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a series of articles in three parts in The Improvement Era. This series was to have been continued, but was actually abandoned. The materials were eventually used in “The Passing of the Church,” Church History 30: 2 (June 1961): 131-154; reprinted in When the Lights Went Out (1970, 2001): 1-32; and in BYU Studies 16:1 …
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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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9 pp. typed paper, 1965; Seventh East Press (January 18, 1982): 4-7, 12; and CWHN 1: 21-36. This is the manuscript of an essay submitted to the Instructor, and rejected, and circulated with two letters, both dated September 16, 1965, one addressed to “Dear Brother,” 1 p., and the other addressed to “Mr. W,” 5 …
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Learn Greek through the New Testament, by C. Wilfred Griggs and Randall Stewart, Foreword, (Provo: The Interlinguistica Series in Foreign Languages, 1981): I, ia.
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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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