Today in Mormon History - Jan 05

First Presidency repeats its 1978 instructions for "interviewing married persons" but adds: "The First Presidency has interpreted oral sex as constituting an unnatural, impure, or unholy practice." (1)
-- 30 years ago today - Jan 5, 1982

Section 74, Place: Hiram, Portage County, Ohio.

Historical Note: Section 73, received 10 January 1832, had commanded Joseph Smith and Sidney Rigdon to resume the translation of the Bible. They had done so. While no available statement definitely connects section 74 with the translation of the Bible, the implication is certainly very strong: Section 74 is an explanation of 1 Cor. 7:14.

Publication Note. Section 74 was first published as the 1835 edition of the Doctrine and Covenants. (2)
-- 180 years ago today - January 1832 (after 10 January and before 25 January)

At a prayer meeting in the Kirtland temple "One man gave us an account of the general gathering of Israel in the gift of tongues." "I [Wilford Woodruff] interpreted the Substance of the same." (1)
-- 175 years ago today - Jan 5, 1837

1 - Advent Adam website (defunct) - based on http://amzn.to/originsofpower
2 - Cook, Lyndon, Revelations of the Prophet Joseph Smith: A Historical and Biographical Commentary of the Doctrine and Covenants, http://amzn.to/RevelationsofJosephSmith