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THE CITY BEAUTIFUL

1/15/2015

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                                                   THE CITY BEAUTIFUL

                                      After being driven from their homes in 

                                      Ohio and Missouri, the Latter-day Saints, 
                                      settled in a small town named Commerce 
                                      in the state of Illinois, directly across from 
                                      the Iowa-Missouri border.

                                      The whole city gently and beautifully slopes  
                                      downward to the banks of the silent silver 
                                      Mississippi.

                                      Largely swamp and marshland in the beginning,
                                      the saints changed the topography and the name
                                      of the city to Nauvoo, meaning  "the city beautiful."

                                      By the time Joseph Smith and his brother Hyrum 
                                      were martyred in 1844, Nauvoo  had grown to 
                                      become the largest city in Illinois, and was indeed 
                                      the "city beautiful".

                                      We spent two days here visiting the old homes and 
                                      shops and listened to the story of a people destined 
                                      to survive and grow regardless of the perils and
                                      persecution of their adversaries.

                                      And our faith and admiration were strengthened.
                                      
                                      (The above article is one of a series of articles
                                      we wrote while taking what became known
                                      to our family in 1977 as our Great Western 
                                      Trek, as we travelled from Maryland to Utah.)
                                      

                                                                      

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