• Source:Orson Pratt:15 Feb 1871:they landed on the south-west coast of South America
  ==Orson Pratt (15 Feb 1871): "they landed on the south-west coast of South America"== ...e north country, and finally overpowered them. They were gathered together south of the great lakes in the country which we term New York. The Lord ordered
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• George F. Richards (1922): "The land of North and South America is a very much favored portion of our Father's footstool"
  ==George F. Richards (1922): "The land of North and South America is a very much favored portion of our Father's footstool"== The land of North and South America is a very much favored portion of our Father's footstool, and he has declar
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• Melvin J. Ballard (Apr 1930): "We were made to know that the Gospel message would find thousands who had the blood of Israel in their veins in South America"
  ...e would find thousands who had the blood of Israel in their veins in South America"== ...e would find thousands who had the blood of Israel in their veins in South America. Then we saw the day when it would go to the fifteen million of Father Lehi
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• Heber J. Grant (1937): "I am a firm believer that this country, both North and South America, is the choice land of the world"
  ...rant (1937): "I am a firm believer that this country, both North and South America, is the choice land of the world"== ...his country. I believe that this is the only place in the United States of America where the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints could have been estab
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• Melvin J. Ballard (Apr 1938): "for these millions who are in Mexico, Central America and South America their day must come"
  ...pr 1938): "for these millions who are in Mexico, Central America and South America their day must come"== ...in custody for these millions who are in Mexico, Central America and South America their day must come. It is coming, and I see the hand of God preparing for
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• David O. McKay (1843): "and this includes Canada and the southern republics, was a choice land when the Jaredites left the land of Shinar approximately four thousand years ago"
  ...d from the Bering Sea in the north to the Panama and towering Andes in the South.<ref>{{CR1|author=David O. McKay|date=April 1843|pages=17-18}}</ref>
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• Ezra Taft Benson (Apr 1955): "the Promised Land, the land of Zion, includes all of North and South America"
  ...55): "the Promised Land, the land of Zion, includes all of North and South America"== ...aints the Promised Land, the land of Zion, includes all of North and South America.<ref>{{CR1|author=Ezra Taft Benson|Date=April 1955|pages=48}}</ref>
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• Harold B. Lee (11 Nov 1959) "it seems all are in agreement that the followers of Lehi came to the western shores of South America"
  ...n agreement that the followers of Lehi came to the western shores of South America"== ...rom the place where the history of the people of Lehi commenced in western America.<ref>Harold B. Lee, Quarterly Historical Report for the Andes Mission, 11 N
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• Dallin H. Oaks (29 Oct 1993): "the Book of Mormon is not a history of all of the people who have lived on the continents of North and South America"
  ...y of all of the people who have lived on the continents of North and South America"== ...y of all of the people who have lived on the continents of North and South America in all ages of the earth. Up to that time, I had assumed that it was. If th
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• Spencer W. Kimball (Feb 1977): "There are probably sixty million Lamanites in America"
  ...ncer W. Kimball (Feb 1977): "There are probably sixty million Lamanites in America"== ...tered throughout the Americas. Cortes came here, and Pizzaro went to South America. They had great influence upon the people. They scattered them and persecut
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• Ezra Taft Benson (Jan 1979): "God raised up wise leaders among your progenitors which afforded Latin American countries political freedom and independence"
  ...a very necessary step which preceded the preaching of the gospel in South America.<ref>Ezra Taft Benson, “The Righteous Need not Fear,” La Paz, Bolivia,
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• Ezra Taft Benson (Dec 1980): "wise and inspired men in North, Central, and South America were raised up who proclaimed the sovereign truth that all men"
  ...aft Benson (Dec 1980): "wise and inspired men in North, Central, and South America were raised up who proclaimed the sovereign truth that all men"== ...he gospel was restored, wise and inspired men in North, Central, and South America were raised up who proclaimed the sovereign truth that all men—not just t
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• Countercult ministries/The Interactive Bible/Difficult Questions for Mormons/Book of Mormon Animals
  ...mention the following animals: Ass...None of these animals even existed in America during the era and timescale of Book of Mormon times"]] ...ls:...Bull, Calf, Cattle, Cow...Ox...None of these animals even existed in America during the era and timescale of Book of Mormon times"]]
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• Countercult ministries/The Interactive Bible/Difficult Questions for Mormons/Book of Mormon Races
  ...rently, Moroni was not aware that there were other, non-Semitic natives in America either)." ...t Nephites, therefore, all of the Native Americans in the entire North and South American continents were (and still are) considered to be "Lamanites."}}
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• Question: Where is Zion located since the Mormons were driven out of Missouri?
  ...lley of the Great Salt Lake! You will build cities to the North and to the South, and to the East and to the West; and you will become a great and wealthy p ...Priesthood you see here tonight, but this Church will fill North and South America- it will fill the world. It will fill the Rocky Mountains. There will be te
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• Question: Did Joseph Fielding Smith make derogatory racial comments in the 22 October 1963 issue of Look magazine?
  ...Smith, ''Divided by Faith: Evangelical Religion and the Problem of Race in America'' (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000).</ref>{{Rp|170}} ...been very small.<ref>Thomas F. Gossett, ''Race: The History of An Idea in America'' (New York: Oxford University Press, 1963), 447.</ref>
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• Times and Seasons/2/13
  ...a promontory without timber, but covered with grass. As you passed to the south you soon came to scattering timber, the surface having been cleared by art ...ge, on or near the head waters of the Susquehannah river. Some forty miles south, or down the river, in the town of Harmony, Susquehannah county, Pa. is sai
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• Times and Seasons/2/15
  ...ar, besides many members and officers, who have emegregated [emigrated] to America: and I am happy to say that the saints and the officers, and members, have ...ic mixture of all tribes and tongues remnants of migrations from north and south, they disturb one another in the possession of the glorious land where our
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• Times and Seasons/2/16
  |L5=News from the South-Disturbances in Lafayette City. ...ur readers the following interesting account of the Antiquities of Central America, which have been discovered by two eminent travellers [travelers] who have
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• Times and Seasons/2/17
  ...ney from the land of Assyria. Some suppose that the land here described is America; but we have before proved that the Aborigines of this land are descendants ...Captain of the towboat Tiger noticed a vessel apparently steering for the South West Pass, and looking at the distance, as
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• Times and Seasons/2/18
  ...lves. The Book of Mormon is a record of the aborigines of this continent, (America,) which was engraven on plates of precious metal, and handed down from fath ...There can be no doubt on this subject. In the recent researches in Central America, the ruins of very large and splendid buildings have been found, but it doe
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  ...hes of a tree, shooting one from another until their number in Europe, and America, is estimated by some late writers at upwards of two hundred, and though th ...hom I went & asked if he would let one of us preach as we were lately from America; he readily consented and proposed that we should preach first.-Accordingly
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  ...be altogether uninterresting [uninteresting] to the saints and friends in America. ...he kingdoms of our God. Then will they come from the east, west, north and south, and set down in the kingdom of God with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. But the
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• Times and Seasons/2/24
  To the brethren scattered abroad on the Continent of America, Greeting: ...t and nature's choicest gifts. I have been made acquainted with Europe, in America, by books, to a certain extent; yet now my eyes behold!! It is impossible f
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• Times and Seasons/3/1
  ...ose a traveller [traveler] should find in China, in the East Indies, or in America, or New Holland, a historical record, handed down for thousands of years, o ...has been removed as it regards the world called new. The ancient events of America now stand revealed in the broad light of history, as far back at least as t
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• Times and Seasons/3/2
  ...] than any single event which transpired in modern times. The discovery of America by Columbus 300 years since opened a nnw [new] era upon the world, and pour ...en Messiah and the Saviour [Savior] of the world, not of Asia only, but of America also. From this record we learn the astonishing fact that the Gospel was re
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• Times and Seasons/3/24
  ...rth, in different companies, east, west, north, and south; but most to the south and to the east, and both the face of the country and the climate would inv ...On Sunday the 4th, and English ship, loaded with sugar, went ashore on the south shore of the Bay, and three-quarters or her cargo lost or badly damaged. A
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  ...fourth, the Burgundians in France; fifth, the Wisigoths [Visigoths] in the south of France and part of Spain; sixth, the Sueves and Alans in Gallicia and Po ...d, or in other words commence where any part of the toes can be found, say America; and from this to Europe, where the remains of the ten kingdoms are; and fr
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  ...uated one of the immense works or fortifications of the ancient nations of America. It embraces in the whole, a circumferance [circumference] of about six hun ...eligious influence opposed to them by the combined powers of every sect in America-they had to contend with the prejudices of the ignorant and the pen of the
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  ...if, at the time of the reformation, some of them went from this country to America, they might be there. ...dmont, and if at the time of the reformation some having authority went to America there would be no priesthood there, and consequently no priesthood in exist
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  15. And I, Abraham, journeyed, going on still towards the South; and there was a continuation of a famine in the Land, and I Abraham conclu ...Rochers," 30 Oct., 1675, in the 2nd volume of De Toqueville's Democracy in America.
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  DESTRUCTIVE EARTHQUAKES IN CENTRAL AMERICA By a letter received from Central America by the last Jamaca [Jamaica] packet, it appears that the entire city of Car
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  To the Saints in America Greeting: ...r elsewhere so we went and were married at the house of Squire Tarbill, in South Bainbridge Chenango county, New York. Immediately after my marriage I left
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  ...a monthly periodical in which the foul slanders heaped upon the saints in America and elsewhere retailed out to satisfy the malice of the enemies of truth. T ...o resided with us when you were in England, and she purposes coming out to America along with us. There is very great distress among the operatives and the po
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  ...e, but at length arrived in the country of Aztalan, of the lake country of America. ...ce above all the land of the earth." This it further speaks is the land of America. The coincidence is so striking that further comment is unnecessary.-ED.
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  ...countries; to establish the greatest manufactoring [manufacturing] city in America, (which Nauvoo will be in a few years,) and to create the best produce mark ...er, think they observed that the oscillations came from the north and went south.
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  ...ou allow me to extend the same wish to all the saints, both in England and America; but particularly to my wife, and her dear little children. ...er some considerable conversation upon the state of affairs in general, in America, I introduced to them the subject of my mission to that place; and observed
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  ...ad previously been apprized [apprised] of the coming forth of this work in America, through the medium of letters from his relatives and others, and had reque ...d them, when he read the letters to them in public, which he received from America, by keeping back that part which treated on baptism, which, since the foreg
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  ...erprise and emigration, and as some of them are calculating to emigrate to America, and settle in the colonies of our brethren, we would here impart a few wor ...the church, to superintend the fitting out of the saints from Liverpool to America. Whatever information the saints may want about the preparations for a voya
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  From Stephen's "Incidents of Travel in Central America." ...ider it necessary to describe. The principal of these is the tower, on the south side of the second court. This tower is conspicuous by its height and propo
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  ...gland having tripled her's within the last half century, the proportion of America being still more rapid, and the world crowding in a constantly increasing r In America, North and South, 15,000.
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  ...a Mohammedanism prevails; in the east the religion of the Lama; and in the south that of Brumha [Burma]. The Brumese most earnestly desire annihilation, and We will now take a bird's-eye view of America, which has been a wide field for missionary enterprize [enterprise] for man
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  ...t of the principal papers in the United States, both east, west, north and south, we flatter ourselves, that with the facilities of obtaining information th ...The churches of Genoa are not so magnificient [magnificent] as some in the South of Italy; but they have less
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  ...terity, do ordain and establish this constitution for the United States of America," meant just what it said, without reference to color or condition: ad infi ...ty and the communities of which it is composed, no sound of a rebellion in South Carolina; no rupture in Rhode Island; no mob in Missouri, expelling her cit
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  ...ll mutter one melody in commemoration of fallen splendor! for the glory of America has departed, and God will get a flaming sword to guard the tree of liberty ...weather cock does the wind when it turns upon the spire. Hustings for the south, barbacues [barbecues] for the west, confidential letters for the north, an
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  ...sinned; nevertheless I forgive him, and say unto him again, go ye into the south countries; and let my servant Luke Johnson go with him and proclaim the thi ...shley and my servant Burr Riggs, let them take their journey also unto the south country; yea, let all these take their journey as I have commanded them; go
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  ...l as if they were going to stride the planets, as I stride the Republic of America. I can believe that man can go from planet to planet, a man gets so high in ...or the islands of St. Pauls and Amsterdam. These are in east longitude 88, south latitude 39, here we expect to catch the fish to use our salt on; there are
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  ...mith; wherefore go ye and preach my gospel, whether to the north or to the south; to the east or to the west; it mattereth not, for ye cannot go amiss; ther ...he Aztec or Toltec races in their emigrations from the northern regions of America , may find in these ancient edifices many subjects of curious speculation.
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  ...t out Amalek? Has the powers that be, set up a negro driving priest of the south, and a speculating Yankee of the north, as Aaron and Hor, to bolster up pub ...nineteenth century, have 'fallen on evil times,' for the great men of the south, and the wise men of the north, have taken counsel tegether [together] to w
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  ...latitude, and about 17 1-2 degrees of west longitude; two and a half miles south of Missouri river; 280 miles by land, or 500 by water west of St. Louis; ne ...gments which God sent upon Pharoah in Egypt, to terrify the inhabitants of America, neither have you any direction by commandment, to collect the calamities o
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  ...David, in the one hundred and first Psalm, will be built upon the land of America, "and the ransomed of the Lord shall return and come to it with songs and e Ship Timoleon, Pacific Ocean, April 25th 1844, Latitude 25 deg. 19 min. south, Longitude 149 deg. 11 min. west from Greenwich.
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• Times and Seasons/5/22
  |L6=NEW AND INTERESTING DISCOVERY IN SOUTH AMERICA. ===NEW AND INTERESTING DISCOVERY IN SOUTH AMERICA.===
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  |L12=SOUTH AUSTRALIA ...a few words by some missionaries, bound to the Sandwich Islands, who left America two months after us. They said they did not think the church had been drive
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  ...through the wilderness, and came over the sea," inhabited North and South America, built large cities, and were a warlike people; that many had fallen in bat ...the Alpine mountains of the east-to traverse the holy land, and in Central America, stand and gaze upon the richly wrought pyramids, and with wonder and amaze
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• Times and Seasons/4/11
  ...t of the principal papers in the United States. both east, west, north and south, we flatter ourselves, that with the facilities of obtaining information th ...before. Although I had still the assistance of elders Richards and Snow of America, who were mighty men of God, and a host of faithful and zealous fellow labo
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• Times and Seasons/4/3
  ...wheel on again and, again left them behind us. He drove on to the town of South Bainbridge, Chenango county, where he lodged me for the time being, in an u ...or the general good of the whole community;-Such a community was formed in America at the time of the Declaration of Independence. Having resisted the tyranny
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  ...not shaken, the faith of others.-Having its origin in the United States of America, a land which the Almighty in His wisdom, perhaps also in His wrath, has pe ...at a church so "apostolical" would have been impregnable to the attacks of America schism; we should have thought that the members of so a pure a church would
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  in Holland, Turkey, Germany, and Poland.-In America, Britain, France, Spain, Italy, and Russia, they are not so numerous. In Pe In South America and the West Indies, the Jews are favorably situated for accumulating wealt
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  out as wings" could mean "the north and the south" for he 89th Psalm says he created them, and although the bible throughout, ...he blocking up of the river, I was unable to proceed farther on my journey south until spring, when I proceeded on my mission to Tennessee, leaving brother
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  ...se hood and misrepresentation that has been drawn like a dark curtain over America to cover the black deeds of Missouri in their unhallowed persecutions again ...ley of the Wanderings,' which connects to the Red Sea, about fifteen miles south of Suez, through Wady Tamarik, by one of the most fearful and peculiar moun
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  ...l be sent forth to the east, and to the west, and to the north, and to the south; and even now, let him that goeth to the east, teach them that shall be con ...o odds, whether the former was sold as a pearl in Asia, or hid as a gem in America; and the latter dazzles in palaces, or glimmers among the tombs.
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• Question: What scriptures might challenge the view of a limited geography and the Nephites not being alone on the continent or other issues regarding DNA?
  ...s,” Contributor 5 (April 1884): 242. See also George M. Ottinger, “Old America: The Phoenicians,” Juvenile Instructor 10 (6 February1875): 33.</ref> Is ...s, nations, tribes, kindred, tongues, people, and sects of North and South America in one great and common bond of brotherhood; while truth and knowledge shal
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• Question: Did Joseph Smith plagiarize an 1811 book of Marco Polo's travels?
  ...ourse during an attempt to invade Japan (a historical event) and landed in America. This justified the Smiths in putting features of Tartar civilization into ...traveling west to the Red Sea from Jerusalem, when he would have had to go south.
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• Source:The Church also addressed issues of Book of Mormon geography in the Gospel Topics essays available on the Church's official website
  ...America, while others believe that it occurred in Central America or South America. Although Church members continue to discuss such theories today, the Churc
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• Source:William Smith:Jan 1837:a remnant of the branches or seed of Joseph are represented as crossing the sea, and settling this continent of North and South America
  ...sented as crossing the sea, and settling this continent of North and South America"]]
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• Source:Joseph Smith:19 Jul 1840:speaking of the Land of Zion, It consists of all North & South America
  ...Jul 1840): "speaking of the Land of Zion, It consists of all North & South America"]]
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• Source:George F. Richards:1922:The land of North and South America is a very much favored portion of our Father's footstool
  #REDIRECT [[George F. Richards (1922): "The land of North and South America is a very much favored portion of our Father's footstool"]]
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• Source:Melvin J. Ballard:Apr 1930:We were made to know that the Gospel message would find thousands who had the blood of Israel in their veins in South America
  ...e would find thousands who had the blood of Israel in their veins in South America"]]
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• Source:Heber J. Grant:1937:I am a firm believer that this country, both North and South America, is the choice land of the world
  ...rant (1937): "I am a firm believer that this country, both North and South America, is the choice land of the world"]]
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• Source:Melvin J. Ballard:Apr 1938:for these millions who are in Mexico, Central America and South America their day must come
  ...pr 1938): "for these millions who are in Mexico, Central America and South America their day must come"]]
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• Source:Ezra Taft Benson:Apr 1955:the Promised Land, the land of Zion, includes all of North and South America
  ...55): "the Promised Land, the land of Zion, includes all of North and South America"]]
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• Source:Harold B. Lee:11 Nov 1959:it seems all are in agreement that the followers of Lehi came to the western shores of South America
  ...n agreement that the followers of Lehi came to the western shores of South America"]]
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• Source:Dallin H. Oaks:29 Oct 1993:the Book of Mormon is not a history of all of the people who have lived on the continents of North and South America
  ...y of all of the people who have lived on the continents of North and South America"]]
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• Source:Ezra Taft Benson:Dec 1980:wise and inspired men in North, Central, and South America were raised up who proclaimed the sovereign truth that all men
  ...aft Benson (Dec 1980): "wise and inspired men in North, Central, and South America were raised up who proclaimed the sovereign truth that all men"]]
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• Primary sources/Mark E. Petersen/Race Problems - As They Affect the Church
  :Q. “Would that mean the ending of segregation on the railroads in the South?” ...ous statistics supporting the fact that the vast majority of people in the South are changing, but they are afraid of having their views become public.
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• Question: Could Joseph Smith have acquired the names “Moroni” and “Cumorah” from stories he read as a youth, maps that he would have had access to, or other people within his local vicinity?
  ...on where the pirate crew initially assembled. The course then lay roughly south by southeast along the coast of Africa, frequently by way of the [https://e ...nd can be found at http://alabamamaps.ua.edu/historicalmaps/africa/central-south.html.</ref>
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