William Smith asserts he left Nauvoo in 1845 in fear of blood atonement.
- Type
- Speech / Court Transcript
- Source
- William B. Smith Excommunicated
- Hearsay
- Scribed VerbatimLate
- Reference
William B. Smith, cross-examination in Abstract of Evidence: Temple Lot Case (Lamoni, IA: Herald Publishing House and Bindery, 1893), 98
- Scribe/Publisher
- Herald Publishing House
- People
- William B. Smith
- Audience
- Circuit Court of the United States, Western District of Missouri, Western Division, at Kansas City
- Transcription
I left Nauvoo in 1845 because my life was in danger if I remained there, because of my objections and protests against the doctrine of blood atonement and other new doctrines that were brought into the church.
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