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“The Gushing Rill”
BCC’s sidebar links to this report of a clinical study providing scientific evidence for something most of us have heard before: drinking water — plain, pure water — before meals helps you eat less, probably by filling your stomach and helping you feel fuller faster, or at least by reducing the...
Remembering, recording: 4 women profiled in history lecture
Mormon Life says: Some really inspiring examples of strong faithful women.
Highlighting the lives of four Latter-day Saint women from different time periods in Church history, Christine Cox told a gathering at the Church History Library in Salt Lake City that there can be...
Eliza R. Snow
Eliza R. Snow. How many members of the church today recognize the name? More importantly, how many women in the church today know of Eliza R. Snow? More than ever, women in the church today need great and good role models, and Snow certainly stands out as the pre-eminent LDS woman in 19th century...
Oliver Cowdery’s Last Testimony
On 20 May 1848, Samuel Whitney Richards and his brother, Franklin Dewey Richards, arrived at Winter Quarters, Nebraska after nearly two years spent on missions in England and Scotland. Franklin and his wife, Jane Snyder, were able to join Uncle Willard Richards’s company about to leave for Utah...
President David O. McKay had global reach
David O. McKay, the ninth president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, had a full life — 96 years long — that was chronicled extensively in the Deseret News. As an apostle in 1930, then-Elder McKay's strong educational talents were highlighted. "He received his early education...
What Is Our Required Sacrifice?
My ancestors were part of the mass exodus that came from Illinois across the plains to settle in Utah, the desolate desert. My Great-Great-Grandfather lost not only his wife, but his oldest daughter. His daughter died first, and they buried her near the Sweetwater River-- a little over one-hundred...
Early Mormon grudge against President Van Buren lasted a long time
Mormons believe that the higher level of salvation, or exaltation, a person earns after their time on Earth determines the extent of their power and responsibilities throughout eternity. Temple ceremonies on earth are connected to the Mormon view of the hereafter. As can be expected, energetic...
“As Wonderful as It Is Glorious”: Lorenzo Snow Goes for a Spin in an Automobile
Lorenzo Snow crossed the plains to Utah in 1848 with ox-drawn wagons. His company, led by Brigham Young, needed more than 100 days to plod slowly down the trail. “When we came here I drove one of the ox teams … we made on an average of 100 miles a week,” he later calculated. That was a dull...
Be not silent, nor unquestioning.
Religious persecution is not a cross I have to bear. Although at times I feel like a stranger in a foreign land when it comes to the beliefs and convictions that separate me from the general populous, I have only to glance backward at history to know that I have been born in an age when I ought...
The First Mormon Chapel in England
My husband and I recently traveled with a group from Hyde Park Ward on a long bus journey to the Gadfield Elm Chapel in Worchester. This is a Mormon Church historical site of the first chapel ever owned in England. In 1840, Elder Wilford Woodruff and others proceeded “south” as directed by...
“He Got Well But Never Paid Us”: The Carthage Medical Bill of John Taylor
William Mulder and A. Russell Mortensen’s Among the Mormons: Historic Accounts by Contemporary Observers (New York: Knopf, 1958) carries a report of the martyrdom at Carthage from an unusual eyewitness: that of Dr. Thomas L. Barnes, the doctor called in to tend to the wounded John Taylor. Dr....
Missionary wives served missions of their own
Though today's LDS missionaries are mostly young, unmarried men and women, for more than a century the Church called married men on missions, requiring them to leave their wives to shoulder the burden not only of caring for but providing for the children at home. The unsung sacrifice of these...
Orson Scott Card: Nothing to fear from the truth
Mormon Life says: Love the premise of this article: "Whatever happened or didn't happen, Joseph Smith was the Prophet of God, and the gospel is true."
When I got home from my mission back in 1973, I discovered that my family had become close with the family of James B. Allen, who was then serving as assistant church historian. (I would bring the...
The Swiss Saints Contact the Church, 1944
When the Saints in continental Europe were isolated from Church headquarters by the events of World War II, even the Saints in neutral Switzerland were unable to correspond with Salt Lake – letters written to acting mission president Max Zimmer in Basle were returned to the senders; letters...
Families of early missionaries often unsung heroes
In discussions about heroes of the Restoration, the Mormon men who left their wives and children to serve missions often take the spotlight. It is important to remember that their wives and children were heroes, too. Thursday evening, The Church History Department kicked off its Women's History...
