Word: mormon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mormon Beliefs...
Thank you very much for your article on "Utah, A Peculiar People" (TIME, July 21). I found the article very interesting and quite fair to the Mormon Church...
...people of the Mormon Church, believe that President George Albert Smith, the Prophet, Seer, and Revelator for the church today, can, and does receive revelation from the Almighty and His servants. . . . The last revelation was not the one ending the practice of polygamy ; it is merely the last revelation contained or recorded in the "Doctrine and Covenants," one of our Church Standards. There have been many revelations, visions, etc. since . . . and I am quite sure that there will continue...
...state that the Prophet Joseph Smith found no hidden gold. He did. He found the gold plates upon which the Book of Mormon was inscribed. . . . The symbols found on them were no more mystic than written French to a fourth-grade American schoolboy. Magic Spectacles which you mention [are] undoubtedly the Urim and Thummim, an affair which was worn on the person, much as a telephone operator's mouthpiece, and which is not to be confused with the seer-stone...
...Mormon word meaning the land of the honey...