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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...golden plates from the Angel Moroni in upstate New York in 1823. But the acceptance of the "restored Gospel," and baptism in the True Church that proclaimed it, was considered necessary to earn the highest reward after the resurrection, the "celestial kingdom." Some way, then, had to be found to bring into that kingdom those ancestors who had lived while the Gospel was unavailable, or who otherwise had not received the Mormon message while on earth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mormons: Bringing In the Ancestors | 8/22/1969 | See Source »

...Mormons found the solution in St. Paul's First Epistle to the Corinthians 15:29, where the apostle asks, "Otherwise, what do people mean by being baptized on behalf of the dead? If the dead are not raised at all, why are people baptized on their behalf?" Many Biblical scholars think that Paul was merely mentioning a practice of some early Christians to illustrate the Christian belief in resurrection, but the Mormons took the passage as a mandate. As a result, Mormons today not only baptize, marry, and "seal for time and eternity" living family members to one another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mormons: Bringing In the Ancestors | 8/22/1969 | See Source »

...wine of freedom soon goes flat. What then? After a few weeks, according to the Tracers Company of America, a New York firm that specializes in finding missing people, these runaways begin to act quite predictably. By sending up naive signal flags, they consciously or subconsciously ask to be found...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Marriage: Footloose, But Not Fancy-Free | 8/22/1969 | See Source »

...their lives when they take up residence in a new city. They do not change their names, often because they fear their inability to respond naturally if someone calls out to them; they usually end up with jobs similar to the ones they left. Often they can be found merely by checking the records of the firms that clear new applications for company group insurance and pension plans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Marriage: Footloose, But Not Fancy-Free | 8/22/1969 | See Source »

...Lawyers' Committee found no other case in which a Negro was awarded damages from a white law officer in Mississippi. "It's not going to bring back my sight," said Arthur, who now hopes to go into the grocery business, "but it will help." In any case, he may have to wait some time to collect, since Arterbury plans an appeal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Damage Suits: Something More than Sympathy | 8/22/1969 | See Source »

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