Associated Press article about DNA research into the origins of Native Americans. Conclusion that Native Americans migrated from Mongolia/Siberia and not from Jerusalem leads apologetic Mormon scholars to contradict long-standing teaching and even scriptural references that Lamanites are the "principal ancestors" of Native American peoples and suggest that entire Book of Mormon concerns only a small, localized population that eventually died out. Former LDS bishop and geneticist Simon Southerton is featured in article. He says, "given the state of DNA research and increasing lay awareness of it, church leaders ought just to own up to the problems that continued literal teachings about the Book of Mormon present for American Indians and Polynesians. . . They should come out and say, 'There's no evidence to support your Israelite ancestry;' I don't have any problem with anyone believing what's in the Book of Mormon. Just don't make it look like science is backing it all up." The
article is printed in many newspapers across the United States and around the world.
[On This Day in Mormon History, http://onthisdayinmormonhistory.blogspot.com, based on Michael Quinn's Mormon Hierarchy vols 1 & 2]
Today In Mormon History-FB
Several curious tidbits that happened on this day in Mormon History
85 years ago today - Jul 26, 1939
[President Heber J. Grant Diary]
Sister Bennion, wife of Major Howard Bennion, called and had a lot of questions to ask about Joseph Smith's practice of polygamy, Brigham Young, and other things. I had a pleasant visit with her and told her all I knew was that the Prophet or Brigham Young never did anything but what was right so far as marrying people was concerned. Told of my own mother's experience, etc., etc. I told her that when people started to finding fault, they were on the wrong track.
[Diary of Heber J. Grant, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
Sister Bennion, wife of Major Howard Bennion, called and had a lot of questions to ask about Joseph Smith's practice of polygamy, Brigham Young, and other things. I had a pleasant visit with her and told her all I knew was that the Prophet or Brigham Young never did anything but what was right so far as marrying people was concerned. Told of my own mother's experience, etc., etc. I told her that when people started to finding fault, they were on the wrong track.
[Diary of Heber J. Grant, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
160 years ago today - Jul 26, 1864
First foundation stones laid for the Salt Lake Tabernacle.
[On This Day in Mormon History, http://onthisdayinmormonhistory.blogspot.com, based on Michael Quinn's Mormon Hierarchy vols 1 & 2]
[On This Day in Mormon History, http://onthisdayinmormonhistory.blogspot.com, based on Michael Quinn's Mormon Hierarchy vols 1 & 2]
190 years ago today - Jul 26, 1834
[Helen Mar Kimball]
It was Sunday when the news came to Kirtland of the death of the brethren [of Zion's Camp] from cholera, and the Saints were quietly dispersing from afternoon meeting. ... . The scene that followed no pen can describe; the shrieks and cries of the bereaved were heartrending, and made a vivid and lasting impression upon my mind. ...
At this time the brethren were laboring night and day building the house of the Lord. Elder Rigdon, when addressing the brethren upon the importance of building this house, spake to the effect that we should use every effort to accomplish this building by the time appointed; if we did, the Lord would accept it at our hands, and on it depends the salvation of the Church, and also of the world.
[Whitney, Helen Mar, Jeni Broberg Holzapfel, and Richard Neitzel Holzapfel, A Woman's View: Helen Mar Whitney's Reminiscences of Early Church History, Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 1997]
It was Sunday when the news came to Kirtland of the death of the brethren [of Zion's Camp] from cholera, and the Saints were quietly dispersing from afternoon meeting. ... . The scene that followed no pen can describe; the shrieks and cries of the bereaved were heartrending, and made a vivid and lasting impression upon my mind. ...
At this time the brethren were laboring night and day building the house of the Lord. Elder Rigdon, when addressing the brethren upon the importance of building this house, spake to the effect that we should use every effort to accomplish this building by the time appointed; if we did, the Lord would accept it at our hands, and on it depends the salvation of the Church, and also of the world.
[Whitney, Helen Mar, Jeni Broberg Holzapfel, and Richard Neitzel Holzapfel, A Woman's View: Helen Mar Whitney's Reminiscences of Early Church History, Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 1997]
85 years ago today - Jul 25, 1939
[President Heber J. Grant Diary]
I went directly to the hospital having been told by my son-in-law, who met us at the depot, that Brother McKay had just telephoned to him that Brother Melvin J. Ballard was in a dying condition and he doubted that he would be alive when I reached the hospital. I went directly to the hospital. President Clark was there and we called in Brother Ballard's room. His wife and children were there and they asked us to dedicate Brother Ballard to the Lord feeling that he ought to be relived (sic) of his pain. I do not think he recognized us. His eyes glared, and I felt that I just could not utter a prayer dedicating him to the Lord. He is the first man that I nominated to be an apostle, and I asked Brother Clark to comply with the request of his family. I was impressed by his putting a good, strong if in his prayer, if his time had come that he might go quickly, otherwise that he might be healed. I remained there about three-quarters for an hour expecting him to pass away. Then I excused
myself and went hom (sic) for breakfast.
[Diary of Heber J. Grant, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
I went directly to the hospital having been told by my son-in-law, who met us at the depot, that Brother McKay had just telephoned to him that Brother Melvin J. Ballard was in a dying condition and he doubted that he would be alive when I reached the hospital. I went directly to the hospital. President Clark was there and we called in Brother Ballard's room. His wife and children were there and they asked us to dedicate Brother Ballard to the Lord feeling that he ought to be relived (sic) of his pain. I do not think he recognized us. His eyes glared, and I felt that I just could not utter a prayer dedicating him to the Lord. He is the first man that I nominated to be an apostle, and I asked Brother Clark to comply with the request of his family. I was impressed by his putting a good, strong if in his prayer, if his time had come that he might go quickly, otherwise that he might be healed. I remained there about three-quarters for an hour expecting him to pass away. Then I excused
myself and went hom (sic) for breakfast.
[Diary of Heber J. Grant, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
90 years ago today - Jul 25, 1934
[President Heber J. Grant Diary]
Glen Smith, a son of the late Apostle John Henry Smith, called, and I had a long talk with him telling of the reasons that led to the dropping of John W. Taylor and Matthias Cowley from the Quorum of the Apostles and entered into detail regarding my interviews with Cowley. When he left he expressed pleasure at my explanation of things and said he felt first-class about the status of things, for which I was grateful.
[Diary of Heber J. Grant, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
Glen Smith, a son of the late Apostle John Henry Smith, called, and I had a long talk with him telling of the reasons that led to the dropping of John W. Taylor and Matthias Cowley from the Quorum of the Apostles and entered into detail regarding my interviews with Cowley. When he left he expressed pleasure at my explanation of things and said he felt first-class about the status of things, for which I was grateful.
[Diary of Heber J. Grant, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
125 years ago today - Tuesday, Jul 25, 1899
[Apostle John Henry Smith Diary]
One Owens has made an accusation against Heber J. Grant for Adultry for living with his Wife Emily Wells.
[Jean Bickmore White (editor), Church, State, and Politics: The Diaries of John Henry Smith, Signature Books in association with Smith Research Associates, Salt Lake City, 1990, http://bit.ly/johnhenrysmith]
One Owens has made an accusation against Heber J. Grant for Adultry for living with his Wife Emily Wells.
[Jean Bickmore White (editor), Church, State, and Politics: The Diaries of John Henry Smith, Signature Books in association with Smith Research Associates, Salt Lake City, 1990, http://bit.ly/johnhenrysmith]
125 years ago today - Jul 25, 1899
[Apostle Heber J. Grant Diary]
At St Chas saw paper that chg of adultery made against me. At Bloomington teleg Dougall-to me & to Budge--Keep from appearing in public.
[Diary of Heber J. Grant, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
At St Chas saw paper that chg of adultery made against me. At Bloomington teleg Dougall-to me & to Budge--Keep from appearing in public.
[Diary of Heber J. Grant, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
180 years ago today - Jul 25, 1844
Illinois Governor Thomas Ford writes to the people of Hancock county: "Try your 'Mormon' neighbors again, and if you cannot dwell together in amity, you may at least refrain from injuring each other. . . . Besides, if you are the aggressors, I am determined that all the power of the state shall be used to prevent your success. I can never agree that a set of infatuated and infuriated men shall barbarously attack a peaceful people who have submitted to all the demands of the law, and when they had full power to do so, refrained from inflicting vengeance upon their enemies. You may count on my most determined opposition-upon the opposition of the law, and upon that of every peaceful, law-abiding citizen of the country. . . . I have been informed that the 'Mormons' about Lima and Macedonia have been warned to leave the settlements. They have a right to remain and enjoy their property. As long as they are good citizens they shall not be molested, and the sooner those misguided persons
withdraw their warning and retrace their steps, the better it will be for them."
Since it is an election year, feeling is that Ford is only trying to win Mormon votes for the Democratic party.
withdraw their warning and retrace their steps, the better it will be for them."
Since it is an election year, feeling is that Ford is only trying to win Mormon votes for the Democratic party.
185 years ago today - Jul 25, 1839
Trial of Thomas B. Marsh's wife for withholding cream strippings from her partner.
[Kenney, Scott, Saints Without Halos, "Mormon History 1830-1844," http://web.archive.org/web/20120805163534/saintswithouthalos.com/dirs/d_c.phtml]
[Kenney, Scott, Saints Without Halos, "Mormon History 1830-1844," http://web.archive.org/web/20120805163534/saintswithouthalos.com/dirs/d_c.phtml]
40 years ago today - Jul 24, 1984
Two Mormon Fundamentalists, brothers Ron and Dan Lafferty, ritualistically murder their sister-in-law Brenda and her fifteen-month-old daughter Erica in response to a "Thus saith the Lord" revelation: "It is my will and commandment that ye remove the following individuals in order that my work might go forward. For they have truly become obstacles in my path and I will not allow my work to be stopped. First thy brother's wife Brenda and her baby, . . ."
[In 2003 Jon Krakauer authored "Under the Banner of Heaven," an account of the murder and the Mormon background of the Laffertys.]
[On This Day in Mormon History, http://onthisdayinmormonhistory.blogspot.com, based on Michael Quinn's Mormon Hierarchy vols 1 & 2]
[In 2003 Jon Krakauer authored "Under the Banner of Heaven," an account of the murder and the Mormon background of the Laffertys.]
[On This Day in Mormon History, http://onthisdayinmormonhistory.blogspot.com, based on Michael Quinn's Mormon Hierarchy vols 1 & 2]
125 years ago today - Jul 24, 1899; Monday
[Anthony Ivins Journal]
Apostle [Brigham] Young [Jr.] made interesting remini[s]cent remarks. Said in vision a messenger took him into the air and showed him the entire continent. He saw the country North & East desolate & devoid of all inhabitants, while the country South was populous & prosperous. The Presidency called the people together and said--Brethren we want volu pioneers to go out and build up the waste places there are none to oppose us.
[Anderson, Elizabeth Oberdick, editor, Cowboy Apostle: The Diaries of Anthony W. Ivins: 1875-1932, Signature Books, Salt Lake City in association with the Smith-Pettit Foundation (2013) - http://bit.ly/AnthonyIvins]
Apostle [Brigham] Young [Jr.] made interesting remini[s]cent remarks. Said in vision a messenger took him into the air and showed him the entire continent. He saw the country North & East desolate & devoid of all inhabitants, while the country South was populous & prosperous. The Presidency called the people together and said--Brethren we want volu pioneers to go out and build up the waste places there are none to oppose us.
[Anderson, Elizabeth Oberdick, editor, Cowboy Apostle: The Diaries of Anthony W. Ivins: 1875-1932, Signature Books, Salt Lake City in association with the Smith-Pettit Foundation (2013) - http://bit.ly/AnthonyIvins]
130 years ago today - Jul 24, 1894
[President Wilford Woodruff Journal]
July 24, 1894 47 years ago this day I brought Prest Brigham Young into this valley in my Carriage. Nearly all of that Company to day are in the spirit world. I spent this day at home vary quiet.
[Wilford Woodruff's Journal: 1833-1898 Typescript, Volumes 1-9, Edited by Scott G. Kenney, Signature Books 1993, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
July 24, 1894 47 years ago this day I brought Prest Brigham Young into this valley in my Carriage. Nearly all of that Company to day are in the spirit world. I spent this day at home vary quiet.
[Wilford Woodruff's Journal: 1833-1898 Typescript, Volumes 1-9, Edited by Scott G. Kenney, Signature Books 1993, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
150 years ago today - Jul 24, 1874
[Apostle Wilford Woodruff Journal]
This is the Anniversary of the Entrance of the Pioneers into this vally on the 24 day of July 1847, Being 27 years ago. The Inhabitants of this City have been laboring for several weeks to adorn the great Tabernacle to prepare a Great Jubilee of the Sabbath school Children of 4 Counties Salt Lake, Utah, & Davis & Webber. From 8,000 to 10,000 Children Assembled in the Tabernacle & the rest of the room was occupied by adults. It was judged that there were 14,000 people in the Tabernacle. Most of the time was occupied with songs & Music. Short speeches were made By President B Young G A Smith & G Q. Cannon. The whole Tabernacle was decorated with Evergreens & taking it altogether it was the grandest view & scene of my life. A day long to be remembered.
[Wilford Woodruff's Journal: 1833-1898 Typescript, Volumes 1-9, Edited by Scott G. Kenney, Signature Books 1993, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
This is the Anniversary of the Entrance of the Pioneers into this vally on the 24 day of July 1847, Being 27 years ago. The Inhabitants of this City have been laboring for several weeks to adorn the great Tabernacle to prepare a Great Jubilee of the Sabbath school Children of 4 Counties Salt Lake, Utah, & Davis & Webber. From 8,000 to 10,000 Children Assembled in the Tabernacle & the rest of the room was occupied by adults. It was judged that there were 14,000 people in the Tabernacle. Most of the time was occupied with songs & Music. Short speeches were made By President B Young G A Smith & G Q. Cannon. The whole Tabernacle was decorated with Evergreens & taking it altogether it was the grandest view & scene of my life. A day long to be remembered.
[Wilford Woodruff's Journal: 1833-1898 Typescript, Volumes 1-9, Edited by Scott G. Kenney, Signature Books 1993, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
160 years ago today - Jul 24, 1864
[Brigham Young Sermon]
I have know where gold is'-if gold discovered here we would be ruined. God would have given this people riches, but would have ruined us'
[The Complete Discourses of Brigham Young, Ed. Richard S. Van Wagoner, Smith-Pettit Foundation, Salt Lake City (2009), http://bit.ly/BY-discourses]
I have know where gold is'-if gold discovered here we would be ruined. God would have given this people riches, but would have ruined us'
[The Complete Discourses of Brigham Young, Ed. Richard S. Van Wagoner, Smith-Pettit Foundation, Salt Lake City (2009), http://bit.ly/BY-discourses]
175 years ago today - Jul 24, 1849
First mass celebration of Pioneer Day; first LDS historical event to be "ritualized."
[The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn, [New Mormon History database ( http://bit.ly/NMHdatabase )]]
[The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn, [New Mormon History database ( http://bit.ly/NMHdatabase )]]
195 years ago today - Jul 24, 1829
The WAYNE SENTINEL opines that the "gap in the history of the world, as far as it relates to [the Indians], . . . can never be closed up." The same newspaper quotes Thomas Jefferson as saying that the Indian's origin and ancient history was "consigned to the receptacle of things forever lost upon earth."
[On This Day in Mormon History, http://onthisdayinmormonhistory.blogspot.com, based on Michael Quinn's Mormon Hierarchy vols 1 & 2]
[On This Day in Mormon History, http://onthisdayinmormonhistory.blogspot.com, based on Michael Quinn's Mormon Hierarchy vols 1 & 2]
30 years ago today - Jul 23, 1994
CHURCH NEWS story "Members Help Defeat Lottery Initiative" tells how two general authorities coordinate political campaign in Oklahoma where Mormons "make up less than 1 percent of the state's population." LDS Public Affairs officials and their Protestant allies achieve overwhelming defeat of proposal even though "public opinion polls show 75 percent for the initiative" before this Mormon-directed campaign.
[On This Day in Mormon History, http://onthisdayinmormonhistory.blogspot.com, based on Michael Quinn's Mormon Hierarchy vols 1 & 2]
[On This Day in Mormon History, http://onthisdayinmormonhistory.blogspot.com, based on Michael Quinn's Mormon Hierarchy vols 1 & 2]
60 years ago today - Jul 23, 1964
Richard D.] Poll ... joined with twenty-one other BYU professors in publicly condemning John A. Stormer's None Dare Call It Treason as "this piece of fanatacism." Poll was the one who publicly responded to complaints by BYU's ultra-conservative students about this statement. At the time Stormer's book was "in sales and in loans, the most popular book" within the Birch Society.
["Faculty Members Deplore 'Fanaticism' of Booklet," Provo Daily Herald, 23 July 1964, 14; "None Dare Call It Treason Causes Sincere Concern," Brigham Young University Daily Universe, 23 July 1964, 2; "Students Take Issue With 'None Dare Call It Treason' Critics," Brigham Young University Daily Universe, 28 July 1964, 2; "Poll Answers Student Letters," Brigham Young University Daily Universe, 30 July 1964, 2. 138. ". From D. Michael Quinn, Ezra Taft Benson and Mormon Political Conflicts, Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 26:2 (Summer 1992), also in Quinn, The Mormon Hierarchy: Extensions of Power Salt Lake City (Signature Books, 1994), Chapter 3.]
["Faculty Members Deplore 'Fanaticism' of Booklet," Provo Daily Herald, 23 July 1964, 14; "None Dare Call It Treason Causes Sincere Concern," Brigham Young University Daily Universe, 23 July 1964, 2; "Students Take Issue With 'None Dare Call It Treason' Critics," Brigham Young University Daily Universe, 28 July 1964, 2; "Poll Answers Student Letters," Brigham Young University Daily Universe, 30 July 1964, 2. 138. ". From D. Michael Quinn, Ezra Taft Benson and Mormon Political Conflicts, Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 26:2 (Summer 1992), also in Quinn, The Mormon Hierarchy: Extensions of Power Salt Lake City (Signature Books, 1994), Chapter 3.]
85 years ago today - Jul 23, 1939
Ben E. Roberts, the son of B. H. Roberts, acknowledges the existence of "A Parallel" in a letter to Mormon attorney and author Ariel L. Crowley. "A Parallel," which was originally eighteen typed pages, presents similarities between Ethan Smith's VIEW OF THE HEBREWS and the Book of Mormon and is arranged in parallel columns. It was presented to Apostle Richard R. Lyman in 1927 and had circulated in the Mormon underground. Copies of the document are passed out in 1946 at the Timpanogos Club of Salt Lake City on in 1946. It is subsequently published in the Rocky Mountain Mason in 1956. VIEW OF THE HEBREWS was published in New York shortly before the Book of Mormon.
[On This Day in Mormon History, http://onthisdayinmormonhistory.blogspot.com, based on Michael Quinn's Mormon Hierarchy vols 1 & 2]
[On This Day in Mormon History, http://onthisdayinmormonhistory.blogspot.com, based on Michael Quinn's Mormon Hierarchy vols 1 & 2]
90 years ago today - Jul 23, 1934
President Ivins reported that Sister Nancy A.C. Williams ... is the wife of ... a grandson of Frederick G. Williams, one of the First Presidency of the Church at the time the Kirtland Temple was erected. She states to President Ivins that they have the papers and have been advised by an attorney that they could recover title to the Kirtland Temple in view of the fact that Frederick G. Williams had deeded the property to the Church for the temple site with the provision that if it were not used for temple purposes they could recover the property at any time. The Presidency requested that the Presiding Bishopric inquire into this situation.
[First Presidency, Meeting with Presiding Bishopric, Minutes, 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]
[First Presidency, Meeting with Presiding Bishopric, Minutes, 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]
100 years ago today - Jul 23, 1924
[President Heber J. Grant Diary]
Met Mr. G.A. Marr, attorney in my office this morning shortly after 7 o'clock, and talked with him until after 9. He wrote me a letter some time ago saying he could not understand how in the world I could sustain Guy C. Wilson as president of the L.D.S. Shcool [sic] of Music and L.D.S. High School and Business College, when I knew that he was living in violation of the law, having two families in Salt Lake City. I explained to him that Guy Wilson went to Mexico in good faith to live there, married two wives there, expecting to spend his time in Mexico, that when the rebellion came and he was driven out, that my predecessor saw fit to employ him as president of the L.D.S. University and that I did not feel like discharging him, as he had spent his life preparing himself to teach. I felt that men who had entered into plural marriage in Mexico, by and with the consent of President Diaz and prior to the dropping of John W. Taylor and Matthias F. Cowley as members of the Council of the
Twelve, so far as the Church was concerned, ought not to be condemned. He stated that he could not agree with me, but he saw my standpoint, and seemed to feel better than prior to writing his letter.
[Diary of Heber J. Grant, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
Met Mr. G.A. Marr, attorney in my office this morning shortly after 7 o'clock, and talked with him until after 9. He wrote me a letter some time ago saying he could not understand how in the world I could sustain Guy C. Wilson as president of the L.D.S. Shcool [sic] of Music and L.D.S. High School and Business College, when I knew that he was living in violation of the law, having two families in Salt Lake City. I explained to him that Guy Wilson went to Mexico in good faith to live there, married two wives there, expecting to spend his time in Mexico, that when the rebellion came and he was driven out, that my predecessor saw fit to employ him as president of the L.D.S. University and that I did not feel like discharging him, as he had spent his life preparing himself to teach. I felt that men who had entered into plural marriage in Mexico, by and with the consent of President Diaz and prior to the dropping of John W. Taylor and Matthias F. Cowley as members of the Council of the
Twelve, so far as the Church was concerned, ought not to be condemned. He stated that he could not agree with me, but he saw my standpoint, and seemed to feel better than prior to writing his letter.
[Diary of Heber J. Grant, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
115 years ago today - Jul 23, 1909
[Anthony W. Ivins]
[A]t 10 A.M., met with my quorum and continued investigating ... question of plural marriages. Ja[me]s. G. Duffin, Hyrum Grant, Patriarch [Judson] Tolman. [July 21-23, 1909] Investigation new case of plural marriage.
[Anthony W. Ivins Diary, 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]
[A]t 10 A.M., met with my quorum and continued investigating ... question of plural marriages. Ja[me]s. G. Duffin, Hyrum Grant, Patriarch [Judson] Tolman. [July 21-23, 1909] Investigation new case of plural marriage.
[Anthony W. Ivins Diary, 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]
125 years ago today - Jul 23, 1899
The last plural marriage that President Lorenzo Snow permits stake president Anthony W. Ivins to perform in Mexico.
[The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn, [New Mormon History database ( http://bit.ly/NMHdatabase )]]
[The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn, [New Mormon History database ( http://bit.ly/NMHdatabase )]]
135 years ago today - Jul 23, 1889
[Apostle Heber J. Grant Diary]
At the Nephi conference nearly all of the remarks of Bro[ther] Morgan and myself were on the necessity of the Saints being united in all things whether political or spiritual.
[Diary of Heber J. Grant, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
At the Nephi conference nearly all of the remarks of Bro[ther] Morgan and myself were on the necessity of the Saints being united in all things whether political or spiritual.
[Diary of Heber J. Grant, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
185 years ago today - July 23, 1839
Joseph Smith:
"I told Don Carlos and George A. Smith to go and visit all the sick, exercise mighty faith, and administer to them in the name of Jesus Christ, commanding the destroyer to depart, and the people to arise and walk, and not leave a single person on the bed between my house and Ebenezer Robinson's, two miles distant." (History of the Church, vol. 4, p. 398-399)
These brethren did as the Prophet envisioned and, in faith, administered to (and healed) sixty persons or more. Many of these souls thought they would never sit up again and yet were healed. Some, after being healed, arose from their beds to assist others who were sick.
[A Timeline of Joseph Smith's Prophecies: His Prophecies Fulfilled (https://amzn.to/42s0h3I)]
"I told Don Carlos and George A. Smith to go and visit all the sick, exercise mighty faith, and administer to them in the name of Jesus Christ, commanding the destroyer to depart, and the people to arise and walk, and not leave a single person on the bed between my house and Ebenezer Robinson's, two miles distant." (History of the Church, vol. 4, p. 398-399)
These brethren did as the Prophet envisioned and, in faith, administered to (and healed) sixty persons or more. Many of these souls thought they would never sit up again and yet were healed. Some, after being healed, arose from their beds to assist others who were sick.
[A Timeline of Joseph Smith's Prophecies: His Prophecies Fulfilled (https://amzn.to/42s0h3I)]
85 years ago today - Jul 22, 1939
[President Heber J. Grant Diary]
Bishop D.G. Hunt of the Catholic Church called and apologized for some unfavorable things published in the Catholic paper regarding our people. He said he would be willing to publish a refutation of them. I told him I thought perhaps it would be best to just let them alone.
[Diary of Heber J. Grant, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
Bishop D.G. Hunt of the Catholic Church called and apologized for some unfavorable things published in the Catholic paper regarding our people. He said he would be willing to publish a refutation of them. I told him I thought perhaps it would be best to just let them alone.
[Diary of Heber J. Grant, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
115 years ago today - Jul 22, 1909
[Joseph W. Musser]
Was requested to attend a meeting with Pres[ident]. Francis M. Lyman, in the Temple at 4:30 [p.m.]. I waited until 6 P.M. when I was invited into the Apostles' room where an inquisition was being held be Pres[ident]. ... Object of inquisition, to get information regarding the practice of Plural Marriage since the discontinuance thereof by the church; also to assay those who are now favoring the practice, against it: Was grilled two hours by the brethren and declared out of harmony by Bro[ther]. Grant and Pres[ident]. Lyman several times. The proceedings were in substance as follows: Asked if I knew Bro[ther]. ... Asked if I had talked to any one about the subject since Pres[ident]. [Joseph F.] Smith's statement in the Tabernacle five years ago, and to whom. If any one had talked to me, and whom. Answer, yes but any such conversations were of a confidential nature and I did not feel at liberty to divulge them This attitude was criticised strongly by Bro[ther]s. Lyman, Smith and
Grant, but I could not change. Asked if I had heard of any body claiming that people could 'get in' now. I said. I presume I could go out on the street and find two hundred people who would claim that. Who are they? The Saints generally. Why should they claim it? Because it is generally understood that many were permitted to 'get in' since the [Wilford] Woodruff Manifesto, and that being true, the people think the opportunity is still open. ...
[Joseph W. Musser, Diary, as quoted in Minutes of the Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1835-1951, Electronic Edition, 2015]
Was requested to attend a meeting with Pres[ident]. Francis M. Lyman, in the Temple at 4:30 [p.m.]. I waited until 6 P.M. when I was invited into the Apostles' room where an inquisition was being held be Pres[ident]. ... Object of inquisition, to get information regarding the practice of Plural Marriage since the discontinuance thereof by the church; also to assay those who are now favoring the practice, against it: Was grilled two hours by the brethren and declared out of harmony by Bro[ther]. Grant and Pres[ident]. Lyman several times. The proceedings were in substance as follows: Asked if I knew Bro[ther]. ... Asked if I had talked to any one about the subject since Pres[ident]. [Joseph F.] Smith's statement in the Tabernacle five years ago, and to whom. If any one had talked to me, and whom. Answer, yes but any such conversations were of a confidential nature and I did not feel at liberty to divulge them This attitude was criticised strongly by Bro[ther]s. Lyman, Smith and
Grant, but I could not change. Asked if I had heard of any body claiming that people could 'get in' now. I said. I presume I could go out on the street and find two hundred people who would claim that. Who are they? The Saints generally. Why should they claim it? Because it is generally understood that many were permitted to 'get in' since the [Wilford] Woodruff Manifesto, and that being true, the people think the opportunity is still open. ...
[Joseph W. Musser, Diary, as quoted in Minutes of the Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1835-1951, Electronic Edition, 2015]
125 years ago today - Jul 22, 1899; Saturday
[Anthony Ivins Journal]
.... stood on the Temple lot at Independence Missouri. Referred to the law suit bet[ween] the Josephites & Hedrikites for its possession. Said the time would come when the judgments of God would sweep every incumbrance from that land & when we go back to build a city & temple there will be none that will oppose them.
[Anderson, Elizabeth Oberdick, editor, Cowboy Apostle: The Diaries of Anthony W. Ivins: 1875-1932, Signature Books, Salt Lake City in association with the Smith-Pettit Foundation (2013) - http://bit.ly/AnthonyIvins]
.... stood on the Temple lot at Independence Missouri. Referred to the law suit bet[ween] the Josephites & Hedrikites for its possession. Said the time would come when the judgments of God would sweep every incumbrance from that land & when we go back to build a city & temple there will be none that will oppose them.
[Anderson, Elizabeth Oberdick, editor, Cowboy Apostle: The Diaries of Anthony W. Ivins: 1875-1932, Signature Books, Salt Lake City in association with the Smith-Pettit Foundation (2013) - http://bit.ly/AnthonyIvins]
135 years ago today - Jul 22, 1889
[Patriarchal Blessing of Elisabeth Ruth Dowdle by O. N. Liljenquist on July 22, 1889]
I say ... that you may live even until the coming of the Son of Man. ... For you shall see great changes, you shall see te plagues go forth upon the earth, and the great destruction of a great portion of the human race, pass off from this existence due to these plagues, but if you will listen to the still small voice, it shall not hurt thee, you shall have power to rebuke the destroyer. He shall pass your door by, you will have power to sanctify your house and habitation, and exercise a sanctifying influence in many habitations. ...
[Patriarchal Blessings]
I say ... that you may live even until the coming of the Son of Man. ... For you shall see great changes, you shall see te plagues go forth upon the earth, and the great destruction of a great portion of the human race, pass off from this existence due to these plagues, but if you will listen to the still small voice, it shall not hurt thee, you shall have power to rebuke the destroyer. He shall pass your door by, you will have power to sanctify your house and habitation, and exercise a sanctifying influence in many habitations. ...
[Patriarchal Blessings]
140 years ago today - Jul 22, 1884
In Tullahoma, Tennessee, Missionary J. Golden Kimball asks a couple named Sharp for lodging and finds himself in the middle of a marital storm. Mr. Sharp seems to have been running around with a girl of nineteen, and after J. Golden's arrival Mrs. Sharp ventures the opinion that Mormonism would suit Mr. Sharp just fine.
150 years ago today - Jul 22, 1874
[Brigham Young Sermon]
It is my last will and testimony to my brethren that in choosing [leaders] for the Legislative Assembly, never choose a lawyer, and to preserve purity and good government, let the jury laws be so made that the persons be from among good honest farmers and machinists, men who labor for a living, to judge the cases; then you will have a good government. -- Salt Lake City
[Leonard J. Arrington Papers, Special Collections, Merrill-Cazier Library, Utah State University, Logan.. (A reference reading LJA 12-55-5, 10, means LJA Series 12, Box 55, Folder 5, page 10.) 9-13-2 as quoted in The Complete Discourses of Brigham Young, Ed. Richard S. Van Wagoner, Smith-Pettit Foundation, Salt Lake City (2009), http://bit.ly/BY-discourses]
It is my last will and testimony to my brethren that in choosing [leaders] for the Legislative Assembly, never choose a lawyer, and to preserve purity and good government, let the jury laws be so made that the persons be from among good honest farmers and machinists, men who labor for a living, to judge the cases; then you will have a good government. -- Salt Lake City
[Leonard J. Arrington Papers, Special Collections, Merrill-Cazier Library, Utah State University, Logan.. (A reference reading LJA 12-55-5, 10, means LJA Series 12, Box 55, Folder 5, page 10.) 9-13-2 as quoted in The Complete Discourses of Brigham Young, Ed. Richard S. Van Wagoner, Smith-Pettit Foundation, Salt Lake City (2009), http://bit.ly/BY-discourses]
180 years ago today - Jul 22, 1844
[Apostle Wilford Woodruff Journal]
I lade my hands upon my Father Aphek head (And according to the authority of the Priesthood and Apostleship confered upon me by the Revelations of Jesus Christ under the hands of the Twelve Apostles, President B. Young being mouth upon the cornor stone of the house of the Lord in far west in the land of Zion,) I ordained My father Aphek Woodruff unto the office of an high Priest and Patriarch after the order of Melchezedeck. I sealed him up unto eternal life. I placed upon his head the seals of the covenant. [One and a half lines crossed out and illegible.]
[Wilford Woodruff's Journal: 1833-1898 Typescript, Volumes 1-9, Edited by Scott G. Kenney, Signature Books 1993, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
I lade my hands upon my Father Aphek head (And according to the authority of the Priesthood and Apostleship confered upon me by the Revelations of Jesus Christ under the hands of the Twelve Apostles, President B. Young being mouth upon the cornor stone of the house of the Lord in far west in the land of Zion,) I ordained My father Aphek Woodruff unto the office of an high Priest and Patriarch after the order of Melchezedeck. I sealed him up unto eternal life. I placed upon his head the seals of the covenant. [One and a half lines crossed out and illegible.]
[Wilford Woodruff's Journal: 1833-1898 Typescript, Volumes 1-9, Edited by Scott G. Kenney, Signature Books 1993, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
185 years ago today - Jul 22, 1839
Joseph records that "the sick were administered unto with great success, but many remain sick, and new cases are occurring daily." On this day he walks through the sick, healing almost everyone he touches. Wilford Woodruff borrows a silk bandana from Joseph and wipes it on the faces of sick twins, who are immediately healed.
[Conkling, Christopher J., Joseph Smith Chronology]
[Conkling, Christopher J., Joseph Smith Chronology]
20 years ago today - Jul 21, 2004
Elder Neal A. Maxwell dies.
[Wikipedia, 21st Century (Mormonism), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/21st_century_(Mormonism)]
[Wikipedia, 21st Century (Mormonism), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/21st_century_(Mormonism)]
70 years ago today - Jul 21, 1954
The First Presidency announced the establishment of the Church College of Hawaii. The college commenced operation Sept. 26, 1955.
[Church News: Historical Chronology of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, http://www.ldschurchnewsarchive.com/articles/58765/Historical-chronology-of-The-Church-of-Jesus-Christ-of-Latter-day-Saints.html]
[Church News: Historical Chronology of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, http://www.ldschurchnewsarchive.com/articles/58765/Historical-chronology-of-The-Church-of-Jesus-Christ-of-Latter-day-Saints.html]
80 years ago today - Jul 21, 1944
U.S. Armed forces begin invasion of Guam. Paul H. Dunn later tells of his experience in the landing: "We jump in the water, the water's chest high. You gotta hold your rifle over your head. If the muzzle drops in the water-that's salt water-it would blow up when you fire. Did you ever try to run in water up to your chest, loaded down? You don't move very fast. And the enemy starts to pick you up. You're pushing with the butt of your rifle the dead bodies and wounded bodies of your friends and associates you've been training with. The coral is so sharp it cuts the boots off your feet and your feet are starting to bleed like mincemeat, and you're trying to get ashore. I was one of the first ashore that morning. And I dug my first foxhole with my fingernails and I crawled in it. And just as I crawled into that mucky hole an ambu gun opens up that shoots about 700 rounds a minute and it went down my right arm and took off my identification bracelet. And I rolled over and started to
talk to Heavenly Father. And he answered me. And I have never been the same since." The division history says of the landing, "Fortunately little fire was received, as the enemy was occupied by the Marines now half a mile inland."
Two soldiers who were on Dunn's landing craft affirm it was caught on a coral reef during the landing and did not land until the next day. One of them recalls a casualty that happened in connection with the landing: "One died shortly after we landed at Guam. It was an accident. He had laid his gun down on a jeep; it fell off [and discharged]."
talk to Heavenly Father. And he answered me. And I have never been the same since." The division history says of the landing, "Fortunately little fire was received, as the enemy was occupied by the Marines now half a mile inland."
Two soldiers who were on Dunn's landing craft affirm it was caught on a coral reef during the landing and did not land until the next day. One of them recalls a casualty that happened in connection with the landing: "One died shortly after we landed at Guam. It was an accident. He had laid his gun down on a jeep; it fell off [and discharged]."
85 years ago today - Jul 21, 1939
[J. Reuben Clark]
I raised the question as to whether or not we wished to continue to send missionaries to Germany, pointing out that in case of war it might be a question of getting our missionaries out of Germany and having them thrown into concentration camps, with all the horrors that that entails. President Grant expressed himself as not feeling happy about the situation. He felt we ought to discontinue sending missionaries to Germany until matters quieted down. This was decided upon.
[The Diaries of J. Reuben Clark, 1933-1961, Abridged, Digital Edition, Salt Lake City, Utah 2015]
I raised the question as to whether or not we wished to continue to send missionaries to Germany, pointing out that in case of war it might be a question of getting our missionaries out of Germany and having them thrown into concentration camps, with all the horrors that that entails. President Grant expressed himself as not feeling happy about the situation. He felt we ought to discontinue sending missionaries to Germany until matters quieted down. This was decided upon.
[The Diaries of J. Reuben Clark, 1933-1961, Abridged, Digital Edition, Salt Lake City, Utah 2015]
85 years ago today - Jul 21, 1939
First Presidency agrees to send no more missionaries to Germany due to danger of "having them thrown into concentration camps, with all the horrors that that entails."
120 years ago today - Jul 21, 1904; Thursday
It was the sense of the meeting, at the suggestion of President [Joseph F.] Smith, that Brother [Charles W.] Penrose's picture be hung on the walls of the temple, and that Brother John Hafen be employed to paint it. ....
[First Presidency and Quorum of the Twelve minutes]
[First Presidency and Quorum of the Twelve minutes]
135 years ago today - Jul 21, 1889
First Counselor in the First Presidency George Q. Cannon preaches: " We are commanded to be subject to the direction of the Holy Spirit when we arise to speak; for if we speak as we should do, it is not we who speak, but it is the Spirit of God which speaks through us. On this account, the Elders of the Church do not, at least as a rule, prepare themselves before hand with either written or memorized sermons, for if they were to do so, they would depart from the order of heaven, and would prove utter failures."
145 years ago today - Jul 21, 1879
Joseph Standing is the first missionary killed by an anti-Mormon mob. The accused murderers are acquitted by a Georgia court.
[The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn, [New Mormon History database ( http://bit.ly/NMHdatabase )]]
[The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn, [New Mormon History database ( http://bit.ly/NMHdatabase )]]
175 years ago today - Jul 21, 1849
Addison Pratt, departing missionary, receives endowment given on Ensign Peak, "the place being consecrated for the purpose."
180 years ago today - Jul 21, 1844 (Sunday)
Addison Pratt, departing missionary, receives endowment given on Ensign Peak, "the place being consecrated for the purpose."
Addison Pratt baptized four white men and four natives on the island of Tubuai. These natives, whose names were Nabota and his wife Telii, Pauma and Hamoe, were the first of the Polynesian race to embrace the fulness of the gospel.
[Jenson, Andrew, Church Chronology]
Addison Pratt baptized four white men and four natives on the island of Tubuai. These natives, whose names were Nabota and his wife Telii, Pauma and Hamoe, were the first of the Polynesian race to embrace the fulness of the gospel.
[Jenson, Andrew, Church Chronology]
115 years ago today - Jul 20, 1909
[Apostle Heber J. Grant Diary]
Had a talk with B.H. Roberts and Ida Dusenbury regarding plural marriages that are being performed at the present time and I learned that Brother Cowley was supposed to be quoted as saying that these marriages could be performed today as well as they ever could, and that it was all right to perform them. These reports had come to Brother Roberts and Sister Dusenbury, and I am hoping that they are not true, because if Brother Cowley is saying anything of this kind, it is an outrage, and I would naturally think that after having been dropped from the Quorum of the Twelve, that he would not pressure to make any such remarks. I understand he is a very sick man or I would investigate the case at once.
[Diary of Heber J. Grant, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
Had a talk with B.H. Roberts and Ida Dusenbury regarding plural marriages that are being performed at the present time and I learned that Brother Cowley was supposed to be quoted as saying that these marriages could be performed today as well as they ever could, and that it was all right to perform them. These reports had come to Brother Roberts and Sister Dusenbury, and I am hoping that they are not true, because if Brother Cowley is saying anything of this kind, it is an outrage, and I would naturally think that after having been dropped from the Quorum of the Twelve, that he would not pressure to make any such remarks. I understand he is a very sick man or I would investigate the case at once.
[Diary of Heber J. Grant, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
120 years ago today - Jul 20, 1904
The Deseret News reports that a young man being sent home early from his mission has attempted suicide by drinking carbolic acid and slitting his throat and wrists with a razor.
[The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn, [New Mormon History database ( http://bit.ly/NMHdatabase )]]
[The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn, [New Mormon History database ( http://bit.ly/NMHdatabase )]]
120 years ago today - Jul 20, 1904
DESERET NEWS reports that a young man being sent home early from his mission has attempted suicide by taking carbolic acid and slitting his throat and wrists with a razor.
145 years ago today - Jul 20, 1879
Apostle George Q. Cannon preaches, "If plural marriage be divine, as the Latter-day Saints say it is, no power on earth can suppress it, unless you crush and destroy the entire people."
[The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn, [New Mormon History database ( http://bit.ly/NMHdatabase )]]
[The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn, [New Mormon History database ( http://bit.ly/NMHdatabase )]]
180 years ago today - Jul 20, 1844
Nearly a month after the assisination of Joseph Smith, dissident 1st counselor William Law writes in a letter: "While the wicked slay the wicked I believe I can see the hand of a blasphemed God stretched out in judgment, the cries of innocence and virtue have ascended up before the throne of God, and he has taken sudden vengeance."
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