Item Detail
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9676
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English
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The Consecration Movement of the Middle Fifties
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Improvement Era
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February, March 1944
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47
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2-part series
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The author states that at least 363 deeds were transfered to the Church during the 1850s, although no property ever changed hands. The author feels that this shows that the concept of the United Order was tried within a decade of the pioneers' arrival in Utah. The article also includes Brigham Young's deed to the Church. The March edition contains general information about the law of consecration, as well as three reasons for the consecration movement. These are: To try to hold members from going to California with the Gold Rush, to prevent excessive business with gentile merchants which would drain Mormon supplies, and to limit the power of apostates by forcing members to take a firm position concerning the church. The movement also intended to help the saints realize their goals of economic independence more rapidly and to unify them.