when Phillips questioned church lawyer David Jordan on conflicting accounts about the Book of Mormon being translated by ...

3 The resulting manuscript, the Book of Mormon, was published in March 1830. On April 6, 1830, Joseph Smith organized The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and became its first president.

With the coming Monday marking the 219th anniversary of Joseph Smith ... climate and that of Smith’s era. • Nearly 200 years after publication of the Book of Mormon, the seer stone church ...

Joseph F. Smith, nephew of the founding prophet, and his family. Courtesy: Church History Library, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Of all the Mormon doctrines, none caused as much ...