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Last week the Prophet, Seer & Revelator of the world's 746,384 Mormons observed his 80th birthday. Hale & happy for such tributes as having a whole issue of the Mormon Improvement Era devoted to his life and works, President Heber Jedediah Grant of the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-Day Saints arrived in Chicago on Mormon business bent. The 2,000 Mormons who live in and around Chicago and Wisconsin were also happy. Heretofore shepherded by Mormon missionaries, they became full-fledged members of the Church last Sunday when President Grant organized their territory into Mormonism...
...Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormon), of which shrewd old Heber Jedediah Grant is Prophet, Seer & Revelator, owns sugar-beet fields, banks, hotels, the oldest U. S. department store (Zion's Cooperative Mercantile Institution, Salt Lake City). During Depression, however, Mormons felt the pinch like everyone else. By this year 88,000 of the Church's 638,000 members were on relief rolls. Last month the Mormon First Presidency, whose absolute head is Heber Grant, resolved to take the indigent Saints off relief by next Jan. 1. Revealed last week were full details...
...years missionaries of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints have labored in the Hawaiian Islands. In 1919 President Heber Jedediah Grant went there to dedicate a temple at the village of Laie. Hawaiian Mormons now number 14,000 saints. Last week stubble-bearded, 78-year-old President Grant returned to Salt Lake City after a second visit to Hawaii, during which he organized a new Mormon "stake" (ecclesiastical unit)- the Church's 114th and its first outside North America. When Heber J. Grant arrived in Honolulu with his trusty First Counselor, heavy-jowled Joshua Reuben Clark...
...platform in a bare Manhattan hall last Sunday sat the divinely inspired Prophet, Seer and Revelator of 750,000 saints on earth?Heber Jedediah Grant, 78, stubble-bearded President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. With him sat his trusty First Counselor, pudding-jowled Joshua Reuben Clark Jr., one-time U. S. Ambassador to Mexico; his potent Presiding Bishop, rangy Sylvester Q. Cannon; his Eastern representative, Don Byron Colton, longtime U. S. Representative from Utah...
...Mormons met with a full .organization, vacancies having been filled including that of Second Counselor, which had been expected by Apostle Reed Smoot but which went to Joshua Reuben Clark Jr., onetime Ambassador to Mexico. Since 1918 the First Presidency has been headed by patriarchal, 77-year-old Heber Jedediah Grant, potent businessman as well as divinely authorized Prophet, Seer and Revelator. When this patriarch speaks in conference, he is believed by all Mormons to be "guided by the spirit of God and His will to have said such advice as is good for us." Bewhiskered and clear-voiced. President...