Word: mormon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Book of Mormon (522 pages in a recent edition) contains the history of ancient peoples (among them the Lamanites), who supposedly inhabited the Western Hemisphere, coming variously from the Tower of Babel and Jerusalem. They had apostles and prophets even as the Biblical peoples. One of these was called Mormon. To them Christ appeared. He ordained that, after the age of apostasy, his true church should be reestablished somewhere in the Americas. That re-establishment was what took place in 1830 in the Fayette farmhouse. At that time considerable numbers of the ancient Lamanites were still alive. They were customarily...
...Church soon established branches in New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri. Prophet Smith decreed that Mormons were properly polygamous and took unto himself several comely wives. This practice, sturdily maintained, was among those which brought general persecution on the Church. In 1842 Prophet Smith became a martyr to his 'faith. He had been arraigned 39 times on various charges without once being convicted. At length he was charged with treason against the State of Illinois, was jailed at Carthage. A mob attacked the prison; both Prophet Smith and his brother Hyrum were shot dead. In 1847, harassed beyond...
...Mormon good fortune since the trek to Utah is due in no small measure to a faith which greatly admires and encourages prosperity. Mormons irrigated, planted and built with as much persistence as they prayed. A striking fact is that the Mormons did not dig in the ground 'for metallic wealth but concentrated on husbandry. They made a desert bloom. A good Mormon, and the "good" percentage is extraordinarily large, abstains from tea, coffee, tobacco, liquor. He pays a tithe (one-tenth) of his entire income to the Church. He hearkens to the Mormon proverb "the glory...
...Mormon health is proverbial; Utah's birth rate is generally higher, its death rate lower, its infantile sickness less than in any other State...
...Mormon wisdom is variously apparent. It was manifestly wise, for instance, to abolish polygamy (1890) after the U. S. Government had begun an antipolygamy campaign, imprisoning hundreds of offenders, disincorporating the Mormon Church, confiscating property, refusing to naturalize Mormons. To the Mormons, however, polygamy was a heaven-ordained adjustment. What to do? Prophet Wilford Woodruff, then head of the Church, announced that after due meditation it had been revealed to him that heaven thereafter forbade polygamous practice. Many were the individual violations of this manifesto ; robust, marrying Mormons still professed their old belief that millions of disembodied souls needed...