Mental Gas
May 2, 2018Charles 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.
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Faithful History
May 1, 2018Written 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…
Sources Review of Stanley P. Hirshson’s Lion of the Lord
May 1, 2018Several 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…
A Mission as a Bad Trip | Lynn Kenneth Packer, A Missionary Experience
May 1, 2018“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 | Hyrum L. Andrus, God, Man and the Universe
May 1, 2018God, 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…
The Lion of the Lord | Stanley P. Hirshon, The Lion of the Lord, a biography of Brigham Young
May 1, 2018In the history of the West, Brigham Young is a star of the first magnitude, for no man shaped the history of the Great Basin more dramatically nor influenced the ultimate destiny of the Mormons…
A Surviving Dynamic | Francis W. Holm, Sr., The Mormon Churches, A Comparison from Within
May 1, 2018This is a unique composition in the true sense of the word—there is not another with which it can be compared. Francis W. Holm, Sr., was reared in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day…
The Possibility of Reconciliation | Francis W. Holm, Sr., The Mormon Churches, A Comparison from Within
May 1, 2018This book has developed out of the author’s lifetime experiences in association with the two major Restoration Churches. Although he has spent most of his adult life as a member of the Reorganized Church of…
Opening Day
May 1, 2018Doc and my father got up at 4 o’clock to light the fire, heat water on the Coleman stoves for washing and get the breakfast started, then woke the rest of us. Standing outside of…
Hagiography
May 1, 2018Her songs—those that I remember—
Were of the flight and winter crossing,
The wagons and sick children,