1824-1825 – James Bridger explores region 1843 – John C. Fremont explores region 1847 – Group of Mormon pioneers led by Brigham Young arrive in the Salt Lake Valley 1848 – Region is ceded to the United States 1850 – Territory of Utah was created by Congress April 9, 1852 – Brigham Young teaches famous Adam-God sermon September 7, 1857 – Mountain Meadows Massacre 1864 – Henry Kendall passes through Utah; invited by Brigham Young to speak in LDS Tabernacle 1865 – “Norman McLeod, a Congregational minister and Chaplain in General Connor’s Army at Fort Douglas. He came in 1865 and opened services ..read more

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 ... Read more ..read more

Charles M. Larson writes a comment on August 17, 2024, in response to Why Mormonism Can’t Recover from “The Book of Abraham”: Hello. I am the author of By His Own Hand Upon Papyrus — a New Look at the Joseph Smith Papyri (Institute for Religious Research, Grand Rapids, MI 1992), and I strongly endorse ... Read more ..read more

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. It it were only the fanatical dream of a few visionaries in the ... Read more ..read more

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 the history of our Church in our land is to be interested in Home Missions. ... Read more ..read more

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 ... Read more ..read more

Done by order of the Presbytery of Utah, April 8, 1897.Endorsed by the Congregational Association of Utah, October 14, 1897.Endorsed by the Baptist Association of Utah, September 7, 1898. The events lately transpiring among us appear to demand a clear, candid and unequivocal statement of reasons on the part of this, the Presbytery of Utah, ... Read more ..read more

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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 ... Read more ..read more

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 ... Read more ..read more