Word: propheteer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Inspired by the ten commandments of Tia Juana and the sermon on Monte Carlo the sons of the prophet of prosperity feed on the manna provided each chilly dawn at morning prayer. Faith in the ultimate victory of the pulpit in the spiritual contest against chance and fate is swelling the ranks of the believers. Traditional forms of worship--Isis, Dionysius, the Eleusinian mysteries, Mammon himself--are flicked out of consciousness by the true followers, the faithful who abide by the tenets of the spokesman of the divine decree...
...confused with Mormondom is Reorganized Mormondom. The former's hosts number 700,000; the latter 's 100,000. But the Reorganized Church claims to be the legal successor of the original Mormon church as founded by Prophet Joseph Smith...
President Joseph Smith died in 1914, was succeeded (1915) in turn by his son, the grandson of Founder Smith. This grandson, Frederick Madison Smith, 56, mathematician, scholar, is still President of the Reorganized Church. He is regarded by his followers as the dynastic successor of the great Prophet and Founder of all Mormonism...
...Church soon established branches in New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri. Prophet Smith decreed that Mormons were properly polygamous and took unto himself several comely wives. This practice, sturdily maintained, was among those which brought general persecution on the Church. In 1842 Prophet Smith became a martyr to his 'faith. He had been arraigned 39 times on various charges without once being convicted. At length he was charged with treason against the State of Illinois, was jailed at Carthage. A mob attacked the prison; both Prophet Smith and his brother Hyrum were shot dead. In 1847, harassed beyond...
...variously apparent. It was manifestly wise, for instance, to abolish polygamy (1890) after the U. S. Government had begun an antipolygamy campaign, imprisoning hundreds of offenders, disincorporating the Mormon Church, confiscating property, refusing to naturalize Mormons. To the Mormons, however, polygamy was a heaven-ordained adjustment. What to do? Prophet Wilford Woodruff, then head of the Church, announced that after due meditation it had been revealed to him that heaven thereafter forbade polygamous practice. Many were the individual violations of this manifesto ; robust, marrying Mormons still professed their old belief that millions of disembodied souls needed to be born...