[…] italics added). The greatest opposition to the Edmunds Bill on this first day of debate came from Missouri’s George G. Vest. Even though some the darkest moments of early Mormon history occurred in Missouri, […]
[…] been organized on 30 January 1927, joining the already existing San Francisco and Mission branches in the city. The Sunset Branch originally met at the Parnassus Masonic Hall at Ninth and Judah Street. The […]
[…] The Founder of Mormonism: A Psychological Study of Joseph Smith, Jr. (New York: Dodd, Mead, 1902); Bernard De Voto, “The Centennial of Mormonism,” American Mercury 19 (Jan. 1930): 1-13; Fawn M. Brodie, No Man […]
[…] in Our Hands,’” in The Word of God: Essays on Mormon Scripture, ed. Dan Vogel (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1990), 251f. Bruce R. McConkie, Mormon Doctrine, 2d ed. (Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1966), […]
[…] before earning graduate degrees to pre pare for university teaching. Marriage to Betty McAllister of Salt Lake City followed in August 1939, after which we left at once for Berkeley, California, where I enrolled […]
[…] enjoy more significant growth in the twenty-first century. But such growth could be undermined by church programs de signed to simplify, economize, and adapt to the rapidly increasing church membership in North and South […]
[…] marriage rates in general are also declining. The 1991 census revealed that the number of couples in de facto marriages increased by almost 50 percent between 1986 and 1991, and that 56 percent of […]
[…] to James F. Couch. In his letter of 22 August 1921, transmitting Couch’s questions to Salt Lake City, he refers to “Mr. Couch of Washington” (emphasis added). The Washingtonian James F. Couch was with […]
[…] with no editing, in photoduplicate form by Jerald and Sandra Tanner’s Modern Microfilm Company of Salt Lake City. Smith’s abridgement is based almost entirely on that source, with some additions from a few other […]
[…] the Scriptures in the language in which they were given.” Finally, on 17 February, he wrote: “My-soul de lights in reading the word of the Lord in the original, and I am deter mined […]