Come on! ye prosecutors! ye false swearers! All hell, boil over! Ye burning mountains, roll down your lava! for I will come out on the top at last. I have more to boast of than ever any man had. I am the only man that has ever been able to keep a whole church together since the days of Adam.
— Joseph Smith Modern

Founder of Mormonism

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Context

Same sermon in Nauvoo, expressing defiance.

Date / Period

1844

Category

Strange & Unusual

Source

https://www.josephsmithpapers.org/paper-summary/history-1838-1856-volume-f-1-1-m…

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