|
|
(One intermediate revision by the same user not shown) |
Line 1: |
Line 1: |
− | {{Articles FAIR copyright}} {{Articles Header 1}} {{Articles Header 2}} {{Articles Header 3}} {{Articles Header 4}} {{Articles Header 5}} {{Articles Header 6}} {{Articles Header 7}} {{Articles Header 8}} {{Articles Header 9}} {{Articles Header 10}}
| + | #REDIRECT [[Question: Did Joseph Smith claim at one time that Kirtland Safety Society notes would be "as good as gold"?]] |
− | {{Resource Title|Did Joseph Smith claim that Kirtland Safety Society notes would be "as good as gold"?}}
| |
− | {{JosephSmithPortal}}
| |
− | | |
− | == ==
| |
− | {{Criticism label}}
| |
− | | |
− | Joseph Smith claimed at one time that Kirtland Safety Society notes would be "as good as gold."
| |
− | | |
− | {{CriticalSources}}
| |
− | | |
− | == ==
| |
− | {{Conclusion label}}
| |
− | | |
− | Obviously, this did not turn out to be the case during the time that the Kirtland Safety Society was in existence. Joseph was likely being optimistic regarding the bank's future. However, whatever one thinks of Joseph's conduct in connection with the Kirtland Safety Society, this promise, ironically, eventually came true.
| |
− | | |
− | * Brigham Young redeemed Kirtland Safety Society scrip for gold in Utah.
| |
− | * Marvin S. Hill notes that, "Brigham Young needn't have gone to such pains to ensure that this prophecy was fulfilled. Today [1977] these notes are worth far more than the exchange rate between currency and gold."<ref>{{BYUS1|author=Marvin S. Hill, Keith C. Rooker and Larry T. Wimmer|article=The Kirtland Economy Revisited: A Market Critique of Sectarian Economics|vol=17|num=4|date=Summer 1977|start=445, and footnote 113}}{{pdflink|url=http://byustudies.byu.edu/Products/MoreInfoPage/MoreInfo.aspx?Type=7&ProdID=1457}}</ref>
| |
− | | |
− | == ==
| |
− | {{Endnotes label}}
| |
− | <references />
| |
− | | |
− | {{FurtherReading}}
| |
− | | |
− | {{Articles Footer 1}}
| |
− | | |
− | [[es:El Mormonismo y las finanzas de la Iglesia/Sociedad de Seguridad de Kirtland/Tan bueno como el oro]]
| |
− | [[fr:Kirtland Safety Society/Good as gold]]
| |