“If Thou Wilt Be Perfect”
May 3, 2018[…] a Church. Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, Joseph Fielding Smith, ed (Salt Lake City, Utah: Deseret News Press, 1942), p. 366. Elder Harold B. Lee, Conference Report, April 1966, p. 64. Journal of […]
[…] a Church. Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, Joseph Fielding Smith, ed (Salt Lake City, Utah: Deseret News Press, 1942), p. 366. Elder Harold B. Lee, Conference Report, April 1966, p. 64. Journal of […]
[…] Follet Discourse,” Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, comp. Joseph Fielding Smith, Jr. (Salt Lake City: Deseret News Press, 1938). This argument is developed in the third lecture. See Lectures on Faith, comp. N. […]
[…] me to be my duty to my God . . . they are welcome to it” (Deseret News, 15 July 1885), seemed to believe very sincerely that the anti-polygamous law, in spite of the […]
[…] old brother” (in “Triple Treehouse”; the brother is apparently two years older than the speaker). No freshman English teacher, I hope, would let those pass by. Finally, the idiom is simply and flatly prosaic; […]
[…] breadlines. I am over thirty and I can recall with little effort the effects of the second World War—rationing of food and gasoline, tin can drives and the gathering of milk pods from fields around […]
[…] Smith (then President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles) had published an article in the Church News about this matter and in the process had essentially contradicted one of his assumptions in his […]
[…] Jehovah.” Although, like its predecessors, this hymnal contains no tunes, 20 of its selections are provided with English sub-captions. It can be imagined that the German-speaking Saints may have had difficulty associating these newly-translated […]
How does an English graduate student who wants a visit to the East Coast, instruction in the American political system and an introduction into the Mormon publishing world satisfy these three ambitions in one […]
[…] from Monte McLaws’ doctoral dissertation, Spokesman for the Kingdom is a terse, well-researched biography of the Deseret News and Mormon journalism from 1830 to 1898. The book is thematically organized around the topics of […]
[…] ‘Deterioration in Morals’: Interview With Spencer W. Kimball, President, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.” U.S. News & World Report 83 (December 19, 1977): 60-61. Hoyt, Edwin. “The Mormons March On.” Far Eastern […]