From the Call-Leader of Elwood, Indiana, 28 February 1925 —
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(This 1922 advertisement will explain the reference to the “brand of auto” in the above advertisement.)
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It still goes on today. Here’s a tongue-in-cheek post I wrote several years ago in response to a contemporary version of your first ad above:
LDS bishop tackles truth about Evangelical Christianity
They change their names? To what — “Elder”?
We had a Marmon factory near our home in Texas. They made the Marmon Motoes trucks, etc. I always thought that was a very unfortunate name for any company. Mormon sometimes is pronounced Marmon in southern dialect. I liked the reference about the so called expert on Mormons but isn’t a Mormon. We still get all those experts in our times. Not much change.
I think the name changing is about how we “deceptively” call ourselves “The Church of Jesus Christ of The Latter Day Saints” so people won’t know that we are really the Mormons.
I was a missionary in New Jersey, probably in 1979, and met a guy tracting who thought he knew quite a bit more than he did. With an air of great authority, he informed us that until “a few years ago,” we had been the “Mormon Church” and had been called that “because of polygamy” (Did he think there was some etymological connection between Mormon and polygamy?), and that the full name of the church was only of recent origin.
I knew perfectly well that the name of the church was not in historical or theological dispute. I might have shrugged it off, but it annoyed me that he acted like this was some vitally important point, and that it was even more vital that he “knew” this and we didn’t.
I explained that when the church was organized in 1830, it was called the Church of Christ or the Church of Jesus Christ, the current name was given in 1838, and that “Mormon Church” had always been unofficial.
“Well, I’m sure that’s what they TOLD you to say.”
Okay…