Word: mormons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mormon, and former church editor for the Salt Lake Tribune, I would like to point out that in your story on the testimonial for President David O. McKay that McKay does not rhyme with eye. It rhymes with...
Being one of the many Mormon missionaries, I am somewhat acquainted with the doctrine of our church. I would like to know where you got the statement "new converts, for example, no longer have to give up smoking." This is absurd. The Word of Wisdom, as the Mormons understand it, prohibits any use of tobacco, and is a commandment from God given through Joseph Smith at Kirtland, Ohio...
...time a smoker was considered beyond redemption by the Mormon church. Now he can be brought into the church, given useful assignments and, if he breaks the habit, be fully accepted...
...President, Prophet, Seer, Revelator and Trustee-in-Trust of the Mormons -as the ''peculiar people" call their lead-is the living oracle of God to whom Lord reveals whatever is necessary for the conduct of the church." Last week in Salt Lake City, nearly 500 business and civic leaders, representing Judaism and a dozen Christian churches, gathered at a testimonial banquet honoring the ninth man in Mormon history to be in direct communication with God. He David Oman McKay, 89, a kindly ascetic who has presided over the most astonishing decade of growth that the Church of Jesus...
Steinar has no rose-cheeked sweetheart, but he is inspired to leave wife and two children and go to Salt Lake City. In a wonderfully evocative picture of the early Mormons, as sympathetic as it is ironic, Laxness shows a stern community of God adjusting to the weaknesses of man. Proud of the civilization they have wrested from the desert, the Mormons consider their material possessions a sign of God's favor. "The cosmic wisdom that lives in the words of the Prophets and the deeds of Brigham Young," lectures a Mormon, "does not manifest itself exclusively in enormous...