Word: prophets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...platform in a bare Manhattan hall last Sunday sat the divinely inspired Prophet, Seer and Revelator of 750,000 saints on earth?Heber Jedediah Grant, 78, stubble-bearded President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. With him sat his trusty First Counselor, pudding-jowled Joshua Reuben Clark Jr., one-time U. S. Ambassador to Mexico; his potent Presiding Bishop, rangy Sylvester Q. Cannon; his Eastern representative, Don Byron Colton, longtime U. S. Representative from Utah...
...congregation of New York City Mormons a local businessman named Fred G. Taylor repeatedly said: "All in favor of sustaining the appointment, signify in the usual manner." Repeatedly the members of the congregation signified by raising their hands that they approved of all their Church's officers from the Prophet, Seer & Revelator down to the Presiding Elder of Oceanside, L. I. When it was all over Mr. Taylor remarked "the vote seems to have been unanimous," and New York had its first "Stake of Zion...
Based on a reference in the Book of Isaiah (54:2) to a stake strengthening a tent, the Mormon Stake of Zion was established by Prophet-Founder Joseph Smith as the counterpart of a Gentile diocese. Half of the Church's 110 Stakes are in Utah, the largest ones being in Salt Lake City which has 56,000 Mormons. Idaho and California have Stakes. San Francisco got its first one last fortnight. But until last week no state east of Colorado had enough Mormons for a Stake, not even New York where Joseph Smith first saw visions, received from...
...most interest to New York Mormons last week was the presence of their Prophet, Seer & Revelator, who resembles the late "Uncle Joe" Cannon, and talks in the homely, crackling manner of a country storekeeper. President Grant told his listeners how, 52 years ago when he first held Mormon office, the Church had but 1,300 followers outside Utah (at present it has 100,000). He spoke of his troubles as a missionary in England, where he could not get a word in the newspapers to refute the abuse heaped on his faith. "Today," said he, "we are treated splendidly...
...minor roles in the play were well up to the standard set by the lead parts. The performance of Robert L. McKee '37 as a drunkon man who comes into the royal chambers as an unconscious prophet of fate, was particularly noticeable, as was that of Munro L. Lyeth '37 who was a young soldier reporting the appearance of a ghost to the queen...