Elder B[righam]. Young reported that he met with the trustees of the B[righam]. Y[oung]. College at Logan [Utah] on Wednesday, Geo[rge]. W. and [former apostle] Moses Thatcher being present. They appeared to be opposed to resigning their positions as trustees of the College, as requested by Pres[ident]. Woodruff...
Moses Thatcher gave Brother Brigham to understand that he and his brother George would have to consult an attorney before they could recognize the right of the President of the Church to require them to resign....
Brother Geo[rge]. W. Thatcher stated that as the College owed the Thatcher Bank about $10,000, he and his brother Moses had decided that this amount must be paid before they retired from the Board....
[Source: First Presidency and Quorum of the Twelve minutes]
145 years ago today - Feb 11, 1872
Orson Pratt preaches on the Book of Mormon "After landing on the western coast of South America, they divided into two colonies, one colony called Lamanites, the other called Nephites. . . . Being so severely persecuted by the Lamanites, the Nephites were commanded of the Lord to depart from their midst, . . . . the Nephites formed a colony not far from the head waters of the river Amazon, and they dwelt there some four centuries, increasing and spreading forth in the land. The Lamanites, in the South and in the middle portions of South America, also spread forth and multiplied, and became a very strong and powerful nation. . . . . under the guidance of prophets and revelators, [they] came still further northward, emigrating from the head waters of what we now term the river Amazon, upon the western coast, or not far from the western coast, until they came on the waters of the river which we call the Magdalena. On this river, not a great distance from the mouth thereof, in what is now termed the United States of Columbia, they built their great capital city."
160 years ago today - Feb 11, 1857
Heber C. Kimball preaches: "In the spirit world there is an increase of males and females, there are millions of them, if I am faithful all the time, and continue right along with brother Brigham, we will go to brother Joseph and say, 'Here we are brother Joseph; we are here ourselves are we not, with none of the property we possessed in our probationary state, not even the rings on our fingers?' He will say to us, 'Come along, my boys, we will give you a good suit of clothes. Where are your wives?' 'They are back yonder; they would not follow us.' 'Never mind,' says Joseph, 'here are thousands, have all you want.'"
170 years ago today - Thursday, Feb 11, 1847.
[Willard Richards]
President Young and Woodruff danced several figures.
[Source: Apostle Willard Richards Journal]
President Young and Woodruff danced several figures.
[Source: Apostle Willard Richards Journal]
140 years ago today - Sat 10
[John Nuttle]
- with Bro W. Woodruff engaged in writing the lecture for the Endowments to be read to Prest Young. spent the eving at Prest Young's house- did not finish our work-
[Source: Diary Excerpts of L. John Nuttall, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
- with Bro W. Woodruff engaged in writing the lecture for the Endowments to be read to Prest Young. spent the eving at Prest Young's house- did not finish our work-
[Source: Diary Excerpts of L. John Nuttall, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
150 years ago today - Feb 10, 1867
Brigham Young preaches that polygamy was the practice "of Jesus and his Apostles." He also says, "Men who know nothing of the Priesthood receive revelation and prophecy."
[Source: The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn, [New Mormon History database (http://bit.ly/NMHdatabase)]]
[Source: The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn, [New Mormon History database (http://bit.ly/NMHdatabase)]]
170 years ago today - Feb 10, 1847
William E Mclellin: Dictated revelation 10 Feb. 1847 commanding re-establishment of church under leadership of David Whitmer
[Source: Quinn, D. Michael, The Mormon Hierarchy: Origins of Power, Appendix 6, Biographical Sketches of General Officers of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1830-47, http://amzn.to/origins-power]
[Source: Quinn, D. Michael, The Mormon Hierarchy: Origins of Power, Appendix 6, Biographical Sketches of General Officers of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1830-47, http://amzn.to/origins-power]
180 years ago today - (Fri) Feb 10, 1837
The Mormons, in association with some non-Mormon allies in Geauga county) attempted for a second time to secure a bank charter for the [Kirtland Saftey Society]. A bill was introduced in the Legislature with an amendment granting the [Kirtland Saftey Society] a charter and authorizing its capital stock up to $300,000. This bill was defeated.
[Source: Dale W. Adams; BYU Studies Vol. 23, No. 4, pg.472; Broadhurst, Dale R., Mormon Chronology, http://olivercowdery.com/history/morchrn2.htm]
[Source: Dale W. Adams; BYU Studies Vol. 23, No. 4, pg.472; Broadhurst, Dale R., Mormon Chronology, http://olivercowdery.com/history/morchrn2.htm]
45 years ago today - Feb 9, 1972
Joseph Fielding Smith dedicates the temple at Provo, Utah. General authority Alvin R. Dyer reports that he "clearly saw [deceased] President David O. McKay in vision."
[Source: The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn, [New Mormon History database (http://bit.ly/NMHdatabase)]]
[Source: The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn, [New Mormon History database (http://bit.ly/NMHdatabase)]]
90 years ago today - Feb 9, 1927
[Anthony Ivins]
In the absence of President Grant from the city, I am taking the liberty of answering the questions contained in your letter of February 7th as follows: First: Was Christ ever married? We have no definite information or knowledge to justify the thought that the Redeemer was ever married. Second: Can any one enter the highest kingdom of God without being married? One may enter the Celestial Kingdom of God without being married.
[Source: Anthony W. Ivins, Letter to Theo Fairbanks, as quoted in Minutes of the Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1835-1951, Electronic Edition, 2015]
In the absence of President Grant from the city, I am taking the liberty of answering the questions contained in your letter of February 7th as follows: First: Was Christ ever married? We have no definite information or knowledge to justify the thought that the Redeemer was ever married. Second: Can any one enter the highest kingdom of God without being married? One may enter the Celestial Kingdom of God without being married.
[Source: Anthony W. Ivins, Letter to Theo Fairbanks, as quoted in Minutes of the Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1835-1951, Electronic Edition, 2015]
95 years ago today - Feb 9, 1922
Zion's Securities Corporation, is to own and manage church real estate properties.
[Source: The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn, [New Mormon History database (http://bit.ly/NMHdatabase)]]
[Source: The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn, [New Mormon History database (http://bit.ly/NMHdatabase)]]
115 years ago today - Feb 9, 1902
President Joseph F Smith
Dear Bro
one of our recently returned
missionary from the North Western
States is advicating (sp. advocating) the Doctorn (sp. Doctrine)
that Adam is the very eternal Father
in the Godhead and the Father of
Jesus Christ and that Pres Kelch
so taught the Elders in that mission
I say the Doctorn (sp. Doctrine) is Faulse (sp. false)
and while every Person enjoying
the spirit of the Lord may know
of a Docorin (sp. Doctrine) whether it is true or
Faulce (sp. Fasle); but that they have no right
(Except the President of the Church)
to advance any Doctorn (sp. Doctrine) not clearly
set forth and defined in the written
Law, and in doing so they stand
on dngerious (dangerous) ground, and until
we are able to live up to the reveled
Law in the spirit thereoff (sp. there of). can we hope
to enjoy suficient (sp. sufficient) of the spirit
of the Lord to understand fully
the plan of life and salvation.
as a Bp my position cared
if not where in am I in error. (p. 2)
your answer through the meidim (sp. medium)
of the Juvenil (sp. Juvenile) instructor or
other wise will be greatly apreasiated (sp. appreciated)
by your Brother in the
Gospel
/s/ Edw Bunker Jr
[Source: Joseph F. Smith "Papers", Feb 9, 1902 Church Archives, Ms/d/1325/Bx 13/fd 13 in Quotations Dealing with the Relationship of Our First Earthly Parents to Our Heavenly Parents (1830-1978)]
Dear Bro
one of our recently returned
missionary from the North Western
States is advicating (sp. advocating) the Doctorn (sp. Doctrine)
that Adam is the very eternal Father
in the Godhead and the Father of
Jesus Christ and that Pres Kelch
so taught the Elders in that mission
I say the Doctorn (sp. Doctrine) is Faulse (sp. false)
and while every Person enjoying
the spirit of the Lord may know
of a Docorin (sp. Doctrine) whether it is true or
Faulce (sp. Fasle); but that they have no right
(Except the President of the Church)
to advance any Doctorn (sp. Doctrine) not clearly
set forth and defined in the written
Law, and in doing so they stand
on dngerious (dangerous) ground, and until
we are able to live up to the reveled
Law in the spirit thereoff (sp. there of). can we hope
to enjoy suficient (sp. sufficient) of the spirit
of the Lord to understand fully
the plan of life and salvation.
as a Bp my position cared
if not where in am I in error. (p. 2)
your answer through the meidim (sp. medium)
of the Juvenil (sp. Juvenile) instructor or
other wise will be greatly apreasiated (sp. appreciated)
by your Brother in the
Gospel
/s/ Edw Bunker Jr
[Source: Joseph F. Smith "Papers", Feb 9, 1902 Church Archives, Ms/d/1325/Bx 13/fd 13 in Quotations Dealing with the Relationship of Our First Earthly Parents to Our Heavenly Parents (1830-1978)]
125 years ago today - Feb 9, 1892
The First Presidency sends its secretary "to go quietly to Logan and work to make the Republican ticket successful in the approaching city election." Democratic leaders complain of church influence; the Presicency issues a carefully worded statement on 25 Mar. which does not deny that the Presidency sent its secretary to influence Mormons to vote Republican but denies authorization "to use our names."
[Source: The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn, [New Mormon History database (http://bit.ly/NMHdatabase)]]
[Source: The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn, [New Mormon History database (http://bit.ly/NMHdatabase)]]
125 years ago today - Feb 9, 1892
[Abraham H. Cannon]
In the afternoon spent a short time at the [Church] President's office where the advisability of dividing the Summit Stake in two, and making a new Stake in Wyoming was considered. The object of doing so was to prevent [Stake] Pres. W[illiam] W. Cluff, who is an ardent Democrat, from using his influence with the people of his Stake in Wyoming to make them Democrats, instead of leaving them as they now are, Republicans. The division would make the Stake in Wyoming number but 646 souls, and would also make the Summit Stake, which is now very small, still smaller. It was decided to call Pres. Cluff to an interview, and if he will promise to use his influence to keep the Saints as far as possible in the Republican party, to not divide the Stake. Geo. F. Gibbs and Robt. Campbell were selected to go quietly to Logan and work to make the Republican ticket successful in the approaching city election, which takes place on the 1st of March. The registration lists now show that the Republicans outnumber the Democrats, but there is quite a number of neutral voters whom it is desired to convert to Republicanism so as to make the party abundantly strong.
[Source: Abraham H. Cannon (Author), Edward Leo Lyman (Editor), Candid Insights of a Mormon Apostle: The Diaries of Abraham H. Cannon, 1889-1895, Signature Books]
In the afternoon spent a short time at the [Church] President's office where the advisability of dividing the Summit Stake in two, and making a new Stake in Wyoming was considered. The object of doing so was to prevent [Stake] Pres. W[illiam] W. Cluff, who is an ardent Democrat, from using his influence with the people of his Stake in Wyoming to make them Democrats, instead of leaving them as they now are, Republicans. The division would make the Stake in Wyoming number but 646 souls, and would also make the Summit Stake, which is now very small, still smaller. It was decided to call Pres. Cluff to an interview, and if he will promise to use his influence to keep the Saints as far as possible in the Republican party, to not divide the Stake. Geo. F. Gibbs and Robt. Campbell were selected to go quietly to Logan and work to make the Republican ticket successful in the approaching city election, which takes place on the 1st of March. The registration lists now show that the Republicans outnumber the Democrats, but there is quite a number of neutral voters whom it is desired to convert to Republicanism so as to make the party abundantly strong.
[Source: Abraham H. Cannon (Author), Edward Leo Lyman (Editor), Candid Insights of a Mormon Apostle: The Diaries of Abraham H. Cannon, 1889-1895, Signature Books]
135 years ago today - Feb 9, 1882
[J.D.T. McAllister]
Request permission to raise potatoes on Temple ground
wrote to President Woodruff asking the privilege to use a small piece of the Temple ground to raise a few potatoes and c, also wrote to Samuel K. Gifford.
[Source: Diary Excerpts of J.D.T. McAllister, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
Request permission to raise potatoes on Temple ground
wrote to President Woodruff asking the privilege to use a small piece of the Temple ground to raise a few potatoes and c, also wrote to Samuel K. Gifford.
[Source: Diary Excerpts of J.D.T. McAllister, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
155 years ago today - Feb 9, 1862
Brigham Young preaches, "to hang a man for such a deed would not begin to satisfy my feelings." He speaks of discovery that Jean Baptiste has been robbing Mormon graves in Salt Lake City for four years, stripping clothes and valuables from corpses. Young also says, "it did not injure the dead in the morning of the resurrection but it is a diabolical act in the man. All of the dead will be Cloathed in the morning of the resurrection No matter how they are Burried. Judge Elias Smith writes that "the people would have torn him in pieces," and without a trial (or even formal charges being filed) the sentence Young recommends is carried out-banishment of Baptiste to a deserted island in the Great Salt Lake. On Aug. 4, Church Historian's Office Journal notes that punishment included cutting off his ears and branding his forehead with words "Grave robber," (Young's recommendation) but that he has disappeared from island. Thirty-two years later skeleton is found with ball-and-chain attached to its leg bone and with the decapitated skull lying several feet away. SALT LAKE HERALD claims this is the grave-robber's remains, which DESERET NEWS denies. Young's nephew later writes that Ephraim Hanks killed Baptiste. Brigham Young also speaks on "Attention paid to Females:" "Some Females complain that there is not attention Enough paid to them in this Community. But I will say that there is no Community on Earth where as much respect & attention is paid to Females as in this Church. Every old woman thinks she must go to Every party and Many a first wife thinks she should be Queen of the rest of the wives surfs. But this I do not believe in." Heber C. Kimball preaches: "Some of you have got an idea that wool will not do; but let me inform you that when Peter came and sat in the Temple in Kirtland, he had on a neat woollen garment, nicely adjusted round the neck"
15 years ago today - Feb 8, 2002-24
Salt Lake City hosted the 2002 Winter Olympics, with the Tabernacle Choir performing in the opening ceremonies to an estimated TV viewing audience of 3.5 billion people.
[Source: 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]
[Source: 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 - Feb 8, 1937
Apostle George F. Richards and Seventy's president Antoine R. Ivins begin seven days of meetings with disaffected LDS Mexicans who demand an ethnic Mexican mission president. These nationalist Mexican Mormons held the first meeting of their "Third Convention" on 26 Apr. 1936. After the failure of this general authority effort at reconciliation, church leaders on 6 May 1937 begin excommunicating dissidents. Third Conventionists foster a successful schismatic movement until 1946, when a visit of LDS president George Albert Smith to Mexico begins the process of reconciliation. The Third Convention is the first schismatic LDS movement based primarily on ethnicity and national pride.
[Source: The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn, [New Mormon History database (http://bit.ly/NMHdatabase)]]
[Source: The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn, [New Mormon History database (http://bit.ly/NMHdatabase)]]
105 years ago today - Feb 8, 1912; Thursday
You [Samuel O. Bennion] speak of "the assertion made by Brigham Young that Jesus was begotten of the Father in the Flesh by our father Adam, and that Adam is the father of Jesus Christ and not the Holy Ghost," and you say the Elders are challenged by certain critics to prove this.
If you will carefully examine the sermon to which you refer, in the Journal of Discourses, Vol[ume]. 1, you will discover that, while President Young denied that Jesus was "begotten by the Holy Ghost," he did not affirm, in so many words, that "Adam is the father of Jesus Christ in the flesh." He said, "Jesus, our elder brother, was begotten in the flesh by the same character that was in the garden of Eden and who is our Father in Heaven." ...... The Church of Jesus Christ of latter-day Saints worships Him, and Him alone, who is the Father of Jesus Christ, whom He worshipped, whom Adam worshipped, and who is God the Eternal Father of us all.
Your brethren,
(Signed)Joseph F. Smith
Anthon H. Lund
Charles W. Penrose.
First Presidency
[Source: First Presidency and Quorum of the Twelve minutes]
If you will carefully examine the sermon to which you refer, in the Journal of Discourses, Vol[ume]. 1, you will discover that, while President Young denied that Jesus was "begotten by the Holy Ghost," he did not affirm, in so many words, that "Adam is the father of Jesus Christ in the flesh." He said, "Jesus, our elder brother, was begotten in the flesh by the same character that was in the garden of Eden and who is our Father in Heaven." ...... The Church of Jesus Christ of latter-day Saints worships Him, and Him alone, who is the Father of Jesus Christ, whom He worshipped, whom Adam worshipped, and who is God the Eternal Father of us all.
Your brethren,
(Signed)Joseph F. Smith
Anthon H. Lund
Charles W. Penrose.
First Presidency
[Source: First Presidency and Quorum of the Twelve minutes]
110 years ago today - Ca. Feb 8, 1907
The descendants of Ham may receive baptism and confirmation but no one known to have in his veins negro blood, (it matters not how remote a degree) can either have the Priesthood in any degree or the blessings of the Temple of God; no matter how otherwise worthy he may be.
[Source: 'Extract from George F. Richard(s)'s Record of Decisions by the council of the First Presidency and the Twelve Apostles', as quoted in Minutes of the Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1835-1951, Electronic Edition, 2015]
[Source: 'Extract from George F. Richard(s)'s Record of Decisions by the council of the First Presidency and the Twelve Apostles', as quoted in Minutes of the Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1835-1951, Electronic Edition, 2015]
115 years ago today - Feb 08, 1902
Mary Elizabeth Rollins Lightner states that an angel came on three occasions with a drawn sword.
"An angel came to him [Joseph Smith] and the last time he came with a drawn sword in his hand and told Joseph if he did not go into that principle, he would slay him. Joseph said he talked to him soberly about it, and told him it was an abomination and quoted scripture to him. He said in the Book of Mormon it was an abomination in the eyes of the Lord, and they were to adhere to these things except the Lord speak… [The Prophet reported that] the angel came to me three times between the years of 1834 and 1842 and said I was to obey that principle or he would slay me." (ary Elizabeth Rollins Lightner Smith, "Remarks" at Brigham Young University, April 14. 1905, vault MSS 363, fd 6. 2-3. See also "Statement" signed Feb. 8, 1902, Vesta Crawford Papers, Univ. of Utah, Marriott Library, MS 125, bx 1 fd 11)
"I did not believe. If God told him so, why did he not come and tell me? The angel told him I should have a witness. An angel came to me…"
I was sealed to Joseph Smith the Prophet by commandment, in the spring of 1831. The Savior appeared and commanded him to seal me up to everlasting life, gave me to Joseph to be with him in his kingdom even as he is in the Father's Kingdom. In 1834, [Joseph] was commanded to take me for a wife. I was a thousand miles from him. He got afraid. The angel came to him three times, the last time with a drawn sword and threatened his life. I did not believe. If God told him so, why did he not come and tell me? The angel told him I should have a witness. An angel came to me – it went through me like lightning – I was afraid. Joseph Said he came with more revelation and knowledge than Joseph ever dare reveal. (Brigham Young sealed me to him, for time and all eternity – Feb. 1842.)
[Source: Exploring Mormonism: Polygamy Timeline, http://www.exploringmormonism.com/polygamy-timeline/]
"An angel came to him [Joseph Smith] and the last time he came with a drawn sword in his hand and told Joseph if he did not go into that principle, he would slay him. Joseph said he talked to him soberly about it, and told him it was an abomination and quoted scripture to him. He said in the Book of Mormon it was an abomination in the eyes of the Lord, and they were to adhere to these things except the Lord speak… [The Prophet reported that] the angel came to me three times between the years of 1834 and 1842 and said I was to obey that principle or he would slay me." (ary Elizabeth Rollins Lightner Smith, "Remarks" at Brigham Young University, April 14. 1905, vault MSS 363, fd 6. 2-3. See also "Statement" signed Feb. 8, 1902, Vesta Crawford Papers, Univ. of Utah, Marriott Library, MS 125, bx 1 fd 11)
"I did not believe. If God told him so, why did he not come and tell me? The angel told him I should have a witness. An angel came to me…"
I was sealed to Joseph Smith the Prophet by commandment, in the spring of 1831. The Savior appeared and commanded him to seal me up to everlasting life, gave me to Joseph to be with him in his kingdom even as he is in the Father's Kingdom. In 1834, [Joseph] was commanded to take me for a wife. I was a thousand miles from him. He got afraid. The angel came to him three times, the last time with a drawn sword and threatened his life. I did not believe. If God told him so, why did he not come and tell me? The angel told him I should have a witness. An angel came to me – it went through me like lightning – I was afraid. Joseph Said he came with more revelation and knowledge than Joseph ever dare reveal. (Brigham Young sealed me to him, for time and all eternity – Feb. 1842.)
[Source: Exploring Mormonism: Polygamy Timeline, http://www.exploringmormonism.com/polygamy-timeline/]
130 years ago today - Feb 8, 1887
Lorenzo Snow is released from prison after the U.S. Supreme court overturns his conviction on polygamy charges due to a technicality. He had been given permission to keep his long hair and beard during his incarceration due to a letter from two physicians.
160 years ago today - Feb 8, 1857
[Brigham Young]
Thus you may continue and trace the human family back to Adam and Eve, and ask, are we of the same species with Adam and Eve? Yes, every person acknowledges this; this comes within the scope of our understanding.
But when we arrive at that point, a vail (sp. veil) is dropped, and our knowledge is cut off. Were it not so, you could trace back your history to the Father of our spirits in the eternal world. He is a being of the same species as ourselves; He lives as we do, except the difference that we are earthly, and He is heavenly. He has been earthly, and is of precisely the same species of being that we are. Whether Adam is the personage that we should consider our heavenly Father, or not, is considerable of a mystery to a good many. I do not care for one moment how that is; it is no matter whether we are to consider Him our God, or whether His Father, or His Grandfather, for in either case we are of one species---of one family---and Jesus Christ is also of our species. *** Now to the facts in the case; all the difference between Jesus Christ and any other man that ever lived on the earth, from the days of Adam until now, is simply this, the Father, after He had once been in the flesh, and lived as we live, obtained His exaltation... It is all here in the Bible; I am not telling you a word but what is contained in that book.
Things were first created spiritually; the Father actually begat the spirits, and they were brought forth and lived with Him. Then He commenced the work of creating earthly tabernacles, precisely as He had been created in this flesh himself, by partaking of the course material that was organized and composed this earth, until His system was charged with it, consequently the tabernacles of His children were organized from the course materials of this earth.
When the time came that His first-born, the Saviour, should come into the world and take a tabernacle, the Father came Himself and favoured that spirit with a tabernacle instead of letting any other man do it. The Saviour was begotten by the Father of His spirit, by the same Being who is the Father of our spirits, and that is all the organic difference between Jesus Christ and you and me. And a difference there is between our Father and us consists in that He has gained His exaltation, and has obtained eternal lives.
[Source: J. D. 4:217-219; Discourse by President Brigham Young delivered in the Tabernacle, Salt Lake City; February 8, 1857, in Quotations Dealing with the Relationship of Our First Earthly Parents to Our Heavenly Parents (1830-1978)]
Thus you may continue and trace the human family back to Adam and Eve, and ask, are we of the same species with Adam and Eve? Yes, every person acknowledges this; this comes within the scope of our understanding.
But when we arrive at that point, a vail (sp. veil) is dropped, and our knowledge is cut off. Were it not so, you could trace back your history to the Father of our spirits in the eternal world. He is a being of the same species as ourselves; He lives as we do, except the difference that we are earthly, and He is heavenly. He has been earthly, and is of precisely the same species of being that we are. Whether Adam is the personage that we should consider our heavenly Father, or not, is considerable of a mystery to a good many. I do not care for one moment how that is; it is no matter whether we are to consider Him our God, or whether His Father, or His Grandfather, for in either case we are of one species---of one family---and Jesus Christ is also of our species. *** Now to the facts in the case; all the difference between Jesus Christ and any other man that ever lived on the earth, from the days of Adam until now, is simply this, the Father, after He had once been in the flesh, and lived as we live, obtained His exaltation... It is all here in the Bible; I am not telling you a word but what is contained in that book.
Things were first created spiritually; the Father actually begat the spirits, and they were brought forth and lived with Him. Then He commenced the work of creating earthly tabernacles, precisely as He had been created in this flesh himself, by partaking of the course material that was organized and composed this earth, until His system was charged with it, consequently the tabernacles of His children were organized from the course materials of this earth.
When the time came that His first-born, the Saviour, should come into the world and take a tabernacle, the Father came Himself and favoured that spirit with a tabernacle instead of letting any other man do it. The Saviour was begotten by the Father of His spirit, by the same Being who is the Father of our spirits, and that is all the organic difference between Jesus Christ and you and me. And a difference there is between our Father and us consists in that He has gained His exaltation, and has obtained eternal lives.
[Source: J. D. 4:217-219; Discourse by President Brigham Young delivered in the Tabernacle, Salt Lake City; February 8, 1857, in Quotations Dealing with the Relationship of Our First Earthly Parents to Our Heavenly Parents (1830-1978)]
160 years ago today - Feb 8, 1857
[Brigham Young]
"Now take a person in this congregation who has knowledge with regard to being saved in the kingdom of our God and Father and being exalted, the beauty and excellency of the eternities before him compared with the vain and foolish things of the world, and suppose that he is overtaken in a gross fault, that he has committed a sin that he knows will deprive him of that exaltation which he desires, and that he cannot attain to it without the shedding of his blood, and also knows that by having his blood shed he will atone for that sin, and be saved and exalted with the Gods, is there a man or woman in this house but what would say, "Shed my blood that I may be saved and exalted with the Gods?"
All mankind love themselves, and let these principles be known by an individual, and he would be glad to have his blood shed. That would be loving themselves, even unto an eternal exaltation. Will you love your brothers or sisters likewise, when they have committed a sin that cannot be atoned for without the shedding of their blood? Will you love that man or woman well enough to shed their blood? ... I could refer you to plenty of instances where men have been righteously slain, in order to atone for their sins. I have seen scores and hundreds of people for whom there would have been a chance (in the last resurrection there will be) if their lives had been taken and their blood spilled on the ground as a smoking incense to the Almighty, but who are now angels to the devil . . . I have known a great many men who left this church for whom there is no chance whatever for exaltation, but if their blood had been spilled, it would have been better for them, the wickedness and ignorance of the nations forbids this principle's being in full force, but the time will come when the law of God will been in full force.
This is loving our neighbor as ourselves; if he needs help, help him; and if he wants salvation and it is necessary to spill his blood on the earth in order that he may be saved, spill it. Any of you who understand the principles of eternity, if you have sinned a sin requiring the shedding of blood, except the sin unto death, would not be satisfied nor rest until your blood should be spilled, that you might gain that salvation you desire. That is the way to love mankind."
[Source: Sermon by Brigham Young, delivered in the Mormon Tabernacle, February 8, 1857, printed in the Deseret News, February 18, 1857; also reprinted in the Journal of Discourses, vol. 4, pp. 219-220, at Mormon Bookshelf: Blood Atonement, http://mormonbookshelf.com/wiki/Blood_Atonement]
"Now take a person in this congregation who has knowledge with regard to being saved in the kingdom of our God and Father and being exalted, the beauty and excellency of the eternities before him compared with the vain and foolish things of the world, and suppose that he is overtaken in a gross fault, that he has committed a sin that he knows will deprive him of that exaltation which he desires, and that he cannot attain to it without the shedding of his blood, and also knows that by having his blood shed he will atone for that sin, and be saved and exalted with the Gods, is there a man or woman in this house but what would say, "Shed my blood that I may be saved and exalted with the Gods?"
All mankind love themselves, and let these principles be known by an individual, and he would be glad to have his blood shed. That would be loving themselves, even unto an eternal exaltation. Will you love your brothers or sisters likewise, when they have committed a sin that cannot be atoned for without the shedding of their blood? Will you love that man or woman well enough to shed their blood? ... I could refer you to plenty of instances where men have been righteously slain, in order to atone for their sins. I have seen scores and hundreds of people for whom there would have been a chance (in the last resurrection there will be) if their lives had been taken and their blood spilled on the ground as a smoking incense to the Almighty, but who are now angels to the devil . . . I have known a great many men who left this church for whom there is no chance whatever for exaltation, but if their blood had been spilled, it would have been better for them, the wickedness and ignorance of the nations forbids this principle's being in full force, but the time will come when the law of God will been in full force.
This is loving our neighbor as ourselves; if he needs help, help him; and if he wants salvation and it is necessary to spill his blood on the earth in order that he may be saved, spill it. Any of you who understand the principles of eternity, if you have sinned a sin requiring the shedding of blood, except the sin unto death, would not be satisfied nor rest until your blood should be spilled, that you might gain that salvation you desire. That is the way to love mankind."
[Source: Sermon by Brigham Young, delivered in the Mormon Tabernacle, February 8, 1857, printed in the Deseret News, February 18, 1857; also reprinted in the Journal of Discourses, vol. 4, pp. 219-220, at Mormon Bookshelf: Blood Atonement, http://mormonbookshelf.com/wiki/Blood_Atonement]
160 years ago today - Feb 8, 1857
President Young in speaking of a Blank in the History said that it was during that time in the fall & winter of 1844 that Sidney Rigdon preached his great sermon when he was going to take Queen Victoria by the nose.
We done a good deal of work at that time on the temple, & it was difficult to get bread for the hands to eat. I told the people or the Committe who had Charge of the temple m[eans?] to deal out all the flour they had & God would give them more & they done so & it was but a short time before Brother Toronto Come & brought me twenty five hundred dollars in gold. The Committee & the Bishop met & I met with them & they said that the Law was to lay the gold at the Apostles feet. Yes I said & I will lay it at the Bishops feet. So I opened the mouth of the bag & took hold of the bottom end & gave it a jerk towards the Bishop & strewed the gold across the room at his feet & I said now go & buy flour for the workmen on that temple & dont distrust the Lord any more for we will have what we need.
[Source: Wilford Woodruff's Journal: 1833-1898 Typescript, Volumes 1-9, Edited by Scott G. Kenney, Signature Books 1993, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
We done a good deal of work at that time on the temple, & it was difficult to get bread for the hands to eat. I told the people or the Committe who had Charge of the temple m[eans?] to deal out all the flour they had & God would give them more & they done so & it was but a short time before Brother Toronto Come & brought me twenty five hundred dollars in gold. The Committee & the Bishop met & I met with them & they said that the Law was to lay the gold at the Apostles feet. Yes I said & I will lay it at the Bishops feet. So I opened the mouth of the bag & took hold of the bottom end & gave it a jerk towards the Bishop & strewed the gold across the room at his feet & I said now go & buy flour for the workmen on that temple & dont distrust the Lord any more for we will have what we need.
[Source: Wilford Woodruff's Journal: 1833-1898 Typescript, Volumes 1-9, Edited by Scott G. Kenney, Signature Books 1993, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
165 years ago today - Feb 8, 1852
[Brigham Young]
Jesus Christ has passed through all the trials and experience the same as we have. It would not be prudent for me to say that the Father has not the same experience that His Son had. ... I told the Legislature that I would be proud to have the world know that I told the assembly to fast and pray until they get the spirit of God to do their duty. I would like to see the judges upon the bench to ask God to bless them and all the jury and witnesses to assist them in all their testimony and decisions. -- Salt Lake City
[Source: Wilford Woodruff's Journal. 9 Vols. Scott G. Kenney, ed. Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1983-85. 4:99-101, in The Complete Discourses of Brigham Young, Ed. Richard S. Van Wagoner, Smith-Pettit Foundation, Salt Lake City (2009), http://bit.ly/BY-discourses]
Jesus Christ has passed through all the trials and experience the same as we have. It would not be prudent for me to say that the Father has not the same experience that His Son had. ... I told the Legislature that I would be proud to have the world know that I told the assembly to fast and pray until they get the spirit of God to do their duty. I would like to see the judges upon the bench to ask God to bless them and all the jury and witnesses to assist them in all their testimony and decisions. -- Salt Lake City
[Source: Wilford Woodruff's Journal. 9 Vols. Scott G. Kenney, ed. Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1983-85. 4:99-101, in 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 - Feb 8, 1842
Joseph Smith marries Sylvia Sessions Lyon. She has been legally married to Windsor P. Lyon since 1838 and Windsor is in full fellowship with the Church when the polyandrous marriage takes place. Exactly two years later a child, whom she claimed was fathered by Joseph Smith, is born to Sylvia. Recent DNA testing reveals the father was actually Windsor. Documentary evidence suggests February 8, 1843 as an alternative date for their marriage
180 years ago today - Feb 8, 1837
Samuel D. Rounds swears out a writ against Joseph Smith, Sidney Rigdon, and others, charging them with the civil action of banking without legal authority. This case is brought to court on March 24, 1837, and tried before a jury in October 1837. Sidney and Joseph are fined $1000 each, but appeal the case.
[Source: Conkling, Christopher J., Joseph Smith Chronology]
[Source: Conkling, Christopher J., Joseph Smith Chronology]
5 years ago today - Feb 7, 2012
A three-judge panel rules that Prop 8 is unconstitutional.
[Source: Prop 8 Timeline, NBC San Diego, http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/politics/Proposition-8-Timeline-History-California--138796454.html]
[Source: Prop 8 Timeline, NBC San Diego, http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/politics/Proposition-8-Timeline-History-California--138796454.html]
15 years ago today - 2002 7-Feb
[Gordon B. Hinckley]
Participated in Olympic torch relay
[Source: LDS Newsroom, Time line of Significant Events as President, http://newsroom.lds.org/ldsnewsroom/eng/news-releases-stories/time-line-of-significant-events-as-president]
Participated in Olympic torch relay
[Source: LDS Newsroom, Time line of Significant Events as President, http://newsroom.lds.org/ldsnewsroom/eng/news-releases-stories/time-line-of-significant-events-as-president]
35 years ago today - Feb 7, 1982
NEWSWEEK article on the rift between LDS historians and Church leaders: "A major conflict is brewing between professional Mormon historians and a group of church elders who insist that LDS scholars write only `faith promoting' accounts of the church. . . . [Apostles Boyd K. Packer and Ezra Taft Benson] "have been harshly critical of the methods and motives of LDS scholars who attempt `objective' histories of the church. What particularly exercises Benson is the effort made by scholars to place what are supposed to be divinely inspired church doctrines in a relevant social and historical context. . . . According to the dicta of Benson and Packer, Mormon history should be presented as a sacred saga so that students can-in Packer's words-'see the hand of the Lord in every hour and every moment of the Church from its beginning till now.'" The article further quoted a lecture distributed to all Mormon educators in which Elder Packer denounced professional scholars who " write history as they were taught in graduate school, rather than as Mormons" and enjoined LDS historians to write selectively about "the faults and contradictions of church."
139 years ago today - Feb 7, 1878
[Wilford Woodruff]
7 My Eyes are better this morning. I spent the day in the Temple. Gave Endowments to 214. Ordaind 88 Elders. Wrote 1 Letter to H. S. Eldridge for a Barrel of Temple Oil & wrote 1 to E. Snow about piping Engine Boiler &c 1 Letter to Bishop Samuel Roskelley total 3. Sealed 81 Couple Adopted 6. Sealed Children to parents 12. WW adopted 2 & sealed 6 Children. I met in the Evening with Samuel & Josiah Hardy and their wives.
[Source: Wilford Woodruff's Journal: 1833-1898 Typescript, Volumes 1-9, Edited by Scott G. Kenney, Signature Books 1993, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
7 My Eyes are better this morning. I spent the day in the Temple. Gave Endowments to 214. Ordaind 88 Elders. Wrote 1 Letter to H. S. Eldridge for a Barrel of Temple Oil & wrote 1 to E. Snow about piping Engine Boiler &c 1 Letter to Bishop Samuel Roskelley total 3. Sealed 81 Couple Adopted 6. Sealed Children to parents 12. WW adopted 2 & sealed 6 Children. I met in the Evening with Samuel & Josiah Hardy and their wives.
[Source: Wilford Woodruff's Journal: 1833-1898 Typescript, Volumes 1-9, Edited by Scott G. Kenney, Signature Books 1993, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
139 years ago today - Feb 7, 1878
At a meeting for the renegade "Conservative" ticket of the People's Party, the first speaker is Dr. J.M. Benedict (who is a member of the People's Central Committee for Salt Lake County). He complains that the regular People's convention is "influenced by previous manipulation." Benedict adds: "He was opposed to that unity produced by the bulk of the people doing as two or three men directed."
[Source: The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn, [New Mormon History database (http://bit.ly/NMHdatabase)]]
[Source: The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn, [New Mormon History database (http://bit.ly/NMHdatabase)]]
145 years ago today - Feb 07, 1872
Amy Brown (Lyman), later a pioneer in the field of social services and the eighth general Relief Society president, is born in Pleasant Grove, Utah.
159 years ago today - Feb 7, 1858
[Brigham Young]
We believe that we have been better taught, and that we are quite an enlightened people. Christian Europe and America deem themselves the most enlightened people upon the earth; and an equal self-confidence among those islanders is all that is wanting to make them believe that they know more than the Europeans and Americans. I have an idea that the Anglo-Saxon race possess more confidence in themselves and more worldly wisdom than any other nation upon the earth; yet take the people on the Sandwich and Society Islands, and the natives of these mountains and of the North and South America, or of any country where there are natives in their idolatry'"those whom we call ignorant, dark, benighted, lost, possessed of little or no knowledge, and let a person understanding the Priesthood visit them, and I will venture to say that we would find more and better traits of the Priesthood of God among them than can be found among the Christians.
[Source: The Complete Discourses of Brigham Young, Ed. Richard S. Van Wagoner, Smith-Pettit Foundation, Salt Lake City (2009), http://bit.ly/BY-discourses]
We believe that we have been better taught, and that we are quite an enlightened people. Christian Europe and America deem themselves the most enlightened people upon the earth; and an equal self-confidence among those islanders is all that is wanting to make them believe that they know more than the Europeans and Americans. I have an idea that the Anglo-Saxon race possess more confidence in themselves and more worldly wisdom than any other nation upon the earth; yet take the people on the Sandwich and Society Islands, and the natives of these mountains and of the North and South America, or of any country where there are natives in their idolatry'"those whom we call ignorant, dark, benighted, lost, possessed of little or no knowledge, and let a person understanding the Priesthood visit them, and I will venture to say that we would find more and better traits of the Priesthood of God among them than can be found among the Christians.
[Source: The Complete Discourses of Brigham Young, Ed. Richard S. Van Wagoner, Smith-Pettit Foundation, Salt Lake City (2009), http://bit.ly/BY-discourses]
165 years ago today - Feb 7, 1852
Legislature legalizes voluntary indentured servitude, and authorizes county selectmen or probate courts to put into indentured servitude "any idle, vicious or vagrant minor child without his or her consent, or the consent of the parent or guardian of such minor child if such parent or guardian neglects, refuses, or otherwise fails in properly controlling the actions and education of such minor, and does not train him or her up in some useful avocation."
[Source: The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn, [New Mormon History database (http://bit.ly/NMHdatabase)]]
[Source: The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn, [New Mormon History database (http://bit.ly/NMHdatabase)]]
169 years ago today - Feb 7, 1848
[Wilford Woodruff]
I was much edifyed in reading it. I spent the evening in reading the book of Jasher & was edifyed with that.
[Source: Wilford Woodruff's Journal: 1833-1898 Typescript, Volumes 1-9, Edited by Scott G. Kenney, Signature Books 1993, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
I was much edifyed in reading it. I spent the evening in reading the book of Jasher & was edifyed with that.
[Source: Wilford Woodruff's Journal: 1833-1898 Typescript, Volumes 1-9, Edited by Scott G. Kenney, Signature Books 1993, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
169 years ago today - Feb 7, 1848
William A. Hickman's affidavit in first issue of church's FRONTIER GUARDIAN: "I do hereby solemnly declare that Mr. [Orson] Hyde never induced me to commit violence on the person of any man, either white or red." Apostle Hyde is editor.
50 years ago today - Feb 6, 1967
U.S. president Lyndon B. Johnson confers the National Medal of Science on LDS Henry Eyring. A prize-winning chemist since 1932, Eyring authoried the Absolute Rate Theory and has been among finalists for the Swedish Academy's Nobel Prize in chemistry since 1949. He receives the Elliot Cresson Medal from the Franklin Institute in 1969. Since 1875 the Franklin Institute has awarded this prize for inventions and theoretical break-throughs by such notables as Nikola Tesla, Wilhelm C. Roentgen, Madame Curie, Ernest Rutherford, Alexander Graham Bell, Charles P. Steinmetz, Orville Wright, and Henry Ford.
[Source: The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn, [New Mormon History database (http://bit.ly/NMHdatabase)]]
[Source: The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn, [New Mormon History database (http://bit.ly/NMHdatabase)]]
95 years ago today - Feb 6, 1922
B. H. Roberts, assisted by Second Counselor Anthony Ivins, and Apostles John A. Widtsoe and James E. Talmage, writes an optimistic response to William E. Riter, a Mormon who had passed on five questions of an investigator "Mr. Couch [Later determined to be chemist James Fitton Couch of the USDA] of Washington" concerning the Book of Mormon. The questions are of a scientific nature, rather than scriptural. Roberts does not respond to Couch's question about the lack of fossil evidence for such Book of Mormon animals as the horse. Riter's letter led to Robert's study of "Book of Mormon difficulties," the most in-depth, in-house, critical examination of Mormon scripture by an LDS general authority ever undertaken. Roberts's answers to Couch's questions are folleowd by another question from Riter: "Why can not the Negro hold the Priesthood?"
110 years ago today - Feb 6, 1907
B. H. Roberts meets with the First Presidency and six Apostles to discuss a passage in his forthcoming book NEW WITNESS FOR GOD. Roberts's views are that the elements of man became a spirit-a child to God-through pre-mortal birth. Following the discussion, the brethren agree to incorporate the passage essentially as written, and they also include this view in the First Presidency's 1909 statement on the origin of man.
115 years ago today - Feb 6, 1902
[Abraham O. Woodruff]
Pres[iden]t. [Joseph F.] Smith said at the last meeting [of the First Presidency and apostles] they had voted to sustain Reed Smoot as our choice for U.S. Senator & as I was not present [he] invited me to express myself. I said: 'I am willing to sustain this as everything else that comes from the head of the Church but as you have invited me to give expression to my views I will state them as I allways hope to do honestly. I am unchanged in my judgment as expressed by me in the special meeting called by you to consider this matter. I think it will be[,] if carried out[,] the most unfortunate thing that ever happened to my associate Reed Smoot. I will vote for this because it is the Presidentcy's wish, not because it is my judgment.'
[Source: Abraham Owen Woodruff, Diary, as quoted in Minutes of the Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1835-1951, Electronic Edition, 2015]
Pres[iden]t. [Joseph F.] Smith said at the last meeting [of the First Presidency and apostles] they had voted to sustain Reed Smoot as our choice for U.S. Senator & as I was not present [he] invited me to express myself. I said: 'I am willing to sustain this as everything else that comes from the head of the Church but as you have invited me to give expression to my views I will state them as I allways hope to do honestly. I am unchanged in my judgment as expressed by me in the special meeting called by you to consider this matter. I think it will be[,] if carried out[,] the most unfortunate thing that ever happened to my associate Reed Smoot. I will vote for this because it is the Presidentcy's wish, not because it is my judgment.'
[Source: Abraham Owen Woodruff, 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 - Feb 6, 1892
LDS magazine THE YOUNG WOMEN'S JOURNAL publishes article by Oliver B. Huntington: "As far back as 1837, I know that [Joseph Smith] said the moon was inhabited by men and women the same as this earth, and that they lived to a greater age than we do - that they live generally to near the age of a 1000 years. He described the men as averaging near six feet in height, and dressing quite uniformly in something near the Quaker style. In my Patriarchal blessing, given by the father of Joseph the Prophet, in Kirtland, 1837, I was told that I should preach the gospel before I was 21 years of age; that I should preach the gospel to the inhabitants upon the islands of the sea, and - to the inhabitants of the moon, even the planet you can now behold with your eyes. The first two promises have been fulfilled, and the latter may be verified."
175 years ago today - Feb 6, 1842
A son is stillborn to Emma and Joseph in Nauvoo.
[Source: Conkling, Christopher J., Joseph Smith Chronology]
[Source: Conkling, Christopher J., Joseph Smith Chronology]
40 years ago today - 40 years ago - Feb 05, 1977
The First Presidency announces that the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles will direct ecclesiastical matters and that the Presiding Bishopric will oversee temporal programs of the Church.
75 years ago today - 75 years ago - Feb 5, 1942
LDS teenager, Helmuth Heubner, Rudi Wobbe, and Karl-Heinze Schnibbe is arrested in Hamburg for distributing anti-Nazi leaflets. Ten days later Heubner's branch president (who had once put a sign saying "Jews not allowed to enter" over the chapel door and also allowed broadcasts of Hitler to be part of church services) writes "Excommunicated" on Heubner's records. Seventeen-year-old Heubner, the "ringleader" is beheaded by the Nazis on Oct 27. His membership is later reinstated and his excommunication is termed a "mistake." Two teenage co-conspirators of Heubner, Rudi Wobbe and Karl-Heinze Schnibbe are both sent to labor camps. They both emigrate to the United States after the war. On Jan 8, 1985, Heubner's sixtieth birthday, they return to Hamburg where they, are treated as heros by the government of Hamburg. They place a wreath at the site of Heubner's execution. Says Wobbe, "After forty years, to come back to a city that had actually put us away in concentration camps and prisons ... now to be honored and taken around as guests of the city with the members of the government . . . it was surprising-even a bit uncomfortable."
115 years ago today - 115 years ago - Thursday, Feb 5, 1902
[John Henry Smith]
Bro. B. Youngs financial condition was talked over. I called upon Prest. Brigham Young [Jr.] but he did not seem willing to explain his management of affairs to me.
[Source: 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]
Bro. B. Youngs financial condition was talked over. I called upon Prest. Brigham Young [Jr.] but he did not seem willing to explain his management of affairs to me.
[Source: 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]
115 years ago today - 115 years ago - Feb 5, 1902; Wednesday
First Presidency were at the office. Attorney Franklin S. Richards, who had been asked how the Church could hold its lands in Canada, reported at the office this afternoon as follows: That the Church lands in Canada be deeded to the Stake Presidency and High Council of Alberta as a corporation; and that they be required to give a declaration of trust to the Trustee-in-trust, and agree to account for the proceeds of sales, for which they shall receive two per cent for attending to the business. If it should be found that two per cent is not sufficient compensation the rate is to be increased. Bro[ther]. Richards was authorized to attend to the legal part of this business, and to get the local attorney at Lethbridge to attend to the necessary part of it at Cardston.
[Source: First Presidency and Quorum of the Twelve minutes]
[Source: First Presidency and Quorum of the Twelve minutes]
115 years ago today - 115 years ago - Wednesday, Feb 5, 1902
[Apostle John Henry Smith]
I had part in blessng a number of Sisters in the Temple Annex. They are going to attend the National Council of Women. I was mouth in blessing Emeline B. Wells, Maria Y. Dougal, Phoebe Beatty and Bathsheba W. Smith. We gave them some instruction as to their duties.
[Source: 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]
I had part in blessng a number of Sisters in the Temple Annex. They are going to attend the National Council of Women. I was mouth in blessing Emeline B. Wells, Maria Y. Dougal, Phoebe Beatty and Bathsheba W. Smith. We gave them some instruction as to their duties.
[Source: 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]
115 years ago today - 115 years ago - Feb 5, 1902
[Abraham O. Woodruff to Heber J. Grant]
The question as to who shall be our next senator has been up in our meeting. It was discussed by our joint council & then left to the first Presidency. Our associate Apostle Reed Smoot wants it very much & I expect will get the support of his associates. I was not present at the meeting when the Bretheren decided to support Reed. I was present when the subject was discussed by all & spoke as strongly as I knew how against it. Before the meeting I refer to, Pres[iden]t. [Joseph F.] Smith told me that he was not in favor of Reed trying to get it but he has evidently changed his mind. Of course I will unite with my bretheren & do all I can to accomplish that which they desire to bring about, but if this question were left to my judgment I would say as I did in the meeting that it would be the most unfortunate thing that could happen to Reed to be elected to the U.S. Senate.
[Source: Abraham Owen Woodruff, Letter to Heber J. Grant, as quoted in Minutes of the Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1835-1951, Electronic Edition, 2015]
The question as to who shall be our next senator has been up in our meeting. It was discussed by our joint council & then left to the first Presidency. Our associate Apostle Reed Smoot wants it very much & I expect will get the support of his associates. I was not present at the meeting when the Bretheren decided to support Reed. I was present when the subject was discussed by all & spoke as strongly as I knew how against it. Before the meeting I refer to, Pres[iden]t. [Joseph F.] Smith told me that he was not in favor of Reed trying to get it but he has evidently changed his mind. Of course I will unite with my bretheren & do all I can to accomplish that which they desire to bring about, but if this question were left to my judgment I would say as I did in the meeting that it would be the most unfortunate thing that could happen to Reed to be elected to the U.S. Senate.
[Source: Abraham Owen Woodruff, Letter to Heber J. Grant, as quoted in Minutes of the Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1835-1951, Electronic Edition, 2015]
120 years ago today - 120 years ago - Feb 5, 1897
[President Wilford Woodruff]
I had a visitation at the Offices to day of Mrs Lydia Von Pinkelstein Mountford A Russian from Jerrusalem. [Mountford may have become Woodruff's last wife.]
[Source: Wilford Woodruff's Journal: 1833-1898 Typescript, Volumes 1-9, Edited by Scott G. Kenney, Signature Books 1993, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
I had a visitation at the Offices to day of Mrs Lydia Von Pinkelstein Mountford A Russian from Jerrusalem. [Mountford may have become Woodruff's last wife.]
[Source: Wilford Woodruff's Journal: 1833-1898 Typescript, Volumes 1-9, Edited by Scott G. Kenney, Signature Books 1993, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
145 years ago today - 145 years ago - Feb 5, 1872
While in prison, William A. Hickman publishes the book 'Brigham's Destroying Angel,' the first Mormon expose by a confessed murderer. He is again excommunicated, this time by church court, on 12 Jan. 1878. On 21 Mar. 1934, the First Presidency approves Hickman's rebaptism and "his former blessings restored," which occur by proxy on 5 May 1934.
[Source: The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn, [New Mormon History database (http://bit.ly/NMHdatabase)]]
[Source: The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn, [New Mormon History database (http://bit.ly/NMHdatabase)]]
155 years ago today - 155 years ago - Feb 5, 1862
Brigham Young writes to the Mormon representative in Washington D. C. "-there was not a particle of authority given Congress by the Constitution to organize Territorial government-Such being the real fact on that point, what good reason can Congress urge against our admission to the family of States, our Constitution being strictly republican in form, and we having long ago proved our capability to sustain self government. Aside from the justness of our being relieved from our illegal colonial position, which we have borne so long and patiently, it most certainly is to their pecuniary interest to admit us, a view of so slight moment at present. You can inform the President that he need not appoint a Governor, Judges, etc., for Utah, or if he appoints them, that he can pay them their salaries there, and advise them to remain at home, for we have no use for them here." Young's letter doesn't mention the main obstacle to Utah statehood: polygamy.
160 years ago today - 160 years ago - Feb 5, 1857
[Brigham Young]
He said should the people follow a Bishop? Yes if he is a righteous man & does right but if he teaches wrong things & does wrong the people should not follow Him. But when this is the Case let the people thunder out the truth as it is. Then the bishop will see it. But unless the people Can point some better way let them follow the bishop.
[Source: Wilford Woodruff's Journal. 9 Vols. Scott G. Kenney, ed. Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1983-85. 5:18, in The Complete Discourses of Brigham Young, Ed. Richard S. Van Wagoner, Smith-Pettit Foundation, Salt Lake City (2009), http://bit.ly/BY-discourses]
He said should the people follow a Bishop? Yes if he is a righteous man & does right but if he teaches wrong things & does wrong the people should not follow Him. But when this is the Case let the people thunder out the truth as it is. Then the bishop will see it. But unless the people Can point some better way let them follow the bishop.
[Source: Wilford Woodruff's Journal. 9 Vols. Scott G. Kenney, ed. Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1983-85. 5:18, in The Complete Discourses of Brigham Young, Ed. Richard S. Van Wagoner, Smith-Pettit Foundation, Salt Lake City (2009), http://bit.ly/BY-discourses]
165 years ago today - 165 years ago - Feb 5, 1852
[Hosea Stout]
Two Houses met at ten a. m. ...
Orson pratt votes vs all acts prohibiting the right of Negroes the privileges of voting. ...
[Source: Diaries of Hosea Stout]
Two Houses met at ten a. m. ...
Orson pratt votes vs all acts prohibiting the right of Negroes the privileges of voting. ...
[Source: Diaries of Hosea Stout]
165 years ago today - 165 years ago - Feb 5, 1852
Brigham Young announces policy of denying priesthood to all those of black African ancestry, even "if there never was a prophet, or apostle of Jesus Christ spoke it before" because "negroes are the children of old Cain. . . . any man having one drop of the seed of Cain in him cannot hold the priesthood." Contrary to Joseph Smith's example in authorizing the ordination of Elijah Abel, this is LDS policy for next 126 years. Young announces this policy in connection with Utah legislature's legalization of African-American slavery. The law provides for only one interference with property rights of slave-owners: "if any master or mistress shall have sexual or carnal intercourse with his or her servant or servants of the African race, he or she shall forfeit all claim to said servant or servants to the commonwealth; and if any white person shall be guilty of sexual intercourse with any of the African race, they shall be subject, on conviction thereof, to a fine of not exceeding one thousand dollars, nor less than five hundred, to the use of the Territory, and imprisonment not exceeding three years."
[Source: The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn, [New Mormon History database (http://bit.ly/NMHdatabase)]]
[Source: The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn, [New Mormon History database (http://bit.ly/NMHdatabase)]]
170 years ago today - 170 years ago - Friday, Feb 5, 1847.
[Willard Richards]
Brother [Heber C.] Kimball said he dreamed last night that he had a sieve and went to a clear stream of water. Went to put in his net with poles and last pole stuck. Fish began to run in. When got on stone, then came two loaves, and [the] net was so full as you might walk on, and they did not stop to go in at the door, but run over the net and filled it full by thousands and thousands from every quarter. When we wanted fish, went with an ax and knocked them on the head. I was a fish and expected every minute to be knocked on the head by William Clayton, who knocked me three times [but] did not hurt me. [I] thought I would make my will. Jumped up, shook hands with my wife, thought I would make my will, told her my time had come, and awoke....
President Young told a dream, that he had been chased by officers and ran north, but as they had got Taylor, Pratt, and Woodruff, he would go back and die, and preached to them, etc.
... Dr. [Richards] repeated Eldridge Tuft's vision ...
Voted that the money last sent by the Battalion to the council shall be given up to the sisters so far as they need it and call for it; it appears to have been designed for the sisters. Also voted that the same funds come into the hands of President Young and be paid out by him at his discretion.
[Source: Apostle Willard Richards Journal]
Brother [Heber C.] Kimball said he dreamed last night that he had a sieve and went to a clear stream of water. Went to put in his net with poles and last pole stuck. Fish began to run in. When got on stone, then came two loaves, and [the] net was so full as you might walk on, and they did not stop to go in at the door, but run over the net and filled it full by thousands and thousands from every quarter. When we wanted fish, went with an ax and knocked them on the head. I was a fish and expected every minute to be knocked on the head by William Clayton, who knocked me three times [but] did not hurt me. [I] thought I would make my will. Jumped up, shook hands with my wife, thought I would make my will, told her my time had come, and awoke....
President Young told a dream, that he had been chased by officers and ran north, but as they had got Taylor, Pratt, and Woodruff, he would go back and die, and preached to them, etc.
... Dr. [Richards] repeated Eldridge Tuft's vision ...
Voted that the money last sent by the Battalion to the council shall be given up to the sisters so far as they need it and call for it; it appears to have been designed for the sisters. Also voted that the same funds come into the hands of President Young and be paid out by him at his discretion.
[Source: Apostle Willard Richards Journal]
170 years ago today - 170 years ago - Feb 5, 1847
Patriarch "Father John Smith" sends an invitation to the Twelve to attend the "Silver Gray Picnic." The Silver Grays "consisted of all the old men in the Camp of Israel over 50 years of age. . . . The quorum of the Twelve met with them at the opening of the meeting. Remarks were made by President [Brigham} Young. A Hymn was sung after which they feasted together and then they went forth in the dance praising God in their hearts." Brigham Young writes of this in his journal, "dance all night, if you desire to do so, for there is no harm in it. . . .The center of the floor was then cleared for the dance when the 'Silver Grays' and spectacled dames enjoyed themselves in the dance, it was indeed an interesting and novel sight, to behold the old men and women, some nearly an hundred years old, dancing like ancient Israel."
John D. Lee records in his journal "About 9 I was washed in salaratus and water from head to foot, afterward in spirits, then anointed in like manner by Louisa [Wife No. 3] and Rachel [Wife No. 6] (as I told them) preparatory to my burial. They both were very kind and attentive to me."
John D. Lee records in his journal "About 9 I was washed in salaratus and water from head to foot, afterward in spirits, then anointed in like manner by Louisa [Wife No. 3] and Rachel [Wife No. 6] (as I told them) preparatory to my burial. They both were very kind and attentive to me."
170 years ago today - Feb 5, 1847
[Wilford Woodruff]
At 2 oclock AM [PM] The silver grays met at the Council House. ...The quorum of the Twelve met with them .... and then they went forth in the dance praising God in their hearts. It was truly an interesting sight to see the old men and women some nearly a hundred years old go forth and dance together in fulfillment of the ancient prophets.
[Source: Wilford Woodruff's Journal: 1833-1898 Typescript, Volumes 1-9, Edited by Scott G. Kenney, Signature Books 1993, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
At 2 oclock AM [PM] The silver grays met at the Council House. ...The quorum of the Twelve met with them .... and then they went forth in the dance praising God in their hearts. It was truly an interesting sight to see the old men and women some nearly a hundred years old go forth and dance together in fulfillment of the ancient prophets.
[Source: Wilford Woodruff's Journal: 1833-1898 Typescript, Volumes 1-9, Edited by Scott G. Kenney, Signature Books 1993, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
5 years ago today - Feb 04, 2012
Comedian Bill Mahr performs a mock un-baptism for the dead on his show
[Source: HBO]
[Source: HBO]
50 years ago today - Feb 4, 1967
The Church News honors Max W. Woodbury for his fifty years service as a branch president.
[Source: The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn, [New Mormon History database (http://bit.ly/NMHdatabase)]]
[Source: The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn, [New Mormon History database (http://bit.ly/NMHdatabase)]]
85 years ago today - Feb 4, 1932-1934
Nicholas G. Smith becomes de facto Acting Presiding Patriarch, Son of Apostle John Henry Smith; grandson of Apostle George A. Smith; great-grandson of former Presiding Patriarch "Uncle" John Smith; was never officially called, set apart, or sustained as the Acting Presiding Patriarch, but carried out the functions of the office
[Source: Wikipedia, Chronology of the Presiding Patriarchs of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presiding_Patriarch#Chronology_of_the_Presiding_Patriarchs_of_The_Church_of_Jesus_Christ_of_Latter-day_Saints]
[Source: Wikipedia, Chronology of the Presiding Patriarchs of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presiding_Patriarch#Chronology_of_the_Presiding_Patriarchs_of_The_Church_of_Jesus_Christ_of_Latter-day_Saints]
115 years ago today - Feb 4, 1902
The First Presidency announces that full-time missionaries need not pay tithing.
[Source: The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn, [New Mormon History database (http://bit.ly/NMHdatabase)]]
[Source: The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn, [New Mormon History database (http://bit.ly/NMHdatabase)]]
130 years ago today - Feb 4, 1887
About thirty riveters at Z.C.M.I. Shoe Shop go on strike over a change in work assignments. While not the first collective bargaining strike in Utah, it is the first against a church business. The Deseret News says: "The movements savors too much of the dictatorial style of some of the labor organizations, and should not exist among our people."
[Source: The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn, [New Mormon History database (http://bit.ly/NMHdatabase)]]
[Source: The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn, [New Mormon History database (http://bit.ly/NMHdatabase)]]
165 years ago today - Feb 4, 1852
"An Act in Relation to Service" was approved by the Territorial Legislature gave legal recognition to slavery (or just indentured servitude?) in Utah Territory.
Sec. 4 declares that "if any white person shall be guilty of sexual intercourse with any of the African race, they shall be subject, on conviction thereof to a fine of not exceeding one thousand dollars, nor less than five hundred, to the use of the Territory, and imprisonment, not exceeding three years."
[Source: Acts, Resolutions, and Memorials Passed by the First Annual, and Special Sessions, of the Legislative Assembly, of the Territory of Utah, in LDS (or related) Documents on Walker Lewis, the Lowell, Mass. Branch of the Mormon Church and its missionaries and members, and the Priesthood Ban against Blacks, Compiled by Connell O'Donovan, http://people.ucsc.edu/~odonovan/Mormon_Chronology.html]
Sec. 4 declares that "if any white person shall be guilty of sexual intercourse with any of the African race, they shall be subject, on conviction thereof to a fine of not exceeding one thousand dollars, nor less than five hundred, to the use of the Territory, and imprisonment, not exceeding three years."
[Source: Acts, Resolutions, and Memorials Passed by the First Annual, and Special Sessions, of the Legislative Assembly, of the Territory of Utah, in LDS (or related) Documents on Walker Lewis, the Lowell, Mass. Branch of the Mormon Church and its missionaries and members, and the Priesthood Ban against Blacks, Compiled by Connell O'Donovan, http://people.ucsc.edu/~odonovan/Mormon_Chronology.html]
170 years ago today - Feb 4, 1847
[Hosea Stout]
Met the council this evening as usual at the Council house[.] The subject of the beef committee was taken up an the complaint of Father John Smith who was not satisfied with some things about it. The thing was talked out of "countenance" and finally Prest Brigham Young moved to have the whole matter laid over till the first resurrection & them [sic] burn the papers the day before
[Source: Diaries of Hosea Stout]
Met the council this evening as usual at the Council house[.] The subject of the beef committee was taken up an the complaint of Father John Smith who was not satisfied with some things about it. The thing was talked out of "countenance" and finally Prest Brigham Young moved to have the whole matter laid over till the first resurrection & them [sic] burn the papers the day before
[Source: Diaries of Hosea Stout]
175 years ago today - Feb 4, 1842
Joseph Smith records: "closed a contract with Ebenezer Robinson for the printing office-also the paper fixtures, bookbindery, and stereotype foundry, by proxy, namely, Willard Richards, cost between 7,000 and 8,000 dollars." Robinson, who was ordered to sell his printing business to the Church by a revelation, records that he got $6,600 of which he consecrated $4,561.91 to the building of the Nauvoo Temple. Brigham Young called the price paid Robinson "exorbitant." "The reason I paid such a price, was [because] the Prophet directed the Twelve to pay him whatever he asked." The difference between "7,000 and 8,000 dollars" that was paid and $6,600 that Robinson received was, evidently, commission given to the sales agent.
20 years ago today - Feb 3, 1997
Debbie Hartmann (chair of Hawaii's Future Today and a staff member of BYU-Hawaii) testifies before the Senate committee in support of the constitutional amendment and repeats Hawaii's Future Today's (an LDS organized lobbying group) qualified support for the Reciprocal Beneficiaries bill (HB 118). The Reciprocal Beneficiaries bill and the constitutional amendment are both passed by the legislature on the same day. Its final wording is, The legislature shall have the power to reserve marriage to opposite-sex couples. This amendment must be ratified by a majority vote of the citizens in the next general election in November of 1997.
[Source: Crapo, Richley, Chronology Of Mormon / LDS Involvement In Same-Sex Marriage Politics http://www.mormonsocialscience.org/?q=node/59]
[Source: Crapo, Richley, Chronology Of Mormon / LDS Involvement In Same-Sex Marriage Politics http://www.mormonsocialscience.org/?q=node/59]
45 years ago today - Feb 3, 1972
Church's first agricultural missionaries depart (initially to South America).
55 years ago today - Feb 3,1962
Church News Headlines, "MIA Bans The Twist," popular dance among teenagers and young adults. This prohibition is widely ignored by youth and even by adult leaders in some wards and stakes, especially in Britain and Europe.
[Source: Quinn, D. Michael, The Mormon Hierarchy: Extensions of Power, Appendix 5, Selected Chronology of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1848-1996, http://amzn.to/extensions-power]
[Source: Quinn, D. Michael, The Mormon Hierarchy: Extensions of Power, Appendix 5, Selected Chronology of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1848-1996, http://amzn.to/extensions-power]
115 years ago today - Feb 03, 1902
Merlo John Pusey, later the first Latter-day Saint to receive the Pulitzer Prize (1952), is born in Woodruff, Utah.
130 years ago today - Feb 3, 1887
[Wilford Woodruff]
Thursday fast day I dressed read several sections in Doctrins & Covenants And had my prayers alone. I prayed for the Saints And for our Enemies even for those who despitefully use us. I fasted and prayed.
[Source: Wilford Woodruff's Journal: 1833-1898 Typescript, Volumes 1-9, Edited by Scott G. Kenney, Signature Books 1993, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
Thursday fast day I dressed read several sections in Doctrins & Covenants And had my prayers alone. I prayed for the Saints And for our Enemies even for those who despitefully use us. I fasted and prayed.
[Source: Wilford Woodruff's Journal: 1833-1898 Typescript, Volumes 1-9, Edited by Scott G. Kenney, Signature Books 1993, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
145 years ago today - Feb 3, 1872
Two women (Bathsheba W. Smith and Sarah M. Kimball) are on the LDS People's Party "Committee of Seven" which selects nominees for the upcoming election.
[Source: The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn, [New Mormon History database (http://bit.ly/NMHdatabase)]]
[Source: The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn, [New Mormon History database (http://bit.ly/NMHdatabase)]]
155 years ago today - Feb 3, 1862
[Wilford Woodruff]
Some Females complain that there is not attention Enough paid to them in this Community. But I will say that there is no Community on Earth where as much respect & attention is paid to Females as in this Church. Every old woman thinks she must go to Every party and Many a first wife thinks she should be a Queen and the rest of the wives surfs. But this I do not Believe in.
[Source: Wilford Woodruff's Journal: 1833-1898 Typescript, Volumes 1-9, Edited by Scott G. Kenney, Signature Books 1993, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
Some Females complain that there is not attention Enough paid to them in this Community. But I will say that there is no Community on Earth where as much respect & attention is paid to Females as in this Church. Every old woman thinks she must go to Every party and Many a first wife thinks she should be a Queen and the rest of the wives surfs. But this I do not Believe in.
[Source: Wilford Woodruff's Journal: 1833-1898 Typescript, Volumes 1-9, Edited by Scott G. Kenney, Signature Books 1993, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
165 years ago today - Feb 3, 1852
[Heber C. Kimball Revelation]
The Word of the Lord to Me HCK.
G.S.L. [Great Salt Lake] City, Febuary the 3, 1852
The Spirit said I should devot[e] my time to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints and I should not be under the Law of Lawless women anny more in time as I have fulfilled the Law [and] and [am] now free from Such Spirrits, and the said time shall be devoted to the humble and obed[i]ent and those that shall listen to my council and shall have faith in my council and shall listen to his [Kimball's] law for he is my Servent and I will stand by him and those that will not build him up shall not prosper. I mean those of his house shall not prosper and peas [peace] shall not be with them. They shall see sorrow Except they repent. HCK
[Source: "H. C. Kimball Memorandum" book, On the Potters Wheel: The Diaries of Heber C. Kimball, Stanley B. Kimball, editor, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
The Word of the Lord to Me HCK.
G.S.L. [Great Salt Lake] City, Febuary the 3, 1852
The Spirit said I should devot[e] my time to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints and I should not be under the Law of Lawless women anny more in time as I have fulfilled the Law [and] and [am] now free from Such Spirrits, and the said time shall be devoted to the humble and obed[i]ent and those that shall listen to my council and shall have faith in my council and shall listen to his [Kimball's] law for he is my Servent and I will stand by him and those that will not build him up shall not prosper. I mean those of his house shall not prosper and peas [peace] shall not be with them. They shall see sorrow Except they repent. HCK
[Source: "H. C. Kimball Memorandum" book, On the Potters Wheel: The Diaries of Heber C. Kimball, Stanley B. Kimball, editor, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
170 years ago today - Feb 3, 1847
[Nauvoo Temple]
Brigham Young received a letter from the Trustees, reporting that Almon Babbitt had written them that he had made an unsuccessful attempt to sell the temple in Baltimore.
[Source: Brown, Lisle (compiler), Chronology of the Construction, Destruction and Reconstruction of the Nauvoo Temple]
Brigham Young received a letter from the Trustees, reporting that Almon Babbitt had written them that he had made an unsuccessful attempt to sell the temple in Baltimore.
[Source: Brown, Lisle (compiler), Chronology of the Construction, Destruction and Reconstruction of the Nauvoo Temple]
175 years ago today - Feb 3, 1842
The petition of Joseph Smith and Sidney Rigdon for membership in the Masonic order is reported favorably by an investigative committee of the Grand Lodge in Quincy, Illinois. Masons in Nauvoo, including long-time Mason Hyrum Smith, had recently began organization of the Nauvoo Lodge which is installed Mar 15.
50 years ago today - Feb 2, 1967
President Burton was notified by President [Howard W.] Hunter that this matter had been further discussed by the Twelve and that it was ruled that no further action would be taken other than that which has already been accomplished. To do so would have the effect of opening 'Pandora's Box.'
In discussing this further with President Burton the following procedure will be taken based upon the fact that Brother [John W.] Taylor was reinstated by baptism on the 19 May 1965, and that on the 21 May 1965 his blessings were restored as indicated by the slip which was signed by President Joseph Fielding Smith. It can be accepted that his blessings of the Melchizedek Priesthood (that is as an Elder), and his endowment blessings were restored. Likewise all sealing ordinances which were valid in the eyes of the Church at the time of his excommunication would likewise be restored.
Amplifying this would then mean that the sealing of his first three wives to him would be ratified by the restoration of the blessings. All three of the first three wives were married to him and sealed to him prior to the [Wilford Woodruff] manifesto. Inasmuch as all of his children by these first three wives were all born before he was excommunicated, they will then be shown as being born in the covenant.
His fourth, fifth and sixth marriage will have to be accepted as being unlawful and contrary to the spirit and intent of the manifesto. Thus any sealing claimed of those wives to him cannot be considered as having been ratified by the restoration of blessings action, and by virtue of the same token the status of the children of those last three marriages will have to be as though no sealing was performed and as though they were not born in the covenant.
If the Lord should judge Brother Taylor in being justified in the last three marriages He then can adjust it in the realms beyond the grave based upon the restoration which has been accomplished. The Church can take no other stand than the last three marriages were contrary to the spirit and intent of the manifesto proclaimation. ...
[Source: Henry E. Christiansen, Memorandum to H. Dale Goodwin, 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]
In discussing this further with President Burton the following procedure will be taken based upon the fact that Brother [John W.] Taylor was reinstated by baptism on the 19 May 1965, and that on the 21 May 1965 his blessings were restored as indicated by the slip which was signed by President Joseph Fielding Smith. It can be accepted that his blessings of the Melchizedek Priesthood (that is as an Elder), and his endowment blessings were restored. Likewise all sealing ordinances which were valid in the eyes of the Church at the time of his excommunication would likewise be restored.
Amplifying this would then mean that the sealing of his first three wives to him would be ratified by the restoration of the blessings. All three of the first three wives were married to him and sealed to him prior to the [Wilford Woodruff] manifesto. Inasmuch as all of his children by these first three wives were all born before he was excommunicated, they will then be shown as being born in the covenant.
His fourth, fifth and sixth marriage will have to be accepted as being unlawful and contrary to the spirit and intent of the manifesto. Thus any sealing claimed of those wives to him cannot be considered as having been ratified by the restoration of blessings action, and by virtue of the same token the status of the children of those last three marriages will have to be as though no sealing was performed and as though they were not born in the covenant.
If the Lord should judge Brother Taylor in being justified in the last three marriages He then can adjust it in the realms beyond the grave based upon the restoration which has been accomplished. The Church can take no other stand than the last three marriages were contrary to the spirit and intent of the manifesto proclaimation. ...
[Source: Henry E. Christiansen, Memorandum to H. Dale Goodwin, 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]
85 years ago today - Feb 2, 1932
[Heber J. Grant]
This morning Brother Richards and I called and had a brief visit with President Herbert Hoover.
[Source: The Diaries of Heber J. Grant, 1880-1945, Abridged, Digital Edition Salt Lake City, Utah, 2015]
This morning Brother Richards and I called and had a brief visit with President Herbert Hoover.
[Source: The Diaries of Heber J. Grant, 1880-1945, Abridged, Digital Edition Salt Lake City, Utah, 2015]
95 years ago today - Feb 2, 1922
B. H. Roberts begins the first of three private meetings with Apostles Anthony W. Ivins, James E. Talmage, and John A. Widtsoe to discuss his study of "Book of Mormon difficulties" These meetings with the more scientifically-trained and scholarly of the apostles is in addition to the three day-long meetings that Roberts has held with the entire Twelve the previous month.
130 years ago today - Feb 2, 1887
We are informed that S. H. Gilson has offered a reward of 800 for the delivery to him, or for info[rmation] that will lead to the arrest of Pres[ident] John Taylor & Pres[ident] Geo[rge]. Q. Cannon or 500 for Pres[ident] Cannon alone & 300 for Pres[ident] Taylor. This is published in the Salt Lake Tribune.
[Source: First Presidency Office Journal, as quoted in Minutes of the Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1835-1951, Electronic Edition, 2015]
[Source: First Presidency Office Journal, as quoted in Minutes of the Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1835-1951, Electronic Edition, 2015]
135 years ago today - Feb 2, 1882
Permission to baptize children in Temple font.
Sent information to Priesthood Meeting, we had liberty to Baptise our children who are eight years old in the temple font.
[Source: Diary Excerpts of J.D.T. McAllister, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
Sent information to Priesthood Meeting, we had liberty to Baptise our children who are eight years old in the temple font.
[Source: Diary Excerpts of J.D.T. McAllister, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
135 years ago today - Thursday, January [February] 2, 1882
[Ora Charles Card]
I attend fast meeting this forenoon at 10 O.C. Where the Spirit of God was made manifest. One of the Sisters Spoke in tongues Interpreted By Mother Crocket Wife of David Crockett deceased which was to the effect great calamities that were Shortly to come upon the nations exhorting the Sts. to not set their Hearts upon the things of the world & prepare themselves for the work of the Lord. A Synopsis of the above was given to me & I was filled So with the Spirit that I could not but give utterance only Briefly.
[Source: Diaries of Ora Charles Card: The Utah Years 1871-1886 Edited by Donald G. Godfrey and Kenneth W. Godfrey]
I attend fast meeting this forenoon at 10 O.C. Where the Spirit of God was made manifest. One of the Sisters Spoke in tongues Interpreted By Mother Crocket Wife of David Crockett deceased which was to the effect great calamities that were Shortly to come upon the nations exhorting the Sts. to not set their Hearts upon the things of the world & prepare themselves for the work of the Lord. A Synopsis of the above was given to me & I was filled So with the Spirit that I could not but give utterance only Briefly.
[Source: Diaries of Ora Charles Card: The Utah Years 1871-1886 Edited by Donald G. Godfrey and Kenneth W. Godfrey]
160 years ago today - Feb 2, 1857
Elder [Lorenzo] Snows mind run in a vary interesting Channel. The spiritual atmosphere seemed to be heavy when he arose but the spirit of God came upon him & he spoke in a vary edefying & interesting manner...:
this people are makeing a great rush to Presidents Youngs office to get wives sealed to them. On sunday night Presidet Young sealed men & women till it was time for the prayer circle to meet. Then He had to turn a room full out of Doors to wait another time. This spirit is increasing throughout this Teritory. ...
Now here is this great body of seventies & every other Quorum of this church should labour hard to arm yourselves with all the power of God you can get in order to save your families. If you do not you will soon find a stamped with your wives. You Cannot hold them. They will break from you. ... This woman wants a gown that one a Bonnet the next one Shoes & their Children clothing & one thinks she Has to do more than her part & this one will not do what she should &c & the man has got to stand in the midst of his family like a God in order to calm the troubled waters & safe them. ...
Look for instance at the example of president Young. Go into his house & take lessons. See him with his great family of wives & Children & see the God like Character & example of that man & the order which he manifests in his family. I tell you if it was not so you would see a stampede suddenly in that House but He is a great master spirit & manifests great wisdom in the perfect order of Government with his numerous family of wives & Children. They all respect him & obey his law for the wisdom of God is with him....
[Wilford Woodruff:] The Bishops feel to complain & say the seventies take all of the Lesser priesthood which we have & ordain them seventies so by the time we get some teachers organized they are ordained to the office of seventies. The seventies also complain that the Bishops come & take away their presiding officers & the seventies & make bishops & Councellors of them & Ordain them High priest. So their appears to be a difference of feeling in the several Quorums.
In order to avoid this I would recommend that the Teachers Priest & Deacons all that the Bishops wish to make use of as teachers in the several Quorum remain as they are untill they have magnifyed their calling & not evry man as soon as he is ordained a teacher go & get ordained a seventy & hide himself in that mighty forest of men so that He Cannot be found. For the Seventies are like a forest trees of all kinds from the tallest down to the shrubery & men get lost in such a forest.
Men should not despise the lesser preisthood for it is honorable & if they fully magnify that office they will have great power & many blessings. For the Aaronic priesthood hold the keys of administering of Angels & their have been but few men even High Priest or Apostles that have enjoyed all the blessings that belongs to the Lesser priesthood.
Then Let not the seventies seek to get all the Lesser priesthoods ordained into ther quorums. If they do I do not wish them to Complain if seventies are taken out to Make Bishops councillors & teachers of them as long as near'd all the timber is in that body. Let a man have what portion of the priesthood He may [if] He wants to keep it in lively exercise in order to save himself & family.
[Source: Wilford Woodruff's Journal: 1833-1898 Typescript, Volumes 1-9, Edited by Scott G. Kenney, Signature Books 1993, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
this people are makeing a great rush to Presidents Youngs office to get wives sealed to them. On sunday night Presidet Young sealed men & women till it was time for the prayer circle to meet. Then He had to turn a room full out of Doors to wait another time. This spirit is increasing throughout this Teritory. ...
Now here is this great body of seventies & every other Quorum of this church should labour hard to arm yourselves with all the power of God you can get in order to save your families. If you do not you will soon find a stamped with your wives. You Cannot hold them. They will break from you. ... This woman wants a gown that one a Bonnet the next one Shoes & their Children clothing & one thinks she Has to do more than her part & this one will not do what she should &c & the man has got to stand in the midst of his family like a God in order to calm the troubled waters & safe them. ...
Look for instance at the example of president Young. Go into his house & take lessons. See him with his great family of wives & Children & see the God like Character & example of that man & the order which he manifests in his family. I tell you if it was not so you would see a stampede suddenly in that House but He is a great master spirit & manifests great wisdom in the perfect order of Government with his numerous family of wives & Children. They all respect him & obey his law for the wisdom of God is with him....
[Wilford Woodruff:] The Bishops feel to complain & say the seventies take all of the Lesser priesthood which we have & ordain them seventies so by the time we get some teachers organized they are ordained to the office of seventies. The seventies also complain that the Bishops come & take away their presiding officers & the seventies & make bishops & Councellors of them & Ordain them High priest. So their appears to be a difference of feeling in the several Quorums.
In order to avoid this I would recommend that the Teachers Priest & Deacons all that the Bishops wish to make use of as teachers in the several Quorum remain as they are untill they have magnifyed their calling & not evry man as soon as he is ordained a teacher go & get ordained a seventy & hide himself in that mighty forest of men so that He Cannot be found. For the Seventies are like a forest trees of all kinds from the tallest down to the shrubery & men get lost in such a forest.
Men should not despise the lesser preisthood for it is honorable & if they fully magnify that office they will have great power & many blessings. For the Aaronic priesthood hold the keys of administering of Angels & their have been but few men even High Priest or Apostles that have enjoyed all the blessings that belongs to the Lesser priesthood.
Then Let not the seventies seek to get all the Lesser priesthoods ordained into ther quorums. If they do I do not wish them to Complain if seventies are taken out to Make Bishops councillors & teachers of them as long as near'd all the timber is in that body. Let a man have what portion of the priesthood He may [if] He wants to keep it in lively exercise in order to save himself & family.
[Source: Wilford Woodruff's Journal: 1833-1898 Typescript, Volumes 1-9, Edited by Scott G. Kenney, Signature Books 1993, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
170 years ago today - Feb 2, 1847
Heber C. Kimball's legal wife Vilate gives birth to a son. She memorializes the occasion by writing a poem: "The Lord has blessed us with another Son which is / the seventh I have born. / May he be the father of many lives. / But not the Husband of many Wives."
180 years ago today - (Thr) Feb 2, 1837
A writ was issued for the arrest of Joseph Smith and Sidney Rigdon. upon complaint of Samuel D. Rounds, a front man for Grandison Newell. The complaint accused Smith and Rigdon of engaging in illegal banking and of issuing unauthorized bank notes.
[Source: Dale W. Adams; BYU Studies Vol. 23, No. 4, pg.472, in Broadhurst, Dale R., Mormon Chronology, http://olivercowdery.com/history/morchrn2.htm]
[Source: Dale W. Adams; BYU Studies Vol. 23, No. 4, pg.472, in Broadhurst, Dale R., Mormon Chronology, http://olivercowdery.com/history/morchrn2.htm]
5 years ago today - 2012-02-01
Feminist Mormon Housewives Temple Baptisms Campaign
Feminist Mormon Housewives initiated a campaign to make sure that menstruating women were welcome at all temple baptisteries.
[Source: Mormon Women's History Timeline, http://www1.chapman.edu/~remy/MoFem/mormonwomen.html]
Feminist Mormon Housewives initiated a campaign to make sure that menstruating women were welcome at all temple baptisteries.
[Source: Mormon Women's History Timeline, http://www1.chapman.edu/~remy/MoFem/mormonwomen.html]
40 years ago today - Feb 1, 1977
Utah Senator Jake Garn, a faithful Mormon, inserts an anti-ERA speech by Apostle Boyd K. Packer into the Congressional Record.
45 years ago today - Feb 1, 1972
(February) "With reference to cola drinks the Church has never officially taken a position on the matter," begins the 'Priesthood Bulletin,' yet concludes: "Any beverage that contains ingredients harmful to the body should be avoided."
[Source: The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn, [New Mormon History database (http://bit.ly/NMHdatabase)]]
[Source: The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn, [New Mormon History database (http://bit.ly/NMHdatabase)]]
70 years ago today - Feb 1, 1947
[J. Reuben Clark]
[Regarding the appearance of Paul Robeson, a Negro singer, at the University of Utah's Kingsbury Hall on March 5 under the auspices of the American Youth for Democracy:] Pres. Clark called Mark Petersen and told him of the above call to Mrs. Miller, and of his suggestion that they might be interested to note the professors and business men who might be sponsoring this concert. He said the American Youth for Democracy Organization is a communist organization.
[Source: The Diaries of J. Reuben Clark, 1933-1961, Abridged, Digital Edition, Salt Lake City, Utah 2015]
[Regarding the appearance of Paul Robeson, a Negro singer, at the University of Utah's Kingsbury Hall on March 5 under the auspices of the American Youth for Democracy:] Pres. Clark called Mark Petersen and told him of the above call to Mrs. Miller, and of his suggestion that they might be interested to note the professors and business men who might be sponsoring this concert. He said the American Youth for Democracy Organization is a communist organization.
[Source: The Diaries of J. Reuben Clark, 1933-1961, Abridged, Digital Edition, Salt Lake City, Utah 2015]
115 years ago today - Feb 1, 1902
At a meeting of the First Presidency and Twelve Apostles, held in Salt Lake City, January 24, 1901, it was decided to establish in the Church what shall hereafter be known as
RECORD DAY
This means that once a year, in every Stake of Zion and in every Ward of the Church, all the records belonging to the organizations in such Stakes or Wards shall be brought to appointed places to be audited and inspected by such Stake and Ward officers that may be present for that purpose.
[Source: 1902-February 1-Original letter. Church Historian's Library, in Clark, James R., Messages of the First Presidency (6 volumes)]
RECORD DAY
This means that once a year, in every Stake of Zion and in every Ward of the Church, all the records belonging to the organizations in such Stakes or Wards shall be brought to appointed places to be audited and inspected by such Stake and Ward officers that may be present for that purpose.
[Source: 1902-February 1-Original letter. Church Historian's Library, in Clark, James R., Messages of the First Presidency (6 volumes)]
140 years ago today - Feb 1, 1877
Prest. Young was filled with the spirit of God and revelation, and said: when we got our washings and anointings under the hands of the Prophet Joseph at Nauvoo, we had only one room to work in with the exception of a little side room, or office, where we were washed and anointed, had our garments placed upon us, and received our new name. And after he had performed these ceremonies, he gave the key words, signs, tokens and penalties. Then, after we went into the large room over the store in Nauvoo, Joseph divided up the room the best that he could, hung up the veil, marked it. Gave us our instructions as we passed along from one department to another, giving us signs, tokens, penalties, with the key words pertaining to those signs. And after we had got through Bro. Joseph turned to me (Pres. Young) and said, '"Bro. Brigham this is not arranged right but we have done the best we could under the circumstances in which we are placed, and I wish you to take this matter in hand and organize and systematize all these ceremonies with the signs, tokens, penalties and key words.'" I did so, and each time I got something more, so that when we went through the temple at Nauvoo I understood and knew how to place them there. We had our ceremonies pretty correct. In the creation, the Gods entered into an agreement about forming this earth, and putting Michael or Adam upon it. These things of which I have been speaking are what are termed the mysteries of godliness, but they will enable you to understand the expression of Jesus made while in Jerusalem. This is life eternal that they might know thee the only true God and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent. We were once acquainted with the Gods and lived with them but we had the privilege of taking upon us flesh that the spirit might have a house to dwell in. We did so and forgot all and came into the world not recollecting anything of which we had previously learned. We have heard a great deal about Adam and Eve. How they were formed and some think he was made like an adobe and the Lord breathed into him the breath of life. For we read, '"From dust thou art and unto dust shalt thou return.'" Well, he was made of the dust of the earth, but not of this earth. He was made just the same way you and I are made but on another earth. Adam was an immortal being when he came on this earth; he had lived on an earth similar to ours, he had received the Priesthood and the keys thereof, and had been faithful in all things and gained his resurrection and his exaltation, and was crowned with glory, immortality and eternal lives, and was numbered with the Gods, for such he became through his faithfulness;'" and had begotten all the spirits that were to come to this earth, and Eve, our common mother, who is the mother of all living, bore those spirits in the celestial world; and when this earth was organized by Elohim, Jehovah, and Michael, who is Adam, our common Father. Adam and Eve had the privilege to continue the work of Progression, [and] consequently came to this earth and commenced the great work of forming tabernacles for those spirits to dwell in, and when Adam and those that assisted him had completed this Kingdom, our earth, he came to it, and slept and forgot all, and became like an infant child. It is said by Moses, the historian, that the Lord caused a deep sleep to come upon Adam and took from his side a rib and formed the woman that Adam called Eve. This should be interpreted that the man Adam, like all other men, had the seed within him to propagate his species, but not the woman. She conceives the seed but she does not produce it, consequently she was taken from the side or bowels of her father. This explains the mystery of Moses' dark sayings in regard to Adam and Eve. Adam and Eve, when they were placed on this earth, were immortal beings with flesh, bones and sinews, but upon partaking of the fruits of the earth while in the garden, and cultivating the ground, their bodies became changed from immortal to mortal beings, with the blood coursing through their veins as the action of life. Adam was not under transgression until after he partook of the forbidden fruit; this was necessary that they might be together, that man might be. The woman was found in transgression not the man. Now in the law of Sacrifice we have the promise of a Savior, and man had the privilege and showed forth his obedience by offering of the first fruits of the earth and the firstlings of the flocks. This as a showing that Jesus would come and shed his blood. Father Adam's oldest son, Jesus the Savior, who is the heir of the family, is Father Adam's first begotten in the spirit world; who, according to the flesh, is the only begotten, as it is written. In his divinity he [Adam] having gone back into the spirit world, and come in the spirit to Mary and she conceived; for when Adam and Eve got through with their work in this earth, they did not lay their bodies down in the dust, but returned to the spirit world from whence they came. -- St. George, Utah
[Source: Journal of L. John Nuttall, L. John Nuttal Papers, BYU; Archives, Church History Library, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Salt Lake City, Utah.., L. Tom Perry Special Collections, Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah.; Unpublished Revelations of the Prophets and Presidents of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints. Fred Collier, ed. Salt Lake City: Collier's Publishing Co., 2nd ed., 1981. 1:116-117, in The Complete Discourses of Brigham Young, Ed. Richard S. Van Wagoner, Smith-Pettit Foundation, Salt Lake City (2009), http://bit.ly/BY-discourses]
[Source: Journal of L. John Nuttall, L. John Nuttal Papers, BYU; Archives, Church History Library, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Salt Lake City, Utah.., L. Tom Perry Special Collections, Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah.; Unpublished Revelations of the Prophets and Presidents of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints. Fred Collier, ed. Salt Lake City: Collier's Publishing Co., 2nd ed., 1981. 1:116-117, in The Complete Discourses of Brigham Young, Ed. Richard S. Van Wagoner, Smith-Pettit Foundation, Salt Lake City (2009), http://bit.ly/BY-discourses]
140 years ago today - Feb 1, 1877
[Wilford Woodruff]
In January 1877, shortly after the lower portion of the St. George Temple was dedicated, President Brigham Young, in following up in the Endowments written, became convinced that it was necessary to have the formula of the Endowments written, and he gave directions to have the same put in writing. Shortly afterwards he explained what the Lecture at the Veil should portray, and for this purpose appointed a day when he would personally deliver the Lecture at the Veil. ...:
This is the Lecture at the Veil to be observed in the Temple. A copy of the Lecture is kept at the St. George Temple, in which President Young refers to Adam in his creation &c. ... He also requested me to write all the ordinances of the Church from the first baptism and confirmation through every ordinance of the Church. Geo. Q. Cannon assisted some in this writing, and when I had finished it to the satisfaction of the President, he said to me, '"Now you have before you an ensample to carry on the endowments in all the temples until the coming of the Son of Man.'" -- St. George, Utah
[Source: L. John Nuttall Papers, L. Tom Perry Special Collections, Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, in The Complete Discourses of Brigham Young, Ed. Richard S. Van Wagoner, Smith-Pettit Foundation, Salt Lake City (2009), http://bit.ly/BY-discourses]
In January 1877, shortly after the lower portion of the St. George Temple was dedicated, President Brigham Young, in following up in the Endowments written, became convinced that it was necessary to have the formula of the Endowments written, and he gave directions to have the same put in writing. Shortly afterwards he explained what the Lecture at the Veil should portray, and for this purpose appointed a day when he would personally deliver the Lecture at the Veil. ...:
This is the Lecture at the Veil to be observed in the Temple. A copy of the Lecture is kept at the St. George Temple, in which President Young refers to Adam in his creation &c. ... He also requested me to write all the ordinances of the Church from the first baptism and confirmation through every ordinance of the Church. Geo. Q. Cannon assisted some in this writing, and when I had finished it to the satisfaction of the President, he said to me, '"Now you have before you an ensample to carry on the endowments in all the temples until the coming of the Son of Man.'" -- St. George, Utah
[Source: L. John Nuttall Papers, L. Tom Perry Special Collections, Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, in The Complete Discourses of Brigham Young, Ed. Richard S. Van Wagoner, Smith-Pettit Foundation, Salt Lake City (2009), http://bit.ly/BY-discourses]
140 years ago today - Feb 1, 1877
[Wilford Woodruff]
[In the temple] W Woodruff Presided and Officiated as El. I dressed in pure white Doe skin from head to foot to officiate in the Priest Office, white pants vest & C[anl?] the first Example in any Temple of the Lord in this last dispensation. Sister Lucy B Young also dressed in white in officiating as Eve. President [Young] was present and deliverd a lecture at the veil some 30 Minuts.
[Source: Wilford Woodruff's Journal: 1833-1898 Typescript, Volumes 1-9, Edited by Scott G. Kenney, Signature Books 1993, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
[In the temple] W Woodruff Presided and Officiated as El. I dressed in pure white Doe skin from head to foot to officiate in the Priest Office, white pants vest & C[anl?] the first Example in any Temple of the Lord in this last dispensation. Sister Lucy B Young also dressed in white in officiating as Eve. President [Young] was present and deliverd a lecture at the veil some 30 Minuts.
[Source: Wilford Woodruff's Journal: 1833-1898 Typescript, Volumes 1-9, Edited by Scott G. Kenney, Signature Books 1993, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
140 years ago today - Thur Feb 1.
[John Nuttle]
At the Temple. being called upon I washed and anointed Elder W. Woodruff & set him apart for his labors in officiating in the Temple - I officiated as Recorder- as Michael & Adam- also at the Vail- President Young was present and gave some instructions not previously given which I wrote for safe keeping and reference hereafter.
[Source: Diary Excerpts of L. John Nuttall, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
At the Temple. being called upon I washed and anointed Elder W. Woodruff & set him apart for his labors in officiating in the Temple - I officiated as Recorder- as Michael & Adam- also at the Vail- President Young was present and gave some instructions not previously given which I wrote for safe keeping and reference hereafter.
[Source: Diary Excerpts of L. John Nuttall, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
160 years ago today - Feb 1, 1857
During Sunday meeting at the Tabernacle Brigham Young creates "a great Sensation among" an "overflowing" congregation by coming into the meeting. "For it was the first time he had been seen in the Tabernacle since the day that J[edediah] M. Grant was buried." Grant had died two months previously. Young addresses the congregation for an hour and a half. Young preaches, "If you want to know what you should do, when you hear a man blaspheme the name of God, and you feel that there are ten thousand million devils around you to see whether you will be for your religion, knock down the man that blasphemes, and say, 'If I cannot pray, I can fight for my religion and my God.'"
170 years ago today - Monday, Feb 1, 1847.
[Willard Richards]
About 4 p.m., the Dr. [Richards] called on President Young, found him sitting up, some better. Informed him that it was reported that the Omahas had threatened to kill him if he did not give up Henry Miller and Arza Adams to them, to be punished for robbing their dead friends of their buffalo robes, moccasins, etc. The President wished a council in the evening to investigate the matter and send letters to Miller and Adams to restore the property, also, to Major Miller, the government agent...
President Kimball said he dreamed a few nights since that a tremendous storm arose and beat open a great body of waters, and after it abated, thought he would go to the shore and see the fish he thought must have been destroyed. Did not disturb the dead, but tried to save some not quite dead, caught several by the tail and opened one large one with his knife and out hopped an Indian.
[Source: Apostle Willard Richards Journal]
About 4 p.m., the Dr. [Richards] called on President Young, found him sitting up, some better. Informed him that it was reported that the Omahas had threatened to kill him if he did not give up Henry Miller and Arza Adams to them, to be punished for robbing their dead friends of their buffalo robes, moccasins, etc. The President wished a council in the evening to investigate the matter and send letters to Miller and Adams to restore the property, also, to Major Miller, the government agent...
President Kimball said he dreamed a few nights since that a tremendous storm arose and beat open a great body of waters, and after it abated, thought he would go to the shore and see the fish he thought must have been destroyed. Did not disturb the dead, but tried to save some not quite dead, caught several by the tail and opened one large one with his knife and out hopped an Indian.
[Source: Apostle Willard Richards Journal]
175 years ago today - Feb 1, 1842
The Federal Bankruptcy Act, passed the preceding Aug, goes into effect. Six and one-half weeks later, on Apr 18, Joseph Smith and his brothers Hyrum and Samuel declare themselves insolvent before the county commissioner's court and file petitions to be certified bankrupt by the United States District Court for Illinois.
180 years ago today - Feb 1, 1837
Joseph, Hyrum, Sidney, and Oliver are in Monroe, Michigan to purchase the Monroe bank. Since Oliver will move to Monroe as bank vice-president, the O. Cowdery and Company is dissolved and the assets are transferred to Joseph Smith Jr. and Sidney Rigdon.
[Source: Kenney, Scott, Saints Without Halos, "Mormon History 1830-1844," http://web.archive.org/web/20120805163534/saintswithouthalos.com/dirs/d_c.phtml]
[Source: Kenney, Scott, Saints Without Halos, "Mormon History 1830-1844," http://web.archive.org/web/20120805163534/saintswithouthalos.com/dirs/d_c.phtml]
180 years ago today - Feb 1, 1837
KSS notes circulating at only 12.5 cents per dollar face value, they originally sold at 26 1/2 cents per face value, about a 50% reduction
[Source: Kirtland Timeline – Kirtland Safety Society, the Bank of Monroe, Temple Dedication, Consecration, and significant historical events related, http://www.exploringmormonism.com/kirtland-timeline-kirtland-safety-society-the-bank-of-monroe-temple-dedication-consecration-and-significant-historical-events-related/]
[Source: Kirtland Timeline – Kirtland Safety Society, the Bank of Monroe, Temple Dedication, Consecration, and significant historical events related, http://www.exploringmormonism.com/kirtland-timeline-kirtland-safety-society-the-bank-of-monroe-temple-dedication-consecration-and-significant-historical-events-related/]
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