[James E. Talmage] They [the Brethern] had learned that my health has been jeopardized and, as they said, my sanity, and life threatened by insomnia and other evidences of nervous disorders. It is true, that overwork or rather worry over my work has affected me in the manner described, and other bodily weaknesses have developed at intervals. Pres[iden]t. George Q. Cannon, speaking in behalf of the First Presidency, told me that it had been reported to them that the moderate use of tobacco would have a good effect upon me. ... Today Pres[ident]. [Wilford] Woodruff, Pres[ident]. Geo[rge]. Q. Cannon, and Pres[ident]. Jos[eph]. F. Smith gave me combined counsel to try the effect of moderate smoking; indeed said Pres[ident]. Cannon, 'We give you this rather as an instruction than as counsel.' Apostle Heber J. Grant was present, and expressed his acquiescence. Bro[ther]. George F. Gibbs was also present. This was unusual counsel and to me very surprising. ... I have long known that tobacco produces an unusually strong effect upon me,'even the odor of tobacco smoke produces a soothing effect upon me... a good cigar produces a marvellous quietening of my over-wrought nerves. Of course the brethren, in counseling me as they did today, warned me against contracting the smoking habit to injurious degree. ...
[Source: James E. Talmage, Diary, March 12, 1896, as quoted in Minutes of the Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1835-1951, Electronic Edition, 2015]
130 years ago today - Mar 11, 1886
LDS political newspaper, the Salt Lake Herald, reports another Mormon's assault on a reporter for the anti-Mormon Salt Lake Tribune with this headline: "THRASHING A REORTER. Don Carlos Young Remodels the Phiz[sic] of C.T. Harte to Suit His Fancy." A Mormon judge fines Young $17.50 for this assault and battery.
[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 - Mar 11, 1871
[Wilford Woodruff] 11 I met with the school of the Prophets. Presidet Young Called for Donations for Emigrating the poor. Subscribed $1,000 Himself. [$2,000 total was raised that day.]
[Source: Wilford Woodruff's Journal: 1833-1898 Typescript, Volumes 1-9, Edited by Scott G. Kenney, Signature Books 1993, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
[Source: Wilford Woodruff's Journal: 1833-1898 Typescript, Volumes 1-9, Edited by Scott G. Kenney, Signature Books 1993, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
150 years ago today - Mar 11, 1866
Presidet Young said as the Lamanites are Hosstile let us Exercise faith about them & learn what the will of the Lord is. At the Close of the prayers President Young said let us send out interpeters to them, make them presents & tell them they must stop fighting. It is Better to give them five thousand dollars than to have to fight them & kill them off for they are of the House of Israel.
[Source: Wilford Woodruff's Journal: 1833-1898 Typescript, Volumes 1-9, Edited by Scott G. Kenney, Signature Books 1993, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
[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 - Mar 11, 1856
A very serious conversation took place between President B. Young and Orson Pratt upon doctrine. O.P. was directly opposed to the President's views and freely expressed his entire disbelief in them after being told by the President that things were so and so in the name of the Lord. He was firm in the position that the President's word in the name of the Lord was not the word of the Lord to him. The President did not believe that Orson Pratt would ever be Adam, to learn by experience the facts discussed, but every person in the room would be if they lived faithful.
[Of this, Wilford Woodruff noted that "when any man crosses the track of a leader in Israel & tryes to lead the prophet He is no longer led by him but is in danger of falling." Brigham Young's Adam God doctrine would later be repudiated by the church.]
[Source: Journal of Samual W. Richards, p. 113, in Sermons and Writings of the Restoration. 4 Vols. Ogden Kraut, ed. Pioneer Press, 1994.R 113, in The Complete Discourses of Brigham Young, Ed. Richard S. Van Wagoner, Smith-Pettit Foundation, Salt Lake City (2009), http://bit.ly/BY-discourses]
[Of this, Wilford Woodruff noted that "when any man crosses the track of a leader in Israel & tryes to lead the prophet He is no longer led by him but is in danger of falling." Brigham Young's Adam God doctrine would later be repudiated by the church.]
[Source: Journal of Samual W. Richards, p. 113, in Sermons and Writings of the Restoration. 4 Vols. Ogden Kraut, ed. Pioneer Press, 1994.R 113, in The Complete Discourses of Brigham Young, Ed. Richard S. Van Wagoner, Smith-Pettit Foundation, Salt Lake City (2009), http://bit.ly/BY-discourses]
75 years ago today - Mar 10,1941
First Presidency orders Clayton Investment Company to get rid of its "whore-houses," no matter the financial loss, so that church affiliated company can merge with church-owned Zion's Securities Corp. Ends fifty years of church's leases to brothels.
[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]
130 years ago today - Mar 10, 1886
[Katharin Smith Salisbury] ... I am the only surviving sister of the martyrs Joseph and Hyrum Smith, and will soon be 73 years old. I can testify to the fact of the coming forth of the Book of Mormon, and also to its truth...
I well remember the trials my brother had, before he obtained the records. After he had the vision, he went frequently to the hill, and upon returning would tell us, "I have seen the records, also the brass plates and the sword of Laban with the breast plate and interpreters." He would ask father why he could not get them? The time had not yet come, but when it did arrive he was commanded to go on the 22d day of September 1827 at 2 o'clock. We had supposed that when he should bring them home, the whole family would be allowed to see them, but he said it was forbidden of the Lord. They could be seen only by those who were chosen to bear their testimony to the world. We had therefore to be content until they were translated and we could have the book to read. ...
After the records were translated and the book printed, we often met together and held prayer meetings. Some of our neighbors would come to these meetings and ask us mockingly, if we expected with our little band to convert the world and make them to believe the golden bible? ... I was one of the number who met in the first conference held in these last days, when the church was first organized. We only numbered thirty, but we were a happy little band. It was a great day of rejoicing for us, and a number were added to the fold by baptism. ...
[Source: Katharine Smith Salisbury, Letter to "Dear Sisters," 10 March 1886, Saints' Herald 33 (1 May 1886): 260., as cited in Dan Vogel, Early Mormon Documents: Katharine Smith Salisbury To Dear Sisters]
I well remember the trials my brother had, before he obtained the records. After he had the vision, he went frequently to the hill, and upon returning would tell us, "I have seen the records, also the brass plates and the sword of Laban with the breast plate and interpreters." He would ask father why he could not get them? The time had not yet come, but when it did arrive he was commanded to go on the 22d day of September 1827 at 2 o'clock. We had supposed that when he should bring them home, the whole family would be allowed to see them, but he said it was forbidden of the Lord. They could be seen only by those who were chosen to bear their testimony to the world. We had therefore to be content until they were translated and we could have the book to read. ...
After the records were translated and the book printed, we often met together and held prayer meetings. Some of our neighbors would come to these meetings and ask us mockingly, if we expected with our little band to convert the world and make them to believe the golden bible? ... I was one of the number who met in the first conference held in these last days, when the church was first organized. We only numbered thirty, but we were a happy little band. It was a great day of rejoicing for us, and a number were added to the fold by baptism. ...
[Source: Katharine Smith Salisbury, Letter to "Dear Sisters," 10 March 1886, Saints' Herald 33 (1 May 1886): 260., as cited in Dan Vogel, Early Mormon Documents: Katharine Smith Salisbury To Dear Sisters]
135 years ago today - Mar 10, 1881
Eliza R. Snow says that her polygamous husband Joseph Smith told her "that they (10 tribes) were on an orb or planet by themselves."
[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 - Mar 10, 1861
[George A. Smith] "Who is there that is prepared for this movement back to the center stake of Zion, and where are the architects amongst us that are qualified to erect this temple and the city that will surround it… And let me remind you that it is predicted that this generation shall not pass away till a temple shall be built, and the glory of the Lord rest upon it, according to the promises."
[Source: George A. Smith, March 10, 1861, Journal of Discourse, Vol. 9, p. 71 http://jod.mrm.org/9/6, as quoted in The Last Days and December 1890 2nd Coming of Jesus Christ, y George D. Speer Sr., privately circulated]
[Source: George A. Smith, March 10, 1861, Journal of Discourse, Vol. 9, p. 71 http://jod.mrm.org/9/6, as quoted in The Last Days and December 1890 2nd Coming of Jesus Christ, y George D. Speer Sr., privately circulated]
155 years ago today - Mar 10, 1861 (Morning)
President Young attended Tabernacle in the morning. subject about Tobacco exhorted the people if they did and must chew to put a little piece in their mouths quietly.
[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]
[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]
155 years ago today - Mar 10, 1861
President Young said He did not wish Utah mixed up with the secession movement. He said that when Buchanan sent the armey [to Utah] it was there intention to Hang the Leaders then send thousands of Gentiles here and they intended to rob all this people and take possession of our Houses & lands and they sent Gov Cummings to operate with them. But they got disappointed & it was upon that ground that Governor Cummings told the Forses not to go away that there would soon be Employ here but the Lord has controlled the gov[ernor?] & he has done putty well & I feel to bless him but He had Evil in his heart when he Come here.
[Source: Wilford Woodruff's Journal: 1833-1898 Typescript, Volumes 1-9, Edited by Scott G. Kenney, Signature Books 1993, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
[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 - Mar 10, 1856
[Hosea Stout] There is a great scarcity of bread now in all the valleys and nearly every body are living on rations who are lucky enough to have any meal or flour.
[Source: Diaries of Hosea Stout]
[Source: Diaries of Hosea Stout]
160 years ago today - Mar 10, 1856
[Brigham Young] Jesus will be seen with the natural eye and handled with the natural hand long before he appears at his second coming on Mount Zion.
[Source: The Complete Discourses of Brigham Young, Ed. Richard S. Van Wagoner, Smith-Pettit Foundation, Salt Lake City (2009), http://bit.ly/BY-discourses]
[Source: 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 - Mar 10, 1841
[Cyrus Smalling] "... In his [Joseph Smith's] youth, he and the whole family were money-diggers, and the first knowledge I have of him, is at Harmony, Susquehannah county, Pa. where he was translating the Book of Mormon. Soon after he was taken up and tried as an impostor ; but was cleared on account of the testimony that was given of the chests of money moving so that they could not get them. ..."
[Source: Cyrus Smalling to Dear Sir, 10 March 1841, in E. G. Lee, The Mormons; or, Knavery Exposed (Frankford, Pennsylvania: Published by E. G. Lee; Philadelphia: George Webber and William Fenimore, 1841), 12-15., as cited in Dan Vogel, Early Mormon Documents: Cyrus Smalling To Dear Sir]
[Source: Cyrus Smalling to Dear Sir, 10 March 1841, in E. G. Lee, The Mormons; or, Knavery Exposed (Frankford, Pennsylvania: Published by E. G. Lee; Philadelphia: George Webber and William Fenimore, 1841), 12-15., as cited in Dan Vogel, Early Mormon Documents: Cyrus Smalling To Dear Sir]
75 years ago today - Mar 9, 1941
[J. Reuben Clark] Late in afternoon went for ride with Pres Grant: suggested trying out paying for line to Los Angeles and perhaps Southern Idaho during Conference and broadcasting one full conference. I pointed out that increasingly few'proportionately'of our people came to Conference: that few saw one Conference pamphlet: that few sermons were printed in Deseret News our ordinary magazines: that few took the Deseret News: that the old time method of Presidents of Stakes and bishops returning and giving accounts was largely in discard and so few people really knew what went on at Conference. My suggestion was aimed to cure that. He approved. I said I would investigate costs.
[Source: The Diaries of J. Reuben Clark, 1933-1961, Abridged, Digital Edition, Salt Lake City, Utah 2015]
[Source: The Diaries of J. Reuben Clark, 1933-1961, Abridged, Digital Edition, Salt Lake City, Utah 2015]
95 years ago today - Mar 9, 1921
[Heber J. Grant] Played volley ball from after lunch until about three p.m., having nearly an hour of pleasure. I play this game almost as a matter of duty to keep myself in proper trim physically; at the same time I thoroughly enjoy it. ...
Had a long meeting at 4:15 with John M. Whitaker and a young lady who confided in me after Bro. Whitaker had left that she had been married by Patriarch Israel Barlow to John Burt, who is now on a mission in Great Britain. It is little less than wonderful to me that the people can be deceived the way they are to attempt to enter into plural marriage, and how on earth a Patriarch of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints with any sense at all, after all the teachings that have been given in public and private, can persist in performing marriage ceremonies is beyond my comprehension.
[Source: The Diaries of Heber J. Grant, 1880-1945, Abridged, Digital Edition Salt Lake City, Utah, 2015]
Had a long meeting at 4:15 with John M. Whitaker and a young lady who confided in me after Bro. Whitaker had left that she had been married by Patriarch Israel Barlow to John Burt, who is now on a mission in Great Britain. It is little less than wonderful to me that the people can be deceived the way they are to attempt to enter into plural marriage, and how on earth a Patriarch of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints with any sense at all, after all the teachings that have been given in public and private, can persist in performing marriage ceremonies is beyond my comprehension.
[Source: The Diaries of Heber J. Grant, 1880-1945, Abridged, Digital Edition Salt Lake City, Utah, 2015]
120 years ago today - Mar 9, 1896
Senator [George F.] Hoar reported from the United Senate Committee on the Judiciary a substitute for Senator [Frank J.] Cannon's Joint Resolution, respecting the property of the Church seized under the Edmunds Act. The substitute grants conveys the Church property held by the Receiver, to the Church after payment of the expense of the Receivership. Gov[enor]. [Heber M.] Wells today in approving an Act of the State Legislature entitling the issue of polygamous marriages, born previous to March 3, 1883, to inherit a distributed share of their father's estate, recommended the removal of whatever legal ban might exist against the issue of polygamous marriages up to one year succeeding the date of the Amnesty Proclamation of the President, or what would be better, up to the date of the admission of Utah into the Union.
[Source: Journal History, as quoted in Minutes of the Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1835-1951, Electronic Edition, 2015]
[Source: Journal History, as quoted in Minutes of the Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1835-1951, Electronic Edition, 2015]
130 years ago today - March 9 or 10, 1886
[Heber J. Grant] Prest Taylor put his arm on my shoulder just as I was leaving and blessed me said I should be prospered in my financial matters if I continued to labor desiring the advancement of God's Kingdom. Said he felt that I had been blessed in my labors in disposing of the Church's stock, in such a short time. He said many encouraging things to me. In fact his remarks were more encouraging than any I have ever had from him since I entered the Quorum. Many times I have wondered if he did not lack confidence in me he seemed generally so cold and distant in comparison to Bros Lyman, Jno Hy & Jos F Smith & some of my other brethren. I feel truly thankful to have such encouraging remarks from the President and with God's help I shall try to so order my life that my brethren presiding over me shall feel to approve of my labors.
[Source: The Diaries of Heber J. Grant, 1880-1945, Abridged, Digital Edition Salt Lake City, Utah, 2015]
[Source: The Diaries of Heber J. Grant, 1880-1945, Abridged, Digital Edition Salt Lake City, Utah, 2015]
170 years ago today - Mar 9, 1846
... It was also decided to light up the loads of the Artillery by burying up the ball & shot in the ground and getting them some other tim
[Source: Diaries of Hosea Stout]
[Source: Diaries of Hosea Stout]
175 years ago today - Mar 9, 1841 (Tuesday)
[Joseph Smith] ... However there is a prist-Hood with the Holy Ghost & Key—the Holy Ghost over shadows you & witness unto you of the authority & the Gifts of the Holly Ghost—he said was the provence of the Father to preside as the Chief or President—Jesus as the Mediator & Holy Ghost as the testator or witness—the Son Had a Tabernicle & so had the father But the Holly Ghost is a personage of spirit without tabernicle the Great God has a name By wich He will be Called which is Ahman—also in asking have Referance to a personage Like Adam for God made Adam Just in his own Image Now this a key for you to know how to ask & obtain. ...
[Source: McIntire Minute Book -Words of Joseph Smith, 64-65]
[Source: McIntire Minute Book -Words of Joseph Smith, 64-65]
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