187 years ago today, the Church was officially organised. Here is an appropriate hymn, The Morning Breaks, sung by the Mormon Tabernacle Choir:
As an aside, a great work defending the “traditional” view that the Church was founded in the Peter Whitmer farmhouse in Fayette, New York, instead of the Hyrum Smith household in Manchester as proposed by some historians (e.g., Wesley Walters and Michael Marquardt, Inventing Mormonism[Signature Books, 1994]).
As an aside, a great work defending the “traditional” view that the Church was founded in the Peter Whitmer farmhouse in Fayette, New York, instead of the Hyrum Smith household in Manchester as proposed by some historians (e.g., Wesley Walters and Michael Marquardt, Inventing Mormonism[Signature Books, 1994]).
Michael Hubbard MacKay, Sacred Space: Exploring the Birthplace of Mormonism (BYU Religious Studies Center, 2016)