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-- 185 years ago today - Mar 10, 1841 --
[Cyrus Smalling]
"... In his [Joseph Smith's] youth, he and the whole family were money-diggers, and the first knowledge I have of him, is at Harmony, Susquehannah county, Pa. where he was translating the Book of Mormon. Soon after he was taken up and tried as an impostor ; but was cleared on account of the testimony that was given of the chests of money moving so that they could not get them. ..." (1)
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-- 185 years ago today - 1841 Mar 10 --
Gov. Thomas Carlin officially commissions Joseph as lieutenant-general in the Nauvoo Legion. (2)
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-- 185 years ago today - Mar 10, 1841 --
The governor of Illinois appoints Joseph Smith lieutenant-general of the Nauvoo Legion. (3)
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-- 180 years ago today - 1846 Mar 10 --
Almon Babbitt and Joseph Heywood refuse to give Lucy Mac Smith the deed to her house unless she either promises not to let William enter it or promises to make him support the Twelve. She writes them a scorching letter of rebuke (2)
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-- 180 years ago today - Mar 10, 1846 --
[Hosea Stout]
While making down the beds a quail came fluttering in the top of the tent and lit down in the tent door & I picked it up with out any trouble which reminded me of the children of Israel but nowing it was not sent in wrath I had it cooked and it proved a blessing instead of a cursing as their quails did[.] (4)
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-- 170 years ago today - Mar 10, 1856 --
[Brigham Young]
Jesus will be seen with the natural eye and handled with the natural hand long before he appears at his second coming on Mount Zion. (5)
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[Hosea Stout]
There is a great scarcity of bread now in all the valleys and nearly every body are living on rations who are lucky enough to have any meal or flour. (4)
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-- 165 years ago today - Mar 10, 1861 (Morning) --
President Young attended Tabernacle in the morning. subject about Tobacco exhorted the people if they did and must chew to put a little piece in their mouths quietly. (5)
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-- 165 years ago today - Mar 10, 1861 --
President Young said He did not wish Utah mixed up with the secession movement. He said that when Buchanan sent the armey [to Utah] it was there intention to Hang the Leaders then send thousands of Gentiles here and they intended to rob all this people and take possession of our Houses & lands and they sent Gov Cummings to operate with them. But they got disappointed & it was upon that ground that Governor Cummings told the Forses not to go away that there would soon be Employ here but the Lord has controlled the gov[ernor?] & he has done putty well & I feel to bless him but He had Evil in his heart when he Come here. (6)
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[George A. Smith]
"Who is there that is prepared for this movement back to the center stake of Zion, and where are the architects amongst us that are qualified to erect this temple and the city that will surround it… And let me remind you that it is predicted that this generation shall not pass away till a temple shall be built, and the glory of the Lord rest upon it, according to the promises." (7)
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-- 145 years ago today - Mar 10, 1881 --
Eliza R. Snow says that her polygamous husband Joseph Smith told her "that they (10 tribes) were on an orb or planet by themselves." (8)
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-- 140 years ago today - Mar 10, 1886 --
[Katharin Smith Salisbury]
.... I am the only surviving sister of the martyrs Joseph and Hyrum Smith, and will soon be 73 years old. I can testify to the fact of the coming forth of the Book of Mormon, and also to its truth...
I well remember the trials my brother had, before he obtained the records. After he had the vision, he went frequently to the hill, and upon returning would tell us, "I have seen the records, also the brass plates and the sword of Laban with the breast plate and interpreters." He would ask father why he could not get them? The time had not yet come, but when it did arrive he was commanded to go on the 22d day of September 1827 at 2 o'clock. We had supposed that when he should bring them home, the whole family would be allowed to see them, but he said it was forbidden of the Lord. They could be seen only by those who were chosen to bear their testimony to the world. We had therefore to be content until they were translated and we could have the book to read. ...
After the records were translated and the book printed, we often met together and held prayer meetings. Some of our neighbors would come to these meetings and ask us mockingly, if we expected with our little band to convert the world and make them to believe the golden bible? ... I was one of the number who met in the first conference held in these last days, when the church was first organized. We only numbered thirty, but we were a happy little band. It was a great day of rejoicing for us, and a number were added to the fold by baptism. ... (9)
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-- 120 years ago today - Saturday, Mar 10, 1906 --
[John Henry Smith]
I met with Presidents Smith and Winder and Prest. B. W. Smith of the Relief Society and talked over some of the troubles in that organization.
Prest. John R. Winder was mouth in setting apart Bathsheba W. Smith to preside over the Temple Women Workers. (10)
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-- 105 years ago today - Mar 10, 1921 --
At the Council meeting President Heber J. Grant nominated as his Counselors, President Charles W. Penrose as First, and Elder Anthony W. Ivins as Second, in the First Presidency. I believe every one of the brethren present had the assurance which only the operation of the Holy Spirit can give, that the nominations were divinely inspired; and the brethren were unanimously sustained in their respective positions by vote of the Council. President Rudger Clawson who, during the life of President Lund since the accession of President Heber J. Grant to the Presidency of the Church, has been Acting President of the Council of the Twelve, President Lund being by seniority the actual President of the Twelve, was nominated and unanimously sustained to be the President of the Council of the Twelve Apostles. Each member of the Council spoke in turn; and Presidents Charles W. Penrose, Anthony W. Ivins, and Rudger Clawson were duly set apart under the hands of the Council, President Heber J.
Grant being voice in each of the ordinances. To the great satisfaction of all, the inspiration came to make Elder George F. Richards president of the Salt Lake Temple. This action was likewise sustained by the unanimous vote of the Council. This action is promptly filling vacancies caused by deaths among the presiding quorums or councils of the Church appeals to us all as the proper procedure. I am sure that President Anthon H. Lund could he have expressed himself audibly to us, would have commended the action. (11)
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-- 85 years ago today - Mar 10,1941 --
First Presidency orders Clayton Investment Company to get rid of its "whore-houses," no matter the financial loss, so that church affiliated company can merge with church-owned Zion's Securities Corp. Ends fifty years of church's leases to brothels. (12)
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-- 85 years ago today - Mar 10, 1941 --
[J. Reuben Clark]
"[In conversation with Willard Smith:] Mentioned the combination of Zions Securities and Clayton Investment under one management. He tells me we still have "whorehouses" on Clayton Investment. I told him I felt these must go at once. He said in the event he thought combination management OK." (13)
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-- 80 years ago today - Mar 10, 1946 --
Elder Ezra Taft Benson, a member of the Twelve and the European Mission president, arrives in Germany with Frederick Babbel, European Mission secretary, to begin their assessment of the status of the Saints in Europe after the conclusion of World War II.
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-- 35 years ago today - Mar 10, 1991 --
Deseret News publishes a report by the national Associate Press of first counselor Thomas S. Monson's allowance for conscientious objection against the Persian Gulf War. Although emphatic that LDS church leaders and membership support national decisions concerning war, Monson adds that a Mormon conscientious objector "can serve in some capacity that will suit his conscience and country together." This contrasts with the LDS hierarchy's position during the Vietnam War when the only public statement was Boyd K. Packer's condemnation of conscientious objectors. (8)
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1 - Cyrus Smalling to Dear Sir, 10 March 1841, in E. G. Lee, The Mormons; or, Knavery Exposed (Frankford, Pennsylvania: Published by E. G. Lee; Philadelphia: George Webber and William Fenimore, 1841), 12-15., as cited in Dan Vogel, Early Mormon Documents: Cyrus Smalling To Dear Sir
2 - https://docs.google.com/document/d/10ttN3vOzf2UcVhruCrvDf9pF27T0o0PP0Xj1X98tKBc/edit?fbclid=IwAR3HXLgL-X-M_c5LT2W-_F7AYqsqqaQ0yIhfNuyeFsX85irSPuEO6_Q993A
3 - Quinn, D. Michael, The Mormon Hierarchy: Origins of Power, Appendix 7: Selected Chronology of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1830-47, http://amzn.to/origins-power
4 - Diaries of Hosea Stout
5 - The Complete Discourses of Brigham Young, Ed. Richard S. Van Wagoner, Smith-Pettit Foundation, Salt Lake City (2009), http://bit.ly/BY-discourses
6 - Wilford Woodruff's Journal: 1833-1898 Typescript, Volumes 1-9, Edited by Scott G. Kenney, Signature Books 1993, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies
7 - George A. Smith, March 10, 1861, Journal of Discourse, Vol. 9, p. 71 http://jod.mrm.org/9/6, as quoted in The Last Days and December 1890 2nd Coming of Jesus Christ, y George D. Speer Sr., privately circulated
8 - The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn, [New Mormon History database (http://bit.ly/NMHdatabase)]
9 - Katharine Smith Salisbury, Letter to "Dear Sisters," 10 March 1886, Saints' Herald 33 (1 May 1886): 260., as cited in Dan Vogel, Early Mormon Documents: Katharine Smith Salisbury To Dear Sisters
10 - 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
11 - James E. Talmage, Diary, as quoted in Minutes of the Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1835-1951, Electronic Edition, 2015
12 - Quinn, D. Michael, The Mormon Hierarchy: Extensions of Power, Appendix 5, Selected Chronology of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1848-1996, http://amzn.to/extensions-power
13 - The Diaries of J. Reuben Clark, 1933-1961, Abridged, Digital Edition, Salt Lake City, Utah 2015
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