|
"I
saw a striking contrast in the progress of the Indian people today as
against that of only fifteen years ago. Truly the scales of darkness are
falling from their eyes, and they are fast becoming a white and
delightsome people. . . ."
"The day of the Lamanites is nigh. For years
they have been growing delightsome, and they are now becoming white and
delightsome, as they were promised. In this picture of the twenty
Lamanite missionaries, fifteen of the twenty were as light as Anglos;
five were darker but equally delightsome. The children in the home
placement program in Utah are often lighter than their brothers and
sisters in the hogans on the reservation."
"At one meeting a father and mother and
their sixteen-year-old daughter were present, the little member
girl—sixteen—sitting between the dark father and mother, and it was
evident she was several shades lighter than her parents—on the same
reservation, in the same hogan, subject to the same sun and wind and
weather. There was the doctor in a Utah city who for two years had had
an Indian boy in his home who stated that he was some shades lighter
than the younger brother just coming into the program from the
reservation. These young members of the Church are changing to whiteness
and to delightsomeness. One white elder jokingly said that he and his
companion were donating blood regularly to the hospital in the hope that
the process might be accelerated." (Improvement Era,
Dec.1960, pp. 922-923)
|