Richard E. Turley Jr. and Jeffrey G. Cannon state that in 1968 it was the policy of the South African mission not to proselyte among Black people.
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- Periodical
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Richard E. Turley Jr and Jeffrey G. Cannon. "A faithful band: Moses Mahlangu and the first Soweto saints." BYU Studies Quarterly 55, no. 1 (2016): 8–38, p. 13, accessed October 21, 2022
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- BYU Studies
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- Lawrence J. Mackey, Randall J. Knudsen, Moses Mahlangu, Richard E. Turley, Jr., Jeffrey G. Cannon
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- General Public
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Mackey and his companion went to greet their guest. They were impressed by their “golden investigator.” Mackey remembered meeting with Mahlangu for several weeks, each time telling the mission president, Howard C. Badger, of the wonderful man with whom they were meeting. Following mission policy, which prohibited proselytizing black South Africans, the missionaries met with Mahlangu but did not teach him. Finally, after three weeks, the mission president consented to let the missionaries teach Mahlangu about the apostasy and restoration.*
* Lawrence J. Mackey, oral history, interviewed by Randall J. Knudsen, November 20, 2014, CHL.
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- https://www.jstor.org/stable/43957246
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