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Dec 10, 1974 · Ezra Taft Benson was a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints when this devotional address was given at Brigham Young University on 10 December 1974.
Sep 16, 1986 · A few years later, Joseph Smith, while unjustly incarcerated in a cold and depressing cell of Liberty Jail at Clay County, Missouri, frequently bore his testimony of the document’s divinity: “The Constitution of the United States is a glorious standard; it is founded in the wisdom of God. It is a heavenly banner” ( HC 3:304).
“Sudden Death of Elder Ezra T. Benson, One of the Twelve Apostles,” Deseret News (Salt Lake City), 8 Sept. 1869, 366.
Ezra Taft Benson. Ezra Taft Benson served as the 13th President of the Church between 1985 and 1994. He was born on August 4, 1899, in Whitney, Idaho, the oldest of Sarah and George Taft Benson’s 11 children. From early childhood, Ezra worked on the family farm, and as a young man, developed a deep interest in the theory and economics of ...
Ezra Taft Benson, born in a quiet Idaho farm community, spent much of his life working with the power brokers of the world. Outspoken, courageous, and committed, he, like the founder of the Latter-day Saint church, Joseph Smith, had gone from "plowboy to prophet." He died 30 May 1994.
Oct 28, 2020 · On this week’s show, Matthew Harris, author of “Watchman on the Tower: Ezra Taft Benson and the Making of the Mormon Right” and a history professor at Colorado State University in Pueblo ...
Apr 3, 2024 · Ezra Taft Benson, the Latter-day Saint apostle who had previously served in Dwight D. Eisenhower’s Cabinet but now seen as a political outsider who refused to mince words on socialism and civil ...
