WHAT IS THE "MORMON" SECURITY PROGRAM?

If one was to guess what the Mormon Security Program is or was, their would be different views about it. One of the questions may be why we are still calling it "Mormon" when the LDS hi-archy now refer to that church as "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints" and explains that it is called after He who's church it is. We bring it up today, as last week, we stumbled across a pamphlet with the title of "What is the "Mormon" Security Program? The title didn't persuade me to question it, but looking at the color of the pages did. On the inside it shows the 12 page document was printed by the "Press of Zion's Printing and Publishing Company of Independence, Jackson County, Missouri and Printed in the U.S. A . "I was intrigued with that, so had to do a little research. When the LDS restored their Apostolic Gospel, it was initially referred to as the "Church of Christ". That occured on April 6, 1830 in New York and the Book of Mormon contains a record of the ancient inhabitants of this the American Continent. Back in the early days of that Church, their was a lot of hate mongers wanting to kill and burn the "Mormons" out of where they were. And even though America was founded on Religious Liberty and Freedom of Speech, their was brutal assaults against that church, and eventually they were driven out of various States and with the mob killings of Joseph Smith and his brother, their was little that the peace loving Church Members could do other than go west and they thought it was safe in Independence Missouri, as that was on the edge of America. But it wasn't long before the hatred and ire for the Mormons in that area wanted to defy what the American Constitution provided, and Missouri Governor Boggs, said Mormons were the enemies and gave an Expulsion order to leave that state or be killed by the Militia. So, once again, Mormons or the LDS people were killed; homes and houses of worship were burned. And it only took 138 years for Missouri to override the expulsion order saying the previous order was "Unconstitutional". Needless to say, the Zions Printing and Publishing Company was out of business. In the mid 1960's, this wanna be writer visited Independence, Missouri, while on a FFA trip to Kansas City, Missouri. Back then, I didn't know very much about the LDS church, but I found the people friendly, especially when our bus stopped at a red light. Walking along the sidewalk was Harry S. Truman, so I pulled the window down and yelled "Hello President Truman". The whole bus was happy when President Truman yelled back "Hello Kids" and waved to us. The former Presidents Security detail didn't even check to see if he had his gun loaded! If we check various places where the LDS church planted their roots, we find various city names or places that have similar names from the Bible or Book of Mormon. Such places are Enoch of Iron County; Nephi, Lehi, Benjamin in Utah County and they even had a store ran by the church called ZCMI, which stood for Zions Co-Coperative Mercantile Institution. Church official's sold their stores and it is now owed by Macy's. If we study what some of the LDS leaders have said, including a Conference talk by then Apostle Gordon B. Hinckley in Oct. 1968, who explains the "pure in heart" constitute Zion. So if history repeats itself and we live in one of those places settled by Mormon Pioneers, be careful as we may be Expulsed by our own so called leaders, who just may be as "Unrighteous as Hell". The Independence Press of Zions was re-opened in 1907 to print LDS Pamphlets and books for Missionaries' but stopped in 1951, as the LDS Church had their own press in Salt Lake and we checked phone books, and can't see any Boggs here. My thought is the "Mormon Security Plan" was replaced with the Church Welfare program.