Third church president
John Taylor
1808–1887
1 topic · 4 dated events · 3 sources
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Utah Polygamy and the Manifesto
Third church president
Taylor refused to yield on plural marriage under the Edmunds Act, told the Saints in his last public sermon that no man had a right to control his conscience, and went into hiding in 1885. He died on the underground in July 1887. A document in his hand dated 27 September 1886 became, decades later, the foundation text of Mormon fundamentalism.
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John Taylor's last public sermon; leaders go underground
Taylor told the Saints that no man had a right to control his conscience, then went into hiding. Church leaders instituted an organized underground; over the next years nearly every Utah settlement was raided by federal marshals, often at night.
Colonies founded in northern Mexico
The First Presidency established settlements in Chihuahua and Sonora as a refuge, beginning with Colonia Juarez, Colonia Dublan and Colonia Diaz. Mexican federal statutes since 1884 also prohibited marriage where one partner was already married, a fact church leaders knew from the outset.
A document in John Taylor's hand refuses to revoke the covenant
About 150 words found after Taylor's death declare that everlasting covenants cannot be abrogated. Lorin C. Woolley, one of Taylor's bodyguards, later claimed that Joseph Smith and Jesus Christ appeared that night and that Taylor ordained five men to keep plural marriage alive whatever the church did.
John Taylor dies on the underground
Taylor died in hiding, still pursued. Wilford Woodruff, as president of the Twelve, took charge of a church whose property was being escheated and whose leadership was largely in concealment or prison.
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John Taylor
The city paper's coverage of the Expositor affair, the martyrdom and, on 11 September 1844, the proceedings of Rigdon's trial before a crowd reported at six to seven thousand.
John Taylor, editor
How the Nauvoo leadership justified the abatement publicly within a week of the act, expressly invoking the destruction of their own press in Jackson County.
Journal of Discourses, 26 vols.
Brigham Young, Wilford Woodruff, John Taylor, George Q. Cannon and others
What Brigham Young and his contemporaries actually preached about race and priesthood, in their own words and at length.
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