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Died. Brigham Henry Roberts, 76, president of the First Council of Seventy of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormon); of diabetes complications; in Salt Lake City. Elected to Congress in 1898, he was refused a seat by a 5-to-1 House vote because he was an avowed polygamist...
Died, Hyrum Gibbs Smith, 52, fourth Presiding Patriarch of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, great-great-grandson of Hyrum Smith (brother of Founder Joseph Smith); of pneumonia; in Salt Lake City...
Drama is essential to the launching of a new religion. Christian Science was the rare exception; Mary Baker Eddy started it in 1866 simply by having a revelation. Conforming to the rule is another latter-day faith, Baha'i, which commemorated last week with services in 65 cities in the U. S. Its drama, not unlike the Christian Good Friday, was a drama of martyrdom...
...Milne. Christopher Morley have made surprisingly few errors. Fantasian Bruce Marshall follows a less gossamer authority, Gilbert Keith Chesterton; but in his hands the Chestertonian whimsy loses its robustiousness, gets all buttered up with sticky sentiment. Not that Author Marshall cannot be very sharp on occasion, but, like the latter-day Chesterton, he is sharp only with non-Catholic things...
Long an invalid, retired in 1916 from his 22-year presidency and three-year chancellorship, 80-year-old Dr. David Starr Jordan, chancellor emeritus, had no active part in Stanford's latter-day development. Yet when the Stanford trustees meet this week, they and Stanford's Grand Old Man will all know that the important business before the meeting, a major milestone in Stanford's history, not only rests upon the foundations of Stanford as Dr. Jordan built it but derives from a conception of Stanford's destiny which Dr. Jordan long ago passed on to his successors for execution...