[Apostle Wilford Woodruff Journal] 4 + I Called upon Brother Barlow to get a set of teeth made for my upper Jaw. A new dentist Brother Sharp took a cast of my mouth. He professed to be a good workman.
[Source: Wilford Woodruff's Journal: 1833-1898 Typescript, Volumes 1-9, Edited by Scott G. Kenney, Signature Books 1993, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
160 years ago today - Aug 4, 1853
Apostle Amasa M. Lyman begins acting as medium in spiritualistic seances in San Bernardino, California. After being dropped from Quorum of Twelve in 1867 and excommunicated in 1870, Lyman holds seances with such prominent Mormons or former Mormons as T. B. H. Stenhouse, E.L.T. Harrison, William S. Godbe, William H. Shearman, Henry W. Lawrence, Theodore Turley, Sarah B. Pratt, Andrew F. Cahoon, Arthur Stayner, John V. Long, Nathan Tanner, Sr., and Emma Brown Teasdale (wife of future apostle George Teasdale). Founding prophet's son David H. Smith also joins some of these seances while visiting Utah.
[Source: http://www.advent-adam.com/jakestand.html (cached, based on http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies)]
[Source: http://www.advent-adam.com/jakestand.html (cached, based on http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies)]
175 years ago today - 1838 4 Aug.
[Joseph Smith] Stake president John Smith writes that "the Danites met the third time in Adam on diahman [Adam-ondi-Ahman, Missouri] since the 22 Jul." His first counselor Lyman Wight is a Danite colonel.
[Source: Quinn, D. Michael, The Mormon Hierarchy: Origins of Power, Appendix 7: Selected Chronology 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 7: Selected Chronology of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1830-47, http://amzn.to/origins-power]
185 years ago today - Aug 4, 1828
Alexander Campbell describes to his readers his ecstatic experience of seeing three "kingdoms" of individuals who have received God's blessings.
[Source: Mark Lyman Staker, Hearken, O Ye People: The Historical Setting of Joseph Smith's Ohio Revelations: A Selective Chronology of Significant Events in Ohio's LDS History]
[Source: Mark Lyman Staker, Hearken, O Ye People: The Historical Setting of Joseph Smith's Ohio Revelations: A Selective Chronology of Significant Events in Ohio's LDS History]
120 years ago today - Aug 3, 1893
- Faithful Mormon Melissa Lott (Smith Willes) testifies under oath in Temple Lot case that she had been Joseph's wife "in very deed."
[Source: http://www.advent-adam.com/jakestand.html (cached, based on http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies)]
[Source: http://www.advent-adam.com/jakestand.html (cached, based on http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies)]
170 years ago today - Aug 3, 1843
[Heber C. Kimball] 3 August the 3. We left Pitsburgh by coash [coach] to Cumberland, [Maryland]. 125 [miles] most of the way on Rayl [rail] by the National Road. At Cumberland we took the [railroad] cars to Baltimore 140, we took a steem boat fore Phillidelpha. 65 by Steam and 14 by Rail way, then fifty by steam, first waters. 65 miles was [on] the Chesepeake Bay. The other was Delaware River 50 miles we stade in P – - – [Philadephia] two weeks. Left on the 18 twok [took] steam boat fore Burlington [New Jersey] whare we twok coash fore Mount Holly [New Jersey] – at Judg Richards. He twok his cask [coach?] and Caried us to a place called the Square in Burlentown [Burlington] whare we held a woods meting on.
[Source: Kimball, Stanley B. ed, On the Potter's Wheel: The Diaries of Heber C. Kimball]
[Source: Kimball, Stanley B. ed, On the Potter's Wheel: The Diaries of Heber C. Kimball]
175 years ago today - Aug 3, 1838
Orson Pratt publishes history or origins of Mormon Church, describes first vision as two identical personages.
[Source: Tidd, N. R., "Mormon Chronology"]
[Source: Tidd, N. R., "Mormon Chronology"]
5 years ago today - Early August
[Same-Sex Marriage] Ward training meetings take place outlining the roles individual members are to play as foot soldiers in the moral war against marriage and families. Action plans, organizational structure and volunteer jobs are detailed which include walking/calling voters in precincts to educate them about Prop 8, etc.
[Source: Mormons for Marriage: A Prop 8 Timeline, http://mormonsformarriage.com/?page_id=68]
[Source: Mormons for Marriage: A Prop 8 Timeline, http://mormonsformarriage.com/?page_id=68]
100 years ago today - Aug 2, 1913
False revelations-Dream mines, etc.-- also July 4, 1914.
Seemingly from this editorial note [from the Deseret News] the "Warning" was directed particularly at dream mines and their operators.
... The First Presidency warn the Saints against investing in worthless mining schemes, or valueless stock, even if the promoters allege that they are guided by dreams and revelations. It is a timely warning. Almost everyone have heard stories of how Such-and-Such found a rich mine by following directions given in a dream, and many fondly hope for similar luck, but in most instances it will be found, on investigation, that such stories have little or no foundation in fact. They belong to the class of rumors which like the wind, "bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh and whither it goeth." No one should be guided by such rumors, but by reason enlightened by the Holy Spirit.
It is a safe rule not to accept the counsel of anyone who is in any way antagonistic to those who have been duly appointed to lead and guide Israel. And it will be found that the promoters of "dream mines" and "vision enterprises" generally are of that class. ...
[Source: Clark, James R., Messages of the First Presidency (6 volumes)]
Seemingly from this editorial note [from the Deseret News] the "Warning" was directed particularly at dream mines and their operators.
... The First Presidency warn the Saints against investing in worthless mining schemes, or valueless stock, even if the promoters allege that they are guided by dreams and revelations. It is a timely warning. Almost everyone have heard stories of how Such-and-Such found a rich mine by following directions given in a dream, and many fondly hope for similar luck, but in most instances it will be found, on investigation, that such stories have little or no foundation in fact. They belong to the class of rumors which like the wind, "bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh and whither it goeth." No one should be guided by such rumors, but by reason enlightened by the Holy Spirit.
It is a safe rule not to accept the counsel of anyone who is in any way antagonistic to those who have been duly appointed to lead and guide Israel. And it will be found that the promoters of "dream mines" and "vision enterprises" generally are of that class. ...
[Source: Clark, James R., Messages of the First Presidency (6 volumes)]
120 years ago today - Aug 2, 1893
[Apostle Heber J. Grant Diary] I have and do pray with all my heart and soul that the Lord will keep our Banks from failing. I feel that nothing but His power can do it.
[Source: Diary of Heber J. Grant, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
[Source: Diary of Heber J. Grant, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
130 years ago today - Aug 2, 1883
At reconvened School of the Prophets, President John Taylor and several apostles state their preference for conferring only Aaronic priesthood part of endowment ceremony on newly endowed adults. No decision.
[Source: On This Day in Mormon History, http://onthisdayinmormonhistory.blogspot.com]
[Source: On This Day in Mormon History, http://onthisdayinmormonhistory.blogspot.com]
180 years ago today - (Fri) Aug 2, 1833
Joseph Smith claimed to receive two divine revelations. The first instructed the Mormons in Jackson county that the planned Independence Temple was to be "built speedily" and that, by their carrying out these instructions, "Zion... shall prosper and spread herself and become very glorious..." The second revelation commanded the Saints in Kirtland to "commence a work of laying out and preparing... the City of the stake of Zion..."
[Source: Broadhurst, Dale R., Mormon Chronology, http://olivercowdery.com/history/morchrn2.htm]
[Source: Broadhurst, Dale R., Mormon Chronology, http://olivercowdery.com/history/morchrn2.htm]
25 years ago today - Aug 01, 1988
[U.S. Religious History] Martin Scorsese's "The Last Temptation of Christ" opens to widespread complaints and protests over its blasphemous content.
[Source: Cline, Austin, History of American Religion: Timeline]
[Source: Cline, Austin, History of American Religion: Timeline]
50 years ago today - Aug 1, 1963
RLDS First Presidency statement published in SAINT'S HERALD entitled, "Our Position on Race and Color:" "The internal racial problems in our church have been very minor. Integration has been such a natural process that there would be no need to discuss it in these columns were it not for the national attention that has resulted from the tense integration question. We have Negroes in our branches, in our priesthood, and in our church college. Our integration preceded any social pressures or Supreme Court decisions. It would be difficult to say how many of our Negroes now hold priesthood. No systematic records have been kept based on race or color. We have felt no reason for such accounting." The RLDS church allowed Blacks to have the priesthood in the 1800's
[Source: http://www.advent-adam.com/jakestand.html (cached, based on http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies)]
[Source: http://www.advent-adam.com/jakestand.html (cached, based on http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies)]
50 years ago today - Aug 1, 1963
First Presidency statement that Latter-day Saints should not dance with "grotesque contortions of the body such as shoulder and hip shaking or excessive body jerking." As result Mormon youth generally cease dancing the popular "Twist" at LDS dances throughout the world, an adherence that had not uniformly followed the first announced ban two years earlier by youth auxiliaries.
[Source: http://www.advent-adam.com/jakestand.html (cached, based on http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies)]
[Source: http://www.advent-adam.com/jakestand.html (cached, based on http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies)]
120 years ago today - Aug 1, 1893
[Francis M. Lyman] Pres[ident] [George Q.] Cannon and Heber J. Grant returned from England the former and the latter from New York. Their mission upon finance has been a very hard one. Bro[ther] Grant looks the worse for the wear. ... Financial affairs are getting tighter and tighter every day.
[Source: Francis M. Lyman, Diary]
[Source: Francis M. Lyman, Diary]
135 years ago today - Aug 1, 1878
A fire destroys most of Alta, including the breweries and saloons. The California Brewery reopens in a tunnel on the south side of the canyon, where it had been storing a large quantity of beer.
[Source: Harward, Randy; Utah Brewing Timeline, Salt Lake City Weekly, Aug 24, 2011]
[Source: Harward, Randy; Utah Brewing Timeline, Salt Lake City Weekly, Aug 24, 2011]
170 years ago today - Aug 1, 1843. Tuesday.
[William Clayton Journal] ...Bagby said he had done more for Joseph than for any other man in the country. Joseph reiterated that Bagby was continually abusing the citizens here. Bagby called the prophet a liar...pick up a stone to throw at him which so enraged him that President Joseph followed him a few steps and struck him two or three times. Esquire Daniel H. Wells stepped between them and succeeded in separating them. President Joseph told the Esquire to assess the fine for the assault and he was willing to pay it. President Joseph rode down to Alderman Whitney stated the circumstances and he imposed a fine which the prophet paid and then returned to a political meeting. Bagby stayed awhile muttering that Joseph was a coward.
[Bagby becomes a relentless enemy of Joseph, inspiring Carthage meetings and stirring up other old enemies against him.]
[Source: George D. Smith, An Intimate Chronicle; The Journals of William Clayton, Signature Books in association with Smith Research Associates, Salt Lake City, 1995, http://amzn.to/william-clayton]
[Bagby becomes a relentless enemy of Joseph, inspiring Carthage meetings and stirring up other old enemies against him.]
[Source: George D. Smith, An Intimate Chronicle; The Journals of William Clayton, Signature Books in association with Smith Research Associates, Salt Lake City, 1995, http://amzn.to/william-clayton]
5 years ago today - 7/31/2008
[Same-Sex Marriage] Bloggers at Feminist Mormon Housewives (http://www.feministmormonhousewives.org/?p=272) begin discussing in earnest the relevancy of personal leanings toward/away from gay marriage and temple recommends when a guest reveals, "In my stake temple recommend earlier this month I was told that if I do not agree with the church's position on gay marriage, that I am not worthy to attend the temple."
[Source: Mormons for Marriage: A Prop 8 Timeline, http://mormonsformarriage.com/?page_id=68]
[Source: Mormons for Marriage: A Prop 8 Timeline, http://mormonsformarriage.com/?page_id=68]
20 years ago today - Jul 31, 1993
SALT LAKE TRIBUNE reports that LDS missionary-couples in Nauvoo, Illinois have worked "for 88 consecutive hours without sleep" to help protect historical properties of RLDS church in Nauvoo from rampaging Mississippi River.
[Source: On This Day in Mormon History, http://onthisdayinmormonhistory.blogspot.com]
[Source: On This Day in Mormon History, http://onthisdayinmormonhistory.blogspot.com]
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