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This is the first installment of a two-part feature on Mormon undergraduates at Harvard...

Author: By Charles E. Shepard, | Title: Latter-day Saints...Among the Liberal Chic | 1/21/1976 | See Source »

...Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is now centered in Utah where Smith's followers moved after being chased out of Midwestern towns they had tried to settle in. A fundamentalist religion, it places heavy emphasis on the Bible, but also gives equal power to the Book of Mormon, which church doctrine says is Smith's translation of golden tablets he found under the guidance of a holy messenger. The book tells the story of ancient inhabitants of America descended from the Lost Tribes of Israel and includes a story of Christ's appearance in South America after his resurrection...

Author: By Charles E. Shepard, | Title: Latter-day Saints...Among the Liberal Chic | 1/21/1976 | See Source »

Being a devout Mormon here or outside Harvard can be an all-consuming affair, for the lay church, which holds services all day on Sunday, has no clergy. Instead it relies on the tightly organized work of its members, all of whom are assigned some job, be it branch president, Sunday school director or athletic coordinator...

Author: By Charles E. Shepard, | Title: Latter-day Saints...Among the Liberal Chic | 1/21/1976 | See Source »

...with separate 60-to-90-minute meetings of the relief society and priesthood. While the relief society is all women and tends to focus on domestic needs as well as spiritual and cultural education, the priesthood--which includes only men--concentrates on learning to live the Mormon faith at home and to bring it to others. One priesthood gathering this fall, run much like a jovial high-school class meeting and held in a cramped basement room of the church--offered plans for a visit to the new $15 million, all marble Oz-like Mormon temple in Washington...

Author: By Charles E. Shepard, | Title: Latter-day Saints...Among the Liberal Chic | 1/21/1976 | See Source »

...through the rows of wooden benches divided by two aisles, Peterson, his assistants in the branch presidency, and several Harvard undergraduates who arranged or participated in the service sit up front on the dias in theater seats with green padding. This 90-minute service, followed by separate classes on Mormon doctrine and the final Sacraments meeting at 6:30 p.m., included individual speeches and music. The Mormon hymns have a sharp pioneer flavor. ("Come, ye thankful people, come, Raise the song of harvest home; All is safely gathered in, Ere the winter storms begin...

Author: By Charles E. Shepard, | Title: Latter-day Saints...Among the Liberal Chic | 1/21/1976 | See Source »

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