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Historic events in New Mormon History on 12/9
1849: Richard Ballentyne begins teaching Sunday school as own activity in Salt Lake City. In 1867 Deseret Sunday School Union becomes churchwide, centrally directed program with George Q. Cannon as general superintendent. In 1934 LDS headquarters adopts junior Sunday school program which was independently established in local wards. Like Sunday schools, churchwide progrmns for young men, primary children, high school seminary, adult Aaronic priesthood, Welfare Plan, and Indian Placement begin as local innovations without central church direction. All LDS auxiliaries, except Religion Classes in 1890, are modeled on pre-existing programs of Protestant denominations. Only Relief Society, young women’s program, and Religion Classes have direction of headquarters at outset.
Source: See The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn
1867: Brigham Young organizes the School of the Prophets in Salt Lake City, thirty-two years after the first one at Kirtland closed. More than 900 men belong to the Salt Lake City school, and 5,000 join other Schools of the Prophets throughout the Great Basin.
Source: See The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn
1869: ZCMI Drug Store advertises that it has just opened on Main Street with "Liquors, Draught and [by the] Case." William Godbe is leading economic and political dissenters.
Source: See The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn
1884: LDS political newspaper, the Salt Lake Herald, reports another Mormon's assault and battery on a reporter of the Salt Lake Tribune, "A BLISSFUL LOT. Another of the 'Tribune' Crew Rewarded. A TROUNCING WELL MERITED."
Source: See The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn
1897: The First Presidency and apostles discuss the "subject of building a Temple at [Colonia] Juarez, Mexico." When the temple is built, two shifts have occurred in the church in Mexico: its population is primarily ethnic Mexican rather than transplanted Anglos, and its geographic center has shifted deep into Mexico. Therefore, the site changes.
Source: See The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn
1933: A Deseret News Church Section article "Mormonism in The New Germany," enthusiastically emphasizes the parallels "between the [LDS] Church and some of the ideas and policies of the National Socialists." First, Nazis have introduced "Fast Sunday." Second, "it is a very well known fact that Hitler observes a form of living which 'Mormons' term the 'Word of Wisdom.'" Finally, "due to the importance given to the racial question [by Nazis], and the almost necessity of proving that one's grandmother was not a Jewess," there no longer is resistance against the genealogical research by German Mormons who "now have received letters of encouragement complimenting them for their patriotism."
Source: See The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn
1934: The New York Stake is the first stake east of the inter-mountain states since the termination of the St. Louis Stake in 1858.
Source: See The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn
1965: Shawn Davis is the Professional Rodeo Cowboy Association's world champion in saddle bronc riding. He regains that title in 1967 and 1968. After temporary paralysis from a riding accident in 1969, he returns to rodeo competition and is inducted into the PRCA's Hall of Champions. Jim Gladstone is the world champion in calf roping (1977). Chris Lybbert is the PRCA's All-Around Cowboy (1980) and its world champion in calf roping (1986). Lewis K. Feild is the world champion in bareback riding (1985, 1986) and the PRCA's All-Around Cowboy (1985-88).
Source: See The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn
1969: A First Presidency letter to the director of seminaries and institutes, with a copy to Bruce R. McConkie, that "we know of no justification for claiming that 'man was placed on the earth on the seventh day.'"
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.
1849: Richard Ballentyne begins teaching Sunday school as own activity in Salt Lake City. In 1867 Deseret Sunday School Union becomes churchwide, centrally directed program with George Q. Cannon as general superintendent. In 1934 LDS headquarters adopts junior Sunday school program which was independently established in local wards. Like Sunday schools, churchwide progrmns for young men, primary children, high school seminary, adult Aaronic priesthood, Welfare Plan, and Indian Placement begin as local innovations without central church direction. All LDS auxiliaries, except Religion Classes in 1890, are modeled on pre-existing programs of Protestant denominations. Only Relief Society, young women’s program, and Religion Classes have direction of headquarters at outset.
Source: See The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn
1867: Brigham Young organizes the School of the Prophets in Salt Lake City, thirty-two years after the first one at Kirtland closed. More than 900 men belong to the Salt Lake City school, and 5,000 join other Schools of the Prophets throughout the Great Basin.
Source: See The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn
1869: ZCMI Drug Store advertises that it has just opened on Main Street with "Liquors, Draught and [by the] Case." William Godbe is leading economic and political dissenters.
Source: See The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn
1884: LDS political newspaper, the Salt Lake Herald, reports another Mormon's assault and battery on a reporter of the Salt Lake Tribune, "A BLISSFUL LOT. Another of the 'Tribune' Crew Rewarded. A TROUNCING WELL MERITED."
Source: See The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn
1897: The First Presidency and apostles discuss the "subject of building a Temple at [Colonia] Juarez, Mexico." When the temple is built, two shifts have occurred in the church in Mexico: its population is primarily ethnic Mexican rather than transplanted Anglos, and its geographic center has shifted deep into Mexico. Therefore, the site changes.
Source: See The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn
1933: A Deseret News Church Section article "Mormonism in The New Germany," enthusiastically emphasizes the parallels "between the [LDS] Church and some of the ideas and policies of the National Socialists." First, Nazis have introduced "Fast Sunday." Second, "it is a very well known fact that Hitler observes a form of living which 'Mormons' term the 'Word of Wisdom.'" Finally, "due to the importance given to the racial question [by Nazis], and the almost necessity of proving that one's grandmother was not a Jewess," there no longer is resistance against the genealogical research by German Mormons who "now have received letters of encouragement complimenting them for their patriotism."
Source: See The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn
1934: The New York Stake is the first stake east of the inter-mountain states since the termination of the St. Louis Stake in 1858.
Source: See The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn
1965: Shawn Davis is the Professional Rodeo Cowboy Association's world champion in saddle bronc riding. He regains that title in 1967 and 1968. After temporary paralysis from a riding accident in 1969, he returns to rodeo competition and is inducted into the PRCA's Hall of Champions. Jim Gladstone is the world champion in calf roping (1977). Chris Lybbert is the PRCA's All-Around Cowboy (1980) and its world champion in calf roping (1986). Lewis K. Feild is the world champion in bareback riding (1985, 1986) and the PRCA's All-Around Cowboy (1985-88).
Source: See The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn
1969: A First Presidency letter to the director of seminaries and institutes, with a copy to Bruce R. McConkie, that "we know of no justification for claiming that 'man was placed on the earth on the seventh day.'"
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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