Ex. Gov. Eli H. Murray was admitted to the bar of the Territorial Supreme Court, as an attorney, while Lieut. Richard W. Young, a prominent lawyer of extensive practice in the East, was refused admittance because he was a "Mormon."
[Source: Jenson, Andrew, Church Chronology]
140 years ago today - Jan 14, 1877
Two weeks after the dedication of the lower portion of the St. George Temple, Brigham Young "requested Brigham [Young] Jr. & W[ilford] Woodruff to write out the Ceremony of the Endowments from Beginning to End."
160 years ago today - Jan 14, 1857
The Utah legislature reorganizes the territorial militia by reactivating what was called the Nauvoo Legion. Daniel Wells is named commander-in-chief of the Legion.
[Source: Linder, Douglas, The Mountain Meadows Massacre Trials, http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/FTRIALS/mountainmeadows/leechrono.html]
[Source: Linder, Douglas, The Mountain Meadows Massacre Trials, http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/FTRIALS/mountainmeadows/leechrono.html]
160 years ago today - Jan 14, 1857
Thomas D. Brown begins "his duties in the Presìdent's Office, astonished at the number of applications for permission to take [plural] wives." A month later hardpressed Brigham Young recìtes "each [sealing] ceremony requiring about 600 words, which in several instances were spoken in 1 min 48 seconds!"
[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 - Thursday, Jan 14, 1847.
[Willard Richards]
President Young proposed [the formation of emigration companies with various leaders] ...
President Young commenced to give the word and will of God concerning the emigration of the Saints and those who journey with them. At 3 ½ [3:30], A. Lyman came in.... President Young continued to write the word and will of the Lord. Adjourned from 10 to 1 p.m. tomorrow, this place. President Young retired to the Octagon and finished writing the word and will of the Lord, and the Dr. [Richards] copied, closing about 1 next morning, about which time George D. Grant and Edmund Ellsworth, police, came in, and after reading the piece, President went home.
[Source: Apostle Willard Richards Journal]
President Young proposed [the formation of emigration companies with various leaders] ...
President Young commenced to give the word and will of God concerning the emigration of the Saints and those who journey with them. At 3 ½ [3:30], A. Lyman came in.... President Young continued to write the word and will of the Lord. Adjourned from 10 to 1 p.m. tomorrow, this place. President Young retired to the Octagon and finished writing the word and will of the Lord, and the Dr. [Richards] copied, closing about 1 next morning, about which time George D. Grant and Edmund Ellsworth, police, came in, and after reading the piece, President went home.
[Source: Apostle Willard Richards Journal]
170 years ago today - Jan 14, 1847
[Brigham Young]
I commenced to give the word and will of God concerning the emigration of the saints and those who journey with them. At 4 1/2 p.m. council adjourned. At seven, the Twelve met at Elder Benson's. I continued to dictate the Word and Will of the Lord. Council adjourned at ten p.m., when I retired with Dr. Richards to the octagon and finished writing the same which is here inserted: Winter Quarters, Camp of Israel, January 14th 1847. The Word and Will of the Lord concerning the Camp of Israel in their journeyings to the West: ... [D&C 136: How the Camp of Israel is to be organized for the westward journey. ..."If thou art merry, praise the Lord with singing, with music, with dancing ..."]
[Source: Manuscript History of Brigham Young, 1847- 1850. William S. Harwell, ed. Collier's Publishing, 1997.:11-14, in The Complete Discourses of Brigham Young, Ed. Richard S. Van Wagoner, Smith-Pettit Foundation, Salt Lake City (2009), http://bit.ly/BY-discourses]
I commenced to give the word and will of God concerning the emigration of the saints and those who journey with them. At 4 1/2 p.m. council adjourned. At seven, the Twelve met at Elder Benson's. I continued to dictate the Word and Will of the Lord. Council adjourned at ten p.m., when I retired with Dr. Richards to the octagon and finished writing the same which is here inserted: Winter Quarters, Camp of Israel, January 14th 1847. The Word and Will of the Lord concerning the Camp of Israel in their journeyings to the West: ... [D&C 136: How the Camp of Israel is to be organized for the westward journey. ..."If thou art merry, praise the Lord with singing, with music, with dancing ..."]
[Source: Manuscript History of Brigham Young, 1847- 1850. William S. Harwell, ed. Collier's Publishing, 1997.:11-14, in The Complete Discourses of Brigham Young, Ed. Richard S. Van Wagoner, Smith-Pettit Foundation, Salt Lake City (2009), http://bit.ly/BY-discourses]
215 years ago today - Jan 14, 1802
William Cowdery Jr. (father of Oliver Cowdery) was likely part of the "Rod Scrape" or "Wood Scrape" incident. After spending the winter with William Cowdery, a seer named Winchell joined Nathaniel Wood's "New Israelite" movement.
When searching for treasure, "Winchell held up his rod, got some motion from it, and told them the money was in an iron chest and covered with a large stone ... there was a 'divinity' guarding the treasure, and that if there was any lack of faith in any one ... this divinity would put the money forever beyond their reach.
However Winchell added a new dimension to the use of the rod when he taught Nathaniel Wood how to use it to receive revelations." Each of Wood's "Fraternity of Rodsmen" also had "a rod, which was used whenever they desired any information" including determining Israelite lineage through their rods.
Wood believed the gathering of Israel would occur not in Jerusalem, but in America and they planned to build a "New Jerusalem." They followed a religious dietary code, realized a need for angelic ministry, believed in an angelic tongue, looked for a restoration of primitive Christianity exercised spiritual gifts, and Wood received a revelation through his rod directing the building of a temple.
Oliver Cowdery's father was not only a likely participant in this movement, but lived with the man who introduced the concept of using a rod to receive revelations to the New Israelites.
Before Oliver met Joseph Smith, he had been receiving revelations through a rod.
[Source: Clair Barrus, "Sprout, Rod, Thing of Nature: Naming the Gift of Aaron," Mormon Chronicles, http://mormon-chronicles.blogspot.com/2011/05/sprout-rod-thing-of-nature-naming-gift.html]
When searching for treasure, "Winchell held up his rod, got some motion from it, and told them the money was in an iron chest and covered with a large stone ... there was a 'divinity' guarding the treasure, and that if there was any lack of faith in any one ... this divinity would put the money forever beyond their reach.
However Winchell added a new dimension to the use of the rod when he taught Nathaniel Wood how to use it to receive revelations." Each of Wood's "Fraternity of Rodsmen" also had "a rod, which was used whenever they desired any information" including determining Israelite lineage through their rods.
Wood believed the gathering of Israel would occur not in Jerusalem, but in America and they planned to build a "New Jerusalem." They followed a religious dietary code, realized a need for angelic ministry, believed in an angelic tongue, looked for a restoration of primitive Christianity exercised spiritual gifts, and Wood received a revelation through his rod directing the building of a temple.
Oliver Cowdery's father was not only a likely participant in this movement, but lived with the man who introduced the concept of using a rod to receive revelations to the New Israelites.
Before Oliver met Joseph Smith, he had been receiving revelations through a rod.
[Source: Clair Barrus, "Sprout, Rod, Thing of Nature: Naming the Gift of Aaron," Mormon Chronicles, http://mormon-chronicles.blogspot.com/2011/05/sprout-rod-thing-of-nature-naming-gift.html]
70 years ago today - Jan 13, 1947
[First Presidency]
Your letter of December 31, 1946 has been received, in which you inquire regarding the situation of a couple whom you describe. As a medical man you know more about tests for colored blood than we know, and if you do not know of any tests that can be made to detect the colored blood, we would assume there has been none yet discovered. People in the South have this problem to meet all the time in a practical way, and we assume that as a practical matter the people there would be able to determine whether or not the sister in question has colored blood. Normally the dark skin and kinky hair would indicate but one thing. As you probably know, the races are badly mixed in Brazil, and no color line is drawn around the mass of the people. The result is, as the reports declare, that a great part of the population of Brazil is colored. The rule of the Church as heretofore followed has been set forth by the early Church leaders. You will find a discussion thereof in Brother Joseph Fielding Smith's book, 'The Way to Perfection,' chapter 16.
[Source: First Presidency, Letter to Francis W. Brown, as quoted in Minutes of the Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1835-1951, Electronic Edition, 2015]
Your letter of December 31, 1946 has been received, in which you inquire regarding the situation of a couple whom you describe. As a medical man you know more about tests for colored blood than we know, and if you do not know of any tests that can be made to detect the colored blood, we would assume there has been none yet discovered. People in the South have this problem to meet all the time in a practical way, and we assume that as a practical matter the people there would be able to determine whether or not the sister in question has colored blood. Normally the dark skin and kinky hair would indicate but one thing. As you probably know, the races are badly mixed in Brazil, and no color line is drawn around the mass of the people. The result is, as the reports declare, that a great part of the population of Brazil is colored. The rule of the Church as heretofore followed has been set forth by the early Church leaders. You will find a discussion thereof in Brother Joseph Fielding Smith's book, 'The Way to Perfection,' chapter 16.
[Source: First Presidency, Letter to Francis W. Brown, as quoted in Minutes of the Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1835-1951, Electronic Edition, 2015]
105 years ago today - Jan 13, 1912
[First Presidency]
Dear Brother, This is in answer to yours of the 9th inst., containing the following questions: (1) What authority have we as Latter-day Saints, in either modern or ancient revelation, or in sermons of our brethren, for the statement that the negroes are those who were neutral in heaven at the time of the great conflict or war? (2) Is it a fact that a Negro cannot receive the priesthood, and if so, what is the reason? Answer to question 1: So far as we know, there is no revelation, ancient or modern, neither is there any authoritative statement by any of the authorities of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in support of that which many of our elders have advanced as doctrine, in effect that the negroes are those who were neutral in heaven at the time of the great conflict or war, which resulted in the casting out of Lucifer and those who were led by him, said to number about one-third of the hosts of heaven. Answer to question 2: You are referred to the Pearl of Great Price, Book of Abraham, Chapter 1, verses 26 and 27, going to show that the seed of Ham was cursed as pertaining to the priesthood; and that by reason of this curse they have no right to it.
While there is no written revelation going to show why the negroes are ineligible to hold the priesthood, the Prophet Joseph Smith is said to have explained it in this way, that by killing his brother, Abel, Cain deprived him of posterity, and this without doubt was the intent of Satan in tempting Cain to take his brother's life. And the Prophet Joseph is said to have added that the seed of Cain, however worthy, will not be eligible to bear the priesthood until after Abel shall have had posterity, and that means until after Abel's posterity shall have obtained earthly tabernacles, otherwise the children of the slayer would have advantages over those of the slain.
[Source: First Presidency, Letter to Milton H. Knudson, as quoted in Minutes of the Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1835-1951, Electronic Edition, 2015]
Dear Brother, This is in answer to yours of the 9th inst., containing the following questions: (1) What authority have we as Latter-day Saints, in either modern or ancient revelation, or in sermons of our brethren, for the statement that the negroes are those who were neutral in heaven at the time of the great conflict or war? (2) Is it a fact that a Negro cannot receive the priesthood, and if so, what is the reason? Answer to question 1: So far as we know, there is no revelation, ancient or modern, neither is there any authoritative statement by any of the authorities of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in support of that which many of our elders have advanced as doctrine, in effect that the negroes are those who were neutral in heaven at the time of the great conflict or war, which resulted in the casting out of Lucifer and those who were led by him, said to number about one-third of the hosts of heaven. Answer to question 2: You are referred to the Pearl of Great Price, Book of Abraham, Chapter 1, verses 26 and 27, going to show that the seed of Ham was cursed as pertaining to the priesthood; and that by reason of this curse they have no right to it.
While there is no written revelation going to show why the negroes are ineligible to hold the priesthood, the Prophet Joseph Smith is said to have explained it in this way, that by killing his brother, Abel, Cain deprived him of posterity, and this without doubt was the intent of Satan in tempting Cain to take his brother's life. And the Prophet Joseph is said to have added that the seed of Cain, however worthy, will not be eligible to bear the priesthood until after Abel shall have had posterity, and that means until after Abel's posterity shall have obtained earthly tabernacles, otherwise the children of the slayer would have advantages over those of the slain.
[Source: First Presidency, Letter to Milton H. Knudson, 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 - Jan 13, 1892
Pres. Snow read a poem by himself on the sentiment of God and Man. As we are now, so once was he. A beautiful collection of Thoughts.
[Source: Diary Excerpts of Franklin D. Richards, 1887-1897, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
[Source: Diary Excerpts of Franklin D. Richards, 1887-1897, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
130 years ago today - Jan 13, 1887 (Thursday)
A bill repealing the anti-Mormon test oath in Arizona was passed by the Council branch of the Arizona legislature. The House passed it the following day, and the governor signed it on the 15th.
[Source: Jenson, Andrew, Church Chronology]
[Source: Jenson, Andrew, Church Chronology]
130 years ago today - 1887 January 13
[Wilford Woodruff]
The house of Representatives of the Congress of the United States has this day turned the Last key that seals their Condemnation and lays the foundation for the overthrow & final destruction of the United States government. They have this day passed the Edmund Tucker Bill which takes away Every political Civil & Religious right of near 200,000 of the Latter Day Saints because of our religion. This Bill will pass the Senate be signed By the President & Become a Law, the most unconstitutional Law Ever past By any Republican government on Earth.
[Source: Wilford Woodruff's Journal: 1833-1898 Typescript, Volumes 1-9, Edited by Scott G. Kenney, Signature Books 1993, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
The house of Representatives of the Congress of the United States has this day turned the Last key that seals their Condemnation and lays the foundation for the overthrow & final destruction of the United States government. They have this day passed the Edmund Tucker Bill which takes away Every political Civil & Religious right of near 200,000 of the Latter Day Saints because of our religion. This Bill will pass the Senate be signed By the President & Become a Law, the most unconstitutional Law Ever past By any Republican government on Earth.
[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 - Jan 13, 1877
[Special Instructions to Bishops]
Before the brethren or sisters go into the Temple to receive their endowments; they must wash themselves all over, perfectly clean, so as to enter the Temple clean. Men and women should have no sexual intercourse for a week or more previous to their going into the Temple to receive their endowments.
[Source: Brigham Young, John W. Young, Wilford Woodruff, Erastus Snow, and Brigham Young Jr., "Special Instructions to Bishops", January 13, 1877, in Anderson, Devery; The Development of LDS Temple Worship, 1846-2000: A Documentary History, http://amzn.to/TempleWorship]
Before the brethren or sisters go into the Temple to receive their endowments; they must wash themselves all over, perfectly clean, so as to enter the Temple clean. Men and women should have no sexual intercourse for a week or more previous to their going into the Temple to receive their endowments.
[Source: Brigham Young, John W. Young, Wilford Woodruff, Erastus Snow, and Brigham Young Jr., "Special Instructions to Bishops", January 13, 1877, in Anderson, Devery; The Development of LDS Temple Worship, 1846-2000: A Documentary History, http://amzn.to/TempleWorship]
150 years ago today - Jan 13, 1867
President Brigham Young; Great Salt Lake Tabernacle; January 13, 1867.
Some men seem as if they could learn so much and no more. They appear to be bounded in their capacity for acquiring knowledge as Brother Orson Pratt, has in theory, bounded the capacity of God. According to his theory, God can progress no further in knowledge and power; but the God that I serve is progressing eternally, and so are his children; they will increase to all eternity, if they are faithful.
[Source: J. D. 11:286 in Quotations Dealing with the Relationship of Our First Earthly Parents to Our Heavenly Parents (1830-1978)]
Some men seem as if they could learn so much and no more. They appear to be bounded in their capacity for acquiring knowledge as Brother Orson Pratt, has in theory, bounded the capacity of God. According to his theory, God can progress no further in knowledge and power; but the God that I serve is progressing eternally, and so are his children; they will increase to all eternity, if they are faithful.
[Source: J. D. 11:286 in Quotations Dealing with the Relationship of Our First Earthly Parents to Our Heavenly Parents (1830-1978)]
155 years ago today - Jan 13, 1862
[Brigham Young]
Bishop Smoot said he had never raised a Stick to his children. Pres. Young remarked I would like to alter the saying of Solomon's of sparing the rod and spoiling the child, '"to spare the rod, and give good council to children and thus draw them to you.'" -- Salt Lake City
[Source: Brigham Young Office Journals, in The Complete Discourses of Brigham Young, Ed. Richard S. Van Wagoner, Smith-Pettit Foundation, Salt Lake City (2009), http://bit.ly/BY-discourses]
Bishop Smoot said he had never raised a Stick to his children. Pres. Young remarked I would like to alter the saying of Solomon's of sparing the rod and spoiling the child, '"to spare the rod, and give good council to children and thus draw them to you.'" -- Salt Lake City
[Source: Brigham Young Office Journals, in The Complete Discourses of Brigham Young, Ed. Richard S. Van Wagoner, Smith-Pettit Foundation, Salt Lake City (2009), http://bit.ly/BY-discourses]
160 years ago today - 1857 January 13
[Wilford Woodruff]
We heard the report of the missionaries & the subject of the spirits was brought up & discused. They have begun to visit the Houses in the 16th ward and the spirit rapping.
[Source: Wilford Woodruff's Journal: 1833-1898 Typescript, Volumes 1-9, Edited by Scott G. Kenney, Signature Books 1993, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
We heard the report of the missionaries & the subject of the spirits was brought up & discused. They have begun to visit the Houses in the 16th ward and the spirit rapping.
[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 - Jan 13, 1852
Heber C. Kimball speaks against a bill requiring code commissioners to be learned in the law and argues that any good man could be a lawyer in Utah, not just those with training: "I am not learned in the law, and I want to get a salary and sit on my h-s the same as other men, let us not make laws that will prohibit ourselves from such privileges. . . . Now the most of these learned lawyers are as ignorant as I am, and I tell you, if I sat upon the bench, and they treated me as they treat Judge Snow I would knock them down. He is learned in the law and must submit to have the nasty curses shame him and they will call him a nasty s-t. Then I say let us poor ignorant fools have a chance to get salaries."
115 years ago today - Sunday, Jan 12, 1902
[Rudger Clawson]
6:30 p.m. Attended the sacrament meeting in the 18th Ward chapel, Bp. [Orson F.] Whitney presiding. I spoke in complimentary terms of the improvements made in the chapel and also referred to the propriety of the sisters sitting [with heads] uncovered in meeting.
[Source: Stan Larson (editor), A Ministry of Meetings: The Apostolic diaries of Rudger Clawson, Signature Books in association with Smith Research Associates, Salt Lake City, 1993, http://bit.ly/rudgerclawson]
6:30 p.m. Attended the sacrament meeting in the 18th Ward chapel, Bp. [Orson F.] Whitney presiding. I spoke in complimentary terms of the improvements made in the chapel and also referred to the propriety of the sisters sitting [with heads] uncovered in meeting.
[Source: Stan Larson (editor), A Ministry of Meetings: The Apostolic diaries of Rudger Clawson, Signature Books in association with Smith Research Associates, Salt Lake City, 1993, http://bit.ly/rudgerclawson]
125 years ago today - Jan 12, 1892
In a meeting of the Twelve apostle John Henry Smith's political situation is discussed. John Henry Smith "then spoke of the principles of his party in such a partisan spirit that it caused several interruptions from Bro. [Moses} Thatcher whi is as strong a Democrat as John is a Republican. Bro. [Lorenzo] Snow had to interfere and check the Spirit which was starting." Franklin D. Richards (a Democrat) objected to some of John Henry's "calling those who did not believe as he did some pretty hard names, and "gave Bro. Smith a rather severe rebuke." John Henry Smith writes in his journal: "I felt somewhat hurt at what they said but we all parted feeling first rate."
125 years ago today - Jan 12, 1892
President [Lorenzo] Snow said he did not sleep a wink after his testimony in the court before the Master in Chancery, Loughborough, and felt very much chagrined at what he had said there. Did not intend to forsake his wives and had sworn that he would not and that the Lord would not require it.
[Source: Minutes, as quoted in Minutes of the Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1835-1951, Electronic Edition, 2015]
[Source: Minutes, as quoted in Minutes of the Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1835-1951, Electronic Edition, 2015]
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