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Show 6 3f sticking and roar id in my m o t h e r ' s face, until Bei declared, "I'm the L:,on of Zion!" She covered her mouth out in odd p l a c e s and to suppress her mirth over the would express h i s s t r e n g t h and Ben lad r o l l e d h i s eyes l i l e a f e a r - c r a z e d horse ain't s' rosed to be t a l k i n ' to wimmen." Then he urged Ervil tovard the door. Ervil bkd glanced at my mother as i f to say, 'What can I do?' and had allowed unshaven. When he leaned over she s a t b l i n k i n g with surprise shrugged n o t i o n t h a t the great prophet courage by a c t u a l l y roaqing. "Ervil and Ben to lejad him away, although l | i s back was being pound fed emphatically as Ben shouted, "I ^told you a hunnerd timeM-, a man of tAJ Priesthood d o n ' t bother with wimmen." Ben had -asbsn b e l i e v e d t h a t he was the mighty prophet who would introduce the M i l l e n i a l Reign of C h r i s t . Indeed, the entire family of b r o t h e r s - seven in a l l - had claimed peerless i n h e r i t a n c e of ' t h e mantle of Jo'seph' which includes the authority to s e a l c e l e s t i a l marriages and the p a t r i a r c h al seat in the house of I s r a e l . The LeBarons had t r i e d to enforce the same s o r t of nepotism t h a t Brigham Young had overthrown when he took over the r e i n s of the Mormon Church a f t er 3e*t, £n/i I ,tLnd 'Toe [ k&d. Joseph Smith was a s s a s s i n a t e d , Claimed that t h e i r priesthood calling had been handed down by t h e i r maternal grandfather, Benjamin Johnson, who had received h i s a u t h o r i t y from Joseph Smith. S p l i n t e r groups from the Mormon Church were not uncommon, b e g g i n g with the R e o r g a n i z e d LDS Church sponsored by Joseph Smith's f i r s t wife, Emma, and her son, Joseph - which outlawed Polygamy, according to Emma's dream, But fhe unusual ^ A ^ "the LeBaron group was i t s h i s t o r y of violence ^ its h y s t e r i c a l d e c l a r a t i o n of holding the only t r u e a u t h o r i ty °n the face of the e a r t h. |