It seems to me we have spent a lot of time studying the great isms of the world hinduism, buddhism. Then we get to a couple of nonisms christianity and islam. And now we begin mormonism. Really the story begins at the end of the early chapter of mormons history in the United States. We began on june 27, eight team 34. On that day 1834, on that day, the Mormon Prophet joseph smith sat in jail in carthage, illinois. This was just little bit east of this red dot in western illinois. It was near the mormon gathering place, headquarters of sorts, a city in western illinois. Joseph smith was the president and prophet of the church of jesus christ of latterday saints. His followers were commonly known as mormon nights or mormons, known after the churchs founding scripture, the the book of mormon. Smith was the mayor of the city and the Lieutenant General of the militia. He was in jail on the charge of inciting a riot. A group of mormon dissenters upset with his leadership of the church had pu
Today, we are beginning to get days on the subject of mormonism. We are going to begin our story really at the end of the early chapter of mormons history in mormonisms history in the United States. We began on june 27, 1834. On that day, the Mormon Prophet joseph smith sat in jail in the town of carthage, illinois. This was just little bit east of this red dot in western illinois. It was near the mormon gathering place, headquarters of sorts nauvoo, in western illinois. Joseph smith was the president and prophet of the church of jesus christ of latterday saints. His followers were commonly known as mormonites or mormons known after the churchs founding scripture, the the book of mormon. Smith was the mayor of the city of nauvoo and the Lieutenant General of the militia. He was in jail on the charge of inciting a riot. A group of mormon dissenters upset with his leadership of the church, had published the first issue of a newspaper criticizing his leadership. Smith had persuaded the ci
Acton said a lot of different and memorable things. You probably know best his statement that power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. It is one of the most incorrect quotation in history. People say power corrupts. But it is power tends to corrupt. I had the unenviable task once of correcting Lady Margaret thatcher on that. [laughter] she looked down her nose at me and said, oh, just so. Carry on. [laughter] acton also said this. He said that liberty is the political end of man, and that is true enough. The problem arises when we think that the total end of man is liberty, because liberty, after all, is a vacuum. I know in a liberty loving crowd like this, you might think i am heretical, pardon the expression. But in point of fact, think of liberty not as a virtue, not as the goal of our lives, that as the context in which we can negotiate the goal of our lives, and of course, the goal of all lives is truth. Now, we will have different apprehensions and understan
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