The 78th General Convention of the Episcopal Church, a regional synod of the one, holy, catholic and apostolic Church, is now meeting in Salt Lake City. It is a city that in a real sense stands as a judgment upon the divided Church of which our synod claims to be a part. The inscription below Joseph Smith’s statue in Temple Square tells the story.
In the burned-over district of upstate New York, the fifteen-year-old Joseph Smith was much perplexed by the conflicting claims of the various churches. His little town, Palmyra, was in 1820 full of people crying out “‘Lo, here!’ and others, ‘Lo, there!’ Some were contending for the Methodist faith, some for the Presbyterian, and some for the Baptist.”
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