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Historic events in New Mormon History on 10/25
1880: Deseret News editorial, "A Utah Genius," suggests that some of Utah's "public-spirited men who have means to spare for occasional luxuries" order a sculpture work by 17-year-old Cyrus Dallin and pay him in advance so he can continue art studies in Boston.
Source: See The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn
1890: The First Presidency publicly establishes Religion Classes, America's first experiment in separate weeday religious training for public school students. This elementary level program merges with the LDS Primary program in ay 1929. Seminaries for LDS high school students are a spin-off which lasts longer than the innovative Religion Classes.
Source: See The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn
1893: U.S. president Grover Cleveland signs a congressional resolution for the return of the church's confiscated monies and personal property. The Utah Supreme Court returns these properties to church authorities on 10 Jan. 1894.
Source: See The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn
1905: public criticism of Joseph F. Smith's remarks that Father Damien of the Hawaiian leper colony was immoral before his death. The LDS church president is convinced that leprosy is contracted through sexual contact.
Source: See The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn
1992: General authority Malcolm S. Jeppsen's prepares a talk, which he gives to LDS leaders in Utah during the next several weeks, listing twenty warning signs of apostasy. In addition to the usual cautions about current polygamy, he includes: "those who advocate a mother in heaven and women holding the priesthood," those who hold special prayer meetings in private, "John Birch membership or leanings," and those who store more than LDS headquarter's recommendation of one-year's supply of food.
Source: See The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn
To see the whole database in chronological order, Click here. Note that I'm not done entering all the information. While most of these facts come from Quinn's book, I'm seeking the primary sources for each, but this will take a long time.
1880: Deseret News editorial, "A Utah Genius," suggests that some of Utah's "public-spirited men who have means to spare for occasional luxuries" order a sculpture work by 17-year-old Cyrus Dallin and pay him in advance so he can continue art studies in Boston.
Source: See The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn
1890: The First Presidency publicly establishes Religion Classes, America's first experiment in separate weeday religious training for public school students. This elementary level program merges with the LDS Primary program in ay 1929. Seminaries for LDS high school students are a spin-off which lasts longer than the innovative Religion Classes.
Source: See The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn
1893: U.S. president Grover Cleveland signs a congressional resolution for the return of the church's confiscated monies and personal property. The Utah Supreme Court returns these properties to church authorities on 10 Jan. 1894.
Source: See The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn
1905: public criticism of Joseph F. Smith's remarks that Father Damien of the Hawaiian leper colony was immoral before his death. The LDS church president is convinced that leprosy is contracted through sexual contact.
Source: See The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn
1992: General authority Malcolm S. Jeppsen's prepares a talk, which he gives to LDS leaders in Utah during the next several weeks, listing twenty warning signs of apostasy. In addition to the usual cautions about current polygamy, he includes: "those who advocate a mother in heaven and women holding the priesthood," those who hold special prayer meetings in private, "John Birch membership or leanings," and those who store more than LDS headquarter's recommendation of one-year's supply of food.
Source: See The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn
To see the whole database in chronological order, Click here. Note that I'm not done entering all the information. While most of these facts come from Quinn's book, I'm seeking the primary sources for each, but this will take a long time.
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