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Show 53 DESERET Thursday, April 3, NEWS, 19d? History Of Church Expanded r PROVO Findings by professional researchers in the eastern United States show that there were religious awakenings in western New York at the time of Joseph Smiths first vision as close as 11 miles from the Smith home in Palmyra, N.Y. This evidence Is shown In records of churches in the area as researched by a team sent out last summer by the Institute of Mormon Studies at Brigham Young University, interan y Instidiscipline, tute established to sponsor and correlate research in all fields relating to Mormon culture, history, thought, and institutions. , CURRENT ISSUE Results are published in the current issue of the BYU Studies, a journal and voice xy Dr. Jr A GRADE o CHICKEN PARTS DRUM BREASTS CHICKEN THIGHS STICKS CHICKEN f WINGS 5; scholars. Milton and r - j (3- - r.-1- -- - ; f - FOOD KING 3 J i i ' 4 'tr HAMBURGER 1822. other historical Tlirough approaches and . techniques, he has determined the dates, sources and records of these accounts. Published in the BYU Studies with his report are photographic reproductions of these early accounts in the handwriting of the Prophets scribes. Since the name of the Rev. George Lane has been associated with the time of the first vision (although by other people than Joseph Smith), Larry C. Porter, a doctoral candidate In history of religion at BYU, was asked to find out everything he could about this Methodist minister. ' .a UNIQUE FINDINGS His findings, says Dr. Leonard J. Arrington, professor of economics at Utah State University, are truly Arrington, an LDS unique. Church historian Is president of the Western History Association. Dean C. Jessee, of the Church historians staff in Salt Lake City, searched through documents of the Church historians library events of the concerning 1820s. He analysed three early accounts of Joseph Smiths first vision dictated by the Prophet himself. FOUND SOURCES . LN 'f. m yv dence of the historical setting of the first vision. He studied Methodist, Baptist and Presbyterian church records and in New York newspapers state to try to determine what was going on there between 1817 M v V. Backman, BYU professor of the history of religion, investigated evi- i , ffiM inter-librar- of LDS 3m or . . . ij . HOT DCG BUDS SCHILLINGS 7 oz. , VANILLA 2-- or. SCHILLINGS ASSORTED FOOD COLORS ... . m PACK 35 C PREAM 4 oz. ROYAL TREAT DAIRY CREAMER MUSHROOMS 14 ez. KAL KAN PREAM DOG FOOD DAIRY CREAMER u . 14ft OZ STEW !lft0I6zCHiS m wwmwwSEm SiERjDAY BRICES 3 98 HILLS BROTHERS COFFEE all Grinds VICINITY Porter discovered when the Rev. Mr. Lane wns in the Palmyra vicinity, what he was doing there, his assignments from ihe Methodist Churui, and even which one of his older sisters lived and the Mormons among whether or not she joined the Church. He even found an JELLY BIRD CANDY CHICKS A RABBITS EGGS line drawing of the Rev. Mr. Lane, which is reproduced in the BYU journal. Arrington and Dr. James B. Allen, associate professor of history at BYU, reviewed all the books that treat this period of Mormon history. Tate It is surprising, said, to see how much has been written about the origins of Mormonism. This report is the longest published in the current issue of BYU Studies. The Institute of Mormon Studies, directed by Dr. Truman G. Madsen, professor of philosophy, will send another team of researchers out next summer on the topic The Coming of the Book of MorA Microscopic Look at mon the Church, 1823-2Results of their findings will be published in next springs issue of BYU Studies. iC PXS. CHOC. M.MALLOW EGGS . 33 SPECKLED EGGS C DOZ. DECORATED EGGS 7sr. 33 DECORATED EASTER m CAKES y' $ EASTER NESTS x V IvV Vs s tMl is V Grant For USU WASHINGTON The National Science Foundation this week approved a $102,700 grant to Utah State University to. assist in construction of research and graduate training- facilities 'lot electrical AI engineers. c : - t t BUMBLE BEE m fish CHUNK STYLE It if - .. . 300 SIZE, LIMA BEAMS & HAM ) n , jj Jim n s .izpji J WTjrftM nijmV,l'jjhAFiii,iVTS' . Is |