A history of Christian growth
We Latter-day Saints often look at our own history as unique. Yes, there are echoes of past history — our westward migration to Salt Lake City is redolent of the migration of the Israelites, Jaredites, and family of Lehi into their lands of promise.
But these ancient events are known to us only through scripture. The world is free to doubt that those old stories mean anything at all.
(Though scholars who dismiss ancient records as fiction have been embarrassed time and again as we find that ancient tales that purport to be history usually have a foundation in real events.)
One story that parallels ours, however, has its feet firmly planted in history.
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