By Thomas M. Spencer
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The Missouri Mormon Experience
The Mormon presence in nineteenth-century Missouri used to be uneasy at most sensible and now and then flared into violence fed by way of false impression and suspicion. by means of the top of 1838, blood was once shed, and Governor Lilburn Boggs ordered that Mormons have been to be “exterminated or pushed from the nation. ” The Missouri persecutions significantly formed Mormon religion and tradition; this booklet reexamines Mormon-Missourian historical past in the sociocultural context of its time.
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Winn The Mormon Church’s sojourn in northwestern Missouri in the 1830s is an interesting story but not a happy one. It reflects poorly at one point or another on virtually all of the actors involved. Yet despite its troubles in Missouri, Mormonism has since become America’s most successful indigenous religion. As of May 2007, the Utah-based Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints claimed nearly thirteen million adherents worldwide. Its smaller sibling, the Community of Christ, which has its headquarters in Independence, Missouri, claims an additional quarter of a million.
In juxtaposition to the overtly public persona of Zion’s Camp, he chose to employ a more gradual “gathering” process. W. W. Phelps fanned members’ excitement about an early re-gathering to Zion in optimistic letters written back to Kirtland and printed in the official LDS newspaper, the Messenger and Advocate. 9 The intention was to instill in LDS members a desire to relocate to Missouri and be as close to Jackson County as possible. 10 Smith understood the importance of setting his scattered Missouri church in order and preparing for a second military attempt to reoccupy Zion.
Romig and Michae l S. Rig g s In the aftermath of the 1833 expulsion from Zion and for the remainder of the decade, it became Joseph Smith’s prophetic preoccupation to restore his Missouri followers to their temporal properties and spiritual inheritance. Much attention has focused on Smith’s first attempt called “Zion’s Camp” to redeem properties he had prophetically designated as “promised lands” his followers were divinely entitled to inherit in Jackson County, Missouri. In 1834, Smith’s prophecy was refuted, however, when the armed company he commanded was unable to fulfill their mission to restore to the Mormons their confiscated properties.
