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Posted by: Nick Humphrey ( )
Date: November 11, 2010 05:41AM
early church taught that they should influence politics

http://www.archive.org/details/proceedingsbefor01unitrich
(page 2)
If a man should offer me a bribe to vote for him I should be inclined not to vote for him unless directed to do so by the prophet of the Lord. (Apostle Brigham Young, jr. Sermon in Logan Tabernacle, 1901.)
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Speaking of politics, Elder Cowley (apostle) made the remark that he deemed politics an essential feature of the building up of God's kingdom on earth; but first of all he believed we should obey the scriptural injunction to seek first the Kingdom of God, etc. The priesthood was placed on the earth for the guidance of the saints in all things, whether religious or political, and he deemed it justifiable for the elders to counsel the people in political matters. (Logan Journal's report of Tabernacle service, issue of October 11, 1898.)

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