How many LDS members know the Church motto? Does it strike you as a good motto for a church? Do you memorize it?
" Motto of the Church of [Jesus] Christ of Latter-day Saints: Then Constitution of our country formed by the Fathers of Liberty. Peace and good order in society. Love to God and good will to man. All good and wholesome Laws, And virtue and truth above all things, And Aristarchy live forever!!! But Wo to tyrants Mobs, Aristocracy, Anarchy and Toryism, And all those shoe invent or seek out unrighteous and vexatious lawsuits under the pretext or color of law or office, either religious or political.
Exalt the standard of Democracy! Down with the Priestcraft, and let all the people say Amen! That the blood of our Fathers may not cry from the ground against us. Sacred is the memory of that Blood which brought for us liberty."
Signed by:
Joseph Smith, Jr.
Thomas B. Marsh
David Patten
Bringham Young
Samuel H. Smith
George Hinkle
John Corrill
George Robinson
" Motto of the Church of [Jesus] Christ of Latter-day Saints: Then Constitution of our country formed by the Fathers of Liberty. Peace and good order in society. Love to God and good will to man. All good and wholesome Laws, And virtue and truth above all things, And Aristarchy live forever!!! But Wo to tyrants Mobs, Aristocracy, Anarchy and Toryism, And all those shoe invent or seek out unrighteous and vexatious lawsuits under the pretext or color of law or office, either religious or political.
Exalt the standard of Democracy! Down with the Priestcraft, and let all the people say Amen! That the blood of our Fathers may not cry from the ground against us. Sacred is the memory of that Blood which brought for us liberty."
Signed by:
Joseph Smith, Jr.
Thomas B. Marsh
David Patten
Bringham Young
Samuel H. Smith
George Hinkle
John Corrill
George Robinson
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