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translation provisional
Deseret News, “Church News,” July 29, 1961, 10, 15. Originally a letter addressed to “Dear Mr. —-,” dated July 12, 1961. Reprinted in Saints Herald (October 9, 1961): 969-9, 975; CWHN 8:212-218.
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(Provo: BYU Press, 1973). This was the Commissioner’s Lecture delivered in 1972. Later reprinted (without the complete footnotes) in The New Era 3:9 (September 1973): 38-50; reprinted again in Nibley on the Timely and the Timeless (Provo: Religious Studies Center, 1978): 101-127; CWHN 12: 450-490. An examination of writing as a gift from God and …
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