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	Mormonism Today - History of Mormonism - ReligionFacts
		The Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints — the largest polygamist Latter Day Saint group — may also have as many as 10,000 members.
		In addition to Latter Day Saint adherents, there are a large number of "Cultural Mormons" — people raised in the Church or in the Mormon cultural zone, but who don't not believe some (or all) of LDS doctrine, or who don't follow some (or all) of LDS practices.
		As from the beginning of the movement, Anti-Mormons are still engaged in criticizing the church.
	www.religionfacts.com /mormonism/history/mormonism_today.htm (408 words)

	History of the Latter Day Saint movement - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Its history has been characterized by intense controversy and persecution because of this religion's growth and in reaction to some of the movement's doctrines and practices, which are unique within Christianity (see Mormonism and Christianity).
		The founder of the movement was Joseph Smith, Jr.
		The Latter Day Saint understanding of the priesthood was elaborated by the separation of the higher or Melchizedek Priesthood offices from the lesser or Aaronic Priesthood offices and by the restoration of the Patriarchal Priesthood.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/History_of_the_Latter_Day_Saint_movement (4740 words)

	ipedia.com: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, also widely known as the "Mormon Church," or "LDS Church," is the largest denomination within the Latter Day Saint movement (Mormonism), a branch of Christian Restorationism.
		Members of the Church, known as "Latter-day Saints," hold that their faith is a divinely appointed restoration of the church established by Jesus Christ as depicted in the New Testament.
		On that day, members fast for two meals and donate the cash value of the meals they would have eaten to the Church's "fast offerings fund." These funds are used to provide financial assistance to indigent members in the congregation or other Church members worldwide.
	www.ipedia.com /church_of_jesus_christ_of_latter_day_saints.html (4354 words)

	History of the Latter Day Saint movement (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Latter Day Saint movement is a religious movement within Christian Restorationism beginning in the early 19th century that led to the set of doctrines, practices, and cultures called Mormonism and to the existence of numerous Latter Day Saint churches.
		Although the movements shared a belief in the need to "restore" the "true church" of Jesus Christ, the early Latter Day Saints also believed that direct authority from God was essential for such a restoration to be valid.
		revealed to Latter Day Saints that the Second Coming of Christ was near at hand and that the "centerplace" of the City of Zion would be near the town of Independence in Jackson County.
	history-of-the-latter-day-saint-movement.iqnaut.net (2857 words)

	Latter Day Saint movement - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Latter Day Saint movement is a religious movement which began in the early 19th century and is generally considered to be founded by Joseph Smith, Jr.
		The first Latter Day Saint church was formed in April 1830, consisting of a community of believers in the western New York towns of Fayette, Manchester, and Colesville.
		In 1834, the church was referred to as Church of Latter Day Saints in early church publication, and in 1838 revelation was received to officially change the name to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Latter_Day_Saint_movement (1760 words)

	History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints - Article from FactBug.org - the fast Wikipedia mirror site (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The early history of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is shared by the larger Latter Day Saint movement, which originated in upstate New York under the leadership of Joseph Smith, Jr.
		One of the reasons the Saints had chosen the Great Basin as a settling place was that the area was at the time outside the territorial borders of the United States, which Young had blamed for failing to protect Mormons from political opposition from the states of Missouri and Illinois.
		The LDS church was actively involved in support of the temperance movement in the 19th Century, and then the prohibition movement in the early 20th Century.
	www.factbug.org /cgi-bin/a.cgi?a=5942 (7243 words)

	Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints information - Search.com
		The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, widely known as the "LDS Church" or the "Mormon Church", is the largest and most well-known denomination within the Latter Day Saint movement (a form of Restorationism).
		It was also referred to as the "Church of Latter Day Saints" to differentiate the church of this era from that of the New Testament, and was generally known by that name between 1834 and 1838.
		Within the church, members are referred to as "saints", which reflects the belief that anyone who becomes converted to the gospel and covenants by baptism to follow Christ is a saint.
	www.search.com /reference/Church_of_Jesus_Christ_of_Latter-day_Saints (8438 words)

	MORMON : Encyclopedia Entry
		Mormon is a term used to refer to adherents of the Latter Day Saint movement, and most commonly to the movement's original and largest group, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
		According to Latter-day Saint theology, the term Mormon also refers to a prophet who lived in the Americas in the 4th century A.D. He was called of God to abridge and compile the records of his people and their dealings with God into a single book.
		Sometimes Restorationist or Restoration Movement are used as umbrella terms for those derived from the Campbellites or Stone-Campbell churches, for example, the Church of Christ and the Disciples of Christ.
	www.bibleocean.com /OmniDefinition/Mormon (2175 words)

	Reviews -- The Joseph Smith Revelations
		A hallmark and distinguishable characteristic of The Latter Day Saint Movement is that of on-going revelation.
		Such is the case of The Latter Day Saint Movement, and this book, The Joseph Smith Revelations...
		Early latter day saint revelations were replete with directions to the developing and growing church, as well as, the various priesthood offices functioning within it.
	www.signaturebooks.com /reviews/js.htm (2096 words)

	Saint Patrick's Day Parade - History of Northern Ireland
		The last effort to establish Norse domination was by Magnus III, king of Norway, who was slain in 1103 during a raid on the Ulster coast.
		In the 11th and 11th centuries the reform movement in the Roman Catholic church was extended into Ireland.
		However, such efforts were stifled by famine and mass emigration that were the result of a blight that destroyed Ireland's vital potato crop in the mid-1800s.
	www.saintpatricksdayparade.com /history/history/history.htm (4005 words)

	HEZEKIAH MITCHELL: Darrin and Andrea Lythgoe's Genealogy Pages
		The first day he was able to come downstairs and rest on a couch, Hezekiah was told by his mother to sit on a chair and be quiet and not disturb his father.
		One day while he was on his way to split a few rails, he heard a rattlesnake, measured more than three feet, got a stick and killed it.
		That night, she cried herself to sleep and dreamed that she was at the door the next morning and saw her father coming along the road driving the wagon and it was piled high with sacks of the precious foodstuffs.
	lythgoes.net /genealogy/history/HezekiahMitchell.php (11253 words)

	Religious Movements Homepage: Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
		Since the Religious Movements Homepage seeks to promote religious tolerance and appreciation of the positive benefits of pluralism and religious diversity in human cultures, we encourage the use of alternative concepts that do not carry implicit negative stereotypes.
		In fact, currently in the RLDS Church there is a strong movement to change the church's name to the Community of Christ, which would further separate them from the more succesful Mormon Church and give them their own identity as a Christian group.
		This is the homepage for the Restoration Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, formally organized in 1991 in response to the liberal direction of the main RLDS Church body.
	religiousmovements.lib.virginia.edu /nrms/rlds.html (998 words)

	www.St-Patricks-Day.com
		This was none other than Ireland's patron, Saint Patrick.
		From the latter twelfth century to about 1400, many Norman's from England moved to Ireland and settled the eastern areas, particularly around Dublin.
		Not surprisingly, the union in Ireland was highly unpopular and relations continued to deteriorate between the Catholic and Protestant populations.
	www.st-patricks-day.com /aboutireland_history.asp (1191 words)

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		The Book of Mormon is used as Scripture by most Latter Day Saints and is seen as fundamental to the faith in a majority of the Latter Day Saint churches.
		The early history of the Latter Day Saint Church describes difficulties in Missouri, where the "Mormons" were abolitionist Yankees from New England and were driven from their colonies in that state, finally, by decree from the governor calling for their removal or extermination.
		However, unlike other Latter Day Saint churches, the RLDS Church stands alone in acknowledging the ecumenicity of all Christians and recently adopted a policy that permits all Christians to partake of the Eucharist.
	forf.org /news/2004/mormonism.html (1479 words)

	A history of St. Louis
		Though not spectacular, the village's growth in the latter years of the 18th Century was steady, and the frontier trading post soon became the most important village within a radius of hundreds of miles.
		The City had made some provision for the recreation of its citizens from its early days, when one of the first blocks in the village was known as La Place Publique or Public Place, bounded by the river, Market, Main, and Walnut Streets.
		The history of Forest Park had its beginning in 1872 when Hiram W. Leffingwell and others secured passage of a legislative act authorizing the purchase of 1,000 acres or more for a public park.
	stlouis.missouri.org /heritage/History69 (11768 words)

	Today in History: June 17
		See the Today in History feature on artist John Trumbull whose paintings depicting the Battle of Bunker Hill and other events of the Revolutionary period have become American icons.
		Poet, diplomat, songwriter, and anthologist of fl culture James Weldon Johnson was born on June 17, 1871 in Jacksonville, Florida.
		This selection of manuscripts and printed texts and images drawn from the collections of the Ohio Historical Society illuminates the history of fl Ohio from 1850 to 1920, a story of slavery and freedom, segregation and integration, religion and politics, migrations and restrictions, harmony and discord, and struggles and successes.
	memory.loc.gov /ammem/today/jun17.html (1311 words)

	Latter-day Saints (Mormons) in Science Fiction - Page 3
		The fact that Adams was a Latter-day Saint may be alluded to by the description of her character, but is not explicitly mentioned in the novel.
		In fact, the construction of a Latter-day Saint temple was announced for Snowflake on April 2, 2000.) Presumably the character refers to it as "stupid" out of frustration that the townspeople don't believe his story of alien abduction.
		Latter-day Saints are the focus of Chapter 27, entitled "In Which Passerpartout Undergoes, at a Speed of Twenty Miles an Hour, a Course in Mormon History." It takes place on a train, where the character meets a Latter-day Saint missionary.
	www.adherents.com /lit/sf_lds3.html (7798 words)

	Culturalshift.net Finance History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints, more information about History of ...
		The early history of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is shared by the larger Latter Day Saint movement, which originated in upstate New York under the leadership of Joseph Smith, Jr..
		Eventually, many of the scattered Latter Day Saints coalesced behind Joseph Smith's son Joseph Smith III to form the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, now the Community of Christ, the second-largest Mormon denomination today.
		One of the reasons the Saints had chosen the Great Basin as a settling place was that the area was at the time outside the territorial borders of the United States, which Young had blamed for failing to protect Mormons from political opposition from the states of Missouri and Illinois.
	www.culturalshift.net /History_of_the_Church_of_Jesus_Christ_of_Latter-day_Saints.html (6967 words)

	Joseph Fielding Smith Institute of Latter-day Saint History
		History was my minor when I graduated from the University of Utah in 1970.
		I left the History Division in order to give most of my energy to the family, but my husband and colleagues supported me in keeping my hand in history.
		The History Division moved to Brigham Young University in 1980, becoming the Joseph Fielding Smith Institute for LDS History, and I formally reconnected with colleagues there in 1987.
	smithinstitute.byu.edu /Personnel/Derr/derr.asp (715 words)

	Main Page arth - Art History Online Reference and Guide
		Art history usually refers to the history of the visual arts.
		Although ideas about the definition of art have changed over the years, the field of art history attempts to categorize changes in art throughout time and better understand how art shapes and is shaped by the outlooks and creative impulses of its practitioners.
		Although many think of Art history as purely the study of European art history, the subject encompasses all forms of art, from the megaliths of Western Europe to the paintings of the Tang dynasty in China.
	www.arthistoryclub.com /art_history (169 words)

	FAIR Topical Guide: Early LDS History
		Margaret Blair Young, "Black Latter-day Saints: A Faith-FULL History," (Mesa, Arizona: FAIR, 2003 FAIR Conference) In her 2003 FAIR Conference presentation, Margaret Blair Young shares stories of faithful fl Latter-day Saints from the early days of the Church.
		Recent debate in Latter-day Saint circles, however, seems most often to stress the incompatibility of spiritual faith and historical knowledge, whether the emphasis be on the supposed lack of faith in Latter-day Saint historiography or on the purported lack of history in Latter-day Saint apologetics.
		Thomas G. Alexander, a leading practitioner of the so-called New Mormon History and one of the central figures in the ongoing debate between professional historians and apologists, has recently declared it to be “imperative that we begin building bridges” between spiritual faith and historical knowledge.
	www.fairlds.org /apol/ai046.html (1832 words)

	List of articles about Mormonism - Gurupedia
		Latter Day Saint, Latter Day Saint movement, Mormon, Mormonism, Mormonism and Christianity, Mormonism and Judaism, Restorationist (Church of Christ-Elijah), Saint
		Restoration Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, Restored Church of Jesus Christ, Sons Aumen Israel, True and Living Church of Jesus Christ of Saints of the Last Days
		History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, History of the Latter Day Saint movement, Honeybee,
	www.gurupedia.com /l/li/list_of_articles_about_mormonism.htm (1099 words)

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