The Rocky Mountain Saints: A Full and Complete History of the Mormons, from the First Vision of Joseph Smith to the Last Courtship of Brigham Young ... and the Development of the Great Mineral Wealth of the Territory of Utah. Illustrated with Twenty-four Full-page Engravings, a Steel Plate Frontispiece, an Autographic Letter of Brigham Young, and Numerous Woodcuts

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Ward, Lock, and Tyler, 1874 - 761 pages
 

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Page 685 - Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
Page 34 - And they brought him unto him: and when he saw him, straightway the spirit tare him; and he fell on the ground, and wallowed foaming.
Page xxi - Forasmuch as thou sawest that the stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it brake in pieces the iron, the brass, the clay, the silver, and the gold, the great God hath made known to the king what shall come to pass hereafter: and the dream is certain, and the interpretation thereof sure.
Page 539 - For, behold, the day cometh, That shall burn as an oven ; And all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble : And the day that cometh shall burn them up, Saith the LORD of hosts, That it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
Page 540 - AWAKE, awake; put on thy strength, O Zion; put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city : for henceforth there shall no more come into thee the uncircumcised and the unclean.
Page 474 - We believe that through the atonement of Christ, all mankind may be saved, by obedience to the laws and ordinances of the Gospel.
Page 192 - Inasmuch as this Church of Christ has been reproached with the crime of fornication, and polygamy : we declare that we believe, that one man should have one wife ; and one woman, but one husband, except in case of death when either is at liberty to marry again.
Page 541 - How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace; that bringeth good tidings of good, that publisheth salvation; that saith unto Zion, Thy God reigneth!
Page 177 - ... therefore, when they are out of the world, they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are appointed angels in heaven, which angels are ministering servants, to minister for those who are worthy of a far more, and an exceeding, and an eternal weight of glory...

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