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James Jesse Strang Beaver Island Michigan Mormons
James Jesse Strang Beaver Island Michigan Mormons
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Nook version of vintage magazine article originally published in 1902. Contains lots of great info seldom seen in the last 110 years.
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At the time when the remarkable career of Joseph Smith, the Mormon "prophet," was drawing toward its close, Strang removed with his young wife to Burlington, Wisconsin, where he became one of a firm of attorneys. Previous to this he had been interested in the preaching of itinerant elders from Nauvoo, the Mormon center, and in his new home he soon fell under the same influence; his active imagination was stimulated by the so-called "revelations" of Smith to espouse some of the doctrines of the Latter-Day Saints. One year later he visited Nauvoo, where he be-came an easy convert to the belief that not alone spiritual blessings but earthly honors would be the reward of membership among the faithful. The astute leader, Smith, undoubtedly recognized valuable material in the well-informed, eloquent, and ambitious attorney; his arguments were so convincing that in a few weeks Strang was again at Nauvoo, where he received baptism, and was ordained as an elder with authority to organize a church, or, in their phraseology, "plant a stake of Zion," within the limits of Wisconsin.
He had chosen a spot on the banks of the White River as the location for his colony when the tragedy at Nauvoo left the Mormon Church without a head. Before the believers had recovered from the paralyzing shock of the death of their leader at the hands of a vindictive mob, Strang was among them, urging them to flee from the wrath to come, and to follow him to the land of promise. Although there were several who desired to wear the mantle of the dead seer, not one was so active and persistent as Strang, though he had been only a few months in the church.
To substantiate his claim, he exhibited what purported to be an autograph letter from Smith, dated nine days before his "martyrdom," detailing a vision in which the spirit of Elijah came upon him, and he heard the voice of God commending the work he had done, for "though he had sinned in some things," his reward should be glorious, as a crown and scepter awaited him. The vision closed with a prophecy for the future:
And now, behold, my servant, James. J. Strang, hath come to thee from far for truth when he knew it not, and hath not rejected it, but hath faith in thee, the Shepherd and Stone of Israel, and to him shall the gathering of the people be, for he shall plant a stake of Zion in Wisconsin, and I will establish it; and there shall my people have peace and rest, and shall not be moved. . .
Read excerpt -
At the time when the remarkable career of Joseph Smith, the Mormon "prophet," was drawing toward its close, Strang removed with his young wife to Burlington, Wisconsin, where he became one of a firm of attorneys. Previous to this he had been interested in the preaching of itinerant elders from Nauvoo, the Mormon center, and in his new home he soon fell under the same influence; his active imagination was stimulated by the so-called "revelations" of Smith to espouse some of the doctrines of the Latter-Day Saints. One year later he visited Nauvoo, where he be-came an easy convert to the belief that not alone spiritual blessings but earthly honors would be the reward of membership among the faithful. The astute leader, Smith, undoubtedly recognized valuable material in the well-informed, eloquent, and ambitious attorney; his arguments were so convincing that in a few weeks Strang was again at Nauvoo, where he received baptism, and was ordained as an elder with authority to organize a church, or, in their phraseology, "plant a stake of Zion," within the limits of Wisconsin.
He had chosen a spot on the banks of the White River as the location for his colony when the tragedy at Nauvoo left the Mormon Church without a head. Before the believers had recovered from the paralyzing shock of the death of their leader at the hands of a vindictive mob, Strang was among them, urging them to flee from the wrath to come, and to follow him to the land of promise. Although there were several who desired to wear the mantle of the dead seer, not one was so active and persistent as Strang, though he had been only a few months in the church.
To substantiate his claim, he exhibited what purported to be an autograph letter from Smith, dated nine days before his "martyrdom," detailing a vision in which the spirit of Elijah came upon him, and he heard the voice of God commending the work he had done, for "though he had sinned in some things," his reward should be glorious, as a crown and scepter awaited him. The vision closed with a prophecy for the future:
And now, behold, my servant, James. J. Strang, hath come to thee from far for truth when he knew it not, and hath not rejected it, but hath faith in thee, the Shepherd and Stone of Israel, and to him shall the gathering of the people be, for he shall plant a stake of Zion in Wisconsin, and I will establish it; and there shall my people have peace and rest, and shall not be moved. . .
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