Commerce Illinois - Impressions of a Prophet

21: Nauvoo, the City Beautiful

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Impressions of a Prophet: Joseph Smith

21: Nauvoo, the City Beautiful

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If you visit Nauvoo today (2020s), you’ll see a small agrarian town. But in its heyday when it was the gathering place for the saints, it was a thriving center of religious, civic, business and cultural life, whose population briefly rivaled that of Chicago. In this episode Susan tells us some fascinating facts about life […]

20: Commerce and Baptism for the Dead

Impressions of a Prophet: Joseph Smith

20: Commerce and Baptism for the Dead

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In this episode we talk about the history of the place we now call Nauvoo, the reason so many died there when the saints first arrived, and a glorious revelation that followed regarding those who have died without baptism. What were the two names for Nauvoo before it was Nauvoo? Why did the saints buy