Truth Magazine 1942-1943 (vol. 8) & 1945 (vol. 10) Joseph Musser FLDS Polygamy

Description: Truth Magazine 1942-1943 (vol. 8) & 1945 (vol. 10) Joseph Musser FLDS Polygamy________________________________________ Truth Magazine (vol. 8) June 1942 - May 1943Truth Magazine (vol. 10) Jan 1945 - Dec 1945Edited by Joseph White MusserPublished by Truth Publishing Company (1942-1945) Condition:Excellent 1st Edition Hardcover Books! The bindings are both tight and all pages within are lightly tanned yellow with NO WRITING, UNDERLINING, HIGH-LIGHTING, with the exception of a name on the inside front covers of both books. The covers look very good with wear and are not really attractive, as can be seen in my photos. There is a *few* pages within the books that have bent or torn corners, and other small tears - nothing that interferes with the text. Volume 10 has a light fold in between the two columns, as shown. THE BOOKS ARE NOT PERFECT! But for a rare 80-year-old books that hardly ever turn up, these are definitely a collector book! You will be happy with this one! Buy with confidence from a seller who takes the time to show you the details and not use just stock photos. Please check out all my pictures and email with any questions! Thanks for looking! About the Magazine:Joseph White Musser (March 8, 1872 – March 29, 1954) was one of the first Mormon fundamentalist leaders. Musser was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, to Amos Milton Musser (an assistant LDS Church historian) and Mary E. White. He is known for his Mormon fundamentalist books, pamphlets and magazines, as well as being considered a prophet by many Mormon fundamentalists. In the 1930s and 1940s, Musser was responsible for editing the Mormon fundamentalist publication, Truth Magazine. His promotion and practice of plural marriage led to his incarceration by the U.S. federal government between May and December 1945. More about Musser:Musser married his first wife, Rose S. Borquist in the Logan Temple in June 1892, and his second wife, Mary C. Hill, in March 1902. But upon marrying his third wife, Ellis R. Shipp Jr., in July 1907, he caught the attention of the Salt Lake Tribune, which announced the marriage on its front page. His support of continued plural marriages, in violation of the first and second Manifestos of the LDS Church, led him to be called before the Quorum of Twelve Apostles of the church in July 1909, but this did not lead to any disciplinary action against him. According to Musser, in 1915 he was given authority to perform plural marriages by "an apostle." He was excommunicated from the LDS Church by the high council of the Salt Lake City-based Granite Stake on March 21, 1921 for attempting to take Marion Bringhurst as his fourth wife. In May 1932, Musser married again, this time Lucy O. Kmetzsch, and on the May 14, 1929, he was ordained an apostle in the Council of Friends by Lorin Calvin Woolley, the then-leader of the Mormon fundamentalist movement. A concessionary document he and some of his fellow polygamist inmates signed (which they were told was limited to the period of their parole) during their time in prison led to some dissension between those who would sign and those who would not. In late December 1949, with the death of John Yeates Barlow, Musser became the leader of the Mormon fundamentalists. However, upon his May 1951 decision to select Rulon C. Allred as an apostle, some other members of the presiding Priesthood Council felt they were being bypassed. Other leaders also took issue at Musser's condemnation of the practices of underage and arranged marriages that were going on in the Short Creek, Arizona Mormon fundamentalist community. This split deepened in July 1951 with the call of Mexican apostle Margarito Bautista, and in January 1952 Musser created a new Priesthood Council including Owen A. Allred, and others, including the apostles he had already called. Musser was the leader of the Short Creek community during the Short Creek raid. Upon Musser's death on March 29, 1954, the fundamentalists in Short Creek refused to accept the leadership of his appointed successor, Rulon Allred, and instead LeRoy S. Johnson became their leader, while the fundamentalists in Mexico and the Salt Lake City region remained faithful to Allred. Some of those who supported neither group became independent Mormon fundamentalists. T R U T H : "KNOW THE TRUTH AND THE TRUTH SHALL MAKE YOU FREEStatement of Purpose (from the magazine):The Magazine stands for the fundamental principles of the Gospel as revealed by the Lord for the guidance of His children. While honoring men in the exercise of their inalienable rights to think, speak and worship as they choose, within, of course, the limits of divine law, our mission is to challenge error in whatever guise it appears, assisting in the establishment of faith in the Gospel, particularly among Latter-day Saints. How well this duty has been performed and how closely we have adhered to the ideology aimed at, are points for our readers to determine. Conscious as we are of human weaknesses and limitations, we have all the harder tried to temper our feelings and gauge our emotions and expressions to harmonize with the Spirit of our Lord and Master, in whose service we are engaged. Perhaps no better expression of our code and aims can be given at this time than the concluding words of the writer in the work, "The New and Everlasting Covenant of Marriage", published in 1933. These were our sentiments then and still are.... OVERSEAS CUSTOMERS: BECAUSE EBAY INTERNATIONAL SHIPPING ONLY INSURES UP TO $100, THIS BOOK CAN ONLY BE MAILED BY USPS PRIORITY INSURED POSTAGE Copyright © 2018-2023 TDM Inc. The photos and text in this listing are copyrighted. I spend lots of time writing up my descriptions and despise it when un-original losers cut and paste my descriptions in as their own. 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