140 years ago today - Jan 15, 1876

Andrew J. Allen reported that two elders told a congregation in one of the Salt Lake Valley wards to avoid the gentiles and their dress, and to "look forward to the time when the saviour would come on the earth which would be soon not more than sixteen years according to the revelations Joseph Smith had received."

[Source: The Last Days and December 1890 2nd Coming of Jesus Christ, y George D. Speer Sr., privately circulated]