[George Q. Cannon] urged the brethren not to become heated in politics, but to be calm in all they do. ...
He believes the time will come when marriages will occur in our temples under the Aaronic Priesthood, instead of giving to young and inexperienced men all the blessings belonging to the Higher Priesthood. It is frequently the case now that unworthy persons go into the temples on recommends, which they should not receive, but it cannot well be prohibited them to enter, because of their family connections. ...
Men should not sell their honor, their wife's virtue or their inheritances. We should hold all of these sacred.
[Abraham H. Cannon Journal Excerpts, http://www.amazon.com/Apostles-Record-Journals-Abraham-1889-1896/dp/B000MFD1K4]
130 years ago today - Oct 10, 1888 (Wednesday)
The hearing in the Idaho test case was commenced before Judge C.H. Berry, at Blackfoot, Idaho. The decision rendered the following day was practically to the effect that no "Mormons" hereafter could vote in Idaho.
[Jenson, Andrew, Church Chronology]
[Jenson, Andrew, Church Chronology]
10 years ago today - 10/9/2008
[Same-Sex Marriage]
The Mormon Times reports about the Oct. 8th broadcast:... Elder Cook said ... [regarding the church's position on gay marriage], "There are (also) faithful, temple worthy members of the church who struggle with this great challenge, often in silence, fear and great pain."
[Mormons for Marriage: A Prop 8 Timeline, http://mormonsformarriage.com/?page_id=68]
The Mormon Times reports about the Oct. 8th broadcast:... Elder Cook said ... [regarding the church's position on gay marriage], "There are (also) faithful, temple worthy members of the church who struggle with this great challenge, often in silence, fear and great pain."
[Mormons for Marriage: A Prop 8 Timeline, http://mormonsformarriage.com/?page_id=68]
30 years ago today - Oct 9, 1988
"A secret combination that seeks to overthrow the freedom of all lands, nations, and countries is increasing its evil influence and control over America and the entire world," Benson told October 1988 general conference.
[Benson, "I Testify," Ensign 18 (Nov. 1988): 87. From D. Michael Quinn, Ezra Taft Benson and Mormon Political Conflicts, Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 26:2 (Summer 1992), also in Quinn, The Mormon Hierarchy: Extensions of Power Salt Lake City (Signature Books, 1994), Chapter 3.]
[Benson, "I Testify," Ensign 18 (Nov. 1988): 87. From D. Michael Quinn, Ezra Taft Benson and Mormon Political Conflicts, Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 26:2 (Summer 1992), also in Quinn, The Mormon Hierarchy: Extensions of Power Salt Lake City (Signature Books, 1994), Chapter 3.]
120 years ago today - Oct 9, 1898
[Heber J. Grant]
Gusta, my cousin Anthony W. Ivins and I chatted until 1115. Speaking of plural marriage he said there were quite a number of them being performed in Mexico. Said he was on hand and willing to take another wife if his brethren felt that it was the wisest thing to do under all the circumstances. He had no desire for another wife, but at the same time had a strong desire to [not] to fail in doing any duty devolving upon him and he wanted me and my fellow apostles to know that he was on hand to perform any and every duty required of him.
Had all his life accepted in his heart of plural marriage and was making an effort to get another wife when the Manifesto came along.
I was glad to have him say this much.
[The Diaries of Heber J. Grant, 1880-1945, Abridged, Digital Edition Salt Lake City, Utah, 2015]
Gusta, my cousin Anthony W. Ivins and I chatted until 1115. Speaking of plural marriage he said there were quite a number of them being performed in Mexico. Said he was on hand and willing to take another wife if his brethren felt that it was the wisest thing to do under all the circumstances. He had no desire for another wife, but at the same time had a strong desire to [not] to fail in doing any duty devolving upon him and he wanted me and my fellow apostles to know that he was on hand to perform any and every duty required of him.
Had all his life accepted in his heart of plural marriage and was making an effort to get another wife when the Manifesto came along.
I was glad to have him say this much.
[The Diaries of Heber J. Grant, 1880-1945, Abridged, Digital Edition Salt Lake City, Utah, 2015]
120 years ago today - Sunday, Oct 9, 1898
[John Henry Smith]
... All [votes] were unanimous but in the case of John W. Taylor. Some few voted against him for remarks made on Friday about [the high level of fornication in the ] Kamas Ward and the Salt Lake Tabernacle Choir.
Bro. John W. Taylor at the close of the meeting met with the choir and arranged his trouble with them.
[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]
... All [votes] were unanimous but in the case of John W. Taylor. Some few voted against him for remarks made on Friday about [the high level of fornication in the ] Kamas Ward and the Salt Lake Tabernacle Choir.
Bro. John W. Taylor at the close of the meeting met with the choir and arranged his trouble with them.
[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]
125 years ago today - Oct 9, 1893
[Francis M. Lyman]
Pres[ident] Cannon ... spoke much and sharply against Christian science and the doctrine of reincarnation of the Styners. ... then we walked with bro[ther] Roberts to the Historians office. On our way I warned him it was dangerous to be too friendly with Maggie Ship. I said you have both been married and you should be very careful. Hence I felt I should warn you. He smiling said, if I would keep the secret he would tell me. I promised and he said, "we are married" I was very ready to say, "all right and the joke is on me."
[Excerpts of Apostle Francis M. Lyman Diaries, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
Pres[ident] Cannon ... spoke much and sharply against Christian science and the doctrine of reincarnation of the Styners. ... then we walked with bro[ther] Roberts to the Historians office. On our way I warned him it was dangerous to be too friendly with Maggie Ship. I said you have both been married and you should be very careful. Hence I felt I should warn you. He smiling said, if I would keep the secret he would tell me. I promised and he said, "we are married" I was very ready to say, "all right and the joke is on me."
[Excerpts of Apostle Francis M. Lyman Diaries, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
135 years ago today - Oct 9, 1883
[Franklin D. Richards]
At 10 Attended meeting of the Pres[iden]ts. of Stakes Twelve & Pres[id]enc[. ]Subjects dwelt upon ... were heineousness of Adultery, Fornication, Masturbation, & concomitants'-and publication of the Excommunicated'... At 7-P.M. Met again as adjourned & heard further discussion of the same subjects & also of self-pollution of both sexes & excessive indulgence in the married relation necessity[ ]of recommends to Saints removing from one Ward to another also the sin of Saints Sending their children to Gentile Schools.
[Franklin D. Richards Diary, 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]
At 10 Attended meeting of the Pres[iden]ts. of Stakes Twelve & Pres[id]enc[. ]Subjects dwelt upon ... were heineousness of Adultery, Fornication, Masturbation, & concomitants'-and publication of the Excommunicated'... At 7-P.M. Met again as adjourned & heard further discussion of the same subjects & also of self-pollution of both sexes & excessive indulgence in the married relation necessity[ ]of recommends to Saints removing from one Ward to another also the sin of Saints Sending their children to Gentile Schools.
[Franklin D. Richards Diary, 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]
150 years ago today - Oct 9, 1868
Brigham Young adjourns the Council of Fifty. He never reconvenes it again.
[The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn, [New Mormon History database ( http://bit.ly/NMHdatabase )]]
[The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn, [New Mormon History database ( http://bit.ly/NMHdatabase )]]
170 years ago today - Oct 9, 1848
[Nauvoo Temple]
An arsonist set fire to the Temple. The Keoukuk Register reported that "Great volumes of smoke and flames burst from the windows, and the crash of falling timbers was distinctly heard on the opposite side of the [Mississippi] river. The interior of the building was like a furnace, the walls of solid masonry were heated throughout and cracked by the intense heat. The melted zinc and lead were dropping from its high block during the day." ...
Brigham Young later said of the arson, "I hoped to see it burned before I left, but I did not. I was glad when I heard of its being destroyed by fire, and of the walls having fallen in, and said, 'Hell, you cannot now occupy it.'"
[The ruins would be leveled by a tornado in 1850.]
[Brown, Lisle (compiler), Chronology of the Construction, Destruction and Reconstruction of the Nauvoo Temple]
An arsonist set fire to the Temple. The Keoukuk Register reported that "Great volumes of smoke and flames burst from the windows, and the crash of falling timbers was distinctly heard on the opposite side of the [Mississippi] river. The interior of the building was like a furnace, the walls of solid masonry were heated throughout and cracked by the intense heat. The melted zinc and lead were dropping from its high block during the day." ...
Brigham Young later said of the arson, "I hoped to see it burned before I left, but I did not. I was glad when I heard of its being destroyed by fire, and of the walls having fallen in, and said, 'Hell, you cannot now occupy it.'"
[The ruins would be leveled by a tornado in 1850.]
[Brown, Lisle (compiler), Chronology of the Construction, Destruction and Reconstruction of the Nauvoo Temple]
175 years ago today - Oct 9, 1843
[Joseph Smith]
Could you gaze in[to] heaven 5 minutes you would know more than you possibly /would/ can know by read[ing] all that ever was written on the subject. We are one [and all] only capable of comprehending that certain things exist which we may acquire by certain fixed principles. ... The spirits of just men are made ministering servants to those who are sealed unto life eternal. It is through them that the sealing power comes down.
The spirit of Patriarch Adam now is /one of/ the spirits of the just men made [perfect] and if revealed now, must be revealed in fire. ...
Flesh and blood cannot go there but flesh and bones quickened by the Spirit of God can. If we would be sober and watch in fasting and prayer, God would turn away sickness from our midst, Hasten the work of the Temple, and all the work of the Last Days. Let the Elders and Saints do away [with] light mindedness and be sober.
[Faulring, Scott (ed.), An American Prophet's Record: The Diaries and Journals of Joseph Smith: Joseph Smith Diary, 1843-44, http://amzn.to/jsdiaries]
Could you gaze in[to] heaven 5 minutes you would know more than you possibly /would/ can know by read[ing] all that ever was written on the subject. We are one [and all] only capable of comprehending that certain things exist which we may acquire by certain fixed principles. ... The spirits of just men are made ministering servants to those who are sealed unto life eternal. It is through them that the sealing power comes down.
The spirit of Patriarch Adam now is /one of/ the spirits of the just men made [perfect] and if revealed now, must be revealed in fire. ...
Flesh and blood cannot go there but flesh and bones quickened by the Spirit of God can. If we would be sober and watch in fasting and prayer, God would turn away sickness from our midst, Hasten the work of the Temple, and all the work of the Last Days. Let the Elders and Saints do away [with] light mindedness and be sober.
[Faulring, Scott (ed.), An American Prophet's Record: The Diaries and Journals of Joseph Smith: Joseph Smith Diary, 1843-44, http://amzn.to/jsdiaries]
55 years ago today - Oct 8, 1963
BYU professor of English [Ralph Britch] wrote: "Even my conservative friends on the faculty are disturbed by Elder Benson's Birch activities . . ."
[Ralph A. Britsch to Ralph R. Harding, 8 Oct. 1963, photocopies in folder 2, box 4, King Papers. From D. Michael Quinn, Ezra Taft Benson and Mormon Political Conflicts, Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 26:2 (Summer 1992), also in Quinn, The Mormon Hierarchy: Extensions of Power Salt Lake City (Signature Books, 1994), Chapter 3.]
[Ralph A. Britsch to Ralph R. Harding, 8 Oct. 1963, photocopies in folder 2, box 4, King Papers. From D. Michael Quinn, Ezra Taft Benson and Mormon Political Conflicts, Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 26:2 (Summer 1992), also in Quinn, The Mormon Hierarchy: Extensions of Power Salt Lake City (Signature Books, 1994), Chapter 3.]
115 years ago today - Thursday, Oct 8, 1903
[Rudger Clawson]
Pres. [Joseph F.] Smith withdrew with his counselors after instructing Elder Jno. H. Smith to deliver the charge to the new apostle. Elder Jno. H. Smith, addressing Elder Geo. A. Smith, said in part. You should understand that you are now wedded to a tie stronger than life or death. You are subject to the counsel and direction of the Presidency and your quorum, and your field of action is the whole world. You are to attend your quorum meetings regularly. It is presumed that you accept all the principles of the gospel and that you accept and sustain with your whole soul the First Presidency as now organized, and that you accept and sustain Francis M. Lyman as president of the quorum of the Twelve with the members thereof. You are to respond to the calls of the Presidency though it should take you from a sickbed, though it should cost you your life. The obligation is placed upon you to express when called upon clearly and boldly your views even though you may differ with your brethren, but you must in all cases submit to the decisions and judgment of your quorum. It is your duty to preach the gospel and lead an exemplary life. It is your duty to serve God and fear no man.
[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]
Pres. [Joseph F.] Smith withdrew with his counselors after instructing Elder Jno. H. Smith to deliver the charge to the new apostle. Elder Jno. H. Smith, addressing Elder Geo. A. Smith, said in part. You should understand that you are now wedded to a tie stronger than life or death. You are subject to the counsel and direction of the Presidency and your quorum, and your field of action is the whole world. You are to attend your quorum meetings regularly. It is presumed that you accept all the principles of the gospel and that you accept and sustain with your whole soul the First Presidency as now organized, and that you accept and sustain Francis M. Lyman as president of the quorum of the Twelve with the members thereof. You are to respond to the calls of the Presidency though it should take you from a sickbed, though it should cost you your life. The obligation is placed upon you to express when called upon clearly and boldly your views even though you may differ with your brethren, but you must in all cases submit to the decisions and judgment of your quorum. It is your duty to preach the gospel and lead an exemplary life. It is your duty to serve God and fear no man.
[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]
120 years ago today - Saturday, Oct 8, 1898
At the request of Prest. [Lorenzo] Snow, the Apostles handed to him suggestions of brethren whom they would like to be chosen to fill the vacancy in the quorum of the Apostles. Prest. Snow and his Counselors then withdrew to consider the names. After their return I (Heber J. Grant) have recorded in my journal the following:
... Said: I know that we have the mind of the Lord, and I know it just as perfectly as I have ever Known anything. The man we have chosen, and upon whom we are perfectly united, is Rudger Clawson. Prest. Franklin D. Richards moved that we sustain the choice of the Presidency and the motion was unanimously sustained.
Prest. Snow then said he wanted to say something about Rudger Clawson. Said that when he was in the Penitentiary he became intimately acquainted with Bro. Clawson and learned his worth. ... When Bro. Standing was killed the man in charge of the mob ordered them to turn their guns on Bro. Clawson and fire. Bro. Clawson closed his eyes and waited for a moment or two, expecting to have the bullets of the assassins crash through his brain. When they did not fire, he opened his eyes and saw the guns were still pointing at him, but the leader countermanded the order to fire.
Brother Clawson during his long confinement in the "Pen" (3 yrs., I mo., 10 days) for plural marriage made a good record. ...
[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]
... Said: I know that we have the mind of the Lord, and I know it just as perfectly as I have ever Known anything. The man we have chosen, and upon whom we are perfectly united, is Rudger Clawson. Prest. Franklin D. Richards moved that we sustain the choice of the Presidency and the motion was unanimously sustained.
Prest. Snow then said he wanted to say something about Rudger Clawson. Said that when he was in the Penitentiary he became intimately acquainted with Bro. Clawson and learned his worth. ... When Bro. Standing was killed the man in charge of the mob ordered them to turn their guns on Bro. Clawson and fire. Bro. Clawson closed his eyes and waited for a moment or two, expecting to have the bullets of the assassins crash through his brain. When they did not fire, he opened his eyes and saw the guns were still pointing at him, but the leader countermanded the order to fire.
Brother Clawson during his long confinement in the "Pen" (3 yrs., I mo., 10 days) for plural marriage made a good record. ...
[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]
130 years ago today - Oct 8, 1888
Nevada Supreme Court declares as unconstitutional Nevada's law which denies the vote to anyone "who is a member of or belongs to the 'Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints,' commonly called the 'Mormon Church'..."
[The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn, [New Mormon History database ( http://bit.ly/NMHdatabase )]]
[The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn, [New Mormon History database ( http://bit.ly/NMHdatabase )]]
135 years ago today - Oct 8, 1883
[Heber J. Grant]
Yesterday morning I made it a subject of prayer as to who I should endeavor to secure for a second wife I felt that the time had come when I should again make an attempt to practice plural marriage.
I wrote a number of names on pieces of paper and on one 'neither'. I put the papers in my pocket and prayed earnestly th to my Heavenly Father that I might draw the paper from my pocket with the name of the Sister on it that He desired me to try and secure for a second wife and provided He did not wish me to try to get either of the persons whose names I had written I asked that I might draw the name paper with 'neither' written on it'I drew the paper with 'Miss Winters' on it 'Miss Winters is almost a stranger to me' I simply know her enough to speak when we meet, but my slight acquaintance has been enough to make me think her just such a person as I should like for a wife.
[The Diaries of Heber J. Grant, 1880-1945, Abridged, Digital Edition Salt Lake City, Utah, 2015]
Yesterday morning I made it a subject of prayer as to who I should endeavor to secure for a second wife I felt that the time had come when I should again make an attempt to practice plural marriage.
I wrote a number of names on pieces of paper and on one 'neither'. I put the papers in my pocket and prayed earnestly th to my Heavenly Father that I might draw the paper from my pocket with the name of the Sister on it that He desired me to try and secure for a second wife and provided He did not wish me to try to get either of the persons whose names I had written I asked that I might draw the name paper with 'neither' written on it'I drew the paper with 'Miss Winters' on it 'Miss Winters is almost a stranger to me' I simply know her enough to speak when we meet, but my slight acquaintance has been enough to make me think her just such a person as I should like for a wife.
[The Diaries of Heber J. Grant, 1880-1945, Abridged, Digital Edition Salt Lake City, Utah, 2015]
145 years ago today - Oct 8, 1873
President Brigham Young pronounced the following benediction: According to the authority of the Holy Priesthood vested in me, I bless this congregation in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, the brethren, my counselors, and the Apostles, with all the officers of the Church and Kingdom of God. ... I bless you, my brethren and sisters, and all that pertain to you. And I bless the human family according to the authority that the Lord has bestowed upon me; and if it would do any good, I would ask the Father in the name of Jesus to make them honest, and to open their eyes and their ears and their hearts to receive the truth, that they might be messengers of salvation upon the earth and be prepared for a glorious resurrection. But they are as they are, and I bless them and pray that the Lord will bless them and have com- passion upon them who have not sinned against the Holy Ghost, that they may be saved in the kingdom or kingdoms of our God. You are dismissed. -- SLC Tabernacle
[Deseret News. Also Deseret Evening News, Deseret News Weekly, Deseret News Semi- Weekly, and Deseret News Extra, Salt Lake City; 1850-current. 22:585, in The Complete Discourses of Brigham Young, Ed. Richard S. Van Wagoner, Smith-Pettit Foundation, Salt Lake City (2009), http://bit.ly/BY-discourses]
[Deseret News. Also Deseret Evening News, Deseret News Weekly, Deseret News Semi- Weekly, and Deseret News Extra, Salt Lake City; 1850-current. 22:585, in The Complete Discourses of Brigham Young, Ed. Richard S. Van Wagoner, Smith-Pettit Foundation, Salt Lake City (2009), http://bit.ly/BY-discourses]
150 years ago today - Oct 8, 1868
At 7-30 p.m., the First Presidency and Twelve met this evening. This was the first time for thirty two years that the members of the quorum of the Twelve have all been together.
[Church's Historian's Office Journal, 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]
[Church's Historian's Office Journal, 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]
175 years ago today - Oct 8, 1843
Patriarchal Blessing of William A. Martindale given by Hyrum Smith ... For behold thou art William and this is the name by which you will be called. Yet never-the-less there is a new name by which you shall be called, also, if you enter in through the gate into the city in the day of purification. When the sons of Moses and Aaron shall be purified.
For ye are of Aaron and of the lineage and loins of Levi and an heir unto that inheritance and your blessing cometh according to the Praphetic [Prophetic] Visions of your fathers... the Priesthood shall have there [the] honor and your name be peretuated [perpetuated] from generation to generations. ...
[Patriarchal Blessings]
For ye are of Aaron and of the lineage and loins of Levi and an heir unto that inheritance and your blessing cometh according to the Praphetic [Prophetic] Visions of your fathers... the Priesthood shall have there [the] honor and your name be peretuated [perpetuated] from generation to generations. ...
[Patriarchal Blessings]
175 years ago today - Oct 8, 1843
Sidney Rigdon: Formally charged with apostasy at general conference 6 Oct. 1843 where Joseph Smith Jr. recommended that he be rejected as counselor, but re-sustained by conference 8 Oct. 1843 (Joseph Smith Jr. had already anointed William Law and Amasa M Lyman as counselors in his place)
[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]
[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]
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