I have had but few opportunities to come close to David O. McKay, but each time has proved to be personal, memorable, and cherished deeply. I have sensed that I have had a rare opportunity in…
I do not hesitate and without reservation repeat from this remote end of the big wide world the very often heard expression from the lips of about three million people who have accepted the message…
My first recollection of David O. McKay is a sermon he gave in a Sacrament Meeting which led me as a teenager to engage in critical self-examination and to leave the meeting with high resolve. …
A common object of humor among visitors to Mormon Country in the nineteenth century was the large number of children. Many travellers’ accounts contain a version of the story of Brigham Young’s encounter with a…
There are certain problems which a Mormon must cope with in teaching any secular literature. What does he do, for example, with a literary work which expresses ideas and attitudes in opposition to his theology?…
Charles to his teacher—Sir, you say
That nature’s laws admit decay—
That changes never cease ;
And yet you say, no void or space ;
‘Tis only change of shape or place—
No loss, and no increase.
Written history rarely survives the three score and ten years allotted to the men who write it. Countless histories of the French Revolution have moved on to the library shelves since 1789, and no end…
Several years ago when I first heard that someone was doing research on the life of Brigham Young I was most elated, and somewhat envious. Of all the nineteenth-century Mormon leaders, he seemed to me…
“Probably the key issue in my entire mission was whether I should do everything my leaders told me to do. This issue, I believe, will be one of major importance in the years to come.”…
God, Man and the Universe is the first volume of a four-volume work entitled Foundations of the Millenial Kingdom of Christ. The author in his preface states, “This study is an effort to analyze the…