[…] next day to deny that the Church was busing Relief Society sisters to legislatures in Illinois and Missouri. Approximately two weeks later, Mark Hofmann brought to the office of the First Presidency a transcript […]
[…] was first published by Joseph Smith, we had neglected to pin down the location of a single city, to identify confidently even one route the people of the volume traversed, or to sketch a […]
[…] cause before the Supreme Court (Taylor and Cannon to Richards 1885). Vest had been a senator from Missouri who debated against passage of the Edmunds Bill in 1882 (CHC 6:42; Buice n.d.). He had […]
[…] President Woodruff and George Q. Cannon offered justifications for the declaration. Cannon recounted an instance when a Missouri mob had prevented the Saints from carrying out what they considered a divine injunction to build […]
[…] there was once a certain man who on a Saturday evening went into a part of the city into which respectable men normally do not go. Why he went there has not been determined, […]
[…] the counsel of Eliza R. Snow and the vision of individual ward presidents. In the Salt Lake City Fifteenth Ward, Sarah Kimball was determined to prove that women could contribute economically to the community. […]
[…] appointed Joseph to prepare the revelations for publication and Oliver Cowdery to carry the revelations to Independence, Missouri, the site of the Church press. Joseph spent the next two weeks reviewing the revelations (HC […]
[…] and with members of their own backgrounds. In 1990 language wards and branches organized in Salt Lake City during the 1960s, such as the German ward and several Tongan wards, were still functioning. Black […]
[…] of Mormon domestic life—polygamy. Through his plumbing of LDS church archives, family group sheets at Salt Lake City’s Family History Library, and other familiar and not so familiar sources (such as the Record of […]
[…] of the Relief Society offers much food for thought. Women of Covenant: The Story of Relief Society. By Jill Mulvay Derr, Janath Russell Cannon, and Maureen Ursenbach Beecher (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Co., 1992).