by Dan Wees | Feb 5, 2020 | Miscellaneous
“[M]issionaries do not serve as the primary instruments of recruitment to the Mormon faith. Instead, recruitment is accomplished primarily by the rank and file of the church as they construct intimate interpersonal ties with non-Mormons and thus link them into a...
by Dan Wees | Feb 5, 2020 | Miscellaneous
“The practice of individual missionizing by members has become one of the hallmarks of the LDS enterprise. The cost of this mission work, conducted worldwide in two-year stints by volunteers, are still [as of 1988] borne by the families of the young missionaries. As...
by Dan Wees | Feb 5, 2020 | Miscellaneous
The LDS Church expresses considerable pride in its missionary program and often highlights substantial growth, with 1990 marking one of its most successful years for convert baptisms in recent history. Both Mormons and media sources regularly point to the...
by Dan Wees | Feb 5, 2020 | Miscellaneous
Spalding Witness: John N. Miller Springfield, PA. September, 1833. “In the year 1811, I was in the employ of Henry Lake and Solomon Spalding, at Conneaut, engaged in rebuilding a forge. While there, I boarded and lodged in the family of said Spalding, for several...
by Dan Wees | Feb 5, 2020 | Miscellaneous
“Even before the migration to Mexico had begun, Apostle Brigham Young, Jr. had warned members of the Church living in Arizona ‘that the blood of Cain was more predominant in these Mexicans than that of Israel.’ For this reason he ‘condemned the mixing’ of Mormons with...
by Dan Wees | Jan 29, 2020 | Miscellaneous
THE MOON. “Every one, perhaps, is not aware how the earth appears to the inhabitants of the Moon. As more than three fifths of the earth is covered with water, and being nearly 13 times larger than the moon, a full earth must be a grand sight! The earth light...
