To the editor:
Sweet, golden maple syrup is good for months. Even so, there is another March gladness of lasting value. The news of March 1, 1842, reported a request from John Wentworth. He was a newspaper editor, not to be mistaken as a basketball coach at Stearns High School of Millinocket, Maine. Stearns and the teams they played will remember their fiery coach, George Wentworth, who would upset favored teams during March Madness.
John Wentworth, editor and proprietor of the Chicago Democrat newspaper, as a favor for a friend, asked Joseph Smith for the history and beliefs of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.
John Wentworth’s friend was writing a history of the state of New Hampshire. Joseph Smith, the Latter-Day Saints founder, was born in Vermont, but as a child, his family lived in New Hampshire. The history writer was given the account of the rise and beliefs of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.
Today, 13 of the declarations that were given are treasured as “The Articles of Faith.”
Phil Henderson
Littleton
