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...Nephites (Scene XIII), who flourished for centuries before falling into wicked ways themselves and being destroyed in battle by the Lamanites. Mormon was a Nephite prophet who set down this history and God's will for the future upon golden tablets and entrusted them to his son Moroni, who buried them in the Hill Cumorah...
Climactic scene of the pageant was Moroni's appearance, in the form of an angel, to Joseph Smith, 17-year-old son of an upstate farmer, which Smith reported in 1823. Moroni, he said, told him about the tablets and informed him that he had been appointed by God to lead the world back to the true church. Joseph translated the tablets (said to be about eight inches square and covered with fine writing in "reformed Egyptian") with the aid of a pair of spiritual spectacles buried with them; the spectacles consisted of two stones called Urim and Thummin...
...cost $6,000,000, stands on 25 acres and is 257 ft. high, topped by a golden statue of the Angel Moroni.† From 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. tourists are waved to parking spaces by white-coated attendants, then assembled in groups for a silent tour (no questions until afterward) of the huge building...
...with cast panels of cement and Wasatch crushed rock, which overlooks the Pacific on the west and downtown Los Angeles on the east. When the temple is finished in the fall of 1955, the City of the Angels will have a new guardian-the Mormon's own Angel Moroni, in aluminum and gold leaf, sounding his trumpet from the templetop, 262 feet above the ground...
...movie's Texans, even the villains, keep their word of honor, respect womanhood and fight at the drop of a line of dialogue. When Gable and Crawford clash at the barricades before the Texas senate, mass slaughter breaks out. Then, at a word from the revered Houston (Moroni Olsen), the two leaders settle the issue in a fist fight, the ground suddenly clears of casualties, and both sides go off to fight the Mexicans...