[…] learned and the proud who are rich. Twelfth: The prophet will not necessarily be popular with the world or the worldly. Thirteenth: The prophet and his counselors make up the First Presidency — the […]
[…] some topical remarks. Internal headings have also been omitted. One of the most important things in the world is freedom of the mind; from this all other freedoms spring. Such freedom is necessarily dangerous, […]
From its early years on the social fringe,” U.S. News & World Report I recently told its readers, the Mormon Church “has become America’s largest and wealthiest home-grown religion by offering shelter in stormy […]
[…] Sacrifice, now, was not glad, but grudging. In Winthrop House, in 1958, I was getting my morning news from The Harvard Crimson, often passed on from my younger brothers Owen and Nolan in Lowell […]
[…] More contemporary counsel from General Authorities is unavailable because the majority of members lack sufficient knowledge of English to read statements on modern war and advice to servicemen. An exception is the First Presidency […]
[…] seven of seventeen chapters concern the banking enterprise. The author devotes the first two chapters to the English background of the Walker clan and the next five to their pioneering journey to Utah. Chapters […]
[…] first one, which he had begun when he was notified of his appointment to the Twelve and read aloud from the title page: “To My Family: Upon my death I want you to present […]
It was one of those crisp November days in Hershey, Pennsylvania, when I heard the news. Snuggled under a quilt, I was reading to my two young sons when the telephone interrupted us. It […]
[…] side of the city’s proposed Main Street. Daniel H. Wells and William Cutler had brought the sobering news into camp just two days before that Nauvoo had been overrun in the skirmish known as […]
[…] When my daughters turn nineteen and join Relief Society, the message will be very different from the world view in Young Women. In Learn of Me, anonymous authors tell them that homemaking provides “ample […]