Word: mormon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...time on earth is running out, missionary leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints concluded at a convention six months ago. They resolved to make a last big push for conversions. By year's end the Mormons* claimed 90,000 baptisms worldwide, nearly double the total for 1960. And the most notable Mormon success came in a country rarely thought of as mission territory: Great Britain, where T. (for Thomas) Bowring Woodbury V, 53, is mission president...
...Saints have been cultivating souls in Britain for more than a century. In 1837 Mormon Founder Joseph Smith dispatched seven missionaries to England-a venture that possibly saved the church from extinction. Working with the zeal of early Christians, the Mormons made 77,000 converts in two decades, sent most of their newly baptized off as emigrants to the U.S., where they were needed for the pioneer job of settling Utah. But by the turn of the century, conversions in Britain numbered only about 300 a year, and things stayed that way until By Woodbury went to England...
...paper. A devout and hymn-singing Presbyterian, the Beaver had been irritated by a Sunday Express story about some British clergymen who deplored the assault tactics of door-to-door canvassers for two religious faiths: Jehovah's Witnesses and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons). Thundered disgruntled Reader Beaverbrook: "Mormon missionaries represent an important and dignified branch of the Christian religion. Their people in Utah and elsewhere are good-living and God-fearing citizens . . . Paragraphs and interviews denouncing Mormon missionaries should not be given publicity in the Sunday Express" Said Sunday Express Editor Junor...
Nobel prizewinning Physicist Willard Libby plans to take a large supply of sleeping pills into his own $30 did-it-him-self shelter, so that he and his family could doze out most of the ordeal. Several companies are selling prepackaged, high-protein emergency food supplies, and the Mormon church is distributing a two-week supply of emergency rations, packed in a neat metal cylinder, to all its members, along with the urgent suggestion that all good Mormons stockpile a full two-year supply in their larders. Others purvey all-purpose packages, such as the Bolton Farm Packing...
Missionaries Colton and Harris have attracted prospects by organizing an English-language class and a softball team, sometimes prepare the way for interviews by leaving folders in mailboxes. In a first conversation, they avoid Mormon doctrine ; in the second, they are likely to put forward some Mormon ideas and to end by saying: "We know we can't convince you, but we'd like to ask you to make the effort to ask God about the truth of what we are saying...