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Medical Practices

WEBIn 1831 Joseph Smith received the following revelation regarding health care: "And whosoever among you are sick, and have not faith to be healed, but believe, …

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Maternity and Child Health Care

WEBWard Relief Societies began coordinated health programs in the late 1860s after President Brigham Young assigned two of his plural wives, Eliza R. Snow and Zina D. H. Young, …

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Science and Religion

WEBIn 1930, Widtsoe wrote: Science is the recognition by the mind through human senses of the realities of existence. The mind of man is a noble instrument, a pre …

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Health, Attitudes Toward

WEBSee this page in the original 1992 publication. Author: Mason, James O. In light of modern revelation, Latter-day Saints believe that the physical body and its health …

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Welfare Services

WEBSee this page in the original 1992 publication. Author: Mangum, Garth L. The basic philosophy underlying the Welfare Services system of The Church of Jesus Christ of …

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Sick, Blessing the

WEBFaith in Christ is the prerequisite, not the consequence, of blessing the sick. Third, the resulting relief, healing, and fulfillment are not to be boasted about or …

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Light and Darkness

WEBAuthor: Miller, Harold L., Jr. Many juxtapositions of light and darkness are identifiable in latter-day scripture. Darkness was apparently the primeval condition (Gen. …

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Social Characteristics

WEBOnly 9 percent of Mormons were living in a large city at the age of sixteen, compared to 11 percent of Protestants, 22 percent of Catholics and 51 percent of Jews. …

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Blood Transfusions

WEBBlood transfusions can carry very harmful and life-threatening diseases, such as acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), hepatitis, and other infectious …

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Women in the Book of Mormon

WEBAuthor: Bowen, Donna Lee. Author: Williams, Camille S. Some general conclusions about Book of Mormon women can be drawn from the book's fragmentary …

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Retrenchment Association

WEBThe retrenchment movement, conceived in 1869 by President Brigham Young to encourage LDS women to "spend more time in moral, mental and spiritual …

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