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...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...
...Book of Mormon, purporting to be a translation of the plates accomplished with divinely acquired erudition by humble Joseph Smith, 25. That year the Mormon Church, based upon the revelations of this book, was established in a farmhouse in Fayette, N. Y., and Joseph Smith became its first Prophet. Soon the golden plates were nowhere to be found. Prophet Smith averred that he had returned them to the heavenly messenger. Mormon curiosity still contents itself with a sworn statement by numerous early Mormon dignitaries which declares:". . . We have seen and hefted . . . the plates...
...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...
While astronomers debated and calculated, names for X poured into newspaper offices. Mrs. Percival Lowell, widow of the planet's prophet, at first leaned toward "Percival" but now prefers "Lowell." Outside of Boston neither suggestion has been warmly received. Astronomers, a conservative clan, will likely select a classical name. If Clyde Tombaugh, first human actually to see the planet, suggests a name satisfactory to astronomers, it will doubtless be accepted. Names suggested last week: Telesis, Noveno, Amos, Andy, Tunney, Pax, Archie, Nonus, Cronos, Ceres, Juno, Vulcan, Persephone, Minerva, Excelsis, Coolidge, Hoover, Jesus...