Word: mormon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Rudger Clawson, 86, president of the Council of Twelve Apostles of the Latter-day Saints; in his native Salt Lake City. Son of an associate of Mormon Founder Joseph Smith, one of the last who saw Brigham Young, plain, gentle, white-thatched Apostle Clawson served most of a four-year Federal sentence for bigamy committed in 1883. Long an able hierarch, in his lifetime he traveled 576,000 miles on church business...
...Chaplains begin to sing, the first verse, then the third verse of Rock of Ages, The ranking Chaplain (of 13) on Attu, Lieut. Colonel Reuben E. Curtis, a Mormon from Salt Lake City, opens his khaki Bible and reads "Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father's house are many mansions. . . ." He prays: "O God, great and omnipotent judge of the living and the dead, before whom we all are to appear after this short life to render an account of our works, lift our hearts, we pray Thee...
...history's great divide: 1) President James K. Folk's handling of the Mexican and Oregon questions; 2) Zachary Taylor's campaign in northern Mexico; 3) Kearny's campaign in the Southwest; 4) Kearny's and Fremont's campaigns in California; 5) the Mormon colonization of Utah; 6) the westward surge of U.S. farmers and mechanics. The Year of Decision (Book-of-the-Month Club selection for April) also includes one of history's greatest horror stories, the anthropophagous annals of the Donner expedition...
...Unitarian Church, outside Detroit, sent a letter to the Detroit Council of Churches. Wrote tall, reddish-haired, 32-year-old Merrill O. Bates: "I deeply regret that you have worded your entrance requirements so as to make membership in the Council impossible for the following churches: Latter-Day Saints [Mormon], Christian Science and Unitarian. Our sons, our fathers, our brothers are dying on land and sea that justice and freedom-yea, even the Christian Religion might live, while we at home draw circles around our love." Mr. Bates probably referred to Edwin Markham's lines...
There was also expediency. Of the city's 23 Lutheran churches (evangelical), only one now belongs to the Council. The others are being coaxed to join. Since the city's nine Christian Science and nine Mormon churches (nonevangelical) have not shown much interest in the Council, the whole matter might seem to resolve itself into one simple question: Does the Council want 22 new Lutheran members or two Unitarian...