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[15] And
I hold forth and deign to give unto you greater riches, even a land of
promise; a land flowing with milk and honey, upon which there shall be
no curse when the Lord cometh, |
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and I will give it unto you for
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[16] And
this shall be my covenant with you, ye shall have it for the land of your
inheritance, and for the inheritance of your children forever, while the
earth shall stand, and ye shall possess it again in eternity, no more to
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D&C 52 (June 1831) |
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[43] And thus, even as I have said, if ye are faithful
ye shall assemble yourselves together to rejoice upon the land of Missouri,
which is the land of your inheritance, which is now the land of your enemies. |
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June [6], 1831 |
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D&C 69 (November 1831) |
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Oliver Cowdery an John
Whitmer are
to take the commandments and the money for printing them to "the land of
Zion." Members abroad are to send "the accounts of their stewardships to
the land of Zion; For the land of Zion shall be a seat
and a place to receive and do all these things. |
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D&C
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Rising generations … shall
grow up on the land of Zion, to possess it from generation to generation,
forever and ever. |
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Dwelling as I do among a people called Mormonites, and on
the very land which they sometimes call Mount Zion, at other times the
New Jerusalem; and where, at no distant period, they expect the re-appearing
of the Lord Jesus to live and reign with them on earth a thousand years,—I
have thought that it might be a part of duty, to inform those who may feel
interested in relation of this subject, that although there has, from first
to last, four or five hundred Mormonites in all—men, women, and children—arrived at this place, yet there is no appearance here different from
that of other wicked places. The people eat and drink, and some get drunk,
suffer pain and disease, live and die like other people, the Mormons themselves
not excepted. They declare there can be no true church, where the gift
of miracles, of tongues, of healing, &c. are
not exhibited and continued.—Several of them, however, have died; yet
none of them have been raised from the dead. And the sick, unhappily, seem
not to have faith to be healed of their diseases. One woman, I am told,
declared in her sickness, with much confidence, that she should not die,
but here live and reign with Christ a thousand years; but unfortunately
she died, like other people, three days after. They tell indeed of working
miracles, healing the sick, &c. &c.—These things, however, are
not seen to be done, but only said to be done. People, therefore who set
their faces for the Mount Zion of the West, (which by the by is on a [site]
of ground not much elevated,) must calculate on being disappointed, if
they believe all that is said of the place, or expect much above what is
common in any new country of the West. |
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