[…] expected on the basis of Galatians. “They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and fellowship, to the breaking of bread and prayers . . . Day by day, attending the temple together and breaking […]
[…] emerged in late eighteenth- and nineteenth-century editions. In Palmyra, as was typical throughout America, notices appeared in news papers for every year from 1818 through 1830 advertising almanacs. Almanacs were also on sale in […]
[…] side of the city’s proposed Main Street. Daniel H. Wells and William Cutler had brought the sobering news into camp just two days before that Nauvoo had been overrun in the skirmish known as […]
[…] more crowned him with the dignity belonging to his Divine and eternal nature (Salt Lake City: Deseret News, 1908, p. 24). I felt myself crowned with dignity by such teachings and avidly read all […]
[…] years ago an interesting film called Network focused on an anchor person (Mr. Beal) on the nightly news who one day puts down his script and refuses to report the fodder being fed him […]
[…] that primary, handwritten documents were abundantly discoverable. The documents of lesser importance than the few that made news stories gave his major discoveries credibility, and vice versa. His customers knew that they could lose […]
[…] laws enacted by the legislature rather than laws enacted by Congress or other states (JD 1:96-103; Deseret News, 15 Nov. 1851; Brooks 2:407-8). Although Smith did not specifically mention it, a case earlier that […]
[…] to the main mast. The gale howled through the spars and rigging. Soon “mountain high” waves were breaking over the deck and pounding like thunder against the creaky hull. The ship pitched to the […]
[…] closing prayer. We protested briefly, hoping the next two meetings would offer her more, but gave in, breaking mission rules to take her home in our Church-owned car. We returned and sat miserably through […]
More than twenty years ago I was baptized a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. I can’t speak for the Church, but I suspect it is safe to say that neither…