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Settling the Valley, Proclaiming the Gospel - The General Epistles of the Mormon First Presidency (Hardcover)
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Settling the Valley, Proclaiming the Gospel - The General Epistles of the Mormon First Presidency (Hardcover)
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The Mormons had just arrived in Utah after their 1,300-mile exodus
across the Great Plains and over the Rocky Mountains. Food was
scarce, the climate shocking in its extremes, and local Indian
bands uneasy. Despite the challenges, Brigham Young and his
counselors in the First Presidency sent church members out to
establish footholds throughout the Great Basin. But the church
leaders felt they had a commission to do more than simply establish
Zion in the wilderness; they had to invite the nations to come up
to "the mountain of the Lord's house." In these critical early
years, when survival in Utah was precarious, missionaries were sent
to every inhabited continent. The 14 general epistles, sent out
from the First Presidency from 1849 to 1856, provide invaluable
perspectives on the events of Mormon history as they unfolded
during this complex transitional time. Woven into each epistle are
missionary calls and reports from the field, giving the Mormons a
glimpse of the wider world far beyond their isolated home. At
times, the epistles are a surprising mixture of soaring doctrinal
expositions and mundane lists of items needed in Salt Lake City,
such as shoe leather and nails. Settling the Valley, Proclaiming
the Gospel collects the 14 general epistles, with introductions
that provide historical, religious, and environmental contexts for
the letters, including how they fit into the Christian epistolary
tradition by which they were inspired.
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