Tuesday, October 14, 2014

The Judge and the Tennessee Missionaries

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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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