A Prophet Is Dead: A Prophet Lives
April 27, 2018A man of men to thee, a seer of thine to men lived here; lives; shall live.
A man of men to thee, a seer of thine to men lived here; lives; shall live.
[…] history for many things, but para mount in my mind is his contribution to the Welfare progr am and his work in Correlation. In 1930 he became President of Pioneer Stake, and at age […]
[…] in 1964, following President David O. McKay’s dedicatory prayer. My heightened spiritual sensitivity was partly due, I am sure, to the power of that prayer and my special feelings about President McKay—but also to […]
[…] how he got away from the U.S. Marshall on his twenty-first birthday and voted despite the anti-polyg amy laws. To my mind, Grandpa’s life had the wonder and Tightness of scripture. I didn’t care […]
[…] informing his sons of events at first hand before they could read about them in the Deseret News, which the father faithfully had follow them wherever they went: news about crops, mining, new settlements, […]
In a recent essay on the Mormons, David Brion Davis observed that “their history, in relation to American history, is much like Hamlet’s play-within-the play.” Although analogies have their limitations, this one may prove […]
[…] religious magazines are published at all. And yet there are Dialogue and Exponent II and Sunstone and newsletters and journals of almost a dozen Mormon associations. Now there is the New Messenger & Advocate. […]
[…] of Midnight regulated the enthusiastic vis- its of neighborhood children to tolerable doses. Of particular interest to today’s homogenous society might be the diverse nationalities which inhabited Bingham. The Swedes are extolled as the […]
Homespun suggests ways for women of today to practice pioneer crafts. Individual chapters on log-cabin cooking, preserving and drying foods, homemade remedies, needle arts, quilts, patchwork, dyeing, producing cloth and clothing, rug making, soapmaking, […]
A concept called the “center periphery dichotomy” is sometimes used by social scientists to illustrate and analyze regional disparities. Center or core usually refers to those areas so richly endowed in population and resources […]