[…] Joseph Smith was “about eighteen years old at this time,” which would place it in 1824. In order to maintain the integrity of Joseph Smith’s first vision story, however, Mormon writers have not only […]
[…] rarely one who seeks a Broadway production for his writing, an evaluation of this play seems in order. It can readily be said that as a producer, Liljenquist chose too tough an assignment in […]
[…] resentment in those lines. We serve the things of the world because we like the beauty and order they give to our lives. Physical beauty and order have their place—but that place is secondary, […]
[…] dedicated professionals who perform some of the most vital functions necessary for a free political system. In order to do that job, they must often be rough and skeptical, and it is the responsibility […]
[…] A central direction in modernist literature is toward the self-sufficiency of the work The idea of aesthetic order is abandoned or radically modified Nature ceases to be a central subject and setting for literature […]
[…] these illegal actions but was unable to control the lawless elements. On September 30, 1845, by the order of Governor Ford, a commission arrived in Nauvoo for the purpose of arranging some compromise which […]
[…] of Zoar, and the Perfectionists of Oneida, suggests that the Mormon endeavors were of an entirely different order of magnitude. There were other less tangible differences between Mormons and other communitarian groups. The slower […]
[…] Professor Kimball also includes a useful name index and a short, but intriguing section entitled, “Materials on Order, Unavailable, or Omitted.” For a variety of reasons, all good and sufficient in my opinion, it […]
[…] Committee. A History of the Mormon Church in Canada. Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada: Lethbridge Herald Company, 1968. $5.00. Order from Deseret-Book Craft, 907 3rd Ave. South, Lethbridge, Alberta. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, […]
[…] without the “law of stewardship,” which Joseph Smith promulgated in the very early revelation on the “United Order of Enoch” (Doctrine and Covenants, Section 42, Feb. 9, 1831). Indeed, Leonard Arrington’s socio-economic history of […]