Word: mormons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have sufficient cigar stores, everybody in town reads the Denver Post which should score us high for mediocre reading. We have never had a Who's Who candidate, but do have 2,200 "Who Cares" members. Our few Negroes are fine citizens. As for churches, we have Mormon, Episcopal, Baptist, Community, Catholic, and Church of God, but none are too well attended. Our water system is municipally owned and we pay 10? per kilowatt for electricity. The birth rate is too low, there being 3.1 children to a Thermopolis family. We have many professional women but none...
...numerical representation of the various sects as follows: Baptist 157 Buddhist 4 Catholic 747 Christian Church 42 Christian Science 108 Congregational 410 Disciples of Christ 4 Dutch Reform 8 Episcopalians 469 Ethical Culture 2 Greek Orthodox 13 Jewish 827 Jewish Reformed 11 Lutheran 87 Methodist and Methodist Episcopal 258 Mormon 24 Mohammedan 3 Presbyterian 456 Protestant 226 Quaker (Friends)28 Unitarian...
...continued success of their security program, Mormons were at the same time asked to pray and work. Pithy, ominous Mormon advice went out to all Church members from the First Counselor in the potent, three-man First Presidency-plump J. (for Joshua) Reuben Clark Jr., able lawyer, able onetime colleague and successor of Dwight Whitney Morrow as U. S. Ambassador to Mexico. Counselor Clark warned Mormons of the next depression, "more serious, affecting intimately far greater numbers of people than the one we are now finishing. To prepare for this coming disaster we must avoid debt as we would avoid...
Meanwhile last week Mormonism, which unlike Episcopalianism is always an unobtrusively but persistently missionizing faith (see col. 1), set up camp for the first time in a long-neglected corner of the vineyard, New England. In Boston last week arrived Dr. Carl Ferdinand Eyring, onetime physics professor at Brigham Young University, to be first president of the New England Mormon Mission. He found that some 3,000 New Englanders were already Latter-day Saints. President Eyring set up headquarters in a house in Cambridge, hired the old, staid Cantabrigia Club (women) for Sunday meetings. With him he brought 20 young...
...called" by the Church as a missionary for two years' service is an honor which pious Mormons hardly ever refuse. Such saints as Reed Smoot and Marriner Stoddard Eccles are proud to have done missionary work without pay. There are today some 2,000 picked Mormon missionaries working in 23 countries, always traveling in pairs of which the more experienced is the "Senior Companion." A Mormon salestalk emphasizes the practicality of Mormonism, its orthodox belief in God and Jesus Christ, its healthiness with its teachings against alcohol, tobacco, tea & coffee, "refined foods." Once convinced by a missionary that "silly...