[…] records also show clearly that they had no revival in 1820, for the Palmyra congregation gained only 6 by baptism, while the neigh boring Baptist churches of Lyons, Canandaigua, and Farmington showed net losses […]
[…] Utah and China. When I realized that “Southern Far East Mission” didn’t mean Florida, I had to buy a map to locate Taiwan, my own mission field. I was dutifully packed off to the […]
So you want to write a Mormon novel? Great! Here’s a story for you:— It’s about a Mormon bishop and his family, see, so you can get in all the little inside details about […]
[…] promises of God in modern revelation reasoned that if in 1833 God had told the Church to buy land in Jackson County, then that commandment was still valid in 1870 (all real or supposed […]
[…] been greatly enriched in recent years by studies which have made use of literary sources. Few works, for example, surpass the challenging insights and interpretations of Henry Nash Smith’s Virgin Land (1950), William R. […]
[…] Latter-day Saints commenced eight years after the founding of the Church in Fayette, New York on April 6, 1830, by Joseph Smith. From New York the Church spread westward into northern Ohio and western […]
<i>Dialogue 5. 3 (Fall 1970): 96–99</i><br>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 […]
[…] of church agents in Europe to charter ships. Other agents in St. Louis and Chicago were to buy lumber, iron and canvas, for shipment to Iowa City where carpenters and blacksmiths fashioned the materials […]
[…] Organization of the Ameri can States have collaborated with Latin American governments in significant public health programs over the past twenty years. These efforts have resulted in millions living beyond the first year of […]
[…] took it off for good. His mother wrote that he should wait until he got home to buy his new civilian clothes so that she could go with him uptown to Taylor Brothers. The […]