Missouri church's book, in vault for decades, sells for record $35 million
The Independence headquarters of Community of Christ has sold what it says is the most expensive book manuscript of all time: a handwritten copy of the original Book of Mormon.
The Salt Lake City-based Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints bought the manuscript for $35 million through the gifts of donors, the Mormon-owned Deseret News reported Wednesday.
Community of Christ — formerly the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, or RLDS — plans to use proceeds of the record-setting sale to enhance retirement accounts for employees within the international network of its churches, a spokeswoman said Thursday. Community of Christ boasts 250,000 members across 58 states.
The Deseret News said the printer’s manuscript of the Book of Mormon is the most complete copy of the original dictated by church founder Joseph Smith to several scribes. In 1830, it became the guide by which the type was set by a printer in Palmyra, N.Y., to produce the first edition of the Book of Mormon. Smith had brought the Mormons near Independence, where he had plans to build the city of Zion.
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there is no place that isn't vulnerable from my outreach! 
Independence is fairly large so I imagine that I've made reference to it sometime before. I know that I've mentioned some places with only a few hundred people and I think that I also have noted some places that are down to a few dozen instead.
If the Mormon church is willing to pay $35M for a book, then who am I to stop them?
I didn't see any huge piles of money, but it's a pretty big place.
