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...Hair incorporated Poor Richard's Church under a California charter without a hitch. The church is located in a cluttered wooden house in Austin, Texas. While Mrs. O'Hair holds down the "bishop's" job, her "divinely inspired" husband will double as the "prophet" in residence. Poor Richard's Church will even canonize its own saints: Mark Twain, Mme. Curie, Albert Einstein and other luminaries...
...when he became president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints-by Mormon definition, their "prophet, seer and revelator." That was well past the age when many Protestant church leaders retire, even past the recommended retirement age (75) that Pope Paul VI has set down for Roman Catholic bishops. But when he died last week of acute heart congestion at the age of 96, even his final years of feebleness could not dim the conviction that David O. McKay had done more in his 19-year tenure to change the image and direction of the Mormon Church...
...Nikita Khrushchev had been an accurate prophet, the Soviet Union would now be starting the year in which its citizens would overtake Americans in material prosperity. Actually, Soviet shoppers still encounter frustration searching for products that U.S. citizens find in abundance. Moscow residents these days find few eggs and little flour in the stores. They may have to try two or three shops to locate as necessary an item as a light bulb. Russia's economic leaders admit that they have fallen far short of reaching not only Khrushchev's Utopian targets for 1970, but even the more...
...firmly: "I'll discuss the issues. Of course, I'll always have the guitar in the car if somebody wants to hear something." ··· "I have given you to be a light unto the nations," proclaims Isaiah 42:6. And since Isaiah is the favorite prophet of that light unto Israel, David Ben-Gurion, a Swiss company used 42-6 as the title of a film on the patriarch's life. It was the first movie that Ben-Gurion, 83, had ever sat all the way through. Said he: "It's almost like...
Mormon belief depends largely on the writings of Prophet Joseph Smith, the church's 19th century founder. Though Smith's first book of revelations, the Book of Mormon, clearly states that "the Lord denieth none that come unto him, black and white," in The Pearl of Great Price, Smith's later translation of revelations supposedly made to Moses and Abraham, he took a dimmer view. Smith there concluded that Negroes are the descendants of both Cain, the Bible's first murderer, and Ham, the disrespectful son of Noah; the reason for their exclusion from the priesthood...