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Theodore M. Burton
6 speeches between 1961 and 1986, mostly as Seventy. 12,809 words in the transcripts.
Speeches
6
1961–1986
Words
12,809
in the transcripts
Reading grade
11.5
Flesch–Kincaid, average
Scriptures cited
37
6.2 per speech
Callings
Seventy
6 speeches
Leadership record
linked
in the leadership database
Speeches by year
19611986
Signature phrases
Words and two-word phrases this speaker uses far more than the rest of the corpus, by weighted log-odds. Stop words, names of deity and the ordinary vocabulary of a sermon are excluded.
- repentance 52
- baptism 32
- marriage 38
- nicodemus 8
- repay 9
- restore 11
- ordinance 13
- forgive 17
- wound 8
- wicked 13
- disobedience 8
- sin 22
Scriptures cited most
- Doctrine and Covenants8
- Genesis3
- Matthew3
- Ezekiel3
- John3
- Moses3
- Isaiah2
- Mosiah2
Callings when speaking
- Seventy 6
As given in the bylines: of the First Quorum of the Seventy
Every speech
- 16 Jan 1961Tickling the TigerGeneral Authority Seventy · Devotionalaudio only
- 6 Oct 1964Convince or Convert?General Authority Seventy · Devotionalaudio only
- 13 Oct 1970A Disease Called PrideGeneral Authority Seventy · Devotionalaudio only
- 26 Oct 1982A Born-Again Christianof the First Quorum of the Seventy · Devotional4,375 w17 refs
- 26 Mar 1985The Meaning of RepentanceGeneral Authority Seventy · Devotional4,294 w13 refs
- 3 Jun 1986Love and Marriageof the First Quorum of the Seventy · Devotional4,140 w7 refs