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Lowell L. Bennion was widely known among Latter-day Saints for his Christlike life and humanitarianism, as well as for his teaching and authorship of numerous church books and manuals.
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[…] Mormon Literature, Lavina Fielding Anderson and Eugene England, eds. (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1996): 49-68. Also online at the Mormon Literature website:http:/ /humanities. byu.edu/MLDB/totell.htm. Ibid., 43. Richard H. Cracroft, “Attuning the Authentic Mormon […]