Volume 05, No. 3

Fall 1970

This issue begins with Kenneth W. Godfrey discussing the emergence of the Manifesto, while Gary B. Hansen calls for more avenues for idealism. Garth L. Mangum provides an update on the progress of Dialogue and Douglas Alder offers a new perspective on repentance, including contributions on topics such as despair and guilt from various viewpoints, including a psychiatrist's perspective and insights into forgiveness. The "World Church" section focuses on the Church's progress and challenges in Latin America. In the "From the Pulpit" section, there are sermons and reflections on faith and lessons from history. The poetry section includes works such as River Saints and Rich, The Dead Brother.

Articles/Essays

The Coming of the Manifesto

Kenneth W. Godfrey

Dialogue 5.3 (Fall 1970): 11–25
Godfrey describes the steps leading to Wilford Woodruff issuing the First Manifesto.

Wanted: Additional Outlets for Idealism

Gary B. Hansen

Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind. We grow old only by deserting our ideals. . . . You are as young as your self-confidence, as old as your…

A Progress Report on Dialogue

Garth L. Mangum

With Dialogue in its sixth year, it seems appropriate to report to you, our faithful readers, on the progress and problems of the journal. The initial response, demonstrated that Dialogue met a real need in…

The Church in Latin American: Progress and Challenge

Wesley W. Craig Jr.

Non-Catholic religious groups have been increasing at a rapid rate in Latin America since World War II. For example, during the five-year period, 1952-57, the number of Protestants expanded from 2,866,000 to 4,534,000—a fifty-eight per…

Letters to the Editor

Dear Sirs: I was very pleased to read the David L. Wright material in the Summer issue. Jim Miller’s “Introduction” and “Dave Elegy” form an outstanding preface to “The Con science of the Village.” To…

Psychotherapy with Mormon Patients in Utah and Southern California—Impressionistic Observations

Robert J. Howell

Since 1952 I have conducted a part-time private practice along with university teaching. On leaves from the university and during summer months I have worked as a clinical psychologist at the Utah State Hospital in…

Notes from a Mormon Movie-goer

Linda Lambert

I’m more than a movie-goer, I’m a critic. That means the question, “What did you think of (any movie)?” requires more than “It was great” or “It was lousy.” It means I’m hardly ever paid…

Problems of the Mormon Intellectual

William Mulder

A continuing problem of the Mormon intellectual is to remain both Mormon and intellectual. His is the problem of religious intellectuals generally—to dare to follow where the mind leads, to prevent the indecision that comes…

The Chicano Student Union and Middle Age

R. Stanley Shields

I’m fifty. I’m not as perceptive about certain things in life as I was when I was a student; however in some ways I am more perceptive. When I was nineteen, during the depression, after…

My Father’s Six Widows

Samuel W. Taylor

In view of the fact that my father had sacrificed both worldly goods and his chances in heaven for the dream of the great patriarchal family, it is ironical that the only time all six…

A Name and a Blessing

Dennis Clark

the father and his friends, holding
the holy high priesthood and the infant,
stand in a circle, facing each other,
right hands supporting the baby—
rising, falling to gentle it—
left hands on the next near neighbor shoulder,
on the stand before the meeting of saints
this fast and testimony Sunday;

Upon This Rock

C. Thomas Asplund

We laughed in the temple
and found favor where
the Lord lashed with lightening and laughed too

when he saw the size of salvation.

From River Saints: Introduction to a Mormon Chronicle

David L. Wrights

The Manipulation of History | Can We Manipulate the Past? By Fawn Brodie

Marvin S. Hill

Dialogue 5.3 (Fall 1970): 96–99
Marvin S Hill was responding to Fawn Brodie’s lecture at the Hotel Utah in 1970 called “Can We Manipulate the Past?” Her point in giving it was she was claiming that the people in charge only emphasize the points of history that fit their gains. She then compared that to Church Leaders only focusing on Joseph Smith’s early attitudes towards slavery, but then she claimed that Church Leaders didn’t focus on the fact that in the future he changed his mind regarding Slavery and became more against it, kind of like Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson. Marvin S Hill kept mentioning that she overlooked certain aspects.

Dialogue East | Courage: A Journal of History, Thought, and Action

Robert Bruce Flanders

In the spring of 1970, with the biennial world conference of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints approaching, an acute polarization of theological positions and emotional sets seemed to have occurred in the movement over the identity, the character, and the mission of the (RLDS) church.

Another View of the Mormons | Kathleen Elgin, The Mormons: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Samellyn Wood

The Mormons is the second in the Freedom to Worship series designed to tell stories of “outstanding Americans of the nineteenth century and their different religious beliefs.” The series is intended to fit into the…

The Church and the Orient | Spencer J. Palmer, The Church Encounters Asia

Robert Morris

The motion picture Mondo Cane taught us that the chronicler’s job is to assemble his collectanea in straightforward reportage. Dr. Palmer’s book is a lucid chronicle (from 1851 to 1969) of some missionarying Mormons turning…

Sources of Mormon Americana in Utah

Ralph W. Hansen and Deana L. Astle

This paper was written during the summer of 1968 for a course in special problems in the acquisition of materials at the UCLA Graduate School of Library Service. The original paper has been revised and condensed for the readers of Dialogue since much of it dealt with the historiographical problems inherent in the collecting of Mormon material, a subject which has been treated at length by Dialogue and other sources.

This paper is not intended to be an exhaustive study, but is rather a brief survey of the collections of Mormon Americana in the Salt Lake City area, all of which I have visited with the exception of the Church Historian’s Office. The purpose, then, of this treatise is to introduce these libraries to those people unfamiliar with their resources and to discuss some of the idiosyncracies of each collection. Also included is a brief discussion of the new bibliography on Mormon Americana.

Volume 05, No. 3

Contents

Articles/Essays

The Coming of the Manifesto

Wanted: Additional Outlets for Idealism

A Progress Report on Dialogue

The Church in Latin American: Progress and Challenge

Letters to the Editor

Letters to the Editor

Notes

Psychotherapy with Mormon Patients in Utah and Southern California—Impressionistic Observations

Notes from a Mormon Movie-goer

Problems of the Mormon Intellectual

The Chicano Student Union and Middle Age

My Father’s Six Widows

Poetry

A Name and a Blessing

Upon This Rock

From River Saints: Introduction to a Mormon Chronicle

Reviews

The Manipulation of History | Can We Manipulate the Past? By Fawn Brodie

Dialogue East | Courage: A Journal of History, Thought, and Action

Another View of the Mormons | Kathleen Elgin, The Mormons: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

The Church and the Orient | Spencer J. Palmer, The Church Encounters Asia

Sources of Mormon Americana in Utah

Roundtable

A New Look at Repentance: Encounter

A New Look at Repentance: Guilt: A Psychiatrist’s Viewpoint

A New Look at Repentance: Some Thoughts on Repentance

A New Look at Repentance: The Miracle of Forgiveness

A New Look at Repentance: The Gift of Repentance

Sermon

A Lesson from the Past