We met in the Legislature at Eleven oclok. Set till 4 oclok. Had an intermission of two hours. Met again at 6 oclok & set till Midnight. ()
-- 150 years ago today - Jan 17, 1862
- Wilford Woodruff's Journal: 1833-1898 Typescript, Volumes 1-9, Edited by Scott G. Kenney, Signature Books 1993, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies
We met in the Legislature at Eleven oclok. Set till 4 oclok. Had an intermission of two hours. Met again at 6 oclok & set till Midnight.
[Source: Wilford Woodruff's Journal: 1833-1898 Typescript, Volumes 1-9, Edited by Scott G. Kenney, Signature Books 1993, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
[Source: Advent Adam website (defunct) - based on http://amzn.to/originsofpower]
[Source: Wilford Woodruff's Journal: 1833-1898 Typescript, Volumes 1-9, Edited by Scott G. Kenney, Signature Books 1993, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
[Source: Clark, James R., Messages of the First Presidency (6 volumes)]
Auxiliary institutes and conventions discontinued during wartime-- All Church officers were notified that because of the heavy tax burden anticipated, and restrictions on automotive travel due to the war effort, all general auxiliary institutes and conventions and all stake auxiliary union meetings are to be immediately discontinued. {1942-January 17-Improvement Era 45:74, February, 1942.} (2)
-- 70 years ago today - Jan 17, 1942
Joseph Smith takes eight-months-pregnant Mary Elizabeth Rollins Lightner as a plural wife. Mary Elizabeth, age 24, has been legally married to non-Mormon Adam Lightner for over six years at the time. She continues to live with Adam Lightner afterward as instructed by Joseph Smith. Mary Elizabeth later states, "Joseph Said I was his, before I came here. He said all the Devils in Hell should never get me from him." (3)
-- 170 years ago today - Jan 17, 1842
1 - Wilford Woodruff's Journal: 1833-1898 Typescript, Volumes 1-9, Edited by Scott G. Kenney, Signature Books 1993, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies
2 - Clark, James R., Messages of the First Presidency (6 volumes)
3 - Advent Adam website (defunct) - based on http://amzn.to/originsofpower
[Source: Advent Adam website (defunct) - based on http://amzn.to/originsofpower]
[Source: Clark, James R., Messages of the First Presidency (6 volumes)]
[Source: Wilford Woodruff's Journal: 1833-1898 Typescript, Volumes 1-9, Edited by Scott G. Kenney, Signature Books 1993, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
[Ezra Booth] He married a couple in Mentor (2)
-- 180 years ago today - Jan 16, 1832
Orrin Porter Rockwell kills "while attempting to escape" Lot Huntington for Dawson beating. [see Jan 1, 1862] Church Historian's office notes that Rockwell shoots Huntington eight times in stomach-difficult to do while someone is running away from the shooter. Salt Lake City policemen kill Moroni Clawson and John P. Smith while escorting them to jail on Jan. 17 for the beating. On Jan. 22 bishop's court tries participant Isaac Niebaur who confesses, protests that he "never stole from a Mormon," asks forgiveness, "but if his Blood must atone he is willing to die." Church court forgives Niebaur without blood atonement, but Salt Lake county court on Mar 25 sentences him and two others to varying prison terms for Dawson incident. (3)
-- 150 years ago today - Jan 16, 1862
1 - Utah History Encyclopedia: Freemasonry in Utah, http://www.media.utah.edu/UHE/m/MASONRY,FREE.html
2 - Kenny, Scott, Saints Without Halos, Ezra Booth, http://www.saintswithouthalos.com/b/booth_e.phtml
3 - Advent Adam website (defunct) - based on http://amzn.to/originsofpower
[Source: Advent Adam website (defunct) - based on http://amzn.to/originsofpower]
[Source: Kenny, Scott, Saints Without Halos, Ezra Booth, http://www.saintswithouthalos.com/b/booth_e.phtml]
[Source: Utah History Encyclopedia: Freemasonry in Utah, http://www.media.utah.edu/UHE/m/MASONRY,FREE.html]
Nauvoo, Illinois. Joseph Smith commenced reading the first American stereotype edition of the Book of Mormon to make a few corrections for the second stereotype edition that had escaped notice in the first printing. (2)
-- 170 years ago today - Jan 15, 1842
Grandison Newell bought up a considerable amount of KSS notes then in circulation and presented them at the bank's Kirtland office, demanding that they be redeemed with specie. The bank probably ran out of its original stock of silver and gold coins well before the end of January. (3)
-- 175 years ago today - mid Jan 1837
1 - Diary of Heber J. Grant, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies
2 - BYU Studies Journal, volume 46, no. 4: A Chronology of the Life of Joseph Smith, http://byustudies.byu.edu
3 - Broadhurst, Dale R., Mormon Chronology, http://olivercowdery.com/history/morchrn2.htm
[Source: Broadhurst, Dale R., Mormon Chronology, http://olivercowdery.com/history/morchrn2.htm]
[Source: BYU Studies Journal, volume 46, no. 4: A Chronology of the Life of Joseph Smith, http://byustudies.byu.edu]
[Source: Diary of Heber J. Grant, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
All L.D.S. missionaries to register for military service under Conscription Act of 1941-- Church Archives, Salt Lake City, Utah.
Mission Presidents are instructed that under the provisions of the Conscription Act of 1941 all missionaries are to register for military service, giving their home address as their legal address. {1942-January 14-Original circular letter, L.D.S.} (2)
-- 70 years ago today - Jan 14, 1942
[Apostle George Albert Smith Journal] "a condition of nervousness that was most distressing." (3)
-- 80 years ago today - Jan 14, 1932
1 - Church News: Historical Chronology of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, http://www.ldschurchnews.com/articles/58765/Historical-chronology-of-The-Church-of-Jesus-Christ-of-Latter-day-Saints.html
2 - Clark, James R., Messages of the First Presidency (6 volumes)
3 - Journals of George Albert Smith
[Source: Journals of George Albert Smith]
Mission Presidents are instructed that under the provisions of the Conscription Act of 1941 all missionaries are to register for military service, giving their home address as their legal address. {1942-January 14-Original circular letter, L.D.S.}
[Source: Clark, James R., Messages of the First Presidency (6 volumes)]
[Source: Church News: Historical Chronology of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, http://www.ldschurchnews.com/articles/58765/Historical-chronology-of-The-Church-of-Jesus-Christ-of-Latter-day-Saints.html]
[Apostle George Albert Smith Journal] -nerves set back by news of Sis. Raille being dropped from Primary Board (2)
-- 80 years ago today - Jan 13, 1932
Franklin D. Richards writes in his diary, "Pres. Snow read a poem by himself on the sentiment of God and Man. As we are now, so once was he." (3)
-- 120 years ago today - Jan 13, 1892
1 - Joseph Smith Resource Center: Daily Events in the Life of Joseph Smith, http://josephsmith.net/josephsmith/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=e581001cfb340010VgnVCM1000001f5e340aRCRDlocale=0
2 - Journals of George Albert Smith
3 - Advent Adam website (defunct) - based on http://amzn.to/originsofpower
[Source: Advent Adam website (defunct) - based on http://amzn.to/originsofpower]
[Source: Journals of George Albert Smith]
[Source: Joseph Smith Resource Center: Daily Events in the Life of Joseph Smith, http://josephsmith.net/josephsmith/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=e581001cfb340010VgnVCM1000001f5e340aRCRDlocale=0]
Adam was as conversant with his Father who placed him upon this earth as we are conversant with our earthly parents. The Father frequently came to visit his son Adam, and talked and walked with him; and the children of Adam were more or less acquainted with their Grandfather, and their children were more or less acquainted with their Great-Grandfather; and the things that pertain to God and to heaven were as familiar among mankind, in the first ages of their existence on the earth, as these mountains are to our mountain boys. (1)
-- 150 years ago today - Jan 12, 1862
The CLEVELAND DAILY GAZETTE reports: "During the past two days an emission of bills from the society of Mormons, has been showered upon us. As far as we can learn there is no property bound for their redemption, no coin on hand to redeem them with, and no responsible individuals whose honor or whose honesty is pledged for their payment. They seem to rest upon a spiritual basis." (2)
-- 175 years ago today - Jan 12, 1837
[Joseph Smith Papers project] The Church News provides a brief report on the publication of Joseph Smith's papers:
Richard E. Turley Jr., managing director of the Family and Church History Department, said the department is now putting more emphasis into this ongoing project with the result that volumes will begin appearing much more frequently. There will be a total of nine or so, Brother Turley said, and projections are to have the rest of them out within the next four years. "We've gathered together a team of people here and at BYU and in the Church Educational System to assist us," he said. He noted that the project makes the Prophet's papers available in book form with maps, notes and other helps."
("Joseph Smith papers being published," Church News, Jan. 12, 2002, Z10) (3)
-- 10 years ago today - Jan 12, 2002
1 - Quotations Dealing with the Relationship of Our First Earthy Parents to Our Heavenly Parents (1830-1978)
2 - Advent Adam website (defunct) - based on http://amzn.to/originsofpower
3 - Joseph Smith Papers Timeline: History of the Joseph Smith Papers Project, MormonWasp Blog (defunct)
Richard E. Turley Jr., managing director of the Family and Church History Department, said the department is now putting more emphasis into this ongoing project with the result that volumes will begin appearing much more frequently. There will be a total of nine or so, Brother Turley said, and projections are to have the rest of them out within the next four years. "We've gathered together a team of people here and at BYU and in the Church Educational System to assist us," he said. He noted that the project makes the Prophet's papers available in book form with maps, notes and other helps."
("Joseph Smith papers being published," Church News, Jan. 12, 2002, Z10)
[Source: Joseph Smith Papers Timeline: History of the Joseph Smith Papers Project, MormonWasp Blog (defunct)]
[Source: Advent Adam website (defunct) - based on http://amzn.to/originsofpower]
Adam was as conversant with his Father who placed him upon this earth as we are conversant with our earthly parents. The Father frequently came to visit his son Adam, and talked and walked with him; and the children of Adam were more or less acquainted with their Grandfather, and their children were more or less acquainted with their Great-Grandfather; and the things that pertain to God and to heaven were as familiar among mankind, in the first ages of their existence on the earth, as these mountains are to our mountain boys.
[Source: Quotations Dealing with the Relationship of Our First Earthy Parents to Our Heavenly Parents (1830-1978)]
[Apostle Heber J. Grant Diary] [In San Francisco] sent the following telegram: Heber M. Wells, at Union Club Party, Hotel Templeton SLC Union forever; success to Union Club; -- present sincere regrets to all members each committee that Lucy and I are not with you. Dance with Bird, Dell, Kit and Gusta for me. Heber J. Grant.
(2)
-- 120 years ago today - Jan 11, 1892
Zerah Pulsipher: Baptized 11 January 1832. (3)
-- 180 years ago today - Jan 11, 1832
1 - Anderson, Devery; The Development of LDS Temple Worship, 1846-2000: A Documentary History, http://amzn.to/TempleWorship
2 - Diary of Heber J. Grant, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies
3 - 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
[Source: 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]
[Source: Diary of Heber J. Grant, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
[Source: Anderson, Devery; The Development of LDS Temple Worship, 1846-2000: A Documentary History, http://amzn.to/TempleWorship]
1-2, Elders are to continue to preach; 3-6, Joseph Smith and Sidney Rigdon are to continue to translate the Bible until it is finished. (1)
-- 180 years ago today - Jan 10, 1832
Apostle Brigham Young exhorts the quorum of the Seventies "not to murmer against Moses (or) Joseph or the heads of the church." (2)
-- 175 years ago today - Jan 10, 1837
President [David H.] Cannon spoke concerning shoes worn while receiving endowments. He said, put your moccasins on over your shoes. This is the word from the Authorities. A sample of this was given by President [Brigham] Young; he wore his moccasins over his shoes when receiving endowments for [the] deceased and we should follow his example. Baptisms cannot be administered by persons standing out of the water. Innovations must not creep in, in any manner of thing. [The] speaker said, "It is my business to see that right is maintained here no matter what is done elsewhere. If what is done is done right, they, the dead[,] and we can pass to our exaltations, otherwise not." [Temple Minute Book, St. George, Jan. 10, 1912] (3)
-- 100 years ago today - Jan 10, 1912
1 - Doctrine and Covenants, http://amzn.to/DoctrineandCovenants
2 - Advent Adam website (defunct) - based on http://amzn.to/originsofpower
3 - Anderson, Devery; The Development of LDS Temple Worship, 1846-2000: A Documentary History, http://amzn.to/TempleWorship
[Source: Anderson, Devery; The Development of LDS Temple Worship, 1846-2000: A Documentary History, http://amzn.to/TempleWorship]
[Source: Advent Adam website (defunct) - based on http://amzn.to/originsofpower]
1-2, Elders are to continue to preach; 3-6, Joseph Smith and Sidney Rigdon are to continue to translate the Bible until it is finished.
[Source: Doctrine and Covenants, http://amzn.to/DoctrineandCovenants]
The new KSS banking office officially opened in Kirtland. Its officers were from the very beginning reluctant to redeem its notes with specie. [Dale W. Adams; BYU Studies Vol. 23, No. 4, pg.472; Parkin, 1966, p. 219] (2)
-- 175 years ago today - (Mon) Jan 9, 1837
Joseph Smith writes that the covered wagon carrying Willard Richards and Lorin Walker, while traveling on icy roads, "slipped and capsized and fell off the side of the bridge, 5 feet descent. Broke the carriage, some on the top and the fore axletree which we soon spliced . . .and agreed that Liburn W. Boggs should pay the damage." (3)
-- 170 years ago today - Jan 9, 1842
1 - 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
2 - Broadhurst, Dale R., Mormon Chronology, http://olivercowdery.com/history/morchrn2.htm
3 - Advent Adam website (defunct) - based on http://amzn.to/originsofpower
[Source: Advent Adam website (defunct) - based on http://amzn.to/originsofpower]
[Source: Broadhurst, Dale R., Mormon Chronology, http://olivercowdery.com/history/morchrn2.htm]
[Source: 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]
[David O. McKay Office Journal] Only one of the Presidency at the office. Heavy mail, and important decisions to render: 1. Question of advisability of urging a Bishop to reconsider refusal to give a recommendation, since the happiness and even the faith of a young girl seemed at stake. Found a satisfactory solution without sacrificing principle. (2)
-- 75 years ago today - Fri Jan 8, 1937
A week after being baptized Willard Richards writes in his journal: "I partook of the sacrament, and was confirmed by Reynolds Cahoon. I received such a measure of the Spirit as to be sensible of the subject of a song of Zion, which was sung by Elder Lyman Sherman, in the gift of tongues, on the coming of Christ." (3)
-- 175 years ago today - Jan 8, 1837
1 - Church News: Historical Chronology of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, http://www.ldschurchnews.com/articles/58765/Historical-chronology-of-The-Church-of-Jesus-Christ-of-Latter-day-Saints.html
2 - McKay, David O., Office Journal
3 - Advent Adam website (defunct) - based on http://amzn.to/originsofpower
[Source: Advent Adam website (defunct) - based on http://amzn.to/originsofpower]
[Source: McKay, David O., Office Journal]
[Source: Church News: Historical Chronology of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, http://www.ldschurchnews.com/articles/58765/Historical-chronology-of-The-Church-of-Jesus-Christ-of-Latter-day-Saints.html]
[Joseph Smith] Joseph B. Brackenbury is the first Mormon to die on a proselytizing mission and the first martyr (poisoned by anti-Mormons). Mormons also make an unsuccessful effort to raise Brackenbury from the dead. Church historian and apostle George A. Smith later calls this an "attempted resurrection." (2)
-- 180 years ago today - Jan 7, 1832
[Utah] Apostle Francis M Lyman's diary begins recording month-long nervous breakdown of Heber J Grant, his successor as Tooele Stake President. Physician diagnoses Grant's condition as "nervous convulsions" and warns that condition could lead to "softening of the brain," if Grant continues his stressful pace of activity. Grant becomes apostle ten months later and is first LDS leader with diagnosed history of emotional illness. (3)
-- 130 years ago today - Jan 7,1882
1 - Advent Adam website (defunct) - based on http://amzn.to/originsofpower
2 - Quinn, D. Michael, The Mormon Hierarchy: Origins of Power, Appendix 7: Selected Chronology of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1830-47, http://amzn.to/origins-power
3 - 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]
[Source: Quinn, D. Michael, The Mormon Hierarchy: Origins of Power, Appendix 7: Selected Chronology of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1830-47, http://amzn.to/origins-power]
[Source: Advent Adam website (defunct) - based on http://amzn.to/originsofpower]
Wilford Woodruff records that in the Kirtland temple "Elder Sherman Sung in the gift of tongues & proclaimed great & marvelous things while clothed upon by the power & spirit of God. . . . I spent the evening with Priest Turpin at Bishop Whitney's. Had a vary happy time in speaking Singing hearing & interpreting tongues & in prayer with the family." Woodruff also records that Joseph Smith had received a revelation about the Kirtland Safety Society. Declining to reveal the substance of the revelation, Joseph says, "that if we would give heed to the Commandments the Lord had given this morning all would be well." (2)
-- 175 years ago today - Jan 6, 1837
Joseph Smith is sealed to Agnes Moulton Coolbrith in a plural marriage. (3)
-- 170 years ago today - Jan 6, 1842
1 - Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, United Kingdom, "On This Day," https://www.lds.org.uk/show_oda.php
2 - Advent Adam website (defunct) - based on http://amzn.to/originsofpower
3 - Hales, Brian C., Joseph Smith's Polygamy: History and Theology, 2 vols., Salt Lake City: Greg Kofford Books, 2011 (www.JosephSmithsPolygamy.com)
[Source: Hales, Brian C., Joseph Smith's Polygamy: History and Theology, 2 vols., Salt Lake City: Greg Kofford Books, 2011 (www.JosephSmithsPolygamy.com)]
[Source: Advent Adam website (defunct) - based on http://amzn.to/originsofpower]
[Source: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, United Kingdom, "On This Day," https://www.lds.org.uk/show_oda.php]
Section 74, Place: Hiram, Portage County, Ohio.
Historical Note: Section 73, received 10 January 1832, had commanded Joseph Smith and Sidney Rigdon to resume the translation of the Bible. They had done so. While no available statement definitely connects section 74 with the translation of the Bible, the implication is certainly very strong: Section 74 is an explanation of 1 Cor. 7:14.
Publication Note. Section 74 was first published as the 1835 edition of the Doctrine and Covenants. (2)
-- 180 years ago today - January 1832 (after 10 January and before 25 January)
At a prayer meeting in the Kirtland temple "One man gave us an account of the general gathering of Israel in the gift of tongues." "I [Wilford Woodruff] interpreted the Substance of the same." (1)
-- 175 years ago today - Jan 5, 1837
1 - Advent Adam website (defunct) - based on http://amzn.to/originsofpower
2 - Cook, Lyndon, Revelations of the Prophet Joseph Smith: A Historical and Biographical Commentary of the Doctrine and Covenants, http://amzn.to/RevelationsofJosephSmith
[Source: Advent Adam website (defunct) - based on http://amzn.to/originsofpower]
Historical Note: Section 73, received 10 January 1832, had commanded Joseph Smith and Sidney Rigdon to resume the translation of the Bible. They had done so. While no available statement definitely connects section 74 with the translation of the Bible, the implication is certainly very strong: Section 74 is an explanation of 1 Cor. 7:14.
Publication Note. Section 74 was first published as the 1835 edition of the Doctrine and Covenants.
[Source: Cook, Lyndon, Revelations of the Prophet Joseph Smith: A Historical and Biographical Commentary of the Doctrine and Covenants, http://amzn.to/RevelationsofJosephSmith]
[Source: Advent Adam website (defunct) - based on http://amzn.to/originsofpower]
[Heber C. Kimball Revelations] Word to me HCK
Janu[a]ry the 4, 1862
It was revealed to me that the United Stats would make war with this people the Saints with in three years from this time. (2)
-- 150 years ago today - Jan 4, 1862
First Presidency and Apostles vote not to allow any "President or Apostle to draw funds from the Church without limit for their own use or any other purpose." This avoids financial abuses they attribute to Brigham Young and John W. Young, but putting fixed limit on financial allowances is a salary system. Concerning the meeting Apostle John Henry Smith writes in his diary, "I was somewhat surprised to see the president attempt to bull down the Council after giving them the utmost liberty to speak and he will find such talk will never hold the present Council in awe." (3)
-- 130 years ago today - Jan 4, 1882
1 - Church News: Historical Chronology of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, http://www.ldschurchnews.com/articles/58765/Historical-chronology-of-The-Church-of-Jesus-Christ-of-Latter-day-Saints.html
2 - "H. C. Kimball Memorandum" book, On the Potters Wheel: The Diaries of Heber C. Kimball, Stanley B. Kimball, editor, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies
3 - Advent Adam website (defunct) - based on http://amzn.to/originsofpower
[Source: Advent Adam website (defunct) - based on http://amzn.to/originsofpower]
Janu[a]ry the 4, 1862
It was revealed to me that the United Stats would make war with this people the Saints with in three years from this time.
[Source: "H. C. Kimball Memorandum" book, On the Potters Wheel: The Diaries of Heber C. Kimball, Stanley B. Kimball, editor, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
[Source: Church News: Historical Chronology of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, http://www.ldschurchnews.com/articles/58765/Historical-chronology-of-The-Church-of-Jesus-Christ-of-Latter-day-Saints.html]
[President Heber J. Grant Diary] Brother Franklin S. Richards called at Brother David P. Howells' home this morning at my request, and we examined a private record covering a period of a number of years, of an organization that at one time had between forty and fifty members, when I was the junior apostle. Today Brother Franklin and I are the only surviving members. We got about two-thirds of the way through the record, and I arranged to meet him again next Sunday and finish it. (2)
-- 80 years ago today - Jan 3, 1932
[Wilford Woodruff] Called to the First Quorum of the Seventy. (3)
-- 175 years ago today - Jan 3, 1837
1 - The Woodland Institute 'On This Day Historical Database,' http://www.woodlandinstitute.com
2 - Diary of Heber J. Grant, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies
3 - Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Wilford Woodruff, Salt Lake City, Utah
[Source: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Wilford Woodruff, Salt Lake City, Utah]
[Source: Diary of Heber J. Grant, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
[Source: The Woodland Institute 'On This Day Historical Database,' http://www.woodlandinstitute.com]
Brigham Young placed under house arrest for bigamy; never brought to trial. (2)
-- 140 years ago today - Jan 2, 1872-25 April
Kirtland Safety Society renamed the Kirtland Safety Society Anti-Banking Company [per Joseph Smith] with "Anti" and "ing" in small type [per Ebenezer Robinson]. (3)
-- 175 years ago today - Jan 2, 1837
1 - The Woodland Institute 'On This Day Historical Database,' http://www.woodlandinstitute.com
2 - Hemidakaota, "Church Chronology from 1800-2000," http://www.lds.net/forums/scripture-study-forum/12108-church-chronology-1800-2000-part-1-a.html#post214550
3 - Tidd, N. R., "Mormon Chronology"
[Source: Tidd, N. R., "Mormon Chronology"]
[Source: Hemidakaota, "Church Chronology from 1800-2000," http://www.lds.net/forums/scripture-study-forum/12108-church-chronology-1800-2000-part-1-a.html#post214550]
[Source: The Woodland Institute 'On This Day Historical Database,' http://www.woodlandinstitute.com]
[Apostle Abraham H. Cannon Journal] (at a stake conference at Brigham City) President Snow reported that on one occasion Joseph Smith was once asked who he was: "The Prophet smiled kindly upon his interlocutor and replied, "Noah came before the flood; I have come before the fire." (2)
-- 120 years ago today - Jan 1, 1892
Oliver Cowdery arrives in Kirtland with plates to print banknotes the same day that Orson Hyde arrives with news that the Ohio Legislature would not grant a charter for a bank to issue paper money. The leaders go ahead with the banking enterprise anyway. Overprinting the notes, they renamed the institution an "anti-banking" company on the assumption that if they could not operate a bank, they could well run an anti-bank. (3)
-- 175 years ago today - Jan 1, 1837
1 - Broadhurst, Dale R., History and Genealogy of Sidney Rigdon: The First Theologian of the Latter Day Saints, http://sidneyrigdon.com/Rigdchrn.htm
2 - Abraham H. Cannon Journal Excerpts, http://www.amazon.com/Apostles-Record-Journals-Abraham-1889-1896/dp/B000MFD1K4
3 - Advent Adam website (defunct) - based on http://amzn.to/originsofpower
[Source: Advent Adam website (defunct) - based on http://amzn.to/originsofpower]
[Source: Abraham H. Cannon Journal Excerpts, http://www.amazon.com/Apostles-Record-Journals-Abraham-1889-1896/dp/B000MFD1K4]
[Source: Broadhurst, Dale R., History and Genealogy of Sidney Rigdon: The First Theologian of the Latter Day Saints, http://sidneyrigdon.com/Rigdchrn.htm]
New Converts : 400
Percent Change from previous year: 142.86% (1)
-- 180 years ago today - 1831
[Hinckley] Spoke to the youth in a New Years Eve meeting in the Conference Center (2)
-- 5 years ago today - Dec 31, 2006
Administration of Second Anointings to December 31, 1941
Temple Living Dead Total
Nauvoo and other sites (1843-46) 591 0 5911
Endowment House (ded. 1866) 694 0 694
St. George (ded. 1877) 1,814 1,615 3,429
Logan (ded. 1884) 3,040 1,243 4,283
Manti (ded. 1888) 2,412 1,134 3,546
Salt Lake City (ded. 1893) 6,368 2,211 8,579
Laie (ded. 1920) 0 0 0
Alberta (ded. 1923) 13 14
Mesa (ded. 1927) 0 0 0 2
TOTAL 14,932 6,204 21,1262
[from "Temple Ordinance Statistics," Books A, B, C ] (3)
-- 70 years ago today - Dec 31, 1941
1 - Wikipedia, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Membership History, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Church_of_Jesus_Christ_of_Latter-day_Saints_membership_history
2 - LDS Newsroom, Time line of Significant Events as President, http://newsroom.lds.org/ldsnewsroom/eng/news-releases-stories/time-line-of-significant-events-as-president
3 - Anderson, Devery; The Development of LDS Temple Worship, 1846-2000: A Documentary History, http://amzn.to/TempleWorship
Temple Living Dead Total
Nauvoo and other sites (1843-46) 591 0 5911
Endowment House (ded. 1866) 694 0 694
St. George (ded. 1877) 1,814 1,615 3,429
Logan (ded. 1884) 3,040 1,243 4,283
Manti (ded. 1888) 2,412 1,134 3,546
Salt Lake City (ded. 1893) 6,368 2,211 8,579
Laie (ded. 1920) 0 0 0
Alberta (ded. 1923) 13 14
Mesa (ded. 1927) 0 0 0 2
TOTAL 14,932 6,204 21,1262
[from "Temple Ordinance Statistics," Books A, B, C ]
[Source: Anderson, Devery; The Development of LDS Temple Worship, 1846-2000: A Documentary History, http://amzn.to/TempleWorship]
[Source: LDS Newsroom, Time line of Significant Events as President, http://newsroom.lds.org/ldsnewsroom/eng/news-releases-stories/time-line-of-significant-events-as-president]
New Converts : 400
Percent Change from previous year: 142.86%
[Source: Wikipedia, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Membership History, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Church_of_Jesus_Christ_of_Latter-day_Saints_membership_history]
The Washington Post and Newsweek have launched a new religion blog entitled "On Faith." Fifty panelists representing different faiths are invited to respond to a question each week on a religious topic. Members of the public are then free to respond to the question or to any of the comments either under their own name or using a pseudonym. (2)
-- 5 years ago today - Dec 30, 2006
[Lucy Mack Smith] Ezra Booth (Methodist minister), John Johnson and Mary Musselman Johnson and family, visit Joseph. Joseph heals Mary's lame arm. (3)
-- 180 years ago today - Winter/Spring 1831
1 - Conkling, Christopher J., Joseph Smith Chronology
2 - Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, United Kingdom, "On This Day," https://www.lds.org.uk/show_oda.php
3 - Anderson, Lavina Fielding, Editor, Lucy's Book: A Critical Edition of Lucy Mack Smith's Family Memoir, 2001, Signature Books, http://bit.ly/lucys-book
[Source: Anderson, Lavina Fielding, Editor, Lucy's Book: A Critical Edition of Lucy Mack Smith's Family Memoir, 2001, Signature Books, http://bit.ly/lucys-book]
[Source: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, United Kingdom, "On This Day," https://www.lds.org.uk/show_oda.php]
[Source: Conkling, Christopher J., Joseph Smith Chronology]
Erastus Snow: Returned 29 December 1836, having baptized fifty persons. (2)
-- 175 years ago today - Dec 29, 1836
[Masonry] Eighteen (2 X 09) Mormon Masons met in the office of Hyrum Smith to organize the Nauvoo Lodge. George D. Miller was elected Grand Master; John D. Parker, Grand Warden; and Lucius Scovill, Junior Warden. The following day Joseph Smith and Sidney Rigdon petitioned for membership in the Lodge. (3)
-- 170 years ago today - Dec 29, 1841
1 - Conkling, Christopher J., Joseph Smith Chronology
2 - 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
3 - Homer, Michael, 'Similarity of Priesthood in Masonry':The Relationship Between Freemasonry and Mormonism, Dialogue, Vol. 27, No. 3
[Source: Homer, Michael, 'Similarity of Priesthood in Masonry':The Relationship Between Freemasonry and Mormonism, Dialogue, Vol. 27, No. 3]
[Source: 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]
[Source: Conkling, Christopher J., Joseph Smith Chronology]
[Joseph Smith] Joseph baptizes Sidney Rigdon for his dead parents. (2)
-- 170 years ago today - Dec 28, 1841
The following is an account of the regular meeting of the First Presidency and the Council of Twelve Apostles held this morning at the temple at 10 o'clock:
There were present: Pres[iden]ts. Joseph F. Smith, Charles W. Penrose and Francis M. Lyman, Elders Hyrum M. Smith, George Albert Smith, George F. Richards, Orson F. Whitney, David O. McKay, Anthony W. Ivins, Joseph F[ielding]. Smith Jr. and James E. Talmage. ...
Defects in certain of our hymns was informally talked about, and Bro[ther]s. Penrose and Joseph F[ielding]. Smith Jr. had been asked to give attention to them, also to supply corrections.
Pres[iden]t. Penrose now referred to this matter, and suggested that a committee be appointed to do this work, and suggested that Brother Whitney be added.
President Smith now appointed Bro[ther]s. Charles W. Penrose, Orson F. Whitney and Joseph F[ielding]. Smith Jr. as that committee, remarking that he hoped the revision would consist of as few changes as possible. ... (3)
-- 100 years ago today - Dec 28, 1911; Thursday
1 - Wilford Woodruff's Journal: 1833-1898 Typescript, Volumes 1-9, Edited by Scott G. Kenney, Signature Books 1993, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies
2 - Conkling, Christopher J., Joseph Smith Chronology
3 - First Presidency and Quorum of the Twelve minutes
There were present: Pres[iden]ts. Joseph F. Smith, Charles W. Penrose and Francis M. Lyman, Elders Hyrum M. Smith, George Albert Smith, George F. Richards, Orson F. Whitney, David O. McKay, Anthony W. Ivins, Joseph F[ielding]. Smith Jr. and James E. Talmage. ...
Defects in certain of our hymns was informally talked about, and Bro[ther]s. Penrose and Joseph F[ielding]. Smith Jr. had been asked to give attention to them, also to supply corrections.
Pres[iden]t. Penrose now referred to this matter, and suggested that a committee be appointed to do this work, and suggested that Brother Whitney be added.
President Smith now appointed Bro[ther]s. Charles W. Penrose, Orson F. Whitney and Joseph F[ielding]. Smith Jr. as that committee, remarking that he hoped the revision would consist of as few changes as possible. ...
[Source: First Presidency and Quorum of the Twelve minutes]
[Source: Conkling, Christopher J., Joseph Smith Chronology]
[Source: Wilford Woodruff's Journal: 1833-1898 Typescript, Volumes 1-9, Edited by Scott G. Kenney, Signature Books 1993, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
[Lucy Mack Smith] Samuel and William McLellin return from their mission. (2)
-- 180 years ago today - Dec 27, 1831
Joseph Smith exhibits to the Twelve what Young calls the "seer stone" but what Woodruff calls the "Urim and Thummim." Young says that at Nauvoo Smith finds two more seer stones on the banks of the Mississippi River. (3)
-- 170 years ago today - Dec 27, 1841
1 - Diary Excerpts of Franklin D. Richards, 1887-1897, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies
2 - Anderson, Lavina Fielding, Editor, Lucy's Book: A Critical Edition of Lucy Mack Smith's Family Memoir, 2001, Signature Books, http://bit.ly/lucys-book
3 - Quinn, D. Michael, The Mormon Hierarchy: Origins of Power, Appendix 7: Selected Chronology of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1830-47, http://amzn.to/origins-power
[Source: Quinn, D. Michael, The Mormon Hierarchy: Origins of Power, Appendix 7: Selected Chronology of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1830-47, http://amzn.to/origins-power]
[Source: Anderson, Lavina Fielding, Editor, Lucy's Book: A Critical Edition of Lucy Mack Smith's Family Memoir, 2001, Signature Books, http://bit.ly/lucys-book]
[Source: Diary Excerpts of Franklin D. Richards, 1887-1897, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
Attended the regular weekly meeting of the Presidentcy and Apostles at 11 a.m. For about the 4th time I got an ap[p]ropriation of $900. for the Pres[iden]tcy of the Big Horn
[Wyoming] Stake. It was voted that I go to New Mexico and ascertain the state of Pres[iden]t. Brigham Young [Jr.]'s health and assist him home if he will come. It was voted to invite him to return home. I made preparations to leave tomorrow night. (2)
-- 110 years ago today - Dec 26, 1901; Thursday
[Joseph Smith Sermon] Joseph the Seer Called upon me & others of the Twelve to attend meeting at his house. We did so in the evening & herd many good principles presented by presidents Joseph & Hyrum Smith such as the following: Speak not in tongues to your own nation but to those of annother tongue. Then if one of another tongue interpets it will be a sign to the unbeliever, & then it would condemn those who heard if they rejected it for the Lord does not work in vain. Joseph spoke upon the 14 ch. 1 cor. Prophesies will cease &c ie. A person will cease or stop prophesying & not continue all the while &c untill we come to perfection or a fulness. Then part work will be done away. [Wilford Woodruff Diary] (3)
-- 170 years ago today - Dec 26, 1841
1 - Kenny, Scott (editor), Wilford Woodruff's Journals 1833-1898, Chronology Signature Books, Midvale, Utah, http://bit.ly/wwjournal
2 - Abraham Owen Woodruff, Diary
3 - The Words of Joseph Smith by Joseph Smith by Andrew F. Ehat and Lyndon W. Cook
[Source: The Words of Joseph Smith by Joseph Smith by Andrew F. Ehat and Lyndon W. Cook]
[Wyoming] Stake. It was voted that I go to New Mexico and ascertain the state of Pres[iden]t. Brigham Young [Jr.]'s health and assist him home if he will come. It was voted to invite him to return home. I made preparations to leave tomorrow night.
[Source: Abraham Owen Woodruff, Diary]
[Source: Kenny, Scott (editor), Wilford Woodruff's Journals 1833-1898, Chronology Signature Books, Midvale, Utah, http://bit.ly/wwjournal]
[Brigham Young] --25-- I partook of a Christmas supper with the Twelve at Brother Hiram Kimball's.
--26 (Sunday)-- I attended meeting at Joseph's house with several of the Twelve, Brothers Hyrum and Joseph Smith and I preached. (2)
-- 170 years ago today - Dec 25, 1841
[Apostle Franklin D. Richards Diary] Herald of today contains Protest of a Democratic Mormon against John Henry Smith preaching pernicious doctrines of Republicanism. (3)
-- 120 years ago today - Dec 25, 1891
1 - Quinn, D. Michael, The Mormon Hierarchy: Origins of Power, Appendix 7: Selected Chronology of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1830-47, http://amzn.to/origins-power
2 - Manuscript History of Brigham Young, 1801-1844, ed. Elden Jay Watson (Salt Lake City: Smith Secretarial Service, 1968).
3 - Diary Excerpts of Franklin D. Richards, 1887-1897, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies
[Source: Diary Excerpts of Franklin D. Richards, 1887-1897, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]