[…] ordered to touch it off if the Sioux captured the fort. General Custer allegedly had a standing order to all officers of the Seventh Cavalry that if Indians attacked a train in which Mrs. […]
The conflict between creationism and evolution in the past few years has prob ably brought mixed feelings to many Latter day Saints. Although some excellent scholarship has demonstrated that we have little or […]
[…] Holy Week. It is useless to try to harmonize the four gospels or arrange them in chronological order as one account, although David H. Yarn (1962) bravely attempted the feat and Talmage (1915) also […]
[…] conscience is their guide. General Alexander W. Doniphan possessed the unusual courage to resist a written military order, and Joseph Smith was spared execution on the morning of 1 November 1838 (HC 3:190-99). We […]
3 September 1984 Today my youngest child went to school all day for the first time. Every mother approaches this milestone with both anticipation and dread. I reached this point once before, six years […]
[…] are none that are known” (p. 38). Also, “At this point, Joseph’s active imagination would have taken over and begun to consider the possibilities” (p. 118). On still another page the writer in a […]
[…] After the curtain was drawn back, Rachel was lying motionless, milky fluid dripping from the bag hanging over her bed into her emaciated body. A camaraderie soon developed between us and the middle-aged children […]
[…] . . could read novels as fast as you could throw ’em at him” (Platt July 1985, 6) but he also read history, science, and the Bible. Platt also averred that Vic couldn’t “carry […]
[…] her baby before the end of the six months that must elapse between placement and the final order of adoption, but I had the feeling he was trying to help me think through potential […]
When my two-and-a-half-year-old daughter, Abigail, and I went to the hospital, I left the pie crusts and rolls I had mixed up that morning on the kitchen table along with the dress pattern I […]