Comments on: Tracting in Newark, New Jersey, 1905 http://www.keepapitchinin.org/2008/05/21/tracting-in-newark-new-jersey-1905/ Where our past is never very long ago Sat, 25 May 2013 06:15:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Kaimi http://www.keepapitchinin.org/2008/05/21/tracting-in-newark-new-jersey-1905/comment-page-1/#comment-230 Kaimi Wed, 21 May 2008 18:18:44 +0000 http://www.keepapitchinin.org/?p=27#comment-230 I liked the awesomely politically-incorrect physical descriptions of everyone:

“a big straight lady” . . . “this lady’s big fleshy arms” . . . a rather small, bald-headed man with a nose that penetrated into his large mustache” . . . “the long nosed man”

Almost like it was intended as comedy. I can practically see these characters in my mind.

]]> By: Doug Hudson http://www.keepapitchinin.org/2008/05/21/tracting-in-newark-new-jersey-1905/comment-page-1/#comment-229 Doug Hudson Wed, 21 May 2008 17:07:17 +0000 http://www.keepapitchinin.org/?p=27#comment-229 This would have been, what, 48 years after MMM? So one of the child survivors would have been in their fifties…theoretically possible, but that would have been a heck of a coincidence! Much more likely either a inaccuracy or a false claim, as you say.

Still, imagine the shock of missionary meeting a MMM survivor…

]]> By: Ardis E. Parshall http://www.keepapitchinin.org/2008/05/21/tracting-in-newark-new-jersey-1905/comment-page-1/#comment-227 Ardis E. Parshall Wed, 21 May 2008 16:02:04 +0000 http://www.keepapitchinin.org/?p=27#comment-227 I have the same question, Edje. Worlton may have reported this conversation inaccurately in his diary, or the man may really have claimed to be there as a way of lending authority to his statements, just like the other man later claimed to have been in Nauvoo and seen people kneeling before Joseph Smith, before he admitted that he hadn’t really seen that at all. But I’m with you — the man cannot really have been at MM.

]]> By: Edje http://www.keepapitchinin.org/2008/05/21/tracting-in-newark-new-jersey-1905/comment-page-1/#comment-225 Edje Wed, 21 May 2008 15:31:37 +0000 http://www.keepapitchinin.org/?p=27#comment-225 His sense of accomplishment at becoming worldly-wise and open-minded brings back memories: “To one just from Utah she might have appeared as a woman of not the highest type. But one soon gets accustomed to the different dress here in the east….” I remember a similar process of acclimation to Brazilian mores followed by a sense of something like “sophistication” when more recently arrived missionaries where not so in-the-know.

I am perplexed by the line, “I was in the Mountain Meadow Massacree….” Surely he meant, “I know about”?

]]> By: Ardis E. Parshall http://www.keepapitchinin.org/2008/05/21/tracting-in-newark-new-jersey-1905/comment-page-1/#comment-224 Ardis E. Parshall Wed, 21 May 2008 15:21:49 +0000 http://www.keepapitchinin.org/?p=27#comment-224 Sorry about the truncated post — it’s been corrected now.

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