[…] 5, 1852, he declared in a prepared speech to the territorial legislature, later published in the Deseret News: “No property can or should be recognized as existing in slaves.” Just two weeks later, though, […]
[…] has suddenly been proclaimed. “Based on the evidence of three handwriting experts,” reported the Los Angeles Times news service of June 25,1977, “researchers have declared that portions of the Book of Mormon were written […]
[…] Mormons will remember exactly where they were and what they were doing when they first heard the news. I was in a school meeting some ten miles away from my home when a secretary […]
[…] started back to school at Utah State was limited to the knowledge one could gain from reading news magazines and the Reader’s Digest. If I had practically no knowledge of the subject in the […]
[…] was B. H. Roberts. I n his New Witnesses for God, 3 vols. (Salt Lake City: Deseret News, 1909) 3:449-60 , Roberts lists the arguments for independent authorship of chapters 40-4 6 of Isaiah: […]
[…] Iowa, a steamboat later purchased by Joseph Smith. In April of 1843 he took a boatload of English converts under the leadership of Parley P. Pratt up to Nauvoo where he met Joseph Smith […]
[…] a treasure after a while you shall see them draw and Join together again of themselves (Church News, 12 May 1985). Or when I read Martin Harris, writing to W. W. Phelps in 1830: […]
[…] later that while the total number of missionaries was expected to increase, this was because all non- English-speaking missionaries would report to the Provo complex, not because of a dramatic jump in the number […]
[…] of the General Authorities; and sermons typically addressed issues of doctrine and accommodation. Articles from the Deseret News, however, indicate a marked decline of popular support for female employment during this time. For example, […]
[…] vote to end polygamy. This tactic was suggested by the New York Times in 1867 (reprint, Deseret News, 15 Jan. 1867; Beeton 1986, x) and was subsequently introduced as a bill in the United […]