Word: propheteers
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...long as the world bought Zion candy bars, Zion cookies. Zion lace, Zion books and Zion cement it could smile as it would at Wilbur Glenn Voliva's dire prophecies and belief that the earth is soup-plate shaped. But it could not dispute the grim, lap-jowled prophet's absolute mastery of his own tight sectarian world of Zion City, Ill., on the lake shore 40 mi. north of Chicago. Owner of its communal industries and General Overseer of its Christian Catholic Church, Prophet Voliva banned tobacco, liquor, cinemas, profanity, immodest dress and chewing gum from...
...Depression came and the outside world stopped buying so many candy bars and cookies. Zionites grew restive, grumblingly drifted off into new sects. Year ago Prophet Voliva's world cracked under him when Zion's industries, once worth $10,000,000, went into receivership (TIME, June 12). Last week that world was heaving in open rebellion...
...Christendom (158,045 of the worthiest Mormon males), they had come from every white nation and from Hawaii, the Philippines and the South Seas, to attend their church's 104th annual conference. As always, this opened on the anniversary of that day (April 6) in 1830 when Prophet-Founder Joseph Smith with six others organized the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Fayette...
...filled including that of Second Counselor, which had been expected by Apostle Reed Smoot but which went to Joshua Reuben Clark Jr., onetime Ambassador to Mexico. Since 1918 the First Presidency has been headed by patriarchal, 77-year-old Heber Jedediah Grant, potent businessman as well as divinely authorized Prophet, Seer and Revelator. When this patriarch speaks in conference, he is believed by all Mormons to be "guided by the spirit of God and His will to have said such advice as is good for us." Bewhiskered and clear-voiced. President Grant was guided to give no startling advice last...
...Minor Prophet? Dickens' England was a country in which the Industrial Revolution was just getting under way. not without slime and soot. No observer of the contemporary scene could fail to notice the more noisome puddles, and Dickens soon made a name for himself as a crusader against social ills. To his critics' assertion that his indignation proceeded from no plan, that he had no social program, his defenders reply that his attacks did much of the spadework that made programs possible. In many a passage in his novels he pictured the desperate plight of the metropolitan poor...