This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1889 Excerpt: ...Kimball, Smith, and other factions which were powerful when the church was in its infancy, and was jealous of the strength which these men possessed through their supposed association with Divine powers. This led him also to receive a "revelation " from above and set himself up as a leader under spiritual guidance. His ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1889 Excerpt: ...Kimball, Smith, and other factions which were powerful when the church was in its infancy, and was jealous of the strength which these men possessed through their supposed association with Divine powers. This led him also to receive a "revelation " from above and set himself up as a leader under spiritual guidance. His revelation was consistent with Smith's in that it allowed a man more than one wife; and not a few of the faithful enrolled themselves under the banner of the "Strangites." When Nauvoo was destroyed Strang gathered his people around him, refused to follow his former companions westward, and started for the north. The Beaver group of islands, consisting of Big and Little Beaver, North and South Fox, Gull, Garden, Hat, Hog and Squaw, located at the mouth of the straits, were at this time, in 1846, peopled by a shiftless lot of Indians and halfbreeds, who gained a precarious living by hunting, fishing and wrecking. These quasi-settlers woke up one morning to find their kingdom invaded and the best part of Big Beaver pre-empted by Mormons; The forces of Strang, about two hundred strong, had come in the night and " squatted." Most of them settled on the northern side of the island, on the shore of the bay, at the place now known as St. James', and there they remained for ten years. They built houses from the cedar with which the islands abound, and traded for what game and fish they needed. Fishermen and farmers began to come in, their numbers steadily grew, and the settlement was in a fair way to rival the one then springing up in Utah. Here Strang was supreme--the great I am. He ruled his subjects with a rod of iron, and always to further his own ends. He was a dissolute and unscrupulous man, who at bottom had no res...
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