Word: latters
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...spite of this gerontocracy, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints remains vibrant. Its sedulous missionary work has made what seemed to be a quintessentially American faith extraordinarily successful both at home and overseas. The church has nearly 9 million members, up from 5.6 million in 1984. Though a slight majority (4.6 million) live in the U.S. and Canada, the Mormon Church's biggest success story of the past decade is Latin America, where it claims 2.7 million believers. "One of the major themes of 20th century Mormonism has been accommodation," says Richard Bushman, a professor of history...
...plates. These provided him with revelations that ancient Hebrews migrated to North America around 600 B.C. Later Jesus Christ, after his ministry in the Middle East, came to preach to these lost tribes of Israel in America. The tribes eventually split into warring factions, the Nephites and Lamanites, the latter being the ancestors of the American Indians...
Unfortunately, in the end, the latter moments proved more numerous...
Francis H. Burr, an honorary trustee of Massachusetts General Hospital, subscribes to the latter theory...
...course, the latter occasion wasn't very frequent. The team started the season off with a 8-1 win over Brown, and then garnered 9-0 victories over Trinity, Franklin & Marshall, Williams and Penn...