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Died. Richard L. Evans, 65, for 41 years the nonsinging voice of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir's Music and the Spoken Word, longest-running program on network radio; of encephalitis; in Salt Lake City. The show was not considered a proselytizing effort, and Evans' low-key sermonettes stuck to ethics, rather than religious doctrine. As a result, many of the show's faithful listeners did not realize that Evans was a Mormon; they considered themselves followers of "Richard Evans' church...
...belief of the Mormons was and still is that marriage is a vital step in attaining the fullness of purpose in life. The practice of polygamy was begun as a practical matter. Because of the great number of women and small number of men during the early days of the church's restoration, the pioneer Mormon men took several wives so all women would have a chance to marry. This practice was discontinued before Utah became a state...
...Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1890. Today, the Mormon Church excommunicates any of its members who still dare live by what is rather cryptically called "the principle...
AMERICANA The Whispered Faith Brigham Young was a Mormon bold, And a leader of the roaring rams, And a shepherd of a heap of pretty little sheep, And a nice fold of pretty little Jambs, And he lived with his five andforty wives, In the city of great Salt Lake Where they woo and coo as pretty doves do, And cackle like ducks to a drake...
...Mormon rams of Brigham Young's polygamous persuasion still exist, but they do not roar; they whisper. Scattered across every county in Utah, most numerous in the Salt Lake Valley, live perhaps 20,000 men, women and children who still take literally Young's solemn litany: "The only men who become Gods, even the sons of God, are those who enter into polygamy." They keep their private lives extremely private, for polygamy is illegal in Utah, as in every other state, and was outlawed by the Church of Jesus