“This will not influence us in the least"

How Latter-day Saints faced hostility in the Eastern United States during The Great War.

It was early in the morning of the 20th of January 1916 and all was quiet in Buck Valley, Pennsylvania. Several hundred men, women, and children lived in the township and all of them were sleeping, well, almost everyone. In the dark of night a person, or persons, was making their way to a building site near the post office. There stood a nearly complete…