of the CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST Of Latter Day Saints. 1844-1872. WRITTEN AND COMPILED BY PRESIDENT JOSEPH SMITH AND APOSTLE HEMAN C. SMITH, OF THE REORGANIZED CHURCH. VOLUME 3. THIRD EDITION. LAMONI, IOWA: PUBLISHED BY THE BOARD OF PUBLICATION OF THE OF LATTER DAY SAINTS. 1908 PUBLISHER'S PREFACE. VOLUME 3 of the Church History, embracing annals of the principal occurrences among the Latter Day Saints from the time of the death of the Martyrs, A. D. 1844, to 1872, is submitted to the public in the hope that a careful perusal of the facts it contains will lead to correct conclusions, relative to the exciting events which took place in the early part of this period, and the valid rights inhering with the respective organizations which arose from the elements of the rejected church. The duty of the historian and publisher is discharged when they place before the reader the facts; the duty of the reader, when he shall have given these facts such a fair and unprejudiced consideration as will enable him to reach and render a correct estimate of the people and their faith. With these suggestions only, the Board sends forth Volume 3 of the Church History to its patrons. LAMONI, Iowa, October 30, 1900. THE BOARD OF PUBLICATION. |