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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is a restorative Christian-based religion founded by its Prophet of the early 19th-Century, Joseph Smith, Jr. His claims include a personal visitation by both God The Father and His Son, Jesus Christ in the spring of 1820, and subsequent angelic visitations with instructions which led directly to the discovery of a set or book of (metal) plates which contains ancient "Reformed Egyptian". Its writings were those of prophets, similar to Biblical prophets. As instructed, he translated these ancient writings into a book of scripture, called the Book of Mormon. This book testifies of and serves as "another witness" to the divinity of Christ, along with other canonized scriptures. The Church was organized in and commences from 6 April 1830 at Palmyra, in upper New York State, United States. | The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is a restorative Christian-based religion founded by its Prophet of the early 19th-Century, Joseph Smith, Jr. His claims include a personal visitation by both God The Father and His Son, Jesus Christ in the spring of 1820, and subsequent angelic visitations with instructions which led directly to the discovery of a set or book of (metal) plates which contains ancient "Reformed Egyptian". Its writings were those of prophets, similar to Biblical prophets. As instructed, he translated these ancient writings into a book of scripture, called the Book of Mormon. This book testifies of and serves as "another witness" to the divinity of Christ, along with other canonized scriptures. The Church was organized in and commences from 6 April 1830 at Palmyra, in upper New York State, United States. | ||
Tenets include, among many others: the belief in the immortality of each individual and in the eternal continuity of the families, Sabbath day worship, belief in an eternal Father in Heaven Whose concerns and interests are centered in the details of each individuals' life, a firm belief in the grace and divinity of an Atonement wrought by The Lord, Jesus Christ and in His soon return to earth in a "glorious Second coming", a belief that God works the same today as in ancient times--that His--Christ's ancient Church has been restored and setup with the same foundations as His ancient one--to include a living prophet, a quorum of Twelve Apostles, the building of "houses of the Lord", called temples, and that each soul is on a progressive journey which will, through consistent patterns in good choices and decision-making while here in mortality, surely steer each on a course that leads to Eternal life with The Father and His Son, Jesus Christ. | |||
Joseph Smith, and the early converts to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the United States faced severe opposition and subsequent persecution. In the midst of this oppressive early period, Smith sent missionaries to various parts of the world including first to Canada, secondly to the British Isles, and later, to Scandinavia, Europe and other places. It was within the same month as the commencement of England's Civil Registration of births, marriages and deaths, that the first missionaries landed on England's soil, first appearing in the Preston, ("Priest-town' as it was anciently called), Lancashire region with considerable success. As these missionaries began their journeying throughout the realm, thousands flocked to its ranks. About 14 years later, by the time the 1851 Religious Census was taken, there were just over 50,000 "sittings" in approximately 250 different congregations spread throughout the countries of England and Wales. Many of these awaited emigration to "Zion", which was located high in the Rocky Mountain's Great Basin (Utah Territory), in the Western United States. By the time of the 1860 U.S. Federal census, nearly 1 person in 4 that walked the valleys of Utah, spoke in the England/Welsh/Scottish baroque, due to the many converts who had arrived from Great Britain. Charles Dickens, who was commissioned to personally inspect and observe one of the docked 'Mormon emigrant' ships, ''The Amazon'', [https://saintsbysea.lib.byu.edu/mii/account/29 wrote some views about his experience]. | Joseph Smith, and the early converts to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the United States faced severe opposition and subsequent persecution. In the midst of this oppressive early period, Smith sent missionaries to various parts of the world including first to Canada, secondly to the British Isles, and later, to Scandinavia, Europe and other places. It was within the same month as the commencement of England's Civil Registration of births, marriages and deaths, that the first missionaries landed on England's soil, first appearing in the Preston, ("Priest-town' as it was anciently called), Lancashire region with considerable success. As these missionaries began their journeying throughout the realm, thousands flocked to its ranks. About 14 years later, by the time the 1851 Religious Census was taken, there were just over 50,000 "sittings" in approximately 250 different congregations spread throughout the countries of England and Wales. Many of these awaited emigration to "Zion", which was located high in the Rocky Mountain's Great Basin (Utah Territory), in the Western United States. By the time of the 1860 U.S. Federal census, nearly 1 person in 4 that walked the valleys of Utah, spoke in the England/Welsh/Scottish baroque, due to the many converts who had arrived from Great Britain. Charles Dickens, who was commissioned to personally inspect and observe one of the docked 'Mormon emigrant' ships, ''The Amazon'', [https://saintsbysea.lib.byu.edu/mii/account/29 wrote some views about his experience]. | ||