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 […]
[…] the Father and the Son. The morning of the Dispensation of the Fullness of Time had come, breaking the darkness of the long generations of spiritual night. As in the creation, light was to […]
[…] Mormons will remember exactly where they were and what they were doing when they first heard the news. I was in a school meeting some ten miles away from my home when a secretary […]
[…] New York City. His lectures on Egypt appeared in the St. Louis Leader, 26 Nov. 1856; Evening News, 29 Nov. 1856; The Missouri Democrat, 29 Nov. 1856; and the Saint Louiser Volksblatt, 23, 25, […]
[…] be the last straw for Melissa, but he was the one. She had already endured beyond her breaking point. The mud, the wind. Anomie. Isolation. Death came to her as a natural consequence, a […]
[…] areas in which the book shines is definitions. For example, “language” is not tongues, such as German, English or Italian, but the inherent relationship between an idea or object and the verbal expression thereof. […]
[…] extremity, Joseph suggested that perhaps the Harrises might assist them. Would his mother visit them, convey the news about the plates, and possibly seek their assistance in getting them translated? (L. Smith 1845; L. […]
[…] dark when we came out—no light from the windows, no stars in the sky. We groped our way back to the bus. Everyone was silent—we had been moved and could not easily share our feelings.