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Evangelicals And Politics In Asia, Africa And Latin America By Paul Freston, Henri Gooren
Evangelicals And Politics In Asia, Africa And Latin America By Paul Freston, Henri Gooren
BYU Studies
Paul Freston, Evangelicals and Politics in Asia, Africa and Latin America. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001.
Qualities That Count: Heber J. Grant As Businessman, Missionary, And Apostle, Ronald W. Walker
Qualities That Count: Heber J. Grant As Businessman, Missionary, And Apostle, Ronald W. Walker
BYU Studies
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Growing Up In Early Utah: The Wasatch Literary Association 1874-1878, Ronald W. Walker
Growing Up In Early Utah: The Wasatch Literary Association 1874-1878, Ronald W. Walker
BYU Studies
One day in early February 1874, Jim Ferguson, sensing the forlorn hope of advancing his courtship with Minnie Horne, suggested to Ort (Orson F.) Whitney and another of the boys that they organize a reading society. Ferguson "had heard, no doubt, of fond couples 'reading life's meaning in each others eyes,'" Whitney later mused, "and that was the kind of reading that most interested him." Since the seventeen-year-old Whitney found himself "in the same box with Ferguson on the girl question," the suggestion found a ready response. Whitney immediately invited those who "would make desirable members" to meet at the …
Young Heber J. Grant: Entrepreneur Extraordinary, Ronald W. Walker
Young Heber J. Grant: Entrepreneur Extraordinary, Ronald W. Walker
BYU Studies
When lecturing at the Harvard Law School, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes told students they could do anything they wanted to in life, if only they wanted to hard enough. Later in a private aside he added, "But what I did not tell them was that they had to be born wanting to."
End Matter, Ronald W. Walker
Introductory Pages, Ronald W. Walker
Young Heber J. Grant's Years Of Passage, Ronald W. Walker
Young Heber J. Grant's Years Of Passage, Ronald W. Walker
BYU Studies
As Heber J. Grant came of age, Mormonism was as much a part of the Utah landscape as the territory's dusty valleys and vaulting mountain walls. Young Heber met religion everywhere—in his Salt Lake City home and neighborhood, at the Tabernacle on Temple Square, in the offices of Church and civic leaders where he sometimes ventured, and certainly in his native Thirteenth Ward, one of the most innovative and organizationally developed Latter-day Saint congregations of the time. Slowly young Heber internalized his religious culture, but not before encountering the usual perils of adolescence and coming of age. The process tells …
Strangers In A Strange Land: Heber J. Grant And The Opening Of The Japan Mission, Ronald W. Walker
Strangers In A Strange Land: Heber J. Grant And The Opening Of The Japan Mission, Ronald W. Walker
BYU Studies
When Heber J. Grant returned from a two-week vacation in Pacific Grove, California, in February 1901, the news he heard at first seemed favorable. One of his associates in the Quorum of the Twelve, Francis M. Lyman, had been asked to preside over the Church's European Mission. Elder Grant congratulated himself that "missionary lightning had once more escaped me," "heaved a sigh of relief," and embraced Lyman in mock celebration.
Crisis In Zion: Heber J. Grant And The Panic Of 1893, Ronald W. Walker
Crisis In Zion: Heber J. Grant And The Panic Of 1893, Ronald W. Walker
BYU Studies
In late June 1893, Heber J. Grant, a pencil-thin, bewhiskered young man, waited nervously in the downtown office of New York businessman John Claflin. Thirty-six years old and conservatively dressed, Grant was a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and president or director of at least a dozen Salt Lake City-based businesses. A financial panic had struck the nation and the Mormon businessman was urgently seeking a loan to save himself and his church from bankruptcy. Although similar dramas were being enacted in business and banking houses across the …
Jedediah And Heber Grant, Ronald W. Walker
Jedediah And Heber Grant, Ronald W. Walker
BYU Studies
On December 1, 1856, Elder Wilford Woodruff and Elder Franklin D. Richards left the Church historian's office for the home of Jedediah Grant, less than a block away. The hour was late, about 10:30 in the evening. It had snowed several inches during the day, and the weather was turning cold.
Heber J. Grant And The Utah Loan And Trust Company, Ronald W. Walker
Heber J. Grant And The Utah Loan And Trust Company, Ronald W. Walker
BYU Studies
Before 6:00 A.M. on May 29, 1897, the portly and veteran Apostle Brigham Young Jr., himself ailing due to an attack of dropsy, called at the Heber J. Grant household to pray a blessing upon his associate. He found that "Bro Grant... had a poor night but he was going to the hospital with firm faith that all would be well." The day before, Grant awoke with sever lumbar and abdominal pain. The doctors diagnosed a ruptured appendix and advanced peritonitis and advised immediate surgery. As the hour-and-a-half operation progressed, the nine attending surgeons found "extraordinary suppuration and commenced mortification." …
Grant's Watershed: Succession In The Presidency, 1887-1889, Ronald W. Walker
Grant's Watershed: Succession In The Presidency, 1887-1889, Ronald W. Walker
BYU Studies
Events during 1887-89, during Elder Wilford Woodruff's succession to the Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, remains an important but largely untold story—a time when differing views divided the Church's General Authorities and when the policies and procedures for installing a new president of the Church were tested and confirmed. These years are also important for the insights they offer in understanding the life of Heber J. Grant, who himself regarded that time as a personal watershed. While it is clear that he acted with candor, energy, and idealism throughout the episode, with hindsight he believed …
A Mormon “Widow” In Colorado: The Exile Of Emily Wells Grant, Ronald W. Walker
A Mormon “Widow” In Colorado: The Exile Of Emily Wells Grant, Ronald W. Walker
BYU Studies
As the southbound Denver & Rio Grande train pulled out of the depot at Salt Lake City in November 1889, Emily Wells Grant breathed a sigh of relief, and relaxed. As a plural wife of Elder Heber J. Grant, she was used to dodging United States marshals. Her recent crisis, she admitted, was of her own making. Why had she insisted on attending her father's seventy-fifth birthday celebration in the Twelfth Ward after five years of secrecy? She had been spotted there, the grand jury had reopened her husband's cohabitation case, and she had been forced to flee again. The …
Full Issue, Ronald W. Walker
Young Heber J. Grant And His Call To The Apostleship, Ronald W. Walker
Young Heber J. Grant And His Call To The Apostleship, Ronald W. Walker
BYU Studies
A year following his call to become president of the Tooele Stake, twenty-four-year-old Heber J. Grant stopped by the Salt Lake studio of Charles Savage, the pioneer photographer. The conversation took an unexpected turn. Elder Grant wrote in his journal that Savage told him "to put it down that within one year I would be a member of the Twelve Apostles."
Rachel R. Grant: The Continuing Legacy Of The Feminine Ideal, Ronald W. Walker
Rachel R. Grant: The Continuing Legacy Of The Feminine Ideal, Ronald W. Walker
BYU Studies
We can imagine ourselves visiting Aunt Rachel Grant, longtime president of the Thirteenth Ward Relief Society and one of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saint's "leading ladies," at her home on Salt Lake City's Second East Street. In the year of our visit, 1890, her two-story, plastered adobe home partakes of the prevailing feminine ideal that stresses homemaking and handicraft. The stove is highly burnished, while the arms of each chair are covered with homemade lace crocheting. A corner "whatnot" meticulously displays pictures, small framed mottoes, wax and hair flowers, and other curios. Rachel's person also reflects her …
Heber J. Grant's European Mission, 1903-1906, Ronald W. Walker
Heber J. Grant's European Mission, 1903-1906, Ronald W. Walker
BYU Studies
Elder Heber J. Grant landed in Liverpool, England, in November 1903, and by the first of the year he officially assumed his new position as president of the European Mission. The mission began at Tromso, Norway; and ran to Cape Town, South Africa; with Iceland and India serving as distant east-west meridians. While the church had branches in each of these extremities, Grant's field of labor was more compact. Most of the mission's effort was reserved to the Netherlands, Germany, Scandinavia, and Switzerland, where he had a general superintendency, and especially in the British Isles, where he had duties that …
Index, Byu Studies, Ronald W. Walker
A Latter-Day Saint In Hitler's Ss: The True Story Of A Mormon Youth Who Joined And Defected From The Infamous Schutzstaffel, Alan F. Keele
A Latter-Day Saint In Hitler's Ss: The True Story Of A Mormon Youth Who Joined And Defected From The Infamous Schutzstaffel, Alan F. Keele
BYU Studies
In researching and writing the story of Helmuth Hübener, the Latter-day Saint youth who was executed for distributing anti-Nazi literature in Germany during World War II, I learned of several other Hübener-like people in Nazi Germany. One such person, whom I shall call Bruno to preserve anonymity, was a young Latter-day Saint man who joined Hitler's infamous elite force, the SS, and then had a change of heart. I had the privilege, a number of years ago now, to interview this gentleman at his home in Germany.
Full Issue, Byu Studies
A Long-Awaited Visit: President Heber J. Grant In Switzerland And Germany, 1937, Richard Neitzel Holzapfel, Marc Alain Bohn
A Long-Awaited Visit: President Heber J. Grant In Switzerland And Germany, 1937, Richard Neitzel Holzapfel, Marc Alain Bohn
BYU Studies
In 1937, just two years before Hitler invaded Poland, President Heber J. Grant made a memorable journey from Salt Lake City to Europe (fig. 1). President Grant had served as president of the European and British Missions from 1903 to 1906 and was now returning to Europe as prophet of the Church. He was the second Church president to visit Europe while serving in that capacity. His predecessor, Joseph F. Smith, visited Europe in 1906 and again in 1910.
Brigham Young's Word Of Wisdom Legacy, Paul H. Peterson, Ronald W. Walker
Brigham Young's Word Of Wisdom Legacy, Paul H. Peterson, Ronald W. Walker
BYU Studies
During the thirty-three years that Brigham Young led The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1844-77, he set the Church on a course of following the Word of Wisdom to the letter. While most Church members failed to obey the revelation's proscriptions during Brigham's lifetime, he set the goal that members would eventually comply with the Word of Wisdom. During his tenure, he changed the standard from moderate use of tobacco, alcohol, tea, and coffee to full abstinence.
Mormons And The Media, 1898-2003: A Selected, Annotated, And Indexed Bibliography (With Suggestions For Future Research), Sherry Baker, Daniel Stout
Mormons And The Media, 1898-2003: A Selected, Annotated, And Indexed Bibliography (With Suggestions For Future Research), Sherry Baker, Daniel Stout
BYU Studies
Print, electronic, and other forms of communications media have been consistently perceived and characterized by leaders of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints as tools to assist in spreading and gospel message throughout the world. President Spencer W. Kimball said, "Technology will help spread the gospel.... We shall use the inventions the Lord has given us to awaken interest and acquaint people of the world with [gospel] truths." More recently, President Gordon B. Hinckley said, "The Lord has inspired skilled men and women in developing new technologies which we can use to our great advantage in …
Front Matter, Byu Studies
The Color Of Love, Mari E. Jorgensen
"How, Kemosabe": Rowland Rider's Symbol For All Seasons, Deirdre M. Paulsen
"How, Kemosabe": Rowland Rider's Symbol For All Seasons, Deirdre M. Paulsen
BYU Studies
"How, Kemosabe," Rowland Rider would say, raising his right arm. Unlike a schoolboy raising his hand to ask a question, Rowland would lift his arm up from the elbow. This gesture was Rowland's trademark of sorts, a declaration to the world of his knowledge of Indian ways. (Rowland said "Indian." The politically correct term Native American had not yet been advanced.) After all, Rowland, my grandfather, was the only white man in Kanab, Utah, who could skin a deer the way the Navajos liked it done. I can't remember if it was with or without the ears. But it mattered …
Chilean Spring, Donnell Hunter
Looking North To Moroni, Kerry Soper