Today In Mormon History

Heber C. Kimball, in a sermon recalling past persecutions of the Saints, preaches: "After all these hardships and trials we started for...

[Brigham Young] We talk about fellowshipping and disfellowshipping men for certain acts. Suppose we were to adopt the constitution of our...

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 ...

An announcement of the "Improved missionary discussions [which] put aside the specific dialogue of the past. Missionaries will now use ...

I learned that Elder Hugh Pinnock, General Superintendent of the Sunday School, asked Peggy Fletcher to eliminate the "Sunday School Su...

[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...

[David O. McKay, Hugh B. Brown, N. Eldon Tanner, and Joseph Fielding Smith] From time to time we receive requests from couples who desire...

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...

[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 fe...

A Democratic convention, held in Salt Lake City, placed the first Democratic ticket for Salt Lake County officers in the field, after the di...

Concerning the Custer Massacre a few days before, the Deseret News editorializes that it is doubtful if possession of the Black Hills countr...

Patriarchal Blessing of Mary Hubbard given by Charles W. Hyde ... It is your privilege to behold the coming of Messiah when Zion shall be re...

[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...

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 Lama...

The Saints gather in a sycamore grove and organize the San Bernardino Stake, the first stake in California. [LDS Daily, www.ldsdaily.com ...

[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...

[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 o...

The First Presidency, Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, and Presiding Patriarch beginconsistently using "water and not wine" in their...

Presidt Young [in Soda Springs] got a telegraph [-] from presidt Wells that all right in the Celebration of the 4. Our Enemies were Defeated...

Brigham Young's office journal records: "President Young mentioned that he enjoyed his dancing last evening it caused him to perspi...