[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.]
[The Diaries of Heber J. Grant, 1880-1945, Abridged, Digital Edition Salt Lake City, Utah, 2015]
130 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.
[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.
[Excerpts of Apostle Francis M. Lyman Diaries, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
135 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.
[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.
[The Diaries of Heber J. Grant, 1880-1945, Abridged, Digital Edition Salt Lake City, Utah, 2015]
140 years ago today - Nov 3, 1882
[Wilford Woodruff]
writes in code "<I visited the theater for the first time.>"
[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.>"
[Wilford Woodruff's Journal: 1833-1898 Typescript, Volumes 1-9, Edited by Scott G. Kenney, Signature Books 1993, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
140 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.
[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.
[The Journal of George Q. Cannon, Church Historian's Press, https://churchhistorianspress.org/george-q-cannon]
165 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.
[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 )]]
185 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."
[Oliver Cowdery Letterbook, Jan. 21, 1838; Broadhurst, Dale R., Mormon Chronology, http://olivercowdery.com/history/morchrn2.htm]
[Oliver Cowdery Letterbook, Jan. 21, 1838; Broadhurst, Dale R., Mormon Chronology, http://olivercowdery.com/history/morchrn2.htm]
40 years ago today - Nov 2, 1982
Idaho votes to rescind its constitutional "Test Oath" which still technically desfranchises all 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 )]]
80 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.
[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.
[The Diaries of J. Reuben Clark, 1933-1961, Abridged, Digital Edition, Salt Lake City, Utah 2015]
125 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.
[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.
[Diary Excerpts of Franklin D. Richards, 1887-1897, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
160 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.
[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]
[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]
180 years ago today - Nov 2, 1842
[Freemasonry]
Abraham Jonas reinstated Nauvoo Lodge's dispensation.
[Homer, Michael W., Joseph's Temples: The Dynamic Relationship between Freemasonry and Mormonism, Chronology]
Abraham Jonas reinstated Nauvoo Lodge's dispensation.
[Homer, Michael W., Joseph's Temples: The Dynamic Relationship between Freemasonry and Mormonism, Chronology]
30 years ago today - Nov 1, 1992.
At the instruction of Elder Russell M. Nelson, Jack and Linda Newell's stake president, Ted M. Jacobsen, informs them that they may not see their files maintained by the Strengthening Church Members Committee.
[Anderson, Lavina Fielding, "The LDS Intellectual Community and Church Leadership: A Contemporary Chronology," Dialogue, Vol.26, No.1]
[Anderson, Lavina Fielding, "The LDS Intellectual Community and Church Leadership: A Contemporary Chronology," Dialogue, Vol.26, No.1]
50 years ago today - Nov 1, 1972
(November) The church's bureaucracy ("administrative departments") begins moving into the new 28-story Church Office Building. LDS bureaucracy is already larger than the building's capacity, and some unites never move in. Other administrative departments stay in "the tower" only until they establish their own separate quarters. The Church Office Building is not dedicated (and therefore not paid for) until 1975.
[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 )]]
100 years ago today - Nov 1, 1922
The day after Heber J. Grant joins in a public appeal for the election of a man as county sheriff, the First Presidency issues a statement that the church feels "free to use its influence in the promotion of good legislation, honest administration of government and matters calculated to benefit the state and its people."
[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 - Nov 1, 1887
[Heber J. Grant]
John W. Taylor called on me this evening after the City Council and stopped until a late hour conversing with my wife and I.
He advised me to stop getting into as many business transactions and to close up my affairs so that I would have less care. He thought it was not pleasing in the sight of God for me to work so hard to make means and to carry such a heavy load of debt. He advised me to get rid of a good share of my business, to work less, sleep more, & visit with my family more, and take time enough to eat so that I would not eat as a duty but because I really enjoyed my food. Thought I was killing myself by degrees and was as guilty before God as thought I took my life by a single act.
I am now borrowing something like $75,000. Lucy said she felt impressed that Jno. W. had given us the mind and will of the Lord and that if I did not follow it that I would live to see the day that I sincerely regretted not doing so. Jno W. advised me to make it the great aim and object of my life to get the financial affairs of the people of God arranged in some manner that the opposition of our enemies would be as nothing and could not stand. He thought something in the shape of a United Order was our only hope for salvation temporaly and that if I went to get out of business personally and give my mind to it I might hit upon a plan that would unite and save the people financially.
While John was talking I felt very strongly impressed that his advice was what I actually needed and with the help of our Heavenly Father I shall try and start from this my tenth wedding day, to closing up my affairs. I will make less and live on less.
[The Diaries of Heber J. Grant, 1880-1945, Abridged, Digital Edition Salt Lake City, Utah, 2015]
John W. Taylor called on me this evening after the City Council and stopped until a late hour conversing with my wife and I.
He advised me to stop getting into as many business transactions and to close up my affairs so that I would have less care. He thought it was not pleasing in the sight of God for me to work so hard to make means and to carry such a heavy load of debt. He advised me to get rid of a good share of my business, to work less, sleep more, & visit with my family more, and take time enough to eat so that I would not eat as a duty but because I really enjoyed my food. Thought I was killing myself by degrees and was as guilty before God as thought I took my life by a single act.
I am now borrowing something like $75,000. Lucy said she felt impressed that Jno. W. had given us the mind and will of the Lord and that if I did not follow it that I would live to see the day that I sincerely regretted not doing so. Jno W. advised me to make it the great aim and object of my life to get the financial affairs of the people of God arranged in some manner that the opposition of our enemies would be as nothing and could not stand. He thought something in the shape of a United Order was our only hope for salvation temporaly and that if I went to get out of business personally and give my mind to it I might hit upon a plan that would unite and save the people financially.
While John was talking I felt very strongly impressed that his advice was what I actually needed and with the help of our Heavenly Father I shall try and start from this my tenth wedding day, to closing up my affairs. I will make less and live on less.
[The Diaries of Heber J. Grant, 1880-1945, Abridged, Digital Edition Salt Lake City, Utah, 2015]
135 years ago today - Nov 1, 1887
[Albert Carrington]
Heeding his pleas for clemency, the Council of Twelve Apostles finally allowed his rebaptism into the church on 1 November 1887.
[Utah History Encyclopedia: Albert Carrington, http://www.uen.org/utah_history_encyclopedia/]
Heeding his pleas for clemency, the Council of Twelve Apostles finally allowed his rebaptism into the church on 1 November 1887.
[Utah History Encyclopedia: Albert Carrington, http://www.uen.org/utah_history_encyclopedia/]
145 years ago today - Nov 1, 1877
First Presidency Secretary L. John Nuttall records that John Taylor's birthday celebration was attended by "Prest. John Taylor, 6 wives, 17 sons, 8 daughters, 5 daughters-in-law, 3 sons-in-law, 7 grand sons and 6 grand daughters. Total 53."
160 years ago today - Nov 1, 1862
[Recently reebaptized, former apostle] Thomas Baldwin Marsh: Received endowment and sealed to Hannah Adams in Endowment House 1 November 1862. Moved to Ogden, Utah.
[Cook, Lyndon W., The Revelations of the Prophet Joseph Smith: A Historical and Biographical Commentary of the Doctrine and Covenants, Seventy's Mission Bookstore, Provo UT, 1985, http://amzn.to/RevelationsofJosephSmith]
[Cook, Lyndon W., The Revelations of the Prophet Joseph Smith: A Historical and Biographical Commentary of the Doctrine and Covenants, Seventy's Mission Bookstore, Provo UT, 1985, http://amzn.to/RevelationsofJosephSmith]
180 years ago today - Nov 01, 1842
Joseph Smith republishes in the Times and Seasons an earlier 1831 revelation condemning plural marriage
[Times and Seasons, Vol.4, No.24, p.369; Exploring Mormonism: Polygamy Timeline, http://www.exploringmormonism.com/polygamy-timeline/]
[Times and Seasons, Vol.4, No.24, p.369; Exploring Mormonism: Polygamy Timeline, http://www.exploringmormonism.com/polygamy-timeline/]
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