In 1892, two
missionaries were arrested for disturbing the peace in Tennessee. What was the judge’s
sentence?
a.
Sent to
prison for two years
b.
Given a
certificate for free access to preach wherever they may
c.
He paid
their fine, gave them dinner, and a place to sleep
d.
Ordered
those who arrested them to jail so that the missionaries could preach to the spirits in
prison
Yesterday’s answer:
b. All of them eventually died painful deaths
Within
a few years all the men who took part in that raid had suffered a painful
death. Miles Norton who poisoned the Johnson watch dog was killed by a ram in
the barnyard, its spiral horn being thrust through Norton’s body. Warren Waste
and Carnot Mason boasted of having bent the Prophet’s legs over his back,
holding them in that position as he lay on the ground face downward. Waste was
later killed by a falling log while he was building a house. Mason died from a
spinal affliction that was “more painful than a Boston Crab.” The man who tried
to pour the poison into the prophet’s mouth was buried alive while digging a
well.
N.B.
Lundwall, The Fate of the Persecutors of
the Prophet Joseph Smith (Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1952.), 72.
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