Today in Mormon History - Dec 22

Kirtland, Ohio. Joseph Smith held a conference of the Church in the Kirtland Temple. (1)
-- 175 years ago today - Dec 22, 1836

Christmas Greeting-- Wickedness shall be overcome, hatred, enmity, strife, poverty, and war abolished. This will not be accomplished, however, with bombs and battleshot, with submarines or poison gas, but with a slow but never- failing process of changing men's mental and spiritual attitude. (Excerpt.) {1936-December 22-Liahona, the Elders' Journal 34:313-315, December 22, 1936.} (2)
-- 75 years ago today - Dec 22, 1936

[Apostle Franklin D. Richards Diary] At evening Charley read me a bill intended by Democracy of Utah get passed by Congress if practicable to give Utah the right to elect her own offices & pay them for their services. Also read part of the accompanying paper. (3)
-- 120 years ago today - Dec 22, 1891

1 - BYU Studies Journal, volume 46, no. 4: A Chronology of the Life of Joseph Smith, http://byustudies.byu.edu
2 - Clark, James R., Messages of the First Presidency (6 volumes)
3 - Diary Excerpts of Franklin D. Richards, 1887-1897, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies