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  A gentleman said to me, not long ago, “You ‘Mormons’ scare us. You are here in the mountains, and this expedition would not have been sent against you, but you frighten us by taking such big strides. ‘Mormonism’ is but a few years old, and it has circumscribed the globe; it has penetrated into almost every nation under heaven, and bears down, in a remarkable manner, all opposition wherever your people go. It seems to swallow up our religion, political policies, and philosophy; and, if we do not stop you, it would appear that you will finally swallow up the world.” I replied, “If the people will let us alone, we will preach the Gospel in peace, civilly, kindly, mildly; and we will teach the people how to obtain that eternal life that is proffered to all. But will they let us alone? No. And you think we take large strides.” He rose from his chair, saying, “You take ten or twelve strides at once. While we go creeping along, you are away yonder.” “Well, you kicked us there, and we cannot help going. Every time you kick ‘Mormonism,’ you kick it upstairs: you never kick it downstairs. The Lord Almighty so orders it. And let me tell you that what our Christian friends are now doing for us makes more for the kingdom of heaven than the Elders could in many years preaching.”

  President Brigham Young

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  • Persecution

  21 Oct 2026