[…] Book of Mormon scenes which appeared in the Children’s Friend in 1952. By contributing dimes to “ buy a brick,” Primary children raised nearly $20,000 toward a new Primary Children’s Hospital. Another $12,000 was […]
[…] and manuscript dealers as well as some archivists and librarians who acquire and manage rare books and manuscripts for large institutions. However, this is a personal statement and I alone am responsible for its content.
[…] On the surface, their occupations represent initiative, freedom, and self-reliance—quintessential pioneer values. Nevertheless, the Entrepreneurial Right must buy, sell, and trade in a socio-economic world dominated by the Corporate Center. These irksome dependency relationships […]
[…] any case, the overall annual ratio of converts per missionary has changed little since 1980, fluctuating from 6:1 to 7.5:1. Public Relations If LDS leaders cannot find enough willing and worthy missionaries to meet […]
[…] to Rome in 1510. On passing the relic merchants in the streets, he became disgusted. People would buy pieces of Moses’ burning bush, coins received by Judas for be traying Jesus, or hairs from […]
[…] the funds that came in to create a professionally printed brochure, which included a subscription form ($ 6.00 per year; $4.00 for students and missionaries), aimed at thousands of prospective supporters. Most of these […]
There once was a time, albeit brief, when a “Negro problem” did not exist for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. During those early months in New York and Ohio no mention […]
Each spring the Christian world celebrates the most important week in history—Passion Week or Holy Week, the time between Christ’s triumphant entry into Jerusalem and his atonement, death, and resurrection. Throughout the world the majority […]
Seven and a half blocks east and five blocks south of the Salt Lake Temple, the 0,0 of the city’s cardinally aligned grid, an inconspicuous gate on the north side of the street opens onto […]
[…] Eisenhower’s decisive win as the thirty-fourth American president, McKay was elated. “In my opinion,” the venerable seventy-eight-year-old Church leader recorded, “it is the greatest thing that has happened in a hundred years for our country.”