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Volume 05, No. 3

Fall 1970

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…

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…

A New Look at Repentance: Encounter

Douglas D. Alder

That night I was sustained as bishop many students came to offer their congratulations. One couple added, “Bishop, we’re engaged!” I had not yet learned to catch that hint which actually meant, “Keep your eye…

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

Louis G. Moench

President Stephen L Richards, concerned with some of the psychiatric problems which had come to the attention of the First Presidency, asked if I had time to drop over. In the minute required to walk…

A New Look at Repentance: Some Thoughts on Repentance

Matthew Cowley

Good old Judea [New Zealand], where I became a man (if I ever did become one). At the age of seventeen, I was young indeed to have had the experiences I had there, but they…

A New Look at Repentance: The Miracle of Forgiveness

Richard Cracroft

In The Miracle of Forgiveness, Elder Spencer W. Kimball, acting president of the Council of Twelve, has written an often moving, spiritually refreshing, and highly readable book. In attempting this book-length examination of the principle…

A New Look at Repentance: The Gift of Repentance

Lowell Bennion

Except for the preaching of evangelists—whether of a Billy Graham or of the small holiness sects—one hears little of repentance in this secular age, and this is also true among Latter-day Saints. It is not…

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…

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.

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

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.

A Lesson from the Past

William Knecht

The year was 1856. Times were bad, economically, in Europe and particularly in England. In Utah, as in most developing economies, the need for human resources was high. Emigration committees were formed and funds collected…