Registration of the Leningrad Branch of the Church was approved by the Council on Religious Affairs of the Council of Ministers in the Soviet Union.
[Church News: Historical Chronology of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, http://www.ldschurchnewsarchive.com/articles/58765/Historical-chronology-of-The-Church-of-Jesus-Christ-of-Latter-day-Saints.html]
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Several curious tidbits that happened on this day in Mormon History
40 years ago today - Sep 13, 1985
[Mark Hofmann]
Admits to Wilding and Syd Jensen that their money had not purchased the "Oath of Freeman" or Dickens manuscript, that Brigham Young papers he had offered to sell did not exist, and that he cannot return their money. Hofmann spends the day trying to raise money. One angry investor hits Hofmann in face. Increasing pressure put on Hofmann.
[Whittaker, David J., The Hofmann Maze, A Book Review Essay with a Chronology and Bibliography of the Hofmann Case, BYU Studies Vol. 29, No. 1, pg.80,]
Admits to Wilding and Syd Jensen that their money had not purchased the "Oath of Freeman" or Dickens manuscript, that Brigham Young papers he had offered to sell did not exist, and that he cannot return their money. Hofmann spends the day trying to raise money. One angry investor hits Hofmann in face. Increasing pressure put on Hofmann.
[Whittaker, David J., The Hofmann Maze, A Book Review Essay with a Chronology and Bibliography of the Hofmann Case, BYU Studies Vol. 29, No. 1, pg.80,]
65 years ago today - Sep 13, 1960
[David O. McKay]
I said [to his counselors] that protests are coming to permitting the use of the Tabernacle for political meetings. We considered the part to be taken by the brethren of the General Authorities in the political meetings. It was decided that individual members of the General Authorities may attend these meetings as they please, but that they be advised to take no part. I stated that I had advised Elder Hugh B. Brown not to participate by offering prayer or by introducing the speaker. It was suggested that Elder Ezra Taft Benson refrain from participating in the campaign.
[McKay, David O., Office Journal]
I said [to his counselors] that protests are coming to permitting the use of the Tabernacle for political meetings. We considered the part to be taken by the brethren of the General Authorities in the political meetings. It was decided that individual members of the General Authorities may attend these meetings as they please, but that they be advised to take no part. I stated that I had advised Elder Hugh B. Brown not to participate by offering prayer or by introducing the speaker. It was suggested that Elder Ezra Taft Benson refrain from participating in the campaign.
[McKay, David O., Office Journal]
75 years ago today - Sep 13, 1950
[Henry D. Moyle]
Went to Alta Club and very much out of place at a republican meeting of business men. I was invited by Fred Schulter of Thermoid Co'at Pres McKay's suggestion. Wallace Bennett was there & totally ignored me intentionally slighted me.
[Henry D. Moyle Diary, 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]
Went to Alta Club and very much out of place at a republican meeting of business men. I was invited by Fred Schulter of Thermoid Co'at Pres McKay's suggestion. Wallace Bennett was there & totally ignored me intentionally slighted me.
[Henry D. Moyle Diary, 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]
125 years ago today - Thursday, Sep 13, 1900
Pres. Snow spoke of the movement now on foot to build a railroad from Salt Lake City to Los Angeles and said that it looked very much as if the enterprise would be carried through. He said that the promoters desired the church to join them in building the road. ... The brethren in expressing themselves upon the subject said they thought it a matter worthy of consideration as it was conceded that a new road running from Salt Lake to California would not only pay well but would be of great benefit to Utah....
[Stan Larson (editor), A Ministry of Meetings: The Apostolic diaries of Rudger Clawson, Signature Books in association with Smith Research Associates, Salt Lake City, 1993, http://bit.ly/rudgerclawson]
[Stan Larson (editor), A Ministry of Meetings: The Apostolic diaries of Rudger Clawson, Signature Books in association with Smith Research Associates, Salt Lake City, 1993, http://bit.ly/rudgerclawson]
170 years ago today - Sep 13, 1855 (Thursday)
The Horticultural Society was organized in G.S.L. City, with Wilford Woodruff as president. Various other societies were organized in the forepart of the year, among which were the "Universal Scientific Society", the "Polysophical Society", the Deseret Philharmonic Society and the "Deseret Typographical Association."
[Jenson, Andrew, Church Chronology]
[Jenson, Andrew, Church Chronology]
195 years ago today - Sept 13, 1830
Constable Nathan Harrington collects $12.81 from Hyrum Smith on an unpaid $21.07 court judgment. Two weeks later Harrington is again sent by court order to collect the rest but found "No property to be found Nor Boddy."
[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 12, 1975-Friday
[Leonard Arrington]
Tuesday afternoon Jack Adamson died at his home of a heart attack. ...
When Jack went to the University of Idaho in the fall of 1936 he joined a fraternity and partook of the life of fraternity boys which included occasional smoking, drinking, and partying. After two years he went on a mission [to Scotland] and was a good missionary from all reports. After he returned, World War II had commenced and he volunteered for service, as I recall in the Air Corps. This was probably the period when he resumed occasional smoking, drinking, coffee, etc. After the war he returned to the University of Utah and then completed his Ph.D. in literature at Harvard University [in 1956]. He then became the outstanding professor that so many students came to love and admire.
Despite all the above, let it be recorded that he never regarded himself as outside the church. He taught Sunday School for many years and was a great teacher. He permitted exploration of unorthodox ideas and this caused church authorities (I think Apostle Harold B. Lee) to advise the bishop that he be released. I heard him myself make a public statement in response to a question that he did not believe in a personal God and he did not regard himself as an orthodox Mormon. I think he did not believe in a future life. Nevertheless, he never became bitter or rebellious and did not like people who did. He was proud to call himself a Mormon in a cultural and social sense-in every sense except orthodox in theology. He thought Mormonism to be a superior religion and having desirable values which should be perpetuated. Even the temple [ceremony] he regarded as providing desirable ritual and celebration which would influence people for good-or it had the potential of
influencing people for good....
[Confessions of a Mormon historian : the diaries of Leonard J. Arrington, 1971-1997, Gary James Bergera, editor, Signature Books, 2018]
Tuesday afternoon Jack Adamson died at his home of a heart attack. ...
When Jack went to the University of Idaho in the fall of 1936 he joined a fraternity and partook of the life of fraternity boys which included occasional smoking, drinking, and partying. After two years he went on a mission [to Scotland] and was a good missionary from all reports. After he returned, World War II had commenced and he volunteered for service, as I recall in the Air Corps. This was probably the period when he resumed occasional smoking, drinking, coffee, etc. After the war he returned to the University of Utah and then completed his Ph.D. in literature at Harvard University [in 1956]. He then became the outstanding professor that so many students came to love and admire.
Despite all the above, let it be recorded that he never regarded himself as outside the church. He taught Sunday School for many years and was a great teacher. He permitted exploration of unorthodox ideas and this caused church authorities (I think Apostle Harold B. Lee) to advise the bishop that he be released. I heard him myself make a public statement in response to a question that he did not believe in a personal God and he did not regard himself as an orthodox Mormon. I think he did not believe in a future life. Nevertheless, he never became bitter or rebellious and did not like people who did. He was proud to call himself a Mormon in a cultural and social sense-in every sense except orthodox in theology. He thought Mormonism to be a superior religion and having desirable values which should be perpetuated. Even the temple [ceremony] he regarded as providing desirable ritual and celebration which would influence people for good-or it had the potential of
influencing people for good....
[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 12, 1935
[Heber J. Grant]
For your information, please be advised that the Corporation of the President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is a corporation sole, organized under the law of the State of Utah for religious, educational and charitable purposes. It is distinct from the ordinary business corporation in that it has no board of directors and no by-laws. The President of the Church is the corporation. As a corporation sole he is fully empowered and authorized by law to handle all financial and property matters pertaining to the Church, including depositing in banks and checking against the same.
[Heber J. Grant, Letter to Bishop National Bank, Honolulu, 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]
For your information, please be advised that the Corporation of the President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is a corporation sole, organized under the law of the State of Utah for religious, educational and charitable purposes. It is distinct from the ordinary business corporation in that it has no board of directors and no by-laws. The President of the Church is the corporation. As a corporation sole he is fully empowered and authorized by law to handle all financial and property matters pertaining to the Church, including depositing in banks and checking against the same.
[Heber J. Grant, Letter to Bishop National Bank, Honolulu, 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]
115 years ago today - Monday, Sep 12, 1910
[John Henry Smith]
Salt Lake City
Prest. A. H. Lund and I looked through the Temple and talked with several employes. We learned that several Keys to the doors are out and that two had been lost.
[Jean Bickmore White (editor), Church, State, and Politics: The Diaries of John Henry Smith, Signature Books in association with Smith Research Associates, Salt Lake City, 1990, http://bit.ly/johnhenrysmith]
Salt Lake City
Prest. A. H. Lund and I looked through the Temple and talked with several employes. We learned that several Keys to the doors are out and that two had been lost.
[Jean Bickmore White (editor), Church, State, and Politics: The Diaries of John Henry Smith, Signature Books in association with Smith Research Associates, Salt Lake City, 1990, http://bit.ly/johnhenrysmith]
115 years ago today - Sep 12, 1910
[George Albert Smith]
at SLC, "Went to the Gray Sanitarium to take a course of treatment for my nerves."
[Journals of George Albert Smith]
at SLC, "Went to the Gray Sanitarium to take a course of treatment for my nerves."
[Journals of George Albert Smith]
135 years ago today - Sep 12, 1890
[George Q. Cannon]
[San Francisco] We had an interview with [pro-Mormon national republican comittee chair] Judge Estee. We told him we came to him as a friend, not as a paid attorney. We felt more free in coming to him in this way, because we knew that he was disinterested, an that we could expect to get his views uninfluenced by any other motives than to do us good. We went over the ground of our case very thoroughly. He referred to the necessity of our making some announcement concerning polygamy and the laying of it aside. I described to him the difficultythere was in writing such a document'-the danger there would be that we would either say too much or too little. He appreciated this difficulty, but nevertheless pressed the point as one that must be done sooner or later. [Republican leaders then promise to promote Utah's statehood in expectation that the church will work to have a majority of Mormons vote Republican.]
[George Q. Cannon Diary, 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]
[San Francisco] We had an interview with [pro-Mormon national republican comittee chair] Judge Estee. We told him we came to him as a friend, not as a paid attorney. We felt more free in coming to him in this way, because we knew that he was disinterested, an that we could expect to get his views uninfluenced by any other motives than to do us good. We went over the ground of our case very thoroughly. He referred to the necessity of our making some announcement concerning polygamy and the laying of it aside. I described to him the difficultythere was in writing such a document'-the danger there would be that we would either say too much or too little. He appreciated this difficulty, but nevertheless pressed the point as one that must be done sooner or later. [Republican leaders then promise to promote Utah's statehood in expectation that the church will work to have a majority of Mormons vote Republican.]
[George Q. Cannon Diary, 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]
155 years ago today - Sep 12, 1870 (Morning)
[Brigham Young Sermon]
[Pres] Young, gave most wholesome instructions to the people living far out at sea, from other settlements from whom they could obtain help in times of Indian uprises, only when it would be too late to render any material assistance. The whites were cautioned to give the Indian full value for his skins, furs, pine nuts and labor, and not take advantage of his ignorance as to the value of articles. The Indians are to be taught the science of agriculture, and the young ones their letters, the phonetic way of spelling, and the english language. The spirit, teachings and examples, only in a far more liberal sense, of William Penn are to characterize the dealings of the Kanab and other settlements of the Saints, with their dark skinned brethren, the Lamanites. -- Kanab, Utah
[Deseret News, 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]
[Pres] Young, gave most wholesome instructions to the people living far out at sea, from other settlements from whom they could obtain help in times of Indian uprises, only when it would be too late to render any material assistance. The whites were cautioned to give the Indian full value for his skins, furs, pine nuts and labor, and not take advantage of his ignorance as to the value of articles. The Indians are to be taught the science of agriculture, and the young ones their letters, the phonetic way of spelling, and the english language. The spirit, teachings and examples, only in a far more liberal sense, of William Penn are to characterize the dealings of the Kanab and other settlements of the Saints, with their dark skinned brethren, the Lamanites. -- Kanab, Utah
[Deseret News, 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 - Sep 12, 1845
Brigham Young writes to Solomon Hancock in Yelrome, where mobbers are burning Mormon houses, "The object of our enemies is to get opposition enough to raise popular excitement but we think it best to let them burn up our houses while we take care of our families and grain. . . . Be calm and patient till all things are ready. What is a little property or a few lives, compared with the properties and lives of a great people, and the house and ordinances on which the salvation of that people depend?"
[On This Day in Mormon History, http://onthisdayinmormonhistory.blogspot.com]
[On This Day in Mormon History, http://onthisdayinmormonhistory.blogspot.com]
180 years ago today - Sept 12 [1845]
[Brigham Young]
.... brother Earls came in with a letter from brother Hancock stating that five more houses had been burned, the brethren on the west side of the creek had been obliged to leave and come on to the East side many were sick, and their goods were scattered about the cornfields. Sept 12 in council A. Babbit Esq. proposed our organizing into militia companies, according to instructions of Gov. Ford last fall, and Col. J. B. Backenstos I then ask Gen. Rich & Col. Markham & other officers present if they wish such a move they all declared they would not act in such a capacity at all, I then told them I should feel myself more degraded in the eyes of the Lord to be acting under a comission from Gov ford, than should to be changed into an affrican ...
[Brigham Young Journal # 4 in the handwriting of: William Clayton, Evan Greene, John D. Lee, Willard Richards. First person account kept by others. 'Lieut. Genl Brigham Young's Journal 1844']
.... brother Earls came in with a letter from brother Hancock stating that five more houses had been burned, the brethren on the west side of the creek had been obliged to leave and come on to the East side many were sick, and their goods were scattered about the cornfields. Sept 12 in council A. Babbit Esq. proposed our organizing into militia companies, according to instructions of Gov. Ford last fall, and Col. J. B. Backenstos I then ask Gen. Rich & Col. Markham & other officers present if they wish such a move they all declared they would not act in such a capacity at all, I then told them I should feel myself more degraded in the eyes of the Lord to be acting under a comission from Gov ford, than should to be changed into an affrican ...
[Brigham Young Journal # 4 in the handwriting of: William Clayton, Evan Greene, John D. Lee, Willard Richards. First person account kept by others. 'Lieut. Genl Brigham Young's Journal 1844']
195 years ago today - Sep 12, 1830
Elmina Shepard (Taylor), later the first general president of the Young Women's Mutual Improvement Association (predecessor to the young Women organization), is born in Middlefield, New York.
50 years ago today - Sep 8, 1975-Monday
[Leonard Arrington]
Neal Maxwell telephoned me to warn me that one certain brother in the Twelve was a little upset about him offering Eugene England half time employment with the Institute and with us offering him "employment" in the Historical Department. He was fearful that this would cause Gene to turn down offers for permanent employment that might come to him. Neal was not giving me any advice-merely informing me that there was one authority who felt that Eugene should not be discouraged from accepting full time employment outside the Church and its educational system. He left no references who it was, but I thought it might be Elder [Boyd K.] Packer or Elder [Mark E.] Petersen.
[Confessions of a Mormon historian : the diaries of Leonard J. Arrington, 1971-1997, Gary James Bergera, editor, Signature Books, 2018]
Neal Maxwell telephoned me to warn me that one certain brother in the Twelve was a little upset about him offering Eugene England half time employment with the Institute and with us offering him "employment" in the Historical Department. He was fearful that this would cause Gene to turn down offers for permanent employment that might come to him. Neal was not giving me any advice-merely informing me that there was one authority who felt that Eugene should not be discouraged from accepting full time employment outside the Church and its educational system. He left no references who it was, but I thought it might be Elder [Boyd K.] Packer or Elder [Mark E.] Petersen.
[Confessions of a Mormon historian : the diaries of Leonard J. Arrington, 1971-1997, Gary James Bergera, editor, Signature Books, 2018]
50 years ago today - Sep 8, 1975
LDS Air Force Sgt. Leonard P. Matlovich is featured on the cover of TIME Magazine with the headline, "I Am a Homosexual: The Gay Drive for Acceptance.- The accompanying article makes no mention of Matlovich's Mormonism. Two months later Matlovich is excommunicated. Matlovich served three tours of duty in Vietnam where he received the Bronze Star, a Purple Heart, and an Air Force Meritorious Service Medal. Sgt Matlovich was discharged from the army for coming out. He sued and settled for $160,000. He became a gay-rights activist and died, from complications due to AIDS, on Jun 22, 1988. The epitaph carved in his tombstone in the District of Columbia-s Congressional Cemetery reads -When I was in the military, they gave me a medal for killing two men and a discharge for loving one.-
[On This Day in Mormon History, http://onthisdayinmormonhistory.blogspot.com]
[On This Day in Mormon History, http://onthisdayinmormonhistory.blogspot.com]
70 years ago today - Sep 08, 1955
Terry Tempest (Williams), later the author of several works and considered by Newsweek as one of the most influential persons on economic, political, and environmental issues in the western United States, is born in Corona, California.
85 years ago today - Sep 08, 1940
Quentin L. Cook, later a member of the First Quorum of the Seventy, is born in Logan, Utah.
115 years ago today - Sep 8, 1910
Apostle (and U.S. Senator) Reed Smoot proposes to Apostles that "all new cases [of polygamy] should be excommunicated from the church and that action should be taken at once. Also that the church should not retain any man taking a plural wife after the Manifesto in a church position where people were asked to support him" The Apostles refer to this as "wholesale slaughter" and recommend a quieter approach.
[On This Day in Mormon History, http://onthisdayinmormonhistory.blogspot.com]
[On This Day in Mormon History, http://onthisdayinmormonhistory.blogspot.com]
125 years ago today - Sep 8, 1900
[Brigham Young Jr.]
Learn that Pres[iden]ts [George Q.] C[annon]. & [Joseph F.] S[mith]. leave tomorrow night for Cannada to visit officials and our people. How carefully I am excluded from participating in anything of a public nature when it is convenient to do so, not for personal dislike, but [illegible] others. Pres[ident]. [Lorenzo] Snow knows none of this feeling.
[Brigham Young Jr. Diary, 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]
Learn that Pres[iden]ts [George Q.] C[annon]. & [Joseph F.] S[mith]. leave tomorrow night for Cannada to visit officials and our people. How carefully I am excluded from participating in anything of a public nature when it is convenient to do so, not for personal dislike, but [illegible] others. Pres[ident]. [Lorenzo] Snow knows none of this feeling.
[Brigham Young Jr. Diary, 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]
135 years ago today - Sep 8, 1890
Apostle John Henry Smith preaches that "married people who indulged their passions for any other purpose than to beget children, really committed adultery."
[The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn, [New Mormon History database (http://bit.ly/NMHdatabase)]]
[The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn, [New Mormon History database (http://bit.ly/NMHdatabase)]]
150 years ago today - Sep 8, 1875
[Wilford Woodruff]
I sealed 2 dead persons to <President Young>.
[Wilford Woodruff's Journal: 1833-1898 Typescript, Volumes 1-9, Edited by Scott G. Kenney, Signature Books 1993, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
I sealed 2 dead persons to <President Young>.
[Wilford Woodruff's Journal: 1833-1898 Typescript, Volumes 1-9, Edited by Scott G. Kenney, Signature Books 1993, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
150 years ago today - Sep 8, 1875
George Goddard records that on his son's sixteenth birthday "his Mother and Myself, put our hands upon his head and pronounced a parents blessing upon him." Such "parents blessings" were common in the early church but have been replaced by "fathers blessings."
[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 8, 1875
Reprimand by President Brigham Young to author and president the Women's Exponent -- Eliza R. Snow and editor Louisa L. Greene Richards. (Eliza R. Snow accepted the reprimand).
EDITOR, WOMAN'S EXPONENT:
SALT LAKE CITY, 8th Sept., 1875. EDITOR WOMAN'S EXPONENT:
In your issue of Sept. first, I notice an article written by Miss E. R. Snow, entitled "Mortal and Immortal Elements of the Human Body," republished from No. 13, Vol. 2, of your Journal. The cause assigned for its reproduction in your paper is, that "Saints and strangers were so interested" in its statements, and it had been so often called for that republication was decided upon.
I sincerely regret that this demand should have arisen. I had hoped that after its first publication it would have slept and never been awakened; but the fact of its having been so repeatedly called for, places me under obligations to correct the minds of the Latter-day Saints in relation to the doctrine contained therein.
On some future occasion when I have time I may possibly take up the article in detail, but at present shall simply say, as the prophet Joseph Smith once told an Elder who asked his opinion of a so-called revelation he had written,-"It has just one fault and that one fault is, it is not true." BRIGHAM YOUNG, President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
[1875-September 8-Woman's Exponent, Sept. 15, 1875, quoted in Clark, James R., Messages of the First Presidency (6 volumes)]
EDITOR, WOMAN'S EXPONENT:
SALT LAKE CITY, 8th Sept., 1875. EDITOR WOMAN'S EXPONENT:
In your issue of Sept. first, I notice an article written by Miss E. R. Snow, entitled "Mortal and Immortal Elements of the Human Body," republished from No. 13, Vol. 2, of your Journal. The cause assigned for its reproduction in your paper is, that "Saints and strangers were so interested" in its statements, and it had been so often called for that republication was decided upon.
I sincerely regret that this demand should have arisen. I had hoped that after its first publication it would have slept and never been awakened; but the fact of its having been so repeatedly called for, places me under obligations to correct the minds of the Latter-day Saints in relation to the doctrine contained therein.
On some future occasion when I have time I may possibly take up the article in detail, but at present shall simply say, as the prophet Joseph Smith once told an Elder who asked his opinion of a so-called revelation he had written,-"It has just one fault and that one fault is, it is not true." BRIGHAM YOUNG, President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
[1875-September 8-Woman's Exponent, Sept. 15, 1875, quoted in Clark, James R., Messages of the First Presidency (6 volumes)]
90 years ago today - Sep 7, 1935
[Heber J. Grant]
In answer I will say that in the resurrection there will be no physical defects; and inasmuch as you are the mother of two children, you may rest assured that in the resurrected state you will have the mother instinct and affections, and your bodily organs will be normal.
[Heber J. Grant, Letter to Alice Halladay, 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]
In answer I will say that in the resurrection there will be no physical defects; and inasmuch as you are the mother of two children, you may rest assured that in the resurrected state you will have the mother instinct and affections, and your bodily organs will be normal.
[Heber J. Grant, Letter to Alice Halladay, 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]
90 years ago today - Sep 7, 1935
The first excommunication of many Mormon Fundamentalists who refuse to sign a loyalty oath that, among other things, denies "any intimation that any one of the Presidency or Apostles of the church is living a double life." Later these excommunicants learn of Apostle Richard R. Lyman's polygamous "double life" at this time.
[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)]]
110 years ago today - Sep 7, 1915; Tuesday
[James E. Talmage]
Today the First Presidency renewed an appointment originally made about five years ago and suspended because of press of work---that I prepare as soon as possible a work dealing with the Restoration of the Gospel, the book to be in the nature of a companion volume to "The Great Apostasy."
[James E. Talmage, Diary]
Today the First Presidency renewed an appointment originally made about five years ago and suspended because of press of work---that I prepare as soon as possible a work dealing with the Restoration of the Gospel, the book to be in the nature of a companion volume to "The Great Apostasy."
[James E. Talmage, Diary]
120 years ago today - Sep 07, 1905
Ivy Baker (Priest), later the treasurer of the United States, is born in Kimberly, Utah.
175 years ago today - Sep 7, 1850 (Morning, Conference)
President Young then addressed the people on the business of the Conference, and the experience that this people had passed through, and showed that Mormonism circumscribes all truth, whether in heaven, on earth, or in hell, and will continue to revolutionize this world, until all the kingdoms of the earth are subject to the kingdom of Jesus Christ; and testified that Joseph Smith was a Prophet of God and was as good a man as ever walked on the earth. -- Salt Lake City
[Millennial Star Supplement, Manchester- Liverpool, England, 1840-1970. 14:33, 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]
[Millennial Star Supplement, Manchester- Liverpool, England, 1840-1970. 14:33, 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]
45 years ago today - Sep 6, 1980
Latter-day Saint missionaries enter the African nation of Kenya for the first time.
[LDS Daily, www.ldsdaily.com]
[LDS Daily, www.ldsdaily.com]
60 years ago today - Sep 06, 1965
The U.S. government designates Nauvoo, Illinois, as a national historical landmark.
65 years ago today - Sep 6, 1960
Second Counselor Henry D. Moyle confides to BYU President Ernest Wilkinson that Apostles Joseph Fielding Smith and Harold B. Lee were in "real opposition" to his "accelerated missionary program." The program includes using baseball as a missionary tool to baptize teenage boys.
[On This Day in Mormon History, http://onthisdayinmormonhistory.blogspot.com]
[On This Day in Mormon History, http://onthisdayinmormonhistory.blogspot.com]
90 years ago today - Sep 6, 1935
[Heber J. Grant]
A proper fast consists of refraining from eating two meals on Fast-day'breakfast and the noon-day meal. In practice the fat is usually broke after the Fast-meeting, which is generally held throughout the Church either at 1 or 2 p.m., on the first Sunday of the month.
[Heber J. Grant, Letter to Emma Zella Deeter, 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]
A proper fast consists of refraining from eating two meals on Fast-day'breakfast and the noon-day meal. In practice the fat is usually broke after the Fast-meeting, which is generally held throughout the Church either at 1 or 2 p.m., on the first Sunday of the month.
[Heber J. Grant, Letter to Emma Zella Deeter, 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]
125 years ago today - Thursday, Sep 6, 1900
Pres. Snow said that Apostle Merrill, president of the Logan Temple, had ruled that the baptism of a certain man who had been baptized a few days before he was 8 years of age was of no virtue. The effect of this decision would be to make null and void the ministrations in the priesthood of this brother in after life. Pres. Merrill had also ruled that he should be rebaptized and that his membership in the church should date from his second baptism. The matter was discussed and it was decided to set aside Pres. Merrill's ruling and to affirm the man's first baptism. To hold that a child in all cases must absolutely be eight years of age before administering the ordinance of baptism was regarded as rather too narrow and technical a view to take.
[Stan Larson (editor), A Ministry of Meetings: The Apostolic diaries of Rudger Clawson, Signature Books in association with Smith Research Associates, Salt Lake City, 1993, http://bit.ly/rudgerclawson]
[Stan Larson (editor), A Ministry of Meetings: The Apostolic diaries of Rudger Clawson, Signature Books in association with Smith Research Associates, Salt Lake City, 1993, http://bit.ly/rudgerclawson]
185 years ago today - Sep 6, 1840
[Vilate Kimball writes Heber C. Kimball]: "...Seymour Brunson is also dead, everything was done to save him that could be done, but the Lord had need of him. A short time before he died he told Joseph not to hold him any longer `for' said he, `I have seen David Patten and he wants me, and the Lord wants me, and I want to go.' They then gave him up; at one time as Joseph entered the room, he told him that there was a light encircled him above the brightness of the sun—he exclaimed, `The room is full of angels they have come to waft my spirit home.' He then bade his family and friends farewell and sweetly fell asleep in Jesus."
[Whitney, Helen Mar, Jeni Broberg Holzapfel, and Richard Neitzel Holzapfel, A Woman's View: Helen Mar Whitney's Reminiscences of Early Church History, Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 1997]
[Whitney, Helen Mar, Jeni Broberg Holzapfel, and Richard Neitzel Holzapfel, A Woman's View: Helen Mar Whitney's Reminiscences of Early Church History, Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 1997]
195 years ago today - September 1830 (before 26 September)
Sections 29 & 30, Place: Fayette, Seneca County, New York.
Historical Note: Section 30, given to David, Peter, Jr., and John Whitmer at Fayette, New York, was originally three separate revelations in the Book of Commandments. Among other matters, section 30 called Peter Whitmer, Jr., to accompany Oliver Cowdery on his mission to the Lamanites. Section 30 was first published as chapters 31, 32, and 33 in the Book of Commandments in 1833.
[Cook, Lyndon, Revelations of the Prophet Joseph Smith: A Historical and Biographical Commentary of the Doctrine and Covenants, http://amzn.to/RevelationsofJosephSmith]
Historical Note: Section 30, given to David, Peter, Jr., and John Whitmer at Fayette, New York, was originally three separate revelations in the Book of Commandments. Among other matters, section 30 called Peter Whitmer, Jr., to accompany Oliver Cowdery on his mission to the Lamanites. Section 30 was first published as chapters 31, 32, and 33 in the Book of Commandments in 1833.
[Cook, Lyndon, Revelations of the Prophet Joseph Smith: A Historical and Biographical Commentary of the Doctrine and Covenants, http://amzn.to/RevelationsofJosephSmith]
85 years ago today - Sep 5, 1940
[George F. Richards diary, Sept. 5, 1940] I had a meeting with the Temple Presidency of [the] Salt Lake Temple instructing them as counseled by the [First] Presidency & the Twelve this day to discontinue [the] ring service in sealing, i.e., marrying couples where such ring service, or ceremony is used; also to discontinue prayer rooms provided with altar &c for individual use.
[Anderson, Devery; The Development of LDS Temple Worship, 1846-2000: A Documentary History, http://amzn.to/TempleWorship]
[Anderson, Devery; The Development of LDS Temple Worship, 1846-2000: A Documentary History, http://amzn.to/TempleWorship]
100 years ago today - Sep 5, 1925
[Heber J. Grant]
Bishp Edward S. Rich of the East Mill Creek Ward called and gave us a copy of a blessing given by Patriarch Homer Brown to John T. Clark. Brother Clark is one of the men who has recently entered into so-called plural marriage. Brother Rich says that Brother Brown is making a specialty of blessing people who have entered into alleged plural marriage. He promised to furnish us some additional evidence of Brother Brown's improper methods. We cannot help but hope, on account of his life-long labors and having such a splendid son as the president of the Lethbridge Stake, that Brother Brown is not mixed up in giving comfort and consolation to people who are still insisting that plural marriage is the proper thing.
[Diary of Heber J. Grant, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
Bishp Edward S. Rich of the East Mill Creek Ward called and gave us a copy of a blessing given by Patriarch Homer Brown to John T. Clark. Brother Clark is one of the men who has recently entered into so-called plural marriage. Brother Rich says that Brother Brown is making a specialty of blessing people who have entered into alleged plural marriage. He promised to furnish us some additional evidence of Brother Brown's improper methods. We cannot help but hope, on account of his life-long labors and having such a splendid son as the president of the Lethbridge Stake, that Brother Brown is not mixed up in giving comfort and consolation to people who are still insisting that plural marriage is the proper thing.
[Diary of Heber J. Grant, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
130 years ago today - Sep 5, 1895
[Heber J. Grant]
.... Several of the Delegates on the train assured me that I could have the nomination for Governor if I would accept it. The Utah Co. Delegates were solid for me. At Salt Lake I learned that all I needed to do was to say the word and I could have the nomination. I highly appreciate the compliment, and feel reasonably well assured that I could get the nomination were I to enter the fight, but I feel that it would be an unwise thing in view of the Church position which I hold. I called on Emily this AM and she was very much frightened for fear I was going to accept the nomination. I called at the office of the First Presidency and told them that I had been offered the nomination by a great many of the Delegates and that I had assured them that I would not accept. I intimated that I would do so if they desired it, and inasmuch as they said nothing to indicate that they would pleased to have me accept the nomination I wired to my cousin A. W. Ivins to use his influence to see that my
name did not come before the convention, I did not care to have a few votes cast for me seeing that I did not want and would not accept the offer of the nomination ...
[Diary of Heber J. Grant, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
.... Several of the Delegates on the train assured me that I could have the nomination for Governor if I would accept it. The Utah Co. Delegates were solid for me. At Salt Lake I learned that all I needed to do was to say the word and I could have the nomination. I highly appreciate the compliment, and feel reasonably well assured that I could get the nomination were I to enter the fight, but I feel that it would be an unwise thing in view of the Church position which I hold. I called on Emily this AM and she was very much frightened for fear I was going to accept the nomination. I called at the office of the First Presidency and told them that I had been offered the nomination by a great many of the Delegates and that I had assured them that I would not accept. I intimated that I would do so if they desired it, and inasmuch as they said nothing to indicate that they would pleased to have me accept the nomination I wired to my cousin A. W. Ivins to use his influence to see that my
name did not come before the convention, I did not care to have a few votes cast for me seeing that I did not want and would not accept the offer of the nomination ...
[Diary of Heber J. Grant, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
130 years ago today - Sep 5, 1895
[Francis M. Lyman]
[Orderville] Spoke of Statehood. I held that saints were a little thick headed and stupid who would not see that statehood is what the Lord has in store for us. I stated it as the will of the Lord that we should support statehood.
[Excerpts of Apostle Francis M. Lyman Diaries, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
[Orderville] Spoke of Statehood. I held that saints were a little thick headed and stupid who would not see that statehood is what the Lord has in store for us. I stated it as the will of the Lord that we should support statehood.
[Excerpts of Apostle Francis M. Lyman Diaries, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
155 years ago today - Sep 5, 1870
Sister Josephene Ursenbak had been baptized for European Ladies, & Princes, &c & she officiated to day with Joseph F Smith & I sealed 9 to the Prophet Joseph Smith, [4/5?] to the Patriarch Joseph Smith, 5 to the Patriarch Hiram Smith 3 to Samuel Harrison Smith, 3 to Don Carlos Smith, 3 to Joseph F Smith & 3 to Samuel H. B. Smith. He officiated for His Father & Don Carloss Smith. Total 30 sealed to the Smith Family.
[Wilford Woodruff's Journal: 1833-1898 Typescript, Volumes 1-9, Edited by Scott G. Kenney, Signature Books 1993, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
[Wilford Woodruff's Journal: 1833-1898 Typescript, Volumes 1-9, Edited by Scott G. Kenney, Signature Books 1993, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
165 years ago today - Sept 5, 1860
Brigham Young's office journal records: "The President observed he was prejudiced against many of the Elders who had labored in England their course had been oppresive to the people for the sake of living like gentlemen, coming home in carriages, and bringing [or buying] home Merchandize to trade with; he should enquire of other Elders into particulars, and do all he could to stop this system of begging from the Saints. The President alluded to his former travels in England and how little he had done upon. H. C. Kimball alluded to the little he had ever received from the Saints."
[On This Day in Mormon History, http://onthisdayinmormonhistory.blogspot.com]
[On This Day in Mormon History, http://onthisdayinmormonhistory.blogspot.com]
185 years ago today - Sept 5, 1840
Joseph Smith brings charges against Almon W. Babbitt before the High Council. He charges Babbitt with "First . . . stating that Joseph Smith, Jun., had extravagantly purchased three suits of clothes while he was at Washington City, and that Sidney Rigdon had purchased four suits while at the same place, besides dresses in profusion for their families. Second. For having stated that Joseph Smith, Jun.: Sidney Rigdon and Elias Higbee had said that they were worth one hundred thousand dollars each, while they were at Washington, and that Joseph Smith, Jun., had repeated the same statement while in Philadelphia, and for saying that Oliver Granger had stated that he also was worth as much as they (that is, one hundred thousand dollars). Third. For holding secret councils in the Lord's House, in Kirtland, and for locking the doors of the house, for the purpose of prohibiting certain brethren in good standing in the Church, from being in the Council, thereby depriving them of the use of
the house. . . . The parties spoke at length, after which, Joseph Smith withdrew the charge."
[On This Day in Mormon History, http://onthisdayinmormonhistory.blogspot.com]
the house. . . . The parties spoke at length, after which, Joseph Smith withdrew the charge."
[On This Day in Mormon History, http://onthisdayinmormonhistory.blogspot.com]
30 years ago today - Sep 4, 1995-15
World Conference on Women, 1995 in Beijing, China. Elder Packer claims this was the impetus for writing The Proclamation: "Not too many years ago there came a movement in the world having to do with the family. The United Nations called a council on the family in Beijing, China. We sent delegations to that council on the family and to other councils that were held. And then it was announced that one of them would be held near our headquarters, and we thought, "Well, if they are coming here, we had better proclaim ourselves."
[History of The Proclamation on the Family, https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vRDUS68wfgWtZqdNv67AqfYGGfHrJiZi-B6dlDhDClQOatExFZDFt73srGQoul3U4_iXiTuYIqW57gs/pubhtml]
[History of The Proclamation on the Family, https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vRDUS68wfgWtZqdNv67AqfYGGfHrJiZi-B6dlDhDClQOatExFZDFt73srGQoul3U4_iXiTuYIqW57gs/pubhtml]
75 years ago today - Sep 04, 1950
The first early-morning seminary, with 198 students, is organized in Southern California under the direction of Ray L. Jones.
75 years ago today - Sep 04, 1950
Latter-day Saint car racer Ab Jenkins shatters twenty-six world and American records on the Bonneville Salt Flats in his Mormon Meteor III.
95 years ago today - Sep 4, 1930
First counselor Anthony W. Ivins computes that the church lost $6 million in stock investments and $900,000 in loans and business transactions with the Presiding Bishop Charles W. Nibley before his appointment as the second counselor in the First Presidency in 1925.
[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 - Sep 4, 1890 (Thursday)
The Agricultural College at Logan [today: Utah State University] was dedicated.
[Jenson, Andrew, Church Chronology]
[Jenson, Andrew, Church Chronology]
155 years ago today - Sep 4, 1870
[Martin Harris testimony]
.... in the year 1818--52 years ago I was Inspired of the Lord & Tought of the Spirit that I Should not Join Eny Church although I Was anxiousley Sought for by meny of the Sectarians[.] ... Previous to my being baptised I became A Witness of the Plates of the Book of mormon in [June] 1829. ... Rogers unknown to me had agreed to give my wife 100 Dollars if it was not A Deseption & had Whet his Nife to cut the covering of the Plates as the Lord had forbid Joseph exhibiting them openley[.] Martins Wife had hefted them & felt them under cover as had Martin &
["Testimony of Martin Harris Written by my hand from the Mouth of Martin Harris," dictated to Edward Stevenson 4 September 1870, Edward Stevenson Collection, Miscellaneous Papers, LDS Church Archives, Salt Lake City, Utah., as cited in Dan Vogel, Early Mormon Documents: Martin Harris Testimony]
.... in the year 1818--52 years ago I was Inspired of the Lord & Tought of the Spirit that I Should not Join Eny Church although I Was anxiousley Sought for by meny of the Sectarians[.] ... Previous to my being baptised I became A Witness of the Plates of the Book of mormon in [June] 1829. ... Rogers unknown to me had agreed to give my wife 100 Dollars if it was not A Deseption & had Whet his Nife to cut the covering of the Plates as the Lord had forbid Joseph exhibiting them openley[.] Martins Wife had hefted them & felt them under cover as had Martin &
["Testimony of Martin Harris Written by my hand from the Mouth of Martin Harris," dictated to Edward Stevenson 4 September 1870, Edward Stevenson Collection, Miscellaneous Papers, LDS Church Archives, Salt Lake City, Utah., as cited in Dan Vogel, Early Mormon Documents: Martin Harris Testimony]
155 years ago today - Sep 4, 1870
Edward Stephenson had been to Kirtland & Brought up old Father Martin Harris one of the 3 witnesses of the Book of Mormon. ... Then Martin Harris arose & bore testimony to the truth of the Book of Mormon. He is 88 years old & has finally Come up to Zion to lay his Body down with the Saints. He has been from the Church 33 years in a state of Apostacy & he is far behind the times yet he bears a strong testimony to the truth of the Book of Mormon.
[Wilford Woodruff's Journal: 1833-1898 Typescript, Volumes 1-9, Edited by Scott G. Kenney, Signature Books 1993, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
[Wilford Woodruff's Journal: 1833-1898 Typescript, Volumes 1-9, Edited by Scott G. Kenney, Signature Books 1993, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
165 years ago today - Sep 4, 1860
On sunday Evening while in Conversation at the Historians office a Brother Williams & another man Called to get Council of Presidet Young Concerning Brother Williams of Union Fort who is possessed of the Devil & has been in the mountains 60 days to try to starve himself to death but came home a living skeleton & finally Cut his throat & that did not kill him & he now wanted to drown himself. The men that Came for Counsel want the heads of the Church to unite to gether & Cast the Devil out of him. The President said if he wants to Cut his throat or drown himself let him do it. The devil is determined to destroy his body any how. If you want the devil Cast out you may go to work & Cast him out if you Can. I shall not go down there to do it. We have devils enough to deal with up here without going abroad after them. If the devils destroy his body they will get through with him. That will be the end of there work with his tabernacle.
Brother Cannon Said there was a learned Doctor [ ] that wanted to be baptized. Believed in this work but wanted to close up his business in New York City first. Said when he was baptized that He should lay aside his practice of medicine as he believed the Lord had provided means for the healing of his Saints without the practice of medicine. He is satisfied that the doctrin of the plurality of God and that Adam is our Father is a true doctrin Revealed from God to Joseph & Brigham. For this same Doctrin is taught in some of the old Jewish records which have never been in print and I know Joseph Smith nor Brigham Young have never had access to and the Lord has revealed this doctrin unto them or they Could not have taught it.
[Wilford Woodruff's Journal: 1833-1898 Typescript, Volumes 1-9, Edited by Scott G. Kenney, Signature Books 1993, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
Brother Cannon Said there was a learned Doctor [ ] that wanted to be baptized. Believed in this work but wanted to close up his business in New York City first. Said when he was baptized that He should lay aside his practice of medicine as he believed the Lord had provided means for the healing of his Saints without the practice of medicine. He is satisfied that the doctrin of the plurality of God and that Adam is our Father is a true doctrin Revealed from God to Joseph & Brigham. For this same Doctrin is taught in some of the old Jewish records which have never been in print and I know Joseph Smith nor Brigham Young have never had access to and the Lord has revealed this doctrin unto them or they Could not have taught it.
[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 4, 1860
President [Brigham] Young said... I think if the Lord wants any steeling done he would reveal it to me as soon as to Bill Hickman, Ormus Bates, or any other thieves Bates has been ingaged with that Clan in steeling for a long time but if He will go now and behave himself I will let all pass ...
[Wilford Woodruff, Historian's Private Journal, 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]
[Wilford Woodruff, Historian's Private Journal, 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]
195 years ago today - Sep 4, 1830
Newel Knight and his wife visit Joseph Smith, Jr., in Harmony (PA). Joseph Smith receives a revelation (D&C 27:1-4) concerning use of wine in the sacrament. Joseph and Emma Smith, Newel and Sally Knight, and John Whitmer hold a sacrament meeting, after which Emma and Sally are confirmed . ... The absence of D&C 27:5-18 from the Book of Commandments indicates that these verses were more likely composed in 1835 prior to publication in the Doctrine and Covenants.
[Vogel, Dan, Early Mormon Documents, Appendix B: Chronology, 1771-1831, http://amzn.to/T5nY8w]
[Vogel, Dan, Early Mormon Documents, Appendix B: Chronology, 1771-1831, http://amzn.to/T5nY8w]
195 years ago today - Sep 4, 1830
[D&C 27]
Use whatever you want for the sacrament. Do not purchase alcohol from enemies -drink only what you produce yourselves. Soon I will drink with you and Moroni , other prophets and patriarchs who hold keys of restoration.
[Kenney, Scott; Saints Without Halos, 'Doctrine and Covenants,' http://web.archive.org/web/20120805163534/saintswithouthalos.com/s/_dc.phtml]
Use whatever you want for the sacrament. Do not purchase alcohol from enemies -drink only what you produce yourselves. Soon I will drink with you and Moroni , other prophets and patriarchs who hold keys of restoration.
[Kenney, Scott; Saints Without Halos, 'Doctrine and Covenants,' http://web.archive.org/web/20120805163534/saintswithouthalos.com/s/_dc.phtml]
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