Religion: Mormon 104th

Twelve thousand Saints sat one day last week beneath the vast, umbrella-like roof of the Latter-day Saints (Mormon) Tabernacle in Salt Lake City. Members of that bustling sect which has 700,000 communicants and the largest priesthood per capita in Christendom (158,045 of the worthiest Mormon males), they had come from every white nation and from Hawaii, the Philippines and the South Seas, to attend their church's 104th annual conference. As always, this opened on the anniversary of that day (April 6) in 1830 when Prophet-Founder Joseph Smith with six others organized the...

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