The Church’s 1890 Manifesto on polygamy is often given credit for solving the worst of the Church’s problems with the nation. More accurately, however, the Manifesto introduced another set of problems that came to a head in 1903 with the nationwide protest over the election of LDS apostle Reed Smoot to the U.S. Senate and …
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‘Re-establishing the Restoration’
‘Re-establishing the Restoration’ Far from solving the Church’s problems, the Manifesto introduced another set of difficulties which came to head in the early twentieth century. I will discuss these problems in terms of two crises. First, the Church’s negative reputation was inhibiting its ability to accomplish its objectives at home and abroad. Second, the internal …