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English
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Hierarch and Mule-skinner : A Selection from Mormon Country
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Latter-day Lore : Mormon Folklore Studies
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Salt Lake City
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University of Utah Press
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396-404
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J. Golden Kimball gave himself a good deal of trouble during his long life and was sorry about it. He also gave the Mormon Church a good deal of trouble, and was even more sorry about that. Honestly devout, he was also devoutly honest, and when orthodoxy and honesty clashed he sometimes blurted out the honest words that offended both the church’s piety and his own. He regretted his breaks instantly and wholeheartedly, and though the church never did more than admonish him and bar him periodically from the taber nacle platform, he grieved over it. So did the thousands who poured into Salt Lake every April and October for General Conference: J. Golden was the one high dignitary (he was a President of the Seventies) who could keep any audience from sleep. They called him the Will Rogers of the church. That was a mistake. He should never have been compared with anyone, because J. Golden was an original. [From the text]