New Britain herald., 1928-11-02
CHURCH MEMBERS
 ID SHARE ALIKE
Ptop0d niEoun Community
 You'd bc Ideal Pllcs

Independence, Mo, Nov. ! N-A
 self-sustaining cooperative com
 munity. built on Christian ideal,
 wherein all members would share
 rewards and responsibilities alike
 is the vision of pr. Frederick M
 Smith. president of the Reorganixed
 Church of Jesus Christ of Latter
 Day Saints.
 Tho gathering to Zion of the
 members of the church. l02.0O0 of them scattered over the world. has
 been called by President Smith, who, the ybelieve. is their leader by divine revelation. Zion is Indepen- dence and its environs, headuarters of the church since 1908.
 Already about 5000 members of the church live in and about Inde- pendence. where the church owns some 5000 acres of land. An ag- ricultural colony on the steward ship plan already is functioning near Independence, and l1.00O acres of land recently was purchased in Fancy county, in the Ozark Noun tain region of Missouri. for another colony.
 Quietly the church is buying land in this vicinity. looking to the day when there will be enough to found . great community with its own industries, its own sources of raw materials, and with the people taking only what they need for themselves and turning the surplus into the common treasury for the common good.
 Individuals have been coming to Independence for several years to settle at the "center place" of the church. They buy land on easy terms from the church.
 Under the plan children of the community and colonies would be educated along the lines for which they had shown themselves best adapted. in order that they might take their proper place in the scheme.
 Outlying colonies, such as is to be established on the land in Fancy county. would supply the industries of the central community with raw materials and the people with food. On the Fancy county land it is planned to begin at once the raising of sheep and cattle to provide food. wool and leather. Already nego- tiations have been made for mem- bers of the church who are sheep raisers in Oregon to move to Fancy county.
 The trials of the "Saints" have been many since their church was organised sS years ago by Joseph Smith. who, with his brother. Hi- ram Smith. was slain by a mob in Carthage, Ill.,, in 1914.
 Thechurch was organized in Fay cite, N. Y., in 1880 with few mem- bers. It grew rapidly and a colony was established in Kirtland, Ohio. 1
 In 1881 group of the church pioneers moved to Independence. but two years later a mob formed and ordered the Saints" to leave. They were driven out. and their i, homes and institutions were burned. |
 Later they went to Caldwell county, Missouri. where land was 1 ret aside for them, but there. too they met prosecutions, in 1893 there ! were riots. in which many were killed, and Joseph and Hiram Smith were condemned to death. The ! execution order was not carried out, however, and the Smiths and the surviving colonists went to Quincy, | Ill.,. later moving to Commerce, now Nauvoo, Ill. 4
 Joseph and Hiram. Smith were s,ain when they went to Carthage to answer charges in connection with destruction of newspaper plant owned by dissenting members of the i, 
 Already Joseph Smith had desig- mated his son. Joseph. to succeed him. but the son was then only a boy. While he was growing up the was governed by a Quorum of Twelve"
 In 1147 Brigham Young and six other members of the quorum church texts say. broke away and with . group of followers went to Balt Lake City. where the Mormon church was founded. The second Joseph Smith assumed the presidency in 1860 when the church became the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. He served until his death. in 1914. when the leadership vas taken up by his son. Frederick V. Smith, now president. Texts of the Reorganized church smphasize that it never has adher- Cd to the Salt Lake City church and never has sanctioned polygamy. A certain tribe of southern India.