[…] and child. Mrs. Cowdy was captured and the others were killed. On 1 October 1856, the Deseret News reported that “Margaretts and Cowdy were on their way back to England by their own counsel,” […]
[…] published in Mormon periodicals such as The Morning and Evening Star, while a special hymnal for the English Saints, the Manchester Hymnal was published in 1840. Other official hymnals were: Psalmody of 1857, The […]
[…] Taylor was baptized in Toronto by Parley P. Pratt, he had completed a quest for religious certainty. His search had taken him from Methodism to Christian Primitivism and had in volved a period of fascination […]
[…] presenting a careful history of stratigraphy. The study of stratigraphy was pioneered by William Smith, “an unsophisticated English civil engineer unacquainted with evolution” (p. 88). Beginning in 1781 as a land surveyor’s assistant, Smith […]
[…] in Arabic and Islamic subjects. Urdu is the principal language of the community and the use of English is stressed, even though Punjabi is the language of the area where Ahmadiyyat originated. (It is […]
[…] (Journal History, 5 Sept. 1848, 4). At the 1862 general conference, participants clapped their hands together (Deseret News, 15 Oct. 1862). Beginning in 1892, with the capstone laying at the Salt Lake Temple, participants […]
[…] Again according to Persuitte, the first 116 pages were lost; and to persuade Mar tin Harris to finance the publication of the book, Joseph Smith turned what had been a secular story into a […]
[…] goes to college on the most meager of means. She graduates from BYU, accepts a position in English and debate at Dixie College, and eagerly seizes the opportunity for a sabbatical at Columbia, where […]
[…] realize how very little I know about him. This has been brought to me by the daily news coming from the far reaches of God’s infinite territory—outer space: Item: Mysterious arcs, four to seven […]
[…] the same answer to every problem. The same thing reportedly happened when the Bible was translated into English under the auspices of King James I. These are fables of a lost Eden. If it […]