B. H. Roberts, Correspondence, 1930-1933

File — Box: 4, Folder: 19

Identifier: I

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

B. H. Roberts, letter to Heber J. Grant and Counselors, 15 December 1930, 2 pp., says: "I object to the dogmatic and finality spirit of the pronouncement and the apparent official announcement of them, as if speaking with final authority. If Elder [Joseph Fielding] Smith is merely putting forth his own opinions I call in question his competency to utter such dogmatism either as a scholar or as an Apostle. I am sure he is not competent to speak in such manner from general learning or special research work on the subject; nor as an Apostle, as in that case he would be in conflict with the plain implication at least of the scriptures, both ancient and modern, and with the teaching of a more experienced and learned and earlier Apostle [Orson Hyde] than himself, and a contemporary of the Prophet Joseph Smith."
B. H. Roberts, letter to Heber J. Grant, 1 March 1932, 3 pp.
B. H. Roberts, letter to George Everett, 21 April 1932, 2 pp.
[B. H. Roberts], letter to C. M. Dewsnup, 30 March 1933, 2 pp.
[B. H. Roberts], letter to J. H. Paul, 17 July 1933, 4 pp.

Dates

1930-1933

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