Thomas Kane arrived in Salt Lake City, the territorial capital, early in eighteen fifty-eight. He found that the Mormons had decided not to fight.

托马斯.凯恩于1858年初到达了犹他地区的首府盐湖城，他发现，摩门教徒并没有决定要开战，相反，他们正准备寻找他们的新家园，他们谈到要向墨西哥或南太平洋上的什么岛屿迁移。

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Consider the Millerds, a family of Mormons who live not far from the Allens in south-west Georgia. They have eight children.

比如说米勒兹一家，他们住在佐治亚州西南地区，距离艾伦一家不算远，他们家就有八个孩子。

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Since good Mormons tithe-that is, they give a tenth of their income to the church-the church is colossally wealthy, though its finances are secret.

尽管教会的财政收入是保密的，但是因为虔诚的摩门教徒必须缴纳什一税，也就是说他们必须把收入的十分之一交给教会，因此教会掌握了巨大的财富。

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This week on our series, Sarah Long and Richard Rael discuss relations between the Mormons and the federal government.

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President Pierce agreed. Relations between the Mormons and the government did not improve in the next three years.

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Some of the Mormons who left the church published a newspaper criticizing Smith and the other Mormon leaders.

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Brigham Young inhabited this role for the Mormons, and about as fully as any apostle ever has.

NEWYORKER: I, Nephi

And like the Muslims, the Mormons will be preachers in the world pulpit in the third Christian millennium.

ECONOMIST: The Mormon faith is spreading. But is it a world religion?

Like the Gnostics, the Mormons thought that the conventional texts had too much atonement and too little attainment.

NEWYORKER: I, Nephi