A Concise History of Zion

by E. Keith Howick

Overview

When Joseph Smith received the keys to gather Israel and learned the location of the city of Zion, the Saints joyfully left Ohio to gather in their promised land. Independence was "the center place" and hopes were high. But hope soon faded under the weight of relentless persecution. The dream of Zion was postponed until the day when the Saints could gather before the throne of their Lord and King.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940011487750
Publisher:	WindRiver Publishing
Publication date:	05/04/2010
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
File size:	164 KB

About the Author

E. Keith Howick was born and raised in Salt Lake City, Utah. He attended the University of Utah where he received his bachelor's and master's degrees in political science and Juris Doctor in law. He also taught and did PhD studies at Pennsylvania State University.

Keith has taught religion classes on all levels: in his ward, in seminary, in institute classes at the University of Utah and Montana State University and in the religion department at the Brigham Young University. He has also taught courses in American political government and conducted graduate seminars in public law at Pennsylvania State University.

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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was officially organized at the Peter Whitmer home in Fayette, New York, on April 6, 1830. Six months later, the Lord commanded Joseph to initiate the first mission to the Lamanites. In that same revelation, He also revealed that He would establish a city of Zion; but He did not tell Joseph where it would be located.

The word "Zion" can mean many things. In the scriptures, it is used more than seventeen different times to describe such things as a mountain, a doctrine, a country, a people, a promised land, and the location of a specific city. However, it was the specific location of the city of Zion, together with the excitement surrounding the gathering of Israel and the coming of the Lord, that fired the imagination of the early Saints.

Table of Contents

1 Prologue

9 Chapter 1 - Zion Begins

13 Chapter 2 - Mobocracy

28 Chapter 3 - Trials and Excommunications

40 Chapter 4 - The British Mission

48 Chapter 5 - Witnesses Against the Prophet

52 Chapter 6 - The Extermination Order

63 Chapter 7 - Reasons for Persecution

70 Epilogue

72 End Notes

74 Author Biography