Category: Utah Christian History
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The Mormons, by Samuel E. Wishard, D.D.
This 1904 book might be more appropriately titled The Early History of Presbyterian Missions in Utah. THE MORMONS BYSAMUEL E. WISHARD, D.D.SYNODICAL MISSIONARY FOR UTAH LITERATURE DEPARTMENTPRESBYTERIAN HOME MISSIONS156 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK CITY1904 COPYRIGHT, 1904, BYTHE BOARD OF HOME MISSIONSOF THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHIN THE U. S. A. THE TROW PRESS, NEW YORK FOREWORD To know…
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Online Christian Historical Sources on Mormonism Index
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John D. Nutting and the Utah Gospel Mission
John D. Nutting (1854-1949) was an evangelist to Mormons and the founder of Utah Gospel Mission. Works Light on Mormonism A quarterly publication edited by John Danforth Nutting and the Utah Gospel Mission. “In view of the fact that Light on Mormonism is composed almost entirely of matter having permanent value, we have from its beginning reserved 500 copies…
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Is Mormonism Biblical?
Source: Gordon H. Fraser, The Fields at Home, ed. Peter F. Gunther (Chicago: Moody Press, 1963), 123–34. GORDON H. FRASER first came into touch with the Mormons in 1932 while doing missionary work under the American Sunday-School Union in western Washington. Since then he has had numerous contacts with the Mormon Church in eastern Idaho,…
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Light on Mormonism, Vol. VI, No. 3
Editorial. HAPPY NEW YEAR We are a bit late with this wish, but it is none the less genuine towards every reader. And by “happy” we mean not merely the pleased emotional nature which is often the content of such expressions, but the solid good and usefulness, both spiritual and temporal, which they ought to…
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Light on Mormonism, Vol. VI, No. 2
Editorial. The greater part of the original matter in this issue was written in Auto-Wagon No. 2, while located with both the others at Logan, Utah, during our work there in September. Our camp had been in the same spot as four times before; shaded by trees which at first about 20 years ago, were…
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Light on Mormonism, Vol. VI, No. 1
Editorial. OUR WESTERN WORK Our field force for some months has been the smallest for some years. But new workers already engaged and others in prospect will enlarge the force, it is hoped, to normal, with all three outfits busy very soon. The editor expects to be in the West from early July until November,…
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Light on Mormonism, Vol. VI, No. 4
PUSHING THE BOOK OF MORMON STILL A Western religious paper which does not always speak wisely on Mormonism, reprints a statement by a college president saying that the Bible is now used more and the Book of Mormon less than years ago. There is just enough of fact behind the first half of the statement…
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“Untrue.” Statement by Salt Lake City Ministers.
Salt Lake City, Utah.November 8th, 1919. To the Commercial Club of Salt Lake City, Utah. Gentlemen:—Our attention having been called to certain statements now being widely circulated through American newspapers as coming from Winifred Graham, an English novelist, charging that the commonly called “Mormon Church” is still practising polygamy and is bringing hundreds of young…
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The Mormon Field, by Charles L. Thompson
Source: Charles Lemuel Thompson, The Soul of America: The Contribution of Presbyterian Home Missions (New York: Revell, 1919), 110-117. Google Books link. The Mormon field is far too extensive and insistent to permit of indifference on the part of the Christian Church. If it were only the fanatical dream of a few visionaries in the…
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Utah, by Josiah McClain
Josiah McClain, Utah (New York: Board of Home Missions of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., 1900), Columbia University Libraries. Internet Archive link. Utah ByRev. Josiah McClainSynodical Superintendent The Story of Utah—Early History A complete story of Utah never can be written, because some of the facts necessary are not now within reach and never…
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Ten Reasons Why Christians Can Not Fellowship the Mormon Church
In 1897, the Presbytery of Utah, backed by Congregational and Baptist associations, outlined ten reasons why Christians cannot fellowship with the Mormon Church.
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Methods of Mormon Missionaries
By William R. Campbell Source: “Methods of Mormon Missionaries,” in Our Day, vol. 19 (Boston: Our Day Publishing Company, 1900). Originally published 1888. Google Books link. SINCE the Mormons have been increasing at such a great ratio the past few years, it is interesting and important to know the secret of this phenomenal growth. My…
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Christian Work in Utah (1881)
Printed by the Woman’s Home Missionary Association. 1881. It may be an encouragement to our faith in the utter overthrow of Mormonism, to look a little into the work of the various Christian denominations in Utah. It is an established fact that the parents are best reached through the children, and our friends of the…
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The Christian Reconstruction of Utah
Source: R. G. McNiece, “The Christian Reconstruction of Utah,” in The Preacher and Homiletic Monthly, vol. 4, ed. I. K. Funk (New York: I. K. Funk & Co., 1880), 641-642. Google Books link. BY REV. R. G. MCNIECE, IN THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, SALT LAKE CITY. But it came to pass that, when Sanballat heard that…
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A Week in “Great Salt Lake City”, by Henry Kendall
Henry Kendall, “A Week in Great Salt Lake City,” Hours at Home 1 (May 1865): 63-66. § Great Salt Lake City, the capital of Utah Territory, the great stopping place between the Mississippi and Pacific, is also the point of divergence for those who would reach the new-discovered mines of Montana and Idaho, or Walla-Walla…
