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...Grace of God. Frederick Lonsdale, Englishman and author of the season's smartest light comedy, Aren't We All, has written another of the same. The drawing-room deftness of Norman Trevor will be applied to the leading role, with Estelle Winwood prominent in his support...
...grandparents were seers and diviners, at Manchester, N. Y., in 1830. Instructed, he said, by revelation, Smith supposedly dug up a " supplement to the New Testament" written on thin gold plates, and known as The Book of Mormon. On the strength of this "revelation," which declared him to be "God's prophet, entitled to all obedience," Smith founded the Mormon body...
...been migrating to Missouri and Illinois. It was in the former state that Smith's downfall came about, in 1844. The Book of Mormon had expressly forbidden, polygamy: "There shall not any man have save it be one wife and concubines he shall have none, for I the Lord God delighteth in the chastity of women. . . . For if I will, saith the Lord of Hosts, raise up seed unto me, I will command my people, otherwise they shall hearken unto these things." In 1843, Smith had a " revelation " establishing polygamy, but it is supposed that he had been secretly practicing...
...mother was unlettered but deeply spiritual-fantastically wise. His father, " a kind of god to us," practised law, but was also a skilled musician. " During his vacations we used to go in a cart drawn by bullocks from the court of one Rajah to another, where he sang." Young Mukerji himself was initiated (at the age of 14) as a Brahmin priest and passed through the requisite two years of wandering pilgrimage, begging his way through India, seeking the knowledge of God-a pilgrimage most fascinatingly described. Later, he gave up his priesthood, to become fervently interested in the movement...
Premier Poincare, standing in the Place des Etats-Unis in front of the monument to U. S. Volunteers which he had unveiled, said: " Thank God the time is past when we have need cf these volunteers in the Armies of the Republic, who fought and died with us, and who helped in the Lafayette Esquadrille to sweep from the skies the Gothas and Taubes. But how much we need volunteers in every country to fight with tongue and pen to combat the German propaganda which distorts our thoughts and actions and travesties our whole intention...