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In
1851 Elder Ezra Taft Benson formed the North Pigeon Branch. This Branch would eventually
split through dissension. One of the dissenting members stated that the Beast
Daniel saw was who?
a.
Elder Benson
b.
Porter Rockwell
c.
Brigham Young
d.
Joseph Smith
Yesterday’s answer:
D. Offer to educate in their facilities
The
presidencies in which Smith served as counselor faced severe attack centered on
the Church’s social dominance. This opposition was inextricably linked to
education across the Intermountain West. As the population of the region became
increasingly more diverse because of the federal military presence in 1858, the
discovery of silver in 1863, and the completion of the transcontinental
railroad in 1869, Protestant church groups fought to minimize Latter-day Saint
control over society. Creating mission schools, Protestant leaders sought to
lure away youth with the promise of better education even boasting, “The Mormon
people will send their children to our day schools, and [Church president]
Brigham [Young] and his bishops can’t prevent it.” Ultimately, ninety
non-Mormon denominational schools operated in Utah from 1869 to 1890. At their
peak, they employed over two hundred teachers and enrolled seven thousand
students, over half of whom came from Latter-day Saint homes. While Protestant
groups made educational inroads among the Church’s youth, the federal
government sought to reduce the Church’s political power, likewise influencing
schools. The Edmunds-Tucker Act, with the most stringent antipolygamy
provisions of the era, made the office of superintendent of district schools
appointive rather than elective. The federally appointed replacement was
charged to “prohibit the use in any district school of any book of a sectarian
character or otherwise unsuitable.”
The
Symbolism of the Beehive in Latter-day Saint Tradition, Val Brinkerhoff, BYU Studies Vol. 52, No. 2, 2013, 47.
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