Don’t bear trouble, use it. Take whatever happens – justice and injustice, pleasure and pain, compliment and criticism – take it up into the purpose of your life and make something out of it. Turn it into testimony. Don’t explain evil, exploit evil; make it serve you. Just as the Lotus flower reaches down and takes up the mud and mire into the purposes of its life and produces the lotus flower out of them, so you are to take whatever happens and make something out of it.
E. Stanley Jones

Mormonism: Characteristics

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Mormonism: Characteristics

  • Thrifty
  • Zealous
  • Rapid Growth – 200,000/year
  • Large Missionary Force – 26,000 (boys at 19 encouraged to dedicate 2 years)
  • Caution against tobacco, alcohol, tea, coffee, caffeine
  • Requires members to tithe 10% (assets exceed $2 billion – 20 temples & BYU)
  • Exhault Education
  • Mutual Improvement Association (holds dances, homemaking classes, dramas (membership has low juvenile delinquency)
  • Know Bible verses quite well (will dazzle the uniformed Christian)
  • Gains most of its membership from orthodox churches
  • Has ‘defended’ its founders when persecuted/slandered
  • Sound Character, Moral, Hospitable, Devoted to Family
  • Ignorant of shady Morman history

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