170 years ago today - May 1, 1845

The TIMES AND SEASONS denies that Latter-day Saints engage in polygamy. It also asks, concerning the concept of sending missionaries to Africa: "Have the common propensities of the heathen to do evil been lessened by the labors of the clergy, in as great a proportion as drunkedness and debauchery had increased by civilized intercourse under the board of foreign mission?"

[Source: On This Day in Mormon History, http://onthisdayinmormonhistory.blogspot.com]

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