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...differences stem from the foundation stone of the faith, those unique Mormon scriptures, which are the subject of deep but carefully concealed doubts among some church intellectuals at Brigham Young University and at Mormon "institutes" on secular campuses. Smith said he dug up golden tablets at Hill Cumorah near Palmyra in 1827 and dictated their contents to a scribe before they were taken up into heaven. The result was the Book of Mormon, an account of two migrations of ancient Jews to the Americas, and of a ministry by Jesus in the New World. These Jews built elaborate civilizations before...
...hill called Cumorah, situated near Palmyra, N.Y. (22 miles southeast of Rochester), is a holy place to the 1,500,000 members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. For three nights last week, the faithful and the curious gathered there in record numbers-some 135,000 in all-for the 17th Hill Cumorah Pageant, which depicts in dramatic terms the legendary origins of the Mormon faith...
...centuries before falling into wicked ways themselves and being destroyed in battle by the Lamanites. Mormon was a Nephite prophet who set down this history and God's will for the future upon golden tablets and entrusted them to his son Moroni, who buried them in the Hill Cumorah...
Last week on Cumorah's hillside the pageant was twice repeated to audiences that totaled 35,000. They jam-packed the fields at the foot of the hill with their cars. In the prelude they saw a re-enactment of Moroni's first appearance to Joseph Smith. With trumpeters on the hilltop and incidental music from Wagner and Victor Herbert, the pageant then unfolded...
...pageant were the 167 Mormon missionaries to the Eastern States, in Palmyra for their annual conference. Mormon evangelists are young men and maids especially chosen by their bishops. They support themselves while proselyting, and generally serve a two-year period. Some missionaries are themselves converts. One such at Cumorah was blond, square-set Hollywood bit player Burnett Ferguson, who plans a return to acting when his evangelistic stint is done. Missionary Ferguson, whose last cinema appearance was in Dawn Patrol, had a fiery role last week as the prophet Abinadi, was burnt at the stake...