Word: mormon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Apostle Reed Smoot of the Mormon Church was passed by. Recently, First Counsellor Charles W. Penrose of the Church died. The place was filled...
Bishop Charles W. Nibley, multimillionaire, the wealthiest Mormon in the world. It had been anticipated that Rudger Clawson, President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, might be made Counsellor. In that event, Reed Smoot, ranking Apostle, would have been made President of the Quorum, would thus have been in direct line to the succession as President of the Mormon Church. But the spiritual duties of being President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles would have required Apostle Smoot to give up the time which he now devotes to being senior U. S. Senator from Utah...
House of Bondage. Then Brigham clapped eyes on The Book of Mormon, a surprising document "translated" by one Joseph Smith Jr. from cryptic gold plates evangelically supplied out of a New York hillside called Cumorah. Therein it was set forth that two tribes had shipped direct to America from the Tower of Babel. The presence of Red Indians in America "proved" this. Joseph Smith Jr. had been commissioned the Lord's special and prophetic latter-day representative to re-establish Mor- monism...
Exodus. Brigham spellbound the leaderless city, seized command, sold the Mormon temple to a French Communist, led his people a dire trek westward to escape U. S. jurisdiction. By the time they reached Utah, the U. S. had taken that territory from Mexico, but Brigham settled there notwithstanding...
Died. Charles W. Penrose, 93, High Priest, member of the First Presidency of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Mormon) ; in Salt Lake City...