Word: mormondom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...great congress of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints last fortnight celebrated the centennial of Mormonism in Salt Lake City, capital of Mormondom (TIME, April 7). A great congress of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints also celebrated the same centennial in fast-growing Independence, Mo., capital of Reorganized Mormondom...
...confused with Mormondom is Reorganized Mormondom. The former's hosts number 700,000; the latter 's 100,000. But the Reorganized Church claims to be the legal successor of the original Mormon church as founded by Prophet Joseph Smith...
...first time, some 7,000 Reorganized Mormons crowded into a brand new, spacious $1,000,000 tabernacle where elaborate services were held with President Smith and 200 ministers officiating. Soaring from a hilltop, the domed towers of this fane testify for miles around that the thrifty industry of Reorganized Mormondom, as well as Mormondom, has paid...
Last week the thoughts of all the 700,000 Mormons in the world dwelt in Salt Lake City, capital of Mormondom and of Utah, where the centenary of the founding of the Church was to be celebrated, exactly to the day, on April 6, 1930. A week of exercises and formal rejoicing was scheduled to follow...
...Adelina Patti remarked: "My voice is twice as large here," had undergone last week a vast refurbishing for a public pageant calculated to impress its audiences with the fact that Mormonism is a successful religion if ever there was one. Accompanying the pageant would be music from one of Mormondom's most cherished treasures- its mighty organ. In 1866 oxen began hauling the logs which formed its 32-foot diapason, its tiny flutinos. Glue was made by boiling strips of cattle and buffalo hides. Recently reconstructed, the instrument, with 5,500 pipes, is among the world's largest...
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