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English
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"Go Down into Jordan : No Mississippi" : Mormon Nauvoo and the Rhetoric of Landscape
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Gods of the Mississippi
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Bloomington, IN
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Indiana University Press
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95-112
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The doctrine of the "gathering of the Saints" underscored the geographical component of nineteenth-century Mormonism. Smith issued a revelation in late 1830 in which God commanded the Church "to bring to pass the gathering of mine elect." The theological underpinnings of the gathering stemmed from Smith's early millennialism— the gathered would "be prepared in all things, against the day when tribulation and desolation are sent forth upon the wicked." In practice it had obvious social, economic, and political advantages. [From the text]