Word: mormons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...airplane cleared its way through the haze, circled the field a few times, landed a few feet from the boy. The pilot, for no apparent reason, called to the boy and asked him if he would like a lift. The boy said his father was down at the Mormon Church at the moment, and he wouldn't mind going if they were back before church was out. So they took off, flipped around for awhile and came to earth again in the alfalfa patch...
...dream the Angel Moroni appeared to young Joseph Smith and told him where to find the gold plates on which was written, in cryptic characters, the Book of Mormon. The boy went and found the plates, and translated them. Thus, in the year 1830, in Fayette, N.Y., he founded the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, long hated and reviled by Gentiles because it hallowed the custom of taking several wives...
Father of two children, and expecting another, Postman Stewart told police that the Lord had appeared to him in a dream, commanded him to restore the practice of polygamy which the Mormon Elders abandoned in 1890. Postman Stewart had written to Miss Christensen and to three other Salt Lake City girls, asking them to help him "fulfill a command from the Lord and take on another wife." Miss Christensen had turned her letter over to the police, agreed to act as a decoy...
...University of Southern California added a course in Lutheranism to a curriculum which already includes six denominational courses: Greek Orthodox, Roman Catholic, Episcopal, General Protestant, Jewish, Mormon...
Died. Mary Park Brockbank, 98, last surviving member of the great Mormon trek to Utah in 1847; in Murray, Utah...