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[…] think he would have carried on both jobs had it not been for the earlier insult. When World War I broke out in April 1917, we had a very small professional army in the […]
[…] dominant in the Church, then we may just as well close up shop and say to the world that Mormonism is a failure.” Shortly before Elder Smith wrote to Commissioner West, Snell himself received […]
[…] great wave of Irish emigrants to America in the spring of 1832. While cholera swept the Old World, millennialists in America watched for harbingers of the awaited second advent of Jesus Christ. Cholera fit […]
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[…] all is not well. Maoism has been partly successful in accomplishing the goal sought by McKay, the breaking down of the traditional Chinese value system. The many movements and campaigns conducted by the Communists, […]
[…] is natural for Mormons to think in terms of potential missionary activity in any part of the world. With the black revelation granting the priesthood to all worthy male members, interest in missionary work […]
[…] God shall cover the earth, as the waters cover the sea; and all the rest of the world will without exception be cut off; and when this is done, and all the rest of […]
[…] to his diary that he had lost considerable sleep over the matter. Bennion provided information on law- breaking for Deseret News editorials, and Heber J. Grant insisted in conversations with his brother B. F. […]
[…] had no more idea of it falling upon me than of the most unlikely thing in the world, and I felt it come like a flash of lightening to my mind, and I said, […]