D.C. opens arms to Joseph Smith

Deseret News (Salt Lake City) | May 6, 2005| | Copyright

WASHINGTON -- In late 1839, Joseph Smith, leader of the still- fledgling Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, arrived in the nation's capital to petition President Martin Van Buren to help end the persecution of church members forced from their Missouri homes.

He left disappointed and, according to the official church history, with Van Buren's now-infamous words ringing in his ears: "Your cause is just, but I can do nothing for you."

The man revered by millions today as a prophet returns triumphantly to Washington, D.C., today and Saturday, the subject of a two-day international ...

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