Word: mormon
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Married. Brigham H. Roberts, 66, of Manhattan, former President of the Mormon Church, now President of the Mormon Eastern States Mission, to Miss Margaret Curtis, 64, of Chicago. In 1900 Mr. Roberts was excluded from his seat from Utah in the U. S. House of Representatives after having been tried by the House on charges of polygamy. Two of his three wives, married before polygamy was barred by the Mormon Church and the laws of Utah, are still living...
University of Utah, a Norwegian by birth, and one of the Twelve Apostles of the (Mormon) Church of the Latter Day Saints...
...referring to Brigham Young as " the founder of Mormonism," (TIME, July 2) was in error. Mormonism?the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints?was founded by Joseph Smith, whose parents and grandparents were seers and diviners, at Manchester, N. Y., in 1830. Instructed, he said, by revelation, Smith supposedly dug up a " supplement to the New Testament" written on thin gold plates, and known as The Book of Mormon. On the strength of this "revelation," which declared him to be "God's prophet, entitled to all obedience," Smith founded the Mormon body...
Meanwhile Mormons had been migrating to Missouri and Illinois. It was in the former state that Smith's downfall came about, in 1844. The Book of Mormon had expressly forbidden, polygamy: "There shall not any man have save it be one wife and concubines he shall have none, for I the Lord God delighteth in the chastity of women. . . . For if I will, saith the Lord of Hosts, raise up seed unto me, I will command my people, otherwise they shall hearken unto these things." In 1843, Smith had a " revelation " establishing polygamy, but it is supposed that...
...Salt Lake City the President played golf with Heber J. Grant, white - bearded head of the Mormon Church, and was reported to have gained popularity with the Mormon farmers thereby. Frank R. Kent, correspondent of The Sun (Baltimore), one of the ablest and certainly the most fearless of the journalists accompanying the Presidential party, recorded, as few other correspondents did, that the President smoked cigarettes while playing, which was regarded as tactless, because the Mormons are strongly opposed to the use of tobacco. The President spoke in the Mormon Tabernacle on taxation...