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[…] a follow-up meeting the area presidency threatens “further action” and refers to a thick file containing materials dating back to the 1960s on Ross, an active Democrat in Cache Valley for many years. It […]
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[…] connected this digging with events of 22 September 1827, but five years later Lorenzo Saunders corrected Mather’s dating. Saunders, who visited the hill within days after Smith removed the plates, said he found no […]
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[…] but goes back into the beginning with God.’” First Presidency statement, December 15, 1969 It has been forty years since the landmark decision by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to end […]
[…] E. Bush, Jr. 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 […]