Episode 20: The Kirtland Safety Society Bank

Facing financial difficulties, Church members organize the Kirtland Safety Society, a bank that ultimately fails. Mary Fielding joins the Church in Canada and moves to Kirtland where she marries Hyrum Smith. Missionaries are sent to England and find great success. Kate Holbrook, a historian in the Church History Department specializing in women’s history, brings her thoughts and perspectives to these events.

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Chapters Discussed in This Episode:

• Chapter 22: Try the Lord

• Chapter 23: Every Snare

• Chapter 24: Truth Shall Prevail

• Chapter 25: Move On to the West

Associated Church History Topics:

• Canada

• Common Consent

• Daily Life of First-Generation Latter-day Saints

• Dissent in the Church

• Early Missionaries

• England

• Emma Hale Smith

• Fanny Alger

• Far West

• First Presidency

• Healing

• Hyrum Smith

• Joseph and Emma Hale Smith Family

• Joseph Smith and Plural Marriage

• The Kirtland Safety Society

• Opposition to the Early Church

• Patriarchal Blessings

• Quorum of the Twelve

• Zion/New Jerusalem

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