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...time on earth is running out, missionary leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints concluded at a convention six months ago. They resolved to make a last big push for conversions. By year's end the Mormons* claimed 90,000 baptisms worldwide, nearly double the total for 1960. And the most notable Mormon success came in a country rarely thought of as mission territory: Great Britain, where T. (for Thomas) Bowring Woodbury V, 53, is mission president...
...paper. A devout and hymn-singing Presbyterian, the Beaver had been irritated by a Sunday Express story about some British clergymen who deplored the assault tactics of door-to-door canvassers for two religious faiths: Jehovah's Witnesses and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons). Thundered disgruntled Reader Beaverbrook: "Mormon missionaries represent an important and dignified branch of the Christian religion. Their people in Utah and elsewhere are good-living and God-fearing citizens . . . Paragraphs and interviews denouncing Mormon missionaries should not be given publicity in the Sunday Express" Said Sunday Express Editor Junor...
Nobel prizewinning Physicist Willard Libby plans to take a large supply of sleeping pills into his own $30 did-it-him-self shelter, so that he and his family could doze out most of the ordeal. Several companies are selling prepackaged, high-protein emergency food supplies, and the Mormon church is distributing a two-week supply of emergency rations, packed in a neat metal cylinder, to all its members, along with the urgent suggestion that all good Mormons stockpile a full two-year supply in their larders. Others purvey all-purpose packages, such as the Bolton Farm Packing...
Several times weekly converts are baptized (by total immersion) in nearby Grunewald Lake. Mormon converts under go no elaborate instruction, have only to declare themselves "in harmony" with the basic principles that 1) Jesus Christ is the Son of God, 2) Mormonism's founder, Farmboy Joseph Smith, was called by God to bear witness to sacred truth, 3) through Mormonism the Church of Jesus Christ was restored to its original purity, and has full power to bring about that order necessary for the blessedness of mankind, and 4) the Book of Mormon was given to the world by divine...
Missionaries Colton and Harris have attracted prospects by organizing an English-language class and a softball team, sometimes prepare the way for interviews by leaving folders in mailboxes. In a first conversation, they avoid Mormon doctrine ; in the second, they are likely to put forward some Mormon ideas and to end by saying: "We know we can't convince you, but we'd like to ask you to make the effort to ask God about the truth of what we are saying...