[…] far the most comprehensive and responsible effort to date at giving an historical context within which the denial of the priesthood to Negroes can be understood. It has motivated me to re-examine my own […]
[…] by Dr. Wallace B. Smith, President and Prophet, and overwhelmingly approved by the delegates assembled in Independence, Missouri. No one present in that assembly during the introduction of the inspired document and the debate […]
[…] produced by the Troehs for a good introductory grounding in how the RLDS conference system works. The Conferring Church by M. Richard Troeh and Marjorie Troeh (Independence, Missouri: Herald Publishing House, 1987), 232 pp., $10.00.
[…] the foremost suffragists in the western United States; folks who bring up Mountain Meadows always conspicuously ignore Missouri; declaring that the Book of Abraham is just the Book of Breathings belies the fact that […]
[…] their sense of history. Richard P. Howard Church Historian Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints Independence, Missouri *** Dear Sirs: I was intrigued by the article in your Winter 1968 issue, “If Thou […]
[…] more or less necessary attempts at political self-defense and survival. The Saints learned painful political lessons in Missouri. Much of the subsequent political behavior of the leaders of the Church can be explained by […]
[…] earthy jokes; someone else said he had been overheard to say he “didn’t care a snap about Missouri.” I met him one day in the Church archives where he presented me with some valuable […]
[…] his way from fourteen on Through the dark, deep furrows of those New York farms To Ohio, Missouri, Illinois (and beyond)— He faced Gethsemane alone, Crossed back from deliverance, And, from an upper room […]
[…] in “Zion”// “Jerusalem.” If so, we still have to decide whether this has to do with western Missouri (D&C 45:65-71, 85:2-3), or the Old World referent. If, on the other hand, the parallel is […]
[…] of the Arizona territorial legislature, and another became the United States’ Attorney for the eastern district of Missouri. Hardly tragic, and hardly the type of people we generally tend to associate with a “mob.” […]