160 years ago today - Jul 7, 1861
Heber C. Kimball, in a sermon recalling past persecutions of the Saints, preaches: "After all these hardships and trials we started for this country, and what did the Government then require of us? Five hundred men were called to go and take part in the Mexican war, and that too at a time when we were all living in our waggons: many were sick, and some were dying;" This perpetuates the myth that the Mormon Battalion was a favor that the Church did for the government when in reality it was a favor that the government did for the Mormons at Church leaders' request.
160 years ago today - Jul 7, 1861 (Afternoon)
[Brigham Young]
We talk about fellowshipping and disfellowshipping men for certain acts. Suppose we were to adopt the constitution of our Union for the constitution of the kingdom of God which we ought to thing a great deal of. My interest is in it at any rate, and nowhere else. I believe it is written in the constitution of the United States defining the crime called treason, giving aid and succor to our enemies, those we were speaking of today, according to our constitution it would make them treasoners, to give aid and comfort to persons who are seeking to destroy this kingdom. What do the southern States that have seceded in such case, the confederate States, suppose they find a man that is giving aid and comfort to the federal government, do you know any of them what they are doing with them, don't they tie a string round their necks, and hang them out. They are now beginning to look to those who are giving aid and comfort to draw the seceding states, they begin to look after them. What are they doing with them not merely bleeding of them, not in the nose only, but they tap they tap them where they will bleed effectually, and they take all the blood they call bad blood, rebels blood on both sides. Suppose this affray was to come to an end in the course of a year or two, and. the southern States should receive the benefit of br. Kimball's prayer and be enabled to whip the Northern, party and the southern States be the loyal government then, and the northern that old creature we used to think very odious, that we used to leek upon as a set of old Tories not fit to live. The loyal party is always the one that whips the disloyal ones, and the rebels are the ones that get whipped.
So it is in every case, it would be with ourselves if we were to get soundly flogged and thereby be brought into subjection, they would say we are Tories, and disloyal to the government. They have you very well know published the statement that the people called Latter-day Saints are not loyal to the Government. Now what is to be done with those that are disloyal to that kingdom you and I are in? I said this morning bleed them a little, You may put your own definition upon this saying, I put mine on it to suite myself, perhaps we shall do nothing more than turn them out of the synagogue, And then there is some things to he reckoned on here that is not taken into account with other Christians, that is I will say with the reformers. ...
Now this wont prove that I am a prophet when we see this come to pass. It won't prove anything less than this that I have guessed some things that are coming to pass. You will see them rise up state against State. Is this going to be so? It is. The South has risen up against the North which calls upon the north to defend themselves. Men will rise and contend against the South by and by, and it will be State against State. The South will be divided. ... by and by you will see man against man; and he that will not take up his sword against this neighbor, must needs flee to Zion. You will see this all come. to pass. ... And when the president of the United States sent his minions here, it was with all the power I could muster to keep from taking the sword, and not leaving a man of them to tell the tale. with all the power I could muster, I could hardly hold myself in subjection until the Lord Almighty should give the Lord, and he would have needed to hint it slightly, to have whispered it, and I would have wasted them away, and not left a grease spot... One of the best men there is in all the American Army I will venture to say, along a thousand he cannot be excelled in veracity and truth, I speak of Vanvlete that was here. When I introduced him to my family it seemed as though his head touched the floor. '"O presi- dent Young it seems very hard, that you have so many beautiful women, and I cannot have one of them,'" No sir you never would leave this city alive if you dared to infringe upon this family, but a dozen would drop before he would. ... Adam's ale is the prettiest stuff to drink, and if you want anything very strong take a little good sour butter milk. I really feel my weakness. The Sisters while I was South would pour out a strong cup of tea and coffee...
[The Complete Discourses of Brigham Young, Ed. Richard S. Van Wagoner, Smith-Pettit Foundation, Salt Lake City (2009), http://bit.ly/BY-discourses]
We talk about fellowshipping and disfellowshipping men for certain acts. Suppose we were to adopt the constitution of our Union for the constitution of the kingdom of God which we ought to thing a great deal of. My interest is in it at any rate, and nowhere else. I believe it is written in the constitution of the United States defining the crime called treason, giving aid and succor to our enemies, those we were speaking of today, according to our constitution it would make them treasoners, to give aid and comfort to persons who are seeking to destroy this kingdom. What do the southern States that have seceded in such case, the confederate States, suppose they find a man that is giving aid and comfort to the federal government, do you know any of them what they are doing with them, don't they tie a string round their necks, and hang them out. They are now beginning to look to those who are giving aid and comfort to draw the seceding states, they begin to look after them. What are they doing with them not merely bleeding of them, not in the nose only, but they tap they tap them where they will bleed effectually, and they take all the blood they call bad blood, rebels blood on both sides. Suppose this affray was to come to an end in the course of a year or two, and. the southern States should receive the benefit of br. Kimball's prayer and be enabled to whip the Northern, party and the southern States be the loyal government then, and the northern that old creature we used to think very odious, that we used to leek upon as a set of old Tories not fit to live. The loyal party is always the one that whips the disloyal ones, and the rebels are the ones that get whipped.
So it is in every case, it would be with ourselves if we were to get soundly flogged and thereby be brought into subjection, they would say we are Tories, and disloyal to the government. They have you very well know published the statement that the people called Latter-day Saints are not loyal to the Government. Now what is to be done with those that are disloyal to that kingdom you and I are in? I said this morning bleed them a little, You may put your own definition upon this saying, I put mine on it to suite myself, perhaps we shall do nothing more than turn them out of the synagogue, And then there is some things to he reckoned on here that is not taken into account with other Christians, that is I will say with the reformers. ...
Now this wont prove that I am a prophet when we see this come to pass. It won't prove anything less than this that I have guessed some things that are coming to pass. You will see them rise up state against State. Is this going to be so? It is. The South has risen up against the North which calls upon the north to defend themselves. Men will rise and contend against the South by and by, and it will be State against State. The South will be divided. ... by and by you will see man against man; and he that will not take up his sword against this neighbor, must needs flee to Zion. You will see this all come. to pass. ... And when the president of the United States sent his minions here, it was with all the power I could muster to keep from taking the sword, and not leaving a man of them to tell the tale. with all the power I could muster, I could hardly hold myself in subjection until the Lord Almighty should give the Lord, and he would have needed to hint it slightly, to have whispered it, and I would have wasted them away, and not left a grease spot... One of the best men there is in all the American Army I will venture to say, along a thousand he cannot be excelled in veracity and truth, I speak of Vanvlete that was here. When I introduced him to my family it seemed as though his head touched the floor. '"O presi- dent Young it seems very hard, that you have so many beautiful women, and I cannot have one of them,'" No sir you never would leave this city alive if you dared to infringe upon this family, but a dozen would drop before he would. ... Adam's ale is the prettiest stuff to drink, and if you want anything very strong take a little good sour butter milk. I really feel my weakness. The Sisters while I was South would pour out a strong cup of tea and coffee...
[The Complete Discourses of Brigham Young, Ed. Richard S. Van Wagoner, Smith-Pettit Foundation, Salt Lake City (2009), http://bit.ly/BY-discourses]
185 years ago today - Jul 7, 1836
Patriarchal Blessing of Israel Calkins given by Joseph Smith, Sr. ... Thine eyes shall see the Lord in the Flesh and thou shalt go forth in the power of Jesus Christ and none shall be able to stand before thee or harm thee, and thou shalt bring in many If thou art faithful and desirest it, thy days shall be one hundred and twenty years. Thou shalt have power to be translated. Thou shalt be delivered from pain and from prison, have understanding and be a man of counsel and have an inheritance in Zion
[Patriarchal Blessing Book 1:98, in Early Patriarchal Blessings of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Joseph Smith Sr. (Author), H. Michael Marquardt (Editor), http://amzn.to/rCBHVe]
[Patriarchal Blessing Book 1:98, in Early Patriarchal Blessings of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Joseph Smith Sr. (Author), H. Michael Marquardt (Editor), http://amzn.to/rCBHVe]
35 years ago today - Jul 6, 1986
An announcement of the "Improved missionary discussions [which] put aside the specific dialogue of the past. Missionaries will now use their own words and follow an outline to share the gospel." This ends twenty-five years of requiring LDS missionaries to memorize and speak word-for-word dialogue when teaching non-Mormons.
[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)]]
40 years ago today - Jul 6, 1981-Monday
I learned that Elder Hugh Pinnock, General Superintendent of the Sunday School, asked Peggy Fletcher to eliminate the "Sunday School Supplement" in Sunstone. He (and presumably others) felt that title gave some official endorsement. She agreed to change the title but insisted she would leave it in.
At the end of the conversation Elder Pinnock asked Peggy if she had any questions. She replied yes I have two. First, why was Story of the Latter-day Saints not reprinted and second, why was Leonard Arrington removed as Church Historian? Elder Pinnock said he knew the answer to the first question, namely that the Story of the Latter-day Saints contained some errors. Peggy asked him why couldn't the errors be corrected and the volume re-issued, since Jim Allen and Glen Leonard have said many times they would be glad to correct all errors of fact and interpretation for [a] second edition. Moreover, after refusing to publish a second edition of Story of the Latter-day Saints Deseret Book turned around and re-published Essentials in Church History [by Joseph Fielding Smith] which contains at least 100 times as many errors of fact and interpretation, no reply.
With respect to the second question Elder Pinnock said Leonard Arrington is my friend and I am afraid I do not know the answer, but I will find out and let you know. Next day Elder Pinnock called Peggy over to his office and said he had contacted a reliable source (presumably Elder [G. Homer] Durham) and had the answer. Leonard Arrington was removed from Church Historian to preserve his reputation. He had made some errors in judgment and rather than fire him they simply transferred him and his staff to BYU. Peggy asked him what errors in judgment. He said he didn't know, he wasn't informed. My own feeling is that the biggest error in judgment was our decision to write history instead of propaganda. I have also learned recently that our division has been subjected to Church security supervision of which we have known all along, since 1972, that Tom Truitt, who thought he ought to be Church Historian, has been picking out everything we have written or said that might be questionable or controversial and forwarding that on to Elder [Ezra Taft] Benson and/or Elder [Mark E.] Petersen. In addition to that now it appears that there is additional surveillance of our division. What is most disturbing is the apparent feeling on the part of some that we are letting some historical cats out of the bag. What they ought to realize is that the cats have been out of the bag long before we came in, in 1972 and that our efforts have been to try to minimize the historical impact of those unfavorable facts and to put the lid on other facts that can be found by intense study of Archival material that would damage the Church and all its officers. We certainly have refrained from publishing all the things we have learned, i.e., Elder Benson's grandfather Apostle E[zra] T. Benson was at one time threatened with disfellowshipment by President Brigham Young and in fact came within a hair's breadth of being disfellowshipped. This was well along in his apostleship. [[One of Benson's wives had reportedly been involved sexually with one or more other men, but Benson was either unaware, had chosen to believe her denials, or had apparently ignored the allegations. Heber C. Kimball found the situation "disgusting."... ]] This is only one example of it, there are many other facts and interpretations that we have been careful to keep quiet about. I am of course finding many things about Brigham Young that would be better left unsaid and I am trying to be responsible about my assignment to do his biography.
[Confessions of a Mormon historian : the diaries of Leonard J. Arrington, 1971-1997, Gary James Bergera, editor, Signature Books, 2018]
At the end of the conversation Elder Pinnock asked Peggy if she had any questions. She replied yes I have two. First, why was Story of the Latter-day Saints not reprinted and second, why was Leonard Arrington removed as Church Historian? Elder Pinnock said he knew the answer to the first question, namely that the Story of the Latter-day Saints contained some errors. Peggy asked him why couldn't the errors be corrected and the volume re-issued, since Jim Allen and Glen Leonard have said many times they would be glad to correct all errors of fact and interpretation for [a] second edition. Moreover, after refusing to publish a second edition of Story of the Latter-day Saints Deseret Book turned around and re-published Essentials in Church History [by Joseph Fielding Smith] which contains at least 100 times as many errors of fact and interpretation, no reply.
With respect to the second question Elder Pinnock said Leonard Arrington is my friend and I am afraid I do not know the answer, but I will find out and let you know. Next day Elder Pinnock called Peggy over to his office and said he had contacted a reliable source (presumably Elder [G. Homer] Durham) and had the answer. Leonard Arrington was removed from Church Historian to preserve his reputation. He had made some errors in judgment and rather than fire him they simply transferred him and his staff to BYU. Peggy asked him what errors in judgment. He said he didn't know, he wasn't informed. My own feeling is that the biggest error in judgment was our decision to write history instead of propaganda. I have also learned recently that our division has been subjected to Church security supervision of which we have known all along, since 1972, that Tom Truitt, who thought he ought to be Church Historian, has been picking out everything we have written or said that might be questionable or controversial and forwarding that on to Elder [Ezra Taft] Benson and/or Elder [Mark E.] Petersen. In addition to that now it appears that there is additional surveillance of our division. What is most disturbing is the apparent feeling on the part of some that we are letting some historical cats out of the bag. What they ought to realize is that the cats have been out of the bag long before we came in, in 1972 and that our efforts have been to try to minimize the historical impact of those unfavorable facts and to put the lid on other facts that can be found by intense study of Archival material that would damage the Church and all its officers. We certainly have refrained from publishing all the things we have learned, i.e., Elder Benson's grandfather Apostle E[zra] T. Benson was at one time threatened with disfellowshipment by President Brigham Young and in fact came within a hair's breadth of being disfellowshipped. This was well along in his apostleship. [[One of Benson's wives had reportedly been involved sexually with one or more other men, but Benson was either unaware, had chosen to believe her denials, or had apparently ignored the allegations. Heber C. Kimball found the situation "disgusting."... ]] This is only one example of it, there are many other facts and interpretations that we have been careful to keep quiet about. I am of course finding many things about Brigham Young that would be better left unsaid and I am trying to be responsible about my assignment to do his biography.
[Confessions of a Mormon historian : the diaries of Leonard J. Arrington, 1971-1997, Gary James Bergera, editor, Signature Books, 2018]
55 years ago today - Jul 6, 1966
[David O. McKay]
... a single living woman may be sealed while living to a deceased man, a friend but not a husband; ... the Church does not permit the sealing for eternity only of a single living woman and a married living man. In other words, in the case submitted[,] if Sister W---- wishes to be sealed to the man she mentions after he passes away, or if he wishes to have her sealed to him after she passes away, this may be done inasmuch as both parties have expressed their desire in life to be so sealed, this expression having been made in the presence and with the approval of the man's living wife.
[David O. McKay diary, July 6, 1966; hyphens added to obscure the woman's identity, in Anderson, Devery; The Development of LDS Temple Worship, 1846-2000: A Documentary History, http://amzn.to/TempleWorship]
... a single living woman may be sealed while living to a deceased man, a friend but not a husband; ... the Church does not permit the sealing for eternity only of a single living woman and a married living man. In other words, in the case submitted[,] if Sister W---- wishes to be sealed to the man she mentions after he passes away, or if he wishes to have her sealed to him after she passes away, this may be done inasmuch as both parties have expressed their desire in life to be so sealed, this expression having been made in the presence and with the approval of the man's living wife.
[David O. McKay diary, July 6, 1966; hyphens added to obscure the woman's identity, in Anderson, Devery; The Development of LDS Temple Worship, 1846-2000: A Documentary History, http://amzn.to/TempleWorship]
55 years ago today - Jul 6, 1966
[David O. McKay, Hugh B. Brown, N. Eldon Tanner, and Joseph Fielding Smith]
From time to time we receive requests from couples who desire to be married by civil ceremony before traveling from their home to the temple to have the sealing solemnized. For your guidance we are pleased to tell you that the ruling is that where couples are married by civil ceremony they should normally not be recommended to the temple until after a year or very near that period of time has elapsed since the civil ceremony was solemnized. Occasionally we receive requests for exceptions to this ruling, the reason given being that the parents of one or both of the contracting parties are non-members and are desirous of witnessing the civil ceremony. In such cases we have, as a general rule, granted permission. It should be understood, however, that this permission must be obtained in each instance from the First Presidency before authorization may be given. Where parents of the couple to be married are members of the Church but not active or qualified to receive temple recommends, we have not felt to grant exceptions to the general rule that the marriage should be performed in the temple in the first instance.
[David O. McKay, Hugh B. Brown, N. Eldon Tanner, and Joseph Fielding Smith, circular letter, July 6, 1966, in Anderson, Devery; The Development of LDS Temple Worship, 1846-2000: A Documentary History, http://amzn.to/TempleWorship]
From time to time we receive requests from couples who desire to be married by civil ceremony before traveling from their home to the temple to have the sealing solemnized. For your guidance we are pleased to tell you that the ruling is that where couples are married by civil ceremony they should normally not be recommended to the temple until after a year or very near that period of time has elapsed since the civil ceremony was solemnized. Occasionally we receive requests for exceptions to this ruling, the reason given being that the parents of one or both of the contracting parties are non-members and are desirous of witnessing the civil ceremony. In such cases we have, as a general rule, granted permission. It should be understood, however, that this permission must be obtained in each instance from the First Presidency before authorization may be given. Where parents of the couple to be married are members of the Church but not active or qualified to receive temple recommends, we have not felt to grant exceptions to the general rule that the marriage should be performed in the temple in the first instance.
[David O. McKay, Hugh B. Brown, N. Eldon Tanner, and Joseph Fielding Smith, circular letter, July 6, 1966, in Anderson, Devery; The Development of LDS Temple Worship, 1846-2000: A Documentary History, http://amzn.to/TempleWorship]
95 years ago today - Jul 06, 1926
Neal A. Maxwell, later the Church commissioner of education and member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, is born in Salt Lake City, Utah.
130 years ago today - Jul 6, 1891
[Heber J. Grant]
I have unbound faith in the success of the business and I should be delighted to see the benefits go to the Church. I feel sure that the profits will be at least twenty five percent and as the Church can get the money for not more than eight percent there will be a good margin of profit for them ... I shall be pleased and thankful when the Church has more funds than it has at the present [which was coping with a recession, as well as debt due to confiscated properties by the government].
[The Diaries of Heber J. Grant, 1880-1945, Abridged, Digital Edition Salt Lake City, Utah, 2015]
I have unbound faith in the success of the business and I should be delighted to see the benefits go to the Church. I feel sure that the profits will be at least twenty five percent and as the Church can get the money for not more than eight percent there will be a good margin of profit for them ... I shall be pleased and thankful when the Church has more funds than it has at the present [which was coping with a recession, as well as debt due to confiscated properties by the government].
[The Diaries of Heber J. Grant, 1880-1945, Abridged, Digital Edition Salt Lake City, Utah, 2015]
130 years ago today - Jul 6, 1891 (Monday)
A Democratic convention, held in Salt Lake City, placed the first Democratic ticket for Salt Lake County officers in the field, after the division of the People's Party [controlled by the church] on party lines.
[Jenson, Andrew, Church Chronology]
[Jenson, Andrew, Church Chronology]
145 years ago today - Jul 6, 1876
Concerning the Custer Massacre a few days before, the Deseret News editorializes that it is doubtful if possession of the Black Hills country by whites can be justified. If it cannot, "the Indians [rather than Custer's men] must consequently have the sympathy of every just man in the area of the civilized world." Such pro-Indian sentiments contribute to the hostility of the U.s. army and the federal government toward Mormons.
[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)]]
155 years ago today - Jul 6, 1866
Patriarchal Blessing of Mary Hubbard given by Charles W. Hyde ... It is your privilege to behold the coming of Messiah when Zion shall be redeemed in peace. You shall feed the three Nephites. They shall give you key words that shall be a rejoicing to you forever, and thousands shall call you blessed of the Father for thy integrity. Therefore, go thy way, for you shall have Eternal life with thy Father-'s household forever and ever, Amen
[Patriarchal Blessings]
[Patriarchal Blessings]
170 years ago today - Jul 6, 1851
[Brigham Young]
I am in [-] you will be in all, be content to begin with and [-] would be a little paradise, a little millennium, if they [-] to abolish slavery it would be throat cutting to themselves the whites and damnation to the blacks, the abolitionists are ignorant and they have got to learn wisdom.
[Thomas Bullock Minutes, 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 am in [-] you will be in all, be content to begin with and [-] would be a little paradise, a little millennium, if they [-] to abolish slavery it would be throat cutting to themselves the whites and damnation to the blacks, the abolitionists are ignorant and they have got to learn wisdom.
[Thomas Bullock Minutes, in The Complete Discourses of Brigham Young, Ed. Richard S. Van Wagoner, Smith-Pettit Foundation, Salt Lake City (2009), http://bit.ly/BY-discourses]
170 years ago today - Jul 6, 1851
The Blacks cannot take the curse off themselves until God takes it off. Make all men saints and they will treat each other well. So the Lamanites are cursed. But are there not blessings for them? Yes, the same as there are for the Saints, for Joseph, Brigham, and Jesus Christ, and all faithful men and women in their time and season. So be contented.
[Wilford Woodruff's Journal. 9 Vols. Scott G. Kenney, ed. Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1983-85. 4:44-47, in The Complete Discourses of Brigham Young, Ed. Richard S. Van Wagoner, Smith-Pettit Foundation, Salt Lake City (2009), http://bit.ly/BY-discourses]
[Wilford Woodruff's Journal. 9 Vols. Scott G. Kenney, ed. Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1983-85. 4:44-47, in The Complete Discourses of Brigham Young, Ed. Richard S. Van Wagoner, Smith-Pettit Foundation, Salt Lake City (2009), http://bit.ly/BY-discourses]
170 years ago today - Jul 6, 1851
The Saints gather in a sycamore grove and organize the San Bernardino Stake, the first stake in California.
[LDS Daily, www.ldsdaily.com]
[LDS Daily, www.ldsdaily.com]
175 years ago today - Jul 6, 1846
[Wilford Woodruff]
6th It was A warm day. We continued our journey And camped at night at the same place whare I camped in the grass with Br Parley. An Indian Chief And some squaes camped near us. The Indian said He was going to meet with mormons & smoke the pipe of peace.
[Wilford Woodruff's Journal: 1833-1898 Typescript, Volumes 1-9, Edited by Scott G. Kenney, Signature Books 1993, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
6th It was A warm day. We continued our journey And camped at night at the same place whare I camped in the grass with Br Parley. An Indian Chief And some squaes camped near us. The Indian said He was going to meet with mormons & smoke the pipe of peace.
[Wilford Woodruff's Journal: 1833-1898 Typescript, Volumes 1-9, Edited by Scott G. Kenney, Signature Books 1993, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
60 years ago today - Jul 5, 1961
[Marion G. Romney]
After we had set the last group apart, Brother Lee and I left the office about 4:30 and called on President Clark on our way home. ... We suggested that perhaps Hugh Nibley could write his biography, but he didn't seem to be enthusiastic about that. He said that Hugh Nibley didn't know anything about large areas of his life. He thought that maybe Jack Cannon could do as well as anybody, but didn't seem to be enthusiastic about our going forward. [Biographies were later written by Frank W. Fox and D. Michael Quinn]
[The Diaries of J. Reuben Clark, 1933-1961, Abridged, Digital Edition, Salt Lake City, Utah, 2015, Appendix 2, The Diaries of Marion G. Romney, 1941-1961, Abridged]
After we had set the last group apart, Brother Lee and I left the office about 4:30 and called on President Clark on our way home. ... We suggested that perhaps Hugh Nibley could write his biography, but he didn't seem to be enthusiastic about that. He said that Hugh Nibley didn't know anything about large areas of his life. He thought that maybe Jack Cannon could do as well as anybody, but didn't seem to be enthusiastic about our going forward. [Biographies were later written by Frank W. Fox and D. Michael Quinn]
[The Diaries of J. Reuben Clark, 1933-1961, Abridged, Digital Edition, Salt Lake City, Utah, 2015, Appendix 2, The Diaries of Marion G. Romney, 1941-1961, Abridged]
115 years ago today - Jul 5, 1906
The First Presidency, Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, and Presiding Patriarch beginconsistently using "water and not wine" in their own sacrament. Joseph F. Smith personally stopped drinking wine at the temple meeting sacrament in Dec. 1902. When this first came up for discussion by the apostes on 7 Jan. 1903, Hyrum M. Smith criticized this practice. However, most apostles in 1903 preferred to continue using wine in the temple.
[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)]]
150 years ago today - Jul 5, 1871
Presidt Young [in Soda Springs] got a telegraph [-] from presidt Wells that all right in the Celebration of the 4. Our Enemies were Defeated & we triumped.
[Wilford Woodruff's Journal: 1833-1898 Typescript, Volumes 1-9, Edited by Scott G. Kenney, Signature Books 1993, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
[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 - Jul 5, 1861
Brigham Young's office journal records: "President Young mentioned that he enjoyed his dancing last evening it caused him to perspire, he said it rested his mind and did him good, and relieved him from his onerous every day duties."
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