Those familiar with the animosity between the LDS and [then-] RLDS churches for so many years will recognize how unusual is this letter from 1884, written shortly after the Cane Creek Massacre, which took the lives of two LDS missionaries, two local members, and one mobber.
Accept our deepest sympathy for the men who were so brutally and foully murdered in the South last Sunday.
While I oppose your doctrine of polygamy, yet my heart warms toward the Elders who honestly accept it, and from their conviction have lost their lives.
All our people mourn their untimely end.
Very respectfully yours,
J.A. Robinson
President of the Peoria Branch of the
Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Thank you for posting, I’ve enjoyed this and many of the other smaller recent posts. This is an especially poignant acknowledgement of differences and the greater things we have in common with others.