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...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 famed foundation for this allegation of a Jewish world-conspiracy is the Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion. Always purporting to be fact, this ingenious work has been circulated in 15 languages. Last year Swiss Jews caught Swiss Nazis distributing copies of it. Eager to scotch the old charge publicly, the Jews brought a libel suit which became a criminal action when it appeared that the Nazis had violated a Swiss law against circulating literature "calculated to excite vile instincts or to cause brutal offense...
Origin. Surreptitiously circulated in Russia during the War, the Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion spread through Europe in 1917 largely because they furnished a handy explanation of the Russian Revolution. They reached the U. S., were reprinted in Henry Ford's anti-Semitic Dearborn Independent. They are currently in circulation* along with such kindred pamphlets as The Plan in Action, by "Earnest Sincere," who declares that Bernard Mannes Baruch is slated to be "Sponsor" for the Western Hemisphere under "Akad Ha'Am, the Unknown and Uncrowned King of Jewry throughout the earth...
...ZION, Ill. (UP).-Wilbur Glen Voliva, religious leader, who says the world is flat, has notified his followers that the world will end Sept. 10. ... He says that those in his colony on Sept. 10 will be saved, that the rest can go to Hell, Editor's Note-The doomed will include all delinquent Item subscribers. Play safe and pay up at once, as we don't want to chase all over Hell after these bills...