[…] of subject and form. She published her collected poetry under the title Musings and Memories in 189 6, its popularity requiring a second edition in 1915. Though her poems and stories were typical of […]
[…] the Church 24 May 1845, but five months later was rejected as apostle and patriarch at the 6 October 1845 general conference. Official church history records the objection to William: “He aspires to uproot […]
[…] complete, it is a sacrilege to ornament them; and because the Brethren are divinely called as stewards over the modern relevance of the text, it is a sacrilege for anyone else to expound upon […]
[…] it may be that all of us would do well to get, in some ways, closer still. For a people who manage to watch 251 murders a year on TV, we Americans—and more especially […]
[…] collapsed and buried my brother in-law under tons of grain. At his funeral, a speaker offered com fort by saying that God “had need of Leon on the other side.” One of Leon’s young […]
[…] essentially this: the Three Witnesses and some of the Eight Witnesses became disaffected in the late 18 30s and spent most or all of the remainder of their lives outside the Church, yet they […]
The Doctrine and Covenants contains extremely specific instructions concerning marriage for men: In the celestial glory there are three heavens or degrees;
[…] approach: “There is a Spirit in Man, and the inspiration of the Almighty giveth them understanding (Job 32:8).” “For what man knoweth the things of man save the spirit of man which is in […]
[…] shop or from neighbor to neighbor, to borrow and return, to ask for help and give, to buy and sell, I saw him doing the truth and felt safe. One June dawn we drove […]
[…] . . with a view to pre pare the way for the ultimate triumph of truth” (9: 369); “all the great discoveries and appliances in the arts and sciences are expressly designed by the […]