70 years ago today - Aug 20, 1945

I am directed by President [George Albert] Smith to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of August 10, in which you ask a number of questions.

I am directed to say that as to the Word of Wisdom, the drinking of a beverage made from the coffee bean from which all caffeine and other deleterious drugs have been removed, is not regarded as violating the Word of Wisdom.

[Source: Joseph Anderson, Letter to J. Leland Anderson, as quoted in Minutes of the Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1910-1951, Privately Published, Salt Lake City, Utah 2010]

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  1. AnonymousAugust 20, 2015

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Anderson_(Mormon)

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  2. AnonymousAugust 20, 2015

    Those students (at BYU & elsewhere) who are drinking Mountain Dew (loaded with caffeine) and think they are complying with the WOW because it is a cold beverage are not in harmony with the spirit and the letter of the WOW.

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    1. Clair BarrusAugust 20, 2015

      How can you tell a Mormon from a non-Mormon?

      "By the temperature of their caffeinated beverage" :-)

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    2. AnonymousAugust 20, 2015

      Yes. It's obviously not about the temperature; but it's all about the harmful substances, chemicals, drugs, etc. ingested.

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  3. AnonymousAugust 20, 2015

    For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and YET OFFEND IN ONE POINT, HE IS GUILTY OF ALL. (James 2:10).

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  4. Clair BarrusAugust 20, 2015

    For more on the Word of Wisdom - http://lds-church-history.blogspot.com/2011/05/next-topic-at-lds-church-history-will.html

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