[Rudger Clawson]
During the day I took what to me is a very important step, namely, the closing up of all my accounts at the stores. I shall now make a very strong effort to pay as I go. The evil of running accounts is quite apparent to me, but I presume it will be difficult to overcome the habit of years. It is so easy to say "charge it," and withal so pleasant, that the day of reckoning, which will come with unerring certainty, is lost sight of. In order to carry out the resolution herein referred to, I was under the necessity of borrowing $80.00.
[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]
115 years ago today - Wednesday, Nov 5, 1902
[John Henry Smith]
Salt Lake City
The Country has gone Republican. Utah, Idaho and Montana are said to be all right.
[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]
Salt Lake City
The Country has gone Republican. Utah, Idaho and Montana are said to be all right.
[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]
130 years ago today - Nov 5, 1887
[Wilford Woodruff]
The Court finally decided to appoint a Receiver And the Government sews [sues] me & the Twelve for abot $3,000,000 dollars. I dont think they will get that much.
[Source: Wilford Woodruff's Journal: 1833-1898 Typescript, Volumes 1-9, Edited by Scott G. Kenney, Signature Books 1993, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
The Court finally decided to appoint a Receiver And the Government sews [sues] me & the Twelve for abot $3,000,000 dollars. I dont think they will get that much.
[Source: Wilford Woodruff's Journal: 1833-1898 Typescript, Volumes 1-9, Edited by Scott G. Kenney, Signature Books 1993, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
175 years ago today - Nov 5, 1842 - Saturday
[Joseph Smith] had a very pleasant visit from some of the Indians who were accompanied by a negro interpreter. They expressed great friendship with the Mormon people, and said they were their friends. After considerable conversation and partaking of victuals they departed evidently highly gratified with their visit.—
[Source: Joseph Smith, Journal, Dec. 1841–Dec. 1842 in "The Book of the Law of the Lord," Record Book, 1841–1845]
[Source: Joseph Smith, Journal, Dec. 1841–Dec. 1842 in "The Book of the Law of the Lord," Record Book, 1841–1845]
45 years ago today - Nov 4, 1972
New 28-story Church Office Building opened.
[Source: Hemidakaota, "Church Chronology from 1800-2000," http://lds.net/forums/topic/10668-church-chronology-from-1800-2000-part-1/]
[Source: Hemidakaota, "Church Chronology from 1800-2000," http://lds.net/forums/topic/10668-church-chronology-from-1800-2000-part-1/]
55 years ago today - Nov 4, 1962
After giving a "political" talk to a multi-stake meeting of BYU students in November 1962, religion professor Glenn L. Pearson told one of his students that Elder Benson's support of the Birch Society was a mission from God. Then, described by BYU's president as "the most untactful person I have heard," Pearson said that [Hugh B.] Brown was "a Judas in the First Presidency." The student concluded that a church court should excommunicate Counselor Brown.
[Source: Wilkinson diary, 4 Nov. 1962; conversation reported to Michael Quinn by the student in November 1962, during which time Quinn was also enrolled in Pearson's missionary preparation course. 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.]
[Source: Wilkinson diary, 4 Nov. 1962; conversation reported to Michael Quinn by the student in November 1962, during which time Quinn was also enrolled in Pearson's missionary preparation course. 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.]
165 years ago today - Nov 4, 1852. Thursday.
[William Clayton]
The doctrine of Baneemyism appear to have a many advocates here. The system has Charles B. Thompson as its leader. They are bitterly opposed to President Young and call him the beast. They say Joseph lived and died a Prophet of God, and that all the Revelations which came through him to the day of his martyrdom are true, and binding upon this generation. They preach much against the plurality doctrine, and teach that it is got up by the Twelve to gratify their lusts. How will they get along with the Revelation of July 12, 1843[?] I saw [Libeus] T. Coons, Joseph W. Coolidge, Luke Johnson, Dustin Amy and others of the old Saints, but could find none who were willing to offer the least assistance for our mission. There is a great difference between the Spirit of the Saints here, and those at Salt Lake City.
[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://bit.ly/WilliamClayton]
The doctrine of Baneemyism appear to have a many advocates here. The system has Charles B. Thompson as its leader. They are bitterly opposed to President Young and call him the beast. They say Joseph lived and died a Prophet of God, and that all the Revelations which came through him to the day of his martyrdom are true, and binding upon this generation. They preach much against the plurality doctrine, and teach that it is got up by the Twelve to gratify their lusts. How will they get along with the Revelation of July 12, 1843[?] I saw [Libeus] T. Coons, Joseph W. Coolidge, Luke Johnson, Dustin Amy and others of the old Saints, but could find none who were willing to offer the least assistance for our mission. There is a great difference between the Spirit of the Saints here, and those at Salt Lake City.
[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://bit.ly/WilliamClayton]
10 years ago today - Nov 3, 2007
A thundering four-color press at a sprawling printing facility located in west Salt Lake City has been running hundreds of thousands of pages per hour, 24 hours a day, six days a week preparing the 2008 curriculum of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
[Source: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, United Kingdom, "On This Day," https://www.lds.org.uk/show_oda.php]
[Source: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, United Kingdom, "On This Day," https://www.lds.org.uk/show_oda.php]
120 years ago today - Nov 3, 1897
[Heber J. Grant]
Bros. John W. Taylor and Matthias F. Cowley called during conference week [i.e., October 1897] and blessed me. Bro. Taylor seemed particularly inspired while he had his hands on my head, and among other things promised me that I should live to have a son. I felt the spirit burning within me during Bro. Taylor's administration, bearing witness of the inspiration attending the same. After Bro. John W. had confirmed the anointing bestowed upon me, he, Brother Cowley, said he felt impressed to bear testimony that the confirmation delivered by Bro. John W. was inspired by the Lord, and that the promises made should all be fulfilled.
[Grant had lost his only two sons and wanted another son for his namesake. None of his wives produced another son for him.]
[Source: The Diaries of Heber J. Grant, 1880-1945, Abridged, Digital Edition Salt Lake City, Utah, 2015]
Bros. John W. Taylor and Matthias F. Cowley called during conference week [i.e., October 1897] and blessed me. Bro. Taylor seemed particularly inspired while he had his hands on my head, and among other things promised me that I should live to have a son. I felt the spirit burning within me during Bro. Taylor's administration, bearing witness of the inspiration attending the same. After Bro. John W. had confirmed the anointing bestowed upon me, he, Brother Cowley, said he felt impressed to bear testimony that the confirmation delivered by Bro. John W. was inspired by the Lord, and that the promises made should all be fulfilled.
[Grant had lost his only two sons and wanted another son for his namesake. None of his wives produced another son for him.]
[Source: The Diaries of Heber J. Grant, 1880-1945, Abridged, Digital Edition Salt Lake City, Utah, 2015]
125 years ago today - Nov 3, 1892
[Francis M. Lyman]
Had some talk with the Bishop upon politics. Find our people nearly all democrats and its dangerous to try to shape their votes to assist the Republicans even in state and national affaires. ... After meeting three of the brethren came down to the Bishops with us and we drew their attention to the vote of our people two years ago and asked that they be consistent and not to go back on their former friends the Republicans in the state and national election. They seem generally to be so thoroughly democratic that we can hardly hope to turn them. Those three and the Bishop seemed willing to do their best in a quiet way. There is such jealousy about the movements of Apostles that we thought it unwise to speak politically before all the brethren. It may be a sorry day when our people get in their democratic work and turn Wyoming over to the Democratic column.
[Source: Excerpts of Apostle Francis M. Lyman Diaries, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
Had some talk with the Bishop upon politics. Find our people nearly all democrats and its dangerous to try to shape their votes to assist the Republicans even in state and national affaires. ... After meeting three of the brethren came down to the Bishops with us and we drew their attention to the vote of our people two years ago and asked that they be consistent and not to go back on their former friends the Republicans in the state and national election. They seem generally to be so thoroughly democratic that we can hardly hope to turn them. Those three and the Bishop seemed willing to do their best in a quiet way. There is such jealousy about the movements of Apostles that we thought it unwise to speak politically before all the brethren. It may be a sorry day when our people get in their democratic work and turn Wyoming over to the Democratic column.
[Source: Excerpts of Apostle Francis M. Lyman Diaries, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
130 years ago today - Nov 3, 1887
[Heber J. Grant]
Called at the office for a few minutes, and then attended fast meeting in the Eighteenth Ward. Among the speakers was Brother Abinadi Pratt, who prophesied that next October the Church would undergo a very important change. Just what this change would be, he did not say. He also prophesied that President Woodruff would live until after 1891. His prophecy did not strike me as being very definite, or being of very much force.
[Source: The Diaries of Heber J. Grant, 1880-1945, Abridged, Digital Edition Salt Lake City, Utah, 2015]
Called at the office for a few minutes, and then attended fast meeting in the Eighteenth Ward. Among the speakers was Brother Abinadi Pratt, who prophesied that next October the Church would undergo a very important change. Just what this change would be, he did not say. He also prophesied that President Woodruff would live until after 1891. His prophecy did not strike me as being very definite, or being of very much force.
[Source: The Diaries of Heber J. Grant, 1880-1945, Abridged, Digital Edition Salt Lake City, Utah, 2015]
135 years ago today - Nov 3, 1882 • Friday
[George Q. Cannon]
[Not feeling well,] My wives Sarah Jane & Eliza waited on me, and I took a foot bath and a sweat. My wife Martha was with me during the evening.
[Source: The Journal of George Q. Cannon, Church Historian's Press, https://churchhistorianspress.org/george-q-cannon]
[Not feeling well,] My wives Sarah Jane & Eliza waited on me, and I took a foot bath and a sweat. My wife Martha was with me during the evening.
[Source: The Journal of George Q. Cannon, Church Historian's Press, https://churchhistorianspress.org/george-q-cannon]
135 years ago today - Nov 3, 1882
[Wilford Woodruff]
writes in code "<I visited the theater for the first time.>"
[Source: Wilford Woodruff's Journal: 1833-1898 Typescript, Volumes 1-9, Edited by Scott G. Kenney, Signature Books 1993, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
writes in code "<I visited the theater for the first time.>"
[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 - Nov 3, 1857
Safe conduct pass signed by Brigham Young that bearer "is hereby granted permission to pass freely and safely through this Territory on his way to California." Since early 1850s there are claìms that it is dangerous for Mormons to attempt to leave Salt Lake City for the East without a pass from Brigham Young.
[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 )]]
180 years ago today - early Nov 1837
Oliver Cowdery confronted Joseph Smith over the matter of Smith's having carried on sexual relations with Miss Fanny Alger in Kirtland. Smith called in witnesses and shook hands with Cowdery, their both having agreed "to drop every past thing."
[Source: Oliver Cowdery Letterbook, Jan. 21, 1838; Broadhurst, Dale R., Mormon Chronology, http://olivercowdery.com/history/morchrn2.htm]
[Source: Oliver Cowdery Letterbook, Jan. 21, 1838; Broadhurst, Dale R., Mormon Chronology, http://olivercowdery.com/history/morchrn2.htm]
35 years ago today - Nov 2, 1982
Idaho votes to rescind its constitutional "Test Oath" which still technically desfranchises all Mormons.
[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 )]]
75 years ago today - Nov 2, 1942
[J. Reuben Clark]
Mr. Theodore Waller came to see me, stating that he was from the War Re-Location Authority, out of San Francisco, and he wished to get my ideas as to the number of Japanese we could absorb here. I told him that while personally I had no antipathy toward the Japanese, we did not want the war to leave us with a Japanese problem in this State; we preferred no Japanese.
[Source: The Diaries of J. Reuben Clark, 1933-1961, Abridged, Digital Edition, Salt Lake City, Utah 2015]
Mr. Theodore Waller came to see me, stating that he was from the War Re-Location Authority, out of San Francisco, and he wished to get my ideas as to the number of Japanese we could absorb here. I told him that while personally I had no antipathy toward the Japanese, we did not want the war to leave us with a Japanese problem in this State; we preferred no Japanese.
[Source: The Diaries of J. Reuben Clark, 1933-1961, Abridged, Digital Edition, Salt Lake City, Utah 2015]
120 years ago today - Nov 2, 1897
[Franklin D. Richards]
The parties political are badly disintegrated Democratic Republican, Peoples party-Washakies, Dem[ocratic] Silverites, Rep[ublican] Silverites, McKinley Goldbugs, Bryan silverites. I took the liberty to scratch & make up a Ticket of such names as I felt willing to vote & did not inform my friends or my family who I voted for.
[Source: Diary Excerpts of Franklin D. Richards, 1887-1897, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
The parties political are badly disintegrated Democratic Republican, Peoples party-Washakies, Dem[ocratic] Silverites, Rep[ublican] Silverites, McKinley Goldbugs, Bryan silverites. I took the liberty to scratch & make up a Ticket of such names as I felt willing to vote & did not inform my friends or my family who I voted for.
[Source: Diary Excerpts of Franklin D. Richards, 1887-1897, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
155 years ago today - Nov 2, 1862
Br Brigham spoke in a clear and lucid manner on the unbelief of the Jews, the folly of man compared with the wisdom of God. Showed that truth, virtue, and intelligence would prevail.
[Source: Diary of Charles Lowell Walker. Andrew Karl Larson, ed. Logan: Utah State University Press, 1980, 240, 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: Diary of Charles Lowell Walker. Andrew Karl Larson, ed. Logan: Utah State University Press, 1980, 240, 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 - Nov 2, 1842
[Freemasonry]
Abraham Jonas reinstated Nauvoo Lodge's dispensation.
[Source: Homer, Michael W., Joseph's Temples: The Dynamic Relationship between Freemasonry and Mormonism, Chronology]
Abraham Jonas reinstated Nauvoo Lodge's dispensation.
[Source: Homer, Michael W., Joseph's Temples: The Dynamic Relationship between Freemasonry and Mormonism, Chronology]
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