We take a moment in our account to talk about a great friend to the saints and a remarkable man – Alexander Doniphan. While others in positions of influence were seeking to harm the saints Doniphan, a lawyer, stood up for them and stood up for justice, showing an integrity seemingly lacking in others at […]
As we discussed last time, Joseph Smith and others were taken prisoners in Far West on Oct 31 of 1838. A death sentence was passed on them, but they were effectively saved from execution by Alexander Doniphan. While their lives were spared, they were incarcerated for the next five months. Why were they taken prisoners
After the saints got kicked out of Independence, Missouri, fleeing north over the river to Clay County (Missouri – mostly Liberty), and had been there a couple of years, it became apparent that the local residents there didn’t want the saints among them any more than did their cousins in Jackson county, and legal and
The Lord revealed the “center place” for the gathering of the saints in the last days, and the place of Zion, the New Jerusalem, in 1831 to Joseph Smith. The place was Independence, Missouri – a city at that time on the western boundary of the United States (west of that was all Indian territory).
