[…] and Paul Brimhall, son of the president of B.Y.U., had decided to quit school and see the world. They boarded a freight train at Provo, crawling in through the ice compartment of a refrigerator […]
At Christmas time I like to read the Gospels again. Partly out of tradition, no doubt, and the love of tradition. For in tradition lies much of the special charm and cheer of holidays. […]
Under the title “Puzzling Fossils Unearthed,” the Deseret News of 13 June, 1968 reported the discovery of “a fossilized footprint” which was said to pose a “dilemma for geologists.” The discovery was made in […]
The following excerpts, from the Preface and Chapter 1 of the first edition, are also found in almost identical form in the commended 1910 edition.
[…] Melvin and Wesley drop their weapons. “So you’re going to die!” I do one of my old world accents, “says someone to a flagging J. Golden Kimball, ‘don’t worry. You’ll get everything that’s coming […]
Dialogue 11.4 (1977): 63-70 In the 1950s there was a book published call Fate of the Persecutors of Joseph Smith, which contains stories that have been part of folklore that have been passed down discussing […]
[…] 14.4 (Winter 1981): 40–47 I am sensitive to that steadying hand as I attempt to identify and define what for an earlier generation of women identified and defined them as women—their relationship to the Church.
Dialogue 16.3 (Fall 1984): 108–113 For some families, delaying birth control until after the arrival of the first or second child is undoubtedly consistent with a desire to begin a family soon after marriage. […]
Like an irresistible green vegetation easing over everything in time, a sense of comfort crept over my mother, weaving into her slowly tendrils of death.
[…] 1977 to combat the association of medical quackery and unorthodox herbalism with Mormon doctrine (see, for example, Church News editorial, 18 June 1977). Overall the book provides an excellent perspective, documenting the evolution of changing LDS […]