[President Heber J. Grant]
I called at the office and met with my counselors and told them of my trip east and my failure to get any favorable action, except that the Chase National Bank was willing to loan the sugar company seven and one-half millions and that the Chicago banks had kindly increased their limit from two million dollars to three and one-half millions. I feel that we ought not to make arrangements with the Chase National for all of our needs.
[Diary of Heber J. Grant, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
Today In Mormon History-FB
Several curious tidbits that happened on this day in Mormon History
120 years ago today - Sep 7, 1904 (Wednesday)
[Church Historian Andrew Jensen]
A number of disgruntled politicians met in the Auerbach Hall, Salt Lake City, abused the Church and discussed the prospects for an anti-Mormon political party in Utah. Several malicious speeches were made in which the Church was accused of interfering in politics. Senator Thomas Kearns was connected with the movement, and the Salt Lake "Tribune" the official organ.
[Jenson, Andrew, Church Chronology]
A number of disgruntled politicians met in the Auerbach Hall, Salt Lake City, abused the Church and discussed the prospects for an anti-Mormon political party in Utah. Several malicious speeches were made in which the Church was accused of interfering in politics. Senator Thomas Kearns was connected with the movement, and the Salt Lake "Tribune" the official organ.
[Jenson, Andrew, Church Chronology]
125 years ago today - Sep 7, 1899; Thursday
[First Presidency and Quorum of the Twelve minutes]
.... [Heber J. Grant] brought up the subject of the vicious assaults made upon him recently by the Salt Lake Tribune, and wanted to know if there would be any objection to his denying in a public way these falsehoods and misrepresentations.
President Smith suggested to Brother Grant that instead of writing a letter of denial, that he permit himself to be interviewed, and make his denial in that way. ...
Salt Company meetings were held at the office this afternoon, the main purpose being to consider the buying up of the shore of the lake, with a view to controlling the salt trade. In order to do this the capital stock of the company would have to be increased, which would affect the Church to the amount of about $100,000. The matter was talked over by the First Presidency with Brother N[ephi]. W. Clayton, President Snow did not like to lose control of the company, but at the same time could not see how the Church could do anything in the matter. It was finally agreed to invite some of the wealthy men of the Church to take an interest in the company, thus retaining the control, as against the non-Mormon stock-holders.
[First Presidency and Quorum of the Twelve minutes]
.... [Heber J. Grant] brought up the subject of the vicious assaults made upon him recently by the Salt Lake Tribune, and wanted to know if there would be any objection to his denying in a public way these falsehoods and misrepresentations.
President Smith suggested to Brother Grant that instead of writing a letter of denial, that he permit himself to be interviewed, and make his denial in that way. ...
Salt Company meetings were held at the office this afternoon, the main purpose being to consider the buying up of the shore of the lake, with a view to controlling the salt trade. In order to do this the capital stock of the company would have to be increased, which would affect the Church to the amount of about $100,000. The matter was talked over by the First Presidency with Brother N[ephi]. W. Clayton, President Snow did not like to lose control of the company, but at the same time could not see how the Church could do anything in the matter. It was finally agreed to invite some of the wealthy men of the Church to take an interest in the company, thus retaining the control, as against the non-Mormon stock-holders.
[First Presidency and Quorum of the Twelve minutes]
145 years ago today - Sep 7, 1879
[Joseph F. Smith]
Brother [John] Taylor's decision was that a bishop could only cut off members of the lesser priesthood and disfellowship members of the higher priesthood.
[Joseph F. Smith, Diary, as quoted in Minutes of the Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1835-1951, Electronic Edition, 2015]
Brother [John] Taylor's decision was that a bishop could only cut off members of the lesser priesthood and disfellowship members of the higher priesthood.
[Joseph F. Smith, Diary, as quoted in Minutes of the Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1835-1951, Electronic Edition, 2015]
150 years ago today - Sep 7, 1874
Brigham Young's son Joseph A. Young preaches to the Richfield United Order: "The feeling of 'mine' is the greatest feeling we have to combat."
[On This Day in Mormon History, http://onthisdayinmormonhistory.blogspot.com]
[On This Day in Mormon History, http://onthisdayinmormonhistory.blogspot.com]
150 years ago today - Sep 7, 1874.
[Apostle Wilford Woodruff]
[Describes falling from a ladder]. I was vary sore & lame all night. It seems as though the Devil still persues me to destroy my life.
[Wilford Woodruff's Journal: 1833-1898 Typescript, Volumes 1-9, Edited by Scott G. Kenney, Signature Books 1993, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
[Describes falling from a ladder]. I was vary sore & lame all night. It seems as though the Devil still persues me to destroy my life.
[Wilford Woodruff's Journal: 1833-1898 Typescript, Volumes 1-9, Edited by Scott G. Kenney, Signature Books 1993, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
165 years ago today - Sep 7, 1859
Salt Lake City clerk records the sale of twenty-six-year-old "negro boy" for $800 to William H. Hooper, elected a month earlier as Utah's delegate to Congress. Until federal law ends slavery in U.S. territories in 1862, some African-American slaves are paid as tithing, bought, sold and otherwise treated as chattel in Utah.
[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 )]]
190 years ago today - Sep 7, 1834
[Oliver Cowdery writes the first of eight letters to W. W. Phelps regarding the history of the church. These letters will be published in October 1834 in the Messenger and Advocate.]
Smith's statement that he "learned from the first No. of the Messenger and Advocate" of Cowdery's plan to publish a history of the church would seem to indicate that Smith was not directly consulted about the facts of the first letter. Or perhaps Smith was unaware how far Cowdery wanted to go with his account.
The publication of Cowdery's history was concurrent with Philastus Hurlbut's anti-Mormon lectures in Kirtland, Ohio, and subsequent publication of E. D. Howe's Mormonism Unvailed ...
"... Near the time of the setting of the Sun, Sabbath evening, April 5th, 1829, my natural eyes, for the first time beheld this brother. He then resided in Harmony, Susquehanna county Penn. On Monday the 6th, I assisted him in arranging some business of a temporal nature, and on Tuesday the 7th, commenced to write the book of Mormon. These were days never to be forgotten--to sit under the sound of a voice dictated by the inspiration of heaven, awakened the utmost gratitude of this bosom! Day after day I continued, uninterrupted, to write from his mouth, as he translated, with the Urim and Thummim, or, as the Nephites whould [would] have said, "Interpreters," the history, or record, called "The book of Mormon."
...On a sudden, as from the midst of eternity, the voice of the Redeemer spake peace to us, while the vail was parted and the angel of God came down clothed with glory, and delivered the anxiously looked for message, and the keys of the gospel of repentance!... when we received under his hand the holy priesthood, as he said, "upon you my fellow servants, in the name of Messiah I confer this priesthood and this authority, which shall remain upon earth, that the sons of Levi may yet offer an offering unto the Lord in righteousness!"
[Oliver Cowdery to W. W. Phelps, 7 September 1834, [Letter I], Latter Day Saints' Messenger and Advocate 1 (October 1834): 13-16., as cited in Dan Vogel, Early Mormon Documents: Oliver Cowdery To W. W. Phelps]
Smith's statement that he "learned from the first No. of the Messenger and Advocate" of Cowdery's plan to publish a history of the church would seem to indicate that Smith was not directly consulted about the facts of the first letter. Or perhaps Smith was unaware how far Cowdery wanted to go with his account.
The publication of Cowdery's history was concurrent with Philastus Hurlbut's anti-Mormon lectures in Kirtland, Ohio, and subsequent publication of E. D. Howe's Mormonism Unvailed ...
"... Near the time of the setting of the Sun, Sabbath evening, April 5th, 1829, my natural eyes, for the first time beheld this brother. He then resided in Harmony, Susquehanna county Penn. On Monday the 6th, I assisted him in arranging some business of a temporal nature, and on Tuesday the 7th, commenced to write the book of Mormon. These were days never to be forgotten--to sit under the sound of a voice dictated by the inspiration of heaven, awakened the utmost gratitude of this bosom! Day after day I continued, uninterrupted, to write from his mouth, as he translated, with the Urim and Thummim, or, as the Nephites whould [would] have said, "Interpreters," the history, or record, called "The book of Mormon."
...On a sudden, as from the midst of eternity, the voice of the Redeemer spake peace to us, while the vail was parted and the angel of God came down clothed with glory, and delivered the anxiously looked for message, and the keys of the gospel of repentance!... when we received under his hand the holy priesthood, as he said, "upon you my fellow servants, in the name of Messiah I confer this priesthood and this authority, which shall remain upon earth, that the sons of Levi may yet offer an offering unto the Lord in righteousness!"
[Oliver Cowdery to W. W. Phelps, 7 September 1834, [Letter I], Latter Day Saints' Messenger and Advocate 1 (October 1834): 13-16., as cited in Dan Vogel, Early Mormon Documents: Oliver Cowdery To W. W. Phelps]
50 years ago today - Sept 6, 1974
First Presidency announcement of intention to legally divest church of fifteen hospitals in three western states. Most maintaintheir "LDS Hospital" titles despite ownership by "non-Mormons" and non-profit corporation, Intermountain Healthcare. This move also representes First Presidency's decision to publicly disengage church from hospital ownership following 1973 U.S. Supreme Court decision ROE VS. WADE which legalized abortion s on demand, Although Presiding Bishop signs final divestiture agreement on Apr 1, 1975, Intermountain Healthcare is listed among "Associated Businesses" of LDS church in GENERAL CHURCH OFFICES TELEPHONE DIRECTORY, JANUARY 1996.
[On This Day in Mormon History, http://onthisdayinmormonhistory.blogspot.com]
[On This Day in Mormon History, http://onthisdayinmormonhistory.blogspot.com]
50 years ago today - Sep 6, 1974
A First Presidency announcement of the intention to legally divest the church of fifteen hospitals in three western states. Most maintain their "LDS Hospital" titles despite their ownership by "non-Mormon" and non-profit corporation, Intermountain Healthcare. This move also represents the First Presidency's decision to publicly disengage the church from hospital ownership following the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court decision 'Roe vs. Wade' which legalized abortions on demand. Although the Presiding Bishopric signs the final divestiture agreement on 4/1/1975, Intermountain Healthcare is listed among the "Associated Businesses" of the LDS church in the "General Church Offices Telephone Directory, January 1996."
[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 )]]
90 years ago today - Sep 6, 1934
[President Heber J. Grant]
Went to the temple at ten o'clock where we held the regular weekly meeting of the First Presidency and Apostles. The question of a successor to Hyrum G. Smith was discussed at some length. Brothers Widtsoe and Callis knew nothing of the original discussion regarding this matter, neither did Brother Clark, so this afternoon we held a meeting with them and read the report of the Council of the Twelve recommending that Hyrum G. Smith's son Eldred be made the Patriarch.
[Grant would leave the office of Presiding Patriarch vacant until 1942 when Eldred's cousin would be appointed. Upon his cousin's early release, Eldred would be made patriarch in 1947]
[Diary of Heber J. Grant, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
Went to the temple at ten o'clock where we held the regular weekly meeting of the First Presidency and Apostles. The question of a successor to Hyrum G. Smith was discussed at some length. Brothers Widtsoe and Callis knew nothing of the original discussion regarding this matter, neither did Brother Clark, so this afternoon we held a meeting with them and read the report of the Council of the Twelve recommending that Hyrum G. Smith's son Eldred be made the Patriarch.
[Grant would leave the office of Presiding Patriarch vacant until 1942 when Eldred's cousin would be appointed. Upon his cousin's early release, Eldred would be made patriarch in 1947]
[Diary of Heber J. Grant, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
120 years ago today - Sep 6, 1904 (Tuesday)
[Church historian Andrew Jensen]
At the Baptist State convention, held in Salt Lake City, Norman D. Corser, in a bitter anti-Mormon address, accused the Church of commercialism.
[Jenson, Andrew, Church Chronology]
At the Baptist State convention, held in Salt Lake City, Norman D. Corser, in a bitter anti-Mormon address, accused the Church of commercialism.
[Jenson, Andrew, Church Chronology]
130 years ago today - Sep 6, 1894
[Apostle Heber J. Grant]
This afternoon at two attended a meeting of the Presidency and Apostles in the Temple. Among other matter[s] the propriety of sending Bro. Anthon W. Ivins to Mexico to Preside there was considered and all of those who were present seemed to favor the proposition. I confess that I know of no man in the Church who is as well qualified to go there as Bro. Ivins at the same time it would be a hard thing for me to see him go as long as his father and mother are alive.
[Ivins will perform many post-manifesto plural marriages in Mexico]
[Diary of Heber J. Grant, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
This afternoon at two attended a meeting of the Presidency and Apostles in the Temple. Among other matter[s] the propriety of sending Bro. Anthon W. Ivins to Mexico to Preside there was considered and all of those who were present seemed to favor the proposition. I confess that I know of no man in the Church who is as well qualified to go there as Bro. Ivins at the same time it would be a hard thing for me to see him go as long as his father and mother are alive.
[Ivins will perform many post-manifesto plural marriages in Mexico]
[Diary of Heber J. Grant, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
145 years ago today - Sep 6, 1879
[Joseph F. Smith]
The question of authority in relation to the office of Bishop. Brother M[oses]. Thatcher and myself taking the stand that a bishop had no authority in a regularly organized stake to excommunicate any person holding the Melchizedek Priesthood but could suspend them for cause, holding them disfellowshipped &c. Brethren. George Q. Cannon, Orson Pratt, Franklin D. Richards and Erastus Snow took the opposite view, that a bishop had power to cut off any person in his ward &c. The matter was referred to minutes of meeting of April 9, 1879, President [John] Taylor reserving his opinion.
[Joseph F. Smith, Diary, as quoted in Minutes of the Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1835-1951, Electronic Edition, 2015]
The question of authority in relation to the office of Bishop. Brother M[oses]. Thatcher and myself taking the stand that a bishop had no authority in a regularly organized stake to excommunicate any person holding the Melchizedek Priesthood but could suspend them for cause, holding them disfellowshipped &c. Brethren. George Q. Cannon, Orson Pratt, Franklin D. Richards and Erastus Snow took the opposite view, that a bishop had power to cut off any person in his ward &c. The matter was referred to minutes of meeting of April 9, 1879, President [John] Taylor reserving his opinion.
[Joseph F. Smith, Diary, as quoted in Minutes of the Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1835-1951, Electronic Edition, 2015]
145 years ago today - Sep 6, 1879
Other apostles vote against presiding apostle John Taylor's proposal to organize the First Presidency. Deseret News editorial "What Shall the Mormon Church Do?" quotes recommendation of the pro-Mormon Omaha Herald: "Let the Mormon people renounce all future polygamous marriages by an open and honest declaration, and there are not a baker's dozen of decent people in America who would ask that any such a brand [of abandonment] as is mentioned by the NEWS should be put upon the women and children." The Deseret News replies: "If the authorities of the Church were to take any such stand as some friends suppose possible, their enunciation [pronouncement] would in all probability be repudiated by the people." The apostles restate this fear in 1890.
[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 )]]
180 years ago today - September 6, 1844. Friday.
[William Clayton]
....A.M. Elder H[eber] C. K[imball] came up to say that I might take A[lice] H[ardman as a plural wife]. I went to the Temple office and also to see A[lice] H[ardman]. P.M. attended the High Council as clerk. Leonard Soby was disfellowshipped by the council for following Elder Rigdon. He spouted hard.
[George D. Smith, An Intimate Chronicle; The Journals of William Clayton, Signature Books in association with Smith Research Associates, Salt Lake City, 1995, http://amzn.to/william-clayton]
....A.M. Elder H[eber] C. K[imball] came up to say that I might take A[lice] H[ardman as a plural wife]. I went to the Temple office and also to see A[lice] H[ardman]. P.M. attended the High Council as clerk. Leonard Soby was disfellowshipped by the council for following Elder Rigdon. He spouted hard.
[George D. Smith, An Intimate Chronicle; The Journals of William Clayton, Signature Books in association with Smith Research Associates, Salt Lake City, 1995, http://amzn.to/william-clayton]
125 years ago today - Sep 5, 1899; Tuesday
[Angus M. Cannon]
Attended to business in my office and having called at Presidents office I was told by Pres[ident]. Jos[eph]. F. Smith of a scandal about M. B. Shipp, that had come to his ears that he thought I ought to investigate before he was permitted to obtain his second anointings. It was that he had taken liberty of pinching the knee and persisting in making himself free with her and even asked her to make an appointment to meet him.
[Angus M. Cannon, Diary]
Attended to business in my office and having called at Presidents office I was told by Pres[ident]. Jos[eph]. F. Smith of a scandal about M. B. Shipp, that had come to his ears that he thought I ought to investigate before he was permitted to obtain his second anointings. It was that he had taken liberty of pinching the knee and persisting in making himself free with her and even asked her to make an appointment to meet him.
[Angus M. Cannon, Diary]
180 years ago today - September 5, 1844. Thursday.
[William Clayton]
This evening I heard Elder [Orson] Hyde in the Masonic Hall. He proved very plain that Elder Rigdons course since he came here has been a continued course of deception and falsehood and that his object is to scatter the people and break up the foundation laid by our beloved prophet Joseph Smith. The people seem to feel indignant at Elder Rigdon for it is now reduced to a certainty that he is conspiring with the apostates to bring a mob upon us.
[George D. Smith, An Intimate Chronicle; The Journals of William Clayton, Signature Books in association with Smith Research Associates, Salt Lake City, 1995, http://amzn.to/william-clayton]
This evening I heard Elder [Orson] Hyde in the Masonic Hall. He proved very plain that Elder Rigdons course since he came here has been a continued course of deception and falsehood and that his object is to scatter the people and break up the foundation laid by our beloved prophet Joseph Smith. The people seem to feel indignant at Elder Rigdon for it is now reduced to a certainty that he is conspiring with the apostates to bring a mob upon us.
[George D. Smith, An Intimate Chronicle; The Journals of William Clayton, Signature Books in association with Smith Research Associates, Salt Lake City, 1995, http://amzn.to/william-clayton]
180 years ago today - Sep 5, 1844
[Heber C. Kimball]
5 Thursday. Prair meeting in the after noon, the Twelve spoke of the wickness of Elder Rigdon. Went home and used the [divining] Rod. I got a witness Elder Richards would live, that we would over come our enimes. Rigdon, Bennet [John C. Bennett], Higbied [Higbees] ware combineing.
[Kimball, Stanley B. ed, On the Potter's Wheel: The Diaries of Heber C. Kimball]
5 Thursday. Prair meeting in the after noon, the Twelve spoke of the wickness of Elder Rigdon. Went home and used the [divining] Rod. I got a witness Elder Richards would live, that we would over come our enimes. Rigdon, Bennet [John C. Bennett], Higbied [Higbees] ware combineing.
[Kimball, Stanley B. ed, On the Potter's Wheel: The Diaries of Heber C. Kimball]
180 years ago today - Sep 5, 1844
[Anointed Quorum]
Thursday prayer circle meeting: "Br. Marks came to see me about Prs Rigdon and his revelations [--] in the afternoon went to the prayer meeting and exposed the fals[e] Prophets," through the true order of prayer (makes misleading addition: "public prayer meeting").
[Quinn, D. Michael, The Mormon Hierarchy: Origins of Power, Signature Books, 1994, Appendex: Meetings and Initiations of the Anointed Quorum, 1842-45, http://amzn.to/origins-power]
Thursday prayer circle meeting: "Br. Marks came to see me about Prs Rigdon and his revelations [--] in the afternoon went to the prayer meeting and exposed the fals[e] Prophets," through the true order of prayer (makes misleading addition: "public prayer meeting").
[Quinn, D. Michael, The Mormon Hierarchy: Origins of Power, Signature Books, 1994, Appendex: Meetings and Initiations of the Anointed Quorum, 1842-45, http://amzn.to/origins-power]
195 years ago today - Sep 5, 1829
In Rochester, N.Y. THE GEM reports: "A man by the name of Martin Harris was in this village a few days since endeavoring to make a contract for printing a large quantity of a work called the Golden Bible. He gave something like the following account of it. In the autumn of 1827, a man named Joseph Smith of Manchester, in Ontario County, said that he had been visited by the spirit of the Almighty in a dream, and informed that in a certain hill in that town was deposited a Golden Bible, containing an ancient record of divine origin. He states that after the third visit from the same spirit in a dream he proceeded to the spot, removed the earth, and there found the Bible, together with a large pair of spectacles. He had also been directed to let no mortal see them under the penalty of immediate death, which injunction he steadfastly adhered to. The treasure consisted of a number of gold plates, about eight inches long, six wide, and one-eighth of an inch thick, on which were engraved
hieroglyphics. By placing the spectacles in a hat and looking into it, Smith interprets the characters into the English language. Harris states that he went in search of some one to interpret the hieroglyphics, but found that no one was intended to perform that all-important task but Smith himself. Smith has interpreted the whole, and it is now in press in Palmyra, Wayne County."
hieroglyphics. By placing the spectacles in a hat and looking into it, Smith interprets the characters into the English language. Harris states that he went in search of some one to interpret the hieroglyphics, but found that no one was intended to perform that all-important task but Smith himself. Smith has interpreted the whole, and it is now in press in Palmyra, Wayne County."
195 years ago today - Sept 5, 1829
A man by the name of Martin Harris was in this village a few days since endeavouring to make a contract for printing a large quantity of a work called the Golden Bible. He gave something like the following account of it. "In the autumn of 1827 a man named Joseph Smith of Manchester, in Ontario County, said that he had been visited by the spirit of the Almighty in a dream, and informed that in a certain hill in that town was deposited a Golden Bible, containing an ancient record of divine origin. He states that after a third visit from the same spirit in a dream, he proceeded to the spot, removed earth, and there found the bible, together with a large pair of spectacles. He had also been directed to let no mortal see them under the penalty of immediate death, which injunction he steadfastly adheres to. The treasure consisted of a number of gold plates, about 8 inches long, 6 wide, and one eighth of an inch thick, on which were engraved hieroglyphics. By placing the spectacles in a
hat and looking into it, Smith interprets the characters into the English language.
Harris states that he went in search of some one to interpret the hieroglyphics, but found that no one was intended to perform that all important task but Smith himself. Smith has interpreted the whole, and it is now in press in Palmyra, Wayne Co. The subject attracts a good deal of notice among a certain class, and as it will be ere long before the public, we shall endeavor to meet it with the comment it may deserve.--Ed Gem.
["Golden Bible," Rochester (NY) Gem 1 (5 September 1829): 70., as cited in Dan Vogel, Early Mormon Documents: Martin Harris Interview With Rochester (Ny) Gem]
hat and looking into it, Smith interprets the characters into the English language.
Harris states that he went in search of some one to interpret the hieroglyphics, but found that no one was intended to perform that all important task but Smith himself. Smith has interpreted the whole, and it is now in press in Palmyra, Wayne Co. The subject attracts a good deal of notice among a certain class, and as it will be ere long before the public, we shall endeavor to meet it with the comment it may deserve.--Ed Gem.
["Golden Bible," Rochester (NY) Gem 1 (5 September 1829): 70., as cited in Dan Vogel, Early Mormon Documents: Martin Harris Interview With Rochester (Ny) Gem]
45 years ago today - Sep 4, 1979-Tuesday
[Leonard Arrington]
Received today from Alfred Knopf the signed contract for the Brigham Young biography and also a check for $5,000, representing advance royalties. I shall deposit $2,000 to the Mormon History Trust fund to support a program of research grants on Mormon history, and shall place the other $3,000 in my own savings account to take care of expenses paid out personally in connection with the writing of the biography. ...
[Confessions of a Mormon historian : the diaries of Leonard J. Arrington, 1971-1997, Gary James Bergera, editor, Signature Books, 2018]
Received today from Alfred Knopf the signed contract for the Brigham Young biography and also a check for $5,000, representing advance royalties. I shall deposit $2,000 to the Mormon History Trust fund to support a program of research grants on Mormon history, and shall place the other $3,000 in my own savings account to take care of expenses paid out personally in connection with the writing of the biography. ...
[Confessions of a Mormon historian : the diaries of Leonard J. Arrington, 1971-1997, Gary James Bergera, editor, Signature Books, 2018]
90 years ago today - Sep 4, 1934
[President Heber J. Grant]
.... I had quite a long talk ... about having something to do with the formation of a branch of the World Fellowship of Faith on the Pacific Coast. I gave ... little or no encouragement that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints would become associated with the Fellowship.
[Diary of Heber J. Grant, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
.... I had quite a long talk ... about having something to do with the formation of a branch of the World Fellowship of Faith on the Pacific Coast. I gave ... little or no encouragement that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints would become associated with the Fellowship.
[Diary of Heber J. Grant, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
90 years ago today - Sep 4, 1934
Heber J. Grant gives "little or no encouragement" for proposal that LDS church join World Fellowship of Faith.
95 years ago today - Sep 4, 1929
First Counselor Anthony W. Ivins computes that church lost $6 million in stock investments and $900,000 in loans and business transactions with Presiding Bishop Charles W. Nibley before his appointment as second counselor in First Presidency in 1925.
115 years ago today - Sep 4, 1909
[Joseph F. Smith, Heber J. Grant, and B. H. Roberts letter to Board Member of YMMIA]
[E]vidences are at hand going to show that at a comparatively recent date a plural marriage was entered into; and from a report made to us by a committee of the Quorum of the Twelve, as a result of their investigations, you are implicated as having encouraged the belief that plural marriages may still be consummated, notwithstanding the declarations of the presiding authorities of the Church to the contrary. For this reason we feel that we cannot sustain you as a member of the general board of Young Men's Mutual Improvement Association, and you are therefore hereby released as a member of the board.
[Joseph F. Smith, Heber J. Grant, and B. H. Roberts, Letter to Louis A. Kelsch, as quoted in Minutes of the Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1910-1951, Privately Published, Salt Lake City, Utah 2010]
[E]vidences are at hand going to show that at a comparatively recent date a plural marriage was entered into; and from a report made to us by a committee of the Quorum of the Twelve, as a result of their investigations, you are implicated as having encouraged the belief that plural marriages may still be consummated, notwithstanding the declarations of the presiding authorities of the Church to the contrary. For this reason we feel that we cannot sustain you as a member of the general board of Young Men's Mutual Improvement Association, and you are therefore hereby released as a member of the board.
[Joseph F. Smith, Heber J. Grant, and B. H. Roberts, Letter to Louis A. Kelsch, as quoted in Minutes of the Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1910-1951, Privately Published, Salt Lake City, Utah 2010]
130 years ago today - Sep 4, 1894
[Apostle Heber J. Grant]
At 11 A.M. called at the State Bank where I had a long and interesting conversation with Apostle Brigham Young [Jr.]. We both agreed that Col Isaac Trumbo was a man that could not be trusted and we had little or no faith in Bishop Clawson, and it was a great surprise to us that they had so much influence with the Presidency of the Church. We were both agree that there was nothing that we would not do that was in our power to assist the Presidency of the Church and we agreed that it was our duty to uphold the hands of the Presidency and we both had the most perfect faith in the honesty of our brethren, even if we did not understand why they had so much confidence in men that we lacked confidence in. I was pleased to have a good long talk with Bro[ther] Young.
[Diary of Heber J. Grant, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
At 11 A.M. called at the State Bank where I had a long and interesting conversation with Apostle Brigham Young [Jr.]. We both agreed that Col Isaac Trumbo was a man that could not be trusted and we had little or no faith in Bishop Clawson, and it was a great surprise to us that they had so much influence with the Presidency of the Church. We were both agree that there was nothing that we would not do that was in our power to assist the Presidency of the Church and we agreed that it was our duty to uphold the hands of the Presidency and we both had the most perfect faith in the honesty of our brethren, even if we did not understand why they had so much confidence in men that we lacked confidence in. I was pleased to have a good long talk with Bro[ther] Young.
[Diary of Heber J. Grant, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
145 years ago today - Sep 4, 1879
[Joseph F. Smith]
It was agreed to appropriate $100,000 to affect a final settlement between the [Brigham Young] family and the executors and the church. A good feeling prevailed in the council, notwithstanding we felt that our action was to placate thieves and robbers, and purchase immunity from further plundering and robbery.
[Joseph F. Smith, Diary, as quoted in Minutes of the Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1835-1951, Electronic Edition, 2015]
It was agreed to appropriate $100,000 to affect a final settlement between the [Brigham Young] family and the executors and the church. A good feeling prevailed in the council, notwithstanding we felt that our action was to placate thieves and robbers, and purchase immunity from further plundering and robbery.
[Joseph F. Smith, Diary, as quoted in Minutes of the Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1835-1951, Electronic Edition, 2015]
180 years ago today - Sep 4, 1844. Wednesday.
[William Clayton]
Last evening the Twelve and some others met together with Elder Rigdon to investigate his course. He came out full against the Twelve and said he would not be controlled by them. They asked him for his license, and he said he would give that if he must expose all the works of the secret chambers and all the iniquities of the church. The Twelve withdrew fellowship from him and James Emmett.
There is considerable feeling prevailing. Edward Hunter,111 Leonard Soby, [] Cottier, B[] Coles are amongst those who have joined Elder Rigdon. Samuel James is one of his main supports. Every one of his followers as far as I can learn are ordained prophets and immediately receive the same spirit Elder Rigdon is of. In the evening the Twelve and a few others of us met at Elder Youngs and offered up prayers for our preservation and the preservation of the church, and that the Lord would bind up the dissenters that they may not have power to injure the honest in heart. We had a good time and we believe the Lord will answer our prayers.
[George D. Smith, An Intimate Chronicle; The Journals of William Clayton, Signature Books in association with Smith Research Associates, Salt Lake City, 1995, http://amzn.to/william-clayton]
Last evening the Twelve and some others met together with Elder Rigdon to investigate his course. He came out full against the Twelve and said he would not be controlled by them. They asked him for his license, and he said he would give that if he must expose all the works of the secret chambers and all the iniquities of the church. The Twelve withdrew fellowship from him and James Emmett.
There is considerable feeling prevailing. Edward Hunter,111 Leonard Soby, [] Cottier, B[] Coles are amongst those who have joined Elder Rigdon. Samuel James is one of his main supports. Every one of his followers as far as I can learn are ordained prophets and immediately receive the same spirit Elder Rigdon is of. In the evening the Twelve and a few others of us met at Elder Youngs and offered up prayers for our preservation and the preservation of the church, and that the Lord would bind up the dissenters that they may not have power to injure the honest in heart. We had a good time and we believe the Lord will answer our prayers.
[George D. Smith, An Intimate Chronicle; The Journals of William Clayton, Signature Books in association with Smith Research Associates, Salt Lake City, 1995, http://amzn.to/william-clayton]
110 years ago today - Sep 3, 1914
[Meeting of First Presidency and Council of Twelve]
....Bro[ther]. Grant reported on behalf of a committee, consisting of Bro[ther]s. Talmage, Evan Stephens and himself, appointed to investigate the merits of the recommendation ... that the tabernacle organ be re-constructed and made practically new, at a cost of $53,000., the bid of the Austin Organ Co[mpany]. of Hartford, Conn[ecticut].
The recommendation of the committee was that the proposition of Bro[ther]. McClellan, Cannon and Toronto be not entertained, and that the proposed new organ for the tabernacle be not ordered, at least for the present, but that if the organ is in the condition Bro[ther]s. McClellan and Toronto and Cannon say it is, the committee felt that the necessary repairs should be made.
The recommendation of the committee became the sense of the Council, on motion of Bro[ther]. Joseph F[ielding]. Smith Jr. ...
[Journal History, as quoted in Minutes of the Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1910-1951, Privately Published, Salt Lake City, Utah 2010]
....Bro[ther]. Grant reported on behalf of a committee, consisting of Bro[ther]s. Talmage, Evan Stephens and himself, appointed to investigate the merits of the recommendation ... that the tabernacle organ be re-constructed and made practically new, at a cost of $53,000., the bid of the Austin Organ Co[mpany]. of Hartford, Conn[ecticut].
The recommendation of the committee was that the proposition of Bro[ther]. McClellan, Cannon and Toronto be not entertained, and that the proposed new organ for the tabernacle be not ordered, at least for the present, but that if the organ is in the condition Bro[ther]s. McClellan and Toronto and Cannon say it is, the committee felt that the necessary repairs should be made.
The recommendation of the committee became the sense of the Council, on motion of Bro[ther]. Joseph F[ielding]. Smith Jr. ...
[Journal History, as quoted in Minutes of the Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1910-1951, Privately Published, Salt Lake City, Utah 2010]
180 years ago today - Sep 3, 1844
Apostles demand Sidney Rigdon's license (Rigdon refuses).
[Tidd, N. R., "Mormon Chronology, Rev 01 Volume 01" http://bit.ly/tiddchron]
[Tidd, N. R., "Mormon Chronology, Rev 01 Volume 01" http://bit.ly/tiddchron]
100 years ago today - Sep 2, 1924
I [sat] with the Temple ordinance Committee for several hours in my office room in the Temple considering the ordinances with a view to suggesting changes to be made in the reading of the ordinances of the Temple.
[George F. Richards diary, Sept. 2, 1924 as quoted in Anderson, Devery; The Development of LDS Temple Worship, 1846-2000: A Documentary History, http://amzn.to/TempleWorship]
[George F. Richards diary, Sept. 2, 1924 as quoted in Anderson, Devery; The Development of LDS Temple Worship, 1846-2000: A Documentary History, http://amzn.to/TempleWorship]
170 years ago today - Feb 9, 1854
Latter-day Saint women in Salt Lake City independently organized a society to make clothing for American Indian women and children.
[Matthew J. Grow, Kate Holbrook, Carol Cornwall Madsen, Jill Mulvay Derr, The First Fifty Years of Relief Society: Key Documents in Latter-day Saint Women's History, Chronology. https://churchhistorianspress.org/the-first-fifty-years-of-relief-society/events]
[Matthew J. Grow, Kate Holbrook, Carol Cornwall Madsen, Jill Mulvay Derr, The First Fifty Years of Relief Society: Key Documents in Latter-day Saint Women's History, Chronology. https://churchhistorianspress.org/the-first-fifty-years-of-relief-society/events]
175 years ago today - Sep 2, 1849
[Brigham Young Sermon]
.... and you nor I will ever know what the resurrection is until we receive the resurrection by our file leaders - ... and when we are resurrected, they turn around and beget spirit, they organize a world - and begin to bring forth their progeny upon it - when they are brought into existence we then have power to form a world - but just wait a little while and you will know I never believed that Father Adam was made out of a chunk of clay - he was - and we will find him at the head of the whole ...
[Thomas Bullock Minutes, LJA; Thomas Bullock—LDS Church Reporter, 1844-56.C, Archives, Church History Library, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Salt Lake City, Utah.; GCM, Archives, Church History Library, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Salt Lake City, Utah..; Leonard J. Arrington Papers, Special Collections, Merrill-Cazier Library, Utah State University, Logan.. (A reference reading LJA 12-55-5, 10, means LJA Series 12, Box 55, Folder 5, page 10.) 9-12-5, 2-8 as quoted in The Complete Discourses of Brigham Young, Ed. Richard S. Van Wagoner, Smith-Pettit Foundation, Salt Lake City (2009), http://bit.ly/BY-discourses]
.... and you nor I will ever know what the resurrection is until we receive the resurrection by our file leaders - ... and when we are resurrected, they turn around and beget spirit, they organize a world - and begin to bring forth their progeny upon it - when they are brought into existence we then have power to form a world - but just wait a little while and you will know I never believed that Father Adam was made out of a chunk of clay - he was - and we will find him at the head of the whole ...
[Thomas Bullock Minutes, LJA; Thomas Bullock—LDS Church Reporter, 1844-56.C, Archives, Church History Library, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Salt Lake City, Utah.; GCM, Archives, Church History Library, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Salt Lake City, Utah..; Leonard J. Arrington Papers, Special Collections, Merrill-Cazier Library, Utah State University, Logan.. (A reference reading LJA 12-55-5, 10, means LJA Series 12, Box 55, Folder 5, page 10.) 9-12-5, 2-8 as quoted 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 - 1844 2 Sept.
Young performs the first plural marriage by his own authority.
[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]
[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]
195 years ago today - Sep 2, 1829
The PALMYRA REFLECTOR publishes: "THE GOLDEN BIBLE, by Joseph Smith Junior, author and proprietor, is now in press and will shortly appear. Priestcraft is short lived!" The REFLECTOR is published in the same building in which the Book of Mormon was being typeset and printed.
35 years ago today - Sep 1, 1989.
Elder George P. Lee of the First Quorum of the Seventy is excommunicated "for apostasy" and "conduct unbecoming a member." Letters Lee releases to the press include criticisms of the church's neglect of Lamanites and incidents of personal discrimination against him by other general authorities. Deseret Book had issued Lee's biography in its ninth printing the week of the excommunication. A representative of the First Presidency orders KSL-TV news personnel to read the announcement with no contextual information, a ruling reversed only when the staff threatens to walk off the set "unless they were allowed to report the story according to their journalistic standards."
[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]
40 years ago today - Sep 1, 1984
Non-Mormon sociologist Rodney Stark publishes a statistical projection that the world-wide population of the LDS church will reach 265 million by the year 2080 A.D. Ten years later he announces that LDS growth is ahead of his projection.
[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 )]]
50 years ago today - Sep 01, 1974
The Church College of Hawaii is made a branch of Brigham Young University and is renamed Brigham Young University—Hawaii Campus.
180 years ago today - Sep 1, 1844
[Brigham Young Journal]
I went to the meeting ground in the fore noon B[rother] S[idney] Rigdon Preached his discource was compelecated [complicated] and and some what scattered he said he had all things shone to him from this time to the winding up sene or the grate Battle of gog and may gog, there was grate things to take place but he did not tel what the saints should due to save themselves
[Brigham Young Journal (1801-1877) Journal #2 July, 1837- Mar. 1845]
I went to the meeting ground in the fore noon B[rother] S[idney] Rigdon Preached his discource was compelecated [complicated] and and some what scattered he said he had all things shone to him from this time to the winding up sene or the grate Battle of gog and may gog, there was grate things to take place but he did not tel what the saints should due to save themselves
[Brigham Young Journal (1801-1877) Journal #2 July, 1837- Mar. 1845]
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