Mormons believe that forerunners prepared the way for the restoration of the Church of Jesus Christ in the latter days. This paper examines a special set of those forerunners, namely, the progenitors of the […]
[…] Fiction,” Improvement Era 1 (January 1893): 186-188; B. H. Roberts, “Legitimate Fiction,” Contributor 10 (Feb. 1889): 135- 6. On Mormon economic self-reliance see Leonard J. Arrington, Great Basin Kingdom: An Economic History of the […]
[…] thought in what her husband was doing while he was away from her” (Van Wagoner 1986, 102— 3). Diaries, letters, and reminiscences of polygynous wives and children reveal that regular down-playing of the romantic […]
[…] several other church members, purchased a cluster of promising mines and claims in Nye County, Nevada. Desperate for funds after a decade-long judicial onslaught by the federal government, which included confiscation and misuse of […]
[…] birth to my first child, and finally my contractions are three minutes apart. My eyes wander vaguely over the smooth checked pattern of the floors as they whiz by and, counter to all birthing […]
[…] someone in the next town to refine my repairs,” C.J. said. After a first day of 47. 3 miles, we finally limped into the tiny burg of Briggsdale. Sam and Charity, two kids on […]
[…] because he feared for his own survival and for that of his family if he did not buy into the propaganda that Mother Russia could only be the Soviet Union—and vice versa—particularly when there […]
[…] checks. But he doesn’t give her more because she might bounce one.” “What if she needs to buy something else?” “Oh, he’ll give her another check if there’s an emergency. And he lets her […]
[…] and with all those whom my Father hath given me out of the world” (p. 60; 28: 6), becomes in the 1835 Doctrine and Covenants, “I will drink of the fruit of the vine […]
[…] at any anger in the world. Gordon B. Hinckley, “The Times in Which We Live,” Saturday, October 6, 2001, LDS General Conference, retrieved in November 2003 from www.lds.org. Ibid. Gordon B. Hinckley, “Till We […]