Lucy Mack Smith with a few of her children
What
could Lucy Mack Smith possibly be referring to in the history of her family’s
involvement with “drawing magic circles, and soothsaying,”?
A)
Since none of the family
belonged to any organized religion at the time, they centered their religious
beliefs heavily in astrology
B)
They told futures as a way to earn additional income
C)
The circles were drawn through the condensation on the windows
at early morning to determine the weather for the remainder of the day
D)
The family, like many early American families, relied heavily on
Almanacs for agricultural information and recipes to medicines
Yesterday’s answer:
(C) Monument to Mobocracy
However, the
pace was not enough for the Anti-Mormons, and in the fall of 1846 the few
Mormons remaining in Nauvoo, most of whom were poor, old, or sick, were driven
from the city in what is called the Battle of Nauvoo. With the departure of
these last Latter-day Saint refugees, the Anti-Mormon Party met on January 9,
1847, and discussed building a monument that would immortalize non-Mormon deeds
and be a fitting tribute to the “six brave men who had lost their lives” in
what historian Annette P. Hampshire called “The Triumph of Mobocracy.” The
monument never became a reality. Perhaps the fact that, as a Burlington Hawk Eye reporter wrote of
Nauvoo, “No fair hand was there and no breath was heard save the rustling
zephyrs of heaven,” was monument enough.
Plewe,
Brandon S., et. at., Mapping Mormonism (Provo,
Utah: Brigham Young University Press, 2012) 62.
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