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Show Unitarianism in Utah Unitarianism in Utah" and "History of was the only one given thanks for this effort, it appears she was the person responsible for writing it, though no copy of the pamphlet is extant." Her first husband was one of the charter members of the society, and she was an Prior to her to marriage early signer of the constitution. Hudson, Margaret Benson Rev. was the annual congrega 1892, thus making her an ideal appointed the society's first historian at tional meeting in January person to describe what had happened in Unitarianism since its beginning in 1891 through 1896. A. Theodore Schroeder, one of the original charter mem bers as well delivered as member of the first board of trustees, a Unity Hall February 1897. In this sermon, which he entitled "Thoughts Suggested by a Study of Mormonism, Schroeder expressed his view that the Mormon prophet, Joseph Smith, had the revelation on polygamy only after "he had been caught in adultery by an He finished the sermon with the following: angry wife. a Sunday sermon at in " ,,40 When [Robert] Ingersoll and [Thomas] Paine robbed me of my superstitions. I lost only the value of a counterf]' e ]it dollar. and I am grateful to the robber because he also led me out of the murky mists of ancestral superstitions unto the sunny fields of free thought. There is some good in all religions. Let us ding to and magnify that. though we discard the fancied idols of visionary prophets and the celestial hobgoblins of our half-civilized ancestors." . . 39 . Board of Trustees Fd 4. 40 Meeting Minutes, 12 December 1897, located in Ms 508, Bx 1, Anne Coughlin "A U rnque Hea th en: Th e Sexual . " Dogmatics of Theodore Schroeder, (h.D. dissertation, Fuller Theological Seminary, 1986), 6. Linda King Newell and Vale en TIppetts Avery, Mormon Enigma: Emma Hale Smith (Garden City, New York: Doubleday , and ompany. Inc., relationship 41 38 . A. with 1984),66, Fanny Alger quote Oliver Cowdery's description "a dirty, nasty, filthy affair." Theodore Schroeder, Monnonism Considered, Being CIty, Utah, March 1897 [Salt of'Ioseph Smith's 1835 as Lake a City, 1897],31, located Lecture Delivered at Unity Hall, Salt in Ms 508, Bx 73, Fd 7. Lake |
