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...congratulated on your benevolent article [Dec. 21] regarding President David O. McKay. As members of the church, we admire President McKay greatly for the Christlike and ascetic life that he lives, and we hold him in the same respect that we do a prophet like Moses...
...Mormon, and former church editor for the Salt Lake Tribune, I would like to point out that in your story on the testimonial for President David O. McKay that McKay does not rhyme with eye. It rhymes with...
Smoking Permitted. In times past, few gentiles (as the Saints call all non-Mormons) would have had a good word to say about one of the prophets, for non-Mormons have often been treated harshly. McKay (rhymes with eye) has actively encouraged toleration for others. He has also relaxed a few of the stiff rules that govern the life of his followers New converts, for example, no longer have to give up smoking-although they are often assigned to jobs as Boy Scout leaders or Sunday school teachers, where the need to give good example constrains them to abandon...
Nearly one-third of the world's 1,800,000 Latter-Day Saints have been baptized since McKay became president in 1951. Much of the growth stems directly from policy decisions he made shortly after taking office. He abandoned the church tradition of urging converts to settle in Utah (We were robbing ourselves of local leadership in the missions") and he authorized the construction abroad of new temples-previously limited to the U.S. and Canada-when membership growth warranted. He made the Mormons' aggressive missionary work more effective by suggesting that convert-makers ask for appointments instead...
...McKay's policies have paid off: since 1951. the number of stakes (dioceses) has risen from 180 to 350, and the annual harvest of converts has risen steadily rom 17,000 to more than 100,000 in 1962. Mormons now open one new chapa week, and are in the midst of a building program that includes a 30-to 40-floor skyscraper on Manhattan's 58th Street, a new 25-story office building m Salt Lake City. "David O " disclaims credit for any of it "The rea son we grow," he says, "is that there is church-wide...