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-- 200 years ago today - May 23, 1825 --
The Lewiston convention publishes "Revelations of Freemasonry" to suppliment William Morgan's expose', focusing on higher order Masonry (America) (1)
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-- 180 years ago today - May 23, 1845, Friday --
Wm. Smith is coming out in opposition to the Twelve and in favor of [George J.] Adams. The latter has organized a church at Augusta, Iowa Territory with young Joseph Smith [III] for President, Wm. Smith for Patriarch, Jared Carter for President of the stake and himself for spokesman to Joseph. Wm. says he has sealed some women to men and he considers he is not accountable to Brigham nor the Twelve nor any one else. There is more danger from William than from any other source, and I fear his course will bring us much trouble.
...I presented to them a proposition to write a short history of the building of the Temple from its commencement, together with other matters and deposite the history in the corner stone, about to be laid tomorrow. They acquiesced with the plan. ...
all the stone on the outside of the wall was laid, except, the south-east corner stone. This progress was a great rejoicing to the Saints.
The Rigdonites have prophecied that the walls would never be built, but through the blessing of God we have lived to see the predicition come to naught. (2)
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-- 170 years ago today - May 23, 1855 --
[James Henry Martineau]
Zilpha, wife of Elder G. A. Smith spoke in tongues with great power: also Job P. Hall: and Prest J. C. L. Smith sang in tongues. Prest Smith gave the interpretation of Sister Zilpha's tongue, which was to encourage the missionaries; and warned and reproved the sisters for their non-compliance with the law of celestial marriage, and predicted many things that should come upon them, and the trials shortly to come upon the saints. (3)
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[Samuel Richards]
"I attended the High Priests Quorum meeting at which Elder Curtis E. Bolton was tried for taking a woman and getting her pregnant which Bro. Brigham had allowed him to adopt into his family as a daughter. She had been heretofore his wife but during his late mission, she had been married to two other men, and had a child by one of the men who was a California Emigrant. . . . He was disfellowshipped from the Quorum, subject to the revision of Prest. Young when he returned from his southern expedition." (4)
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-- 165 years ago today - May 23, 1860 --
Deseret News editorial: "Murder after murder has been committed with impunity within the precincts of Great Salt Lake City, till such occurrences do not seemingly attract much attention, particularly when the murdered have had the reputation of being thieves and murderers or of associating with such characters from day to day..." (5)
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DESERET NEWS editorial: "Murder after murder has been committed with impunity within the precincts of Great Sale Lake City, till such occurrences no not seemingly attract much attention, particularly when the murdered have had the reputation of being thieves and murderers or of associating with such characters from day to day . . ." (4)
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-- 150 years ago today - May 23, 1875 --
[Wilford Woodruff]
We dined at Bishop Hess 6 of us 4 Bishops & 2 Apostles. We Counted up to see how many living Children we 6 men had and we found that we had 147 living Children making it equally divided 24 1/2 each. (6)
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-- 140 years ago today - May 23, 1885 (Saturday) --
Elder August Valentine, who labored as a missionary on Bornholm, Denmark, was arrested for preaching the gospel. He was brought to Copenhagen, and there imprisoned for five days, after which he was banished from the country. (7)
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-- 120 years ago today - May 23, 1905 (Tuesday) --
Elder Junius F. Wells in behalf of the Church purchased the Mack farm, in Sharon, Windsor Co., Vermont, where the Prophet Joseph Smith was born. (7)
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-- 115 years ago today - Monday, May 23, 1910 --
[John Henry Smith]
We had a most excelent time Watching the [Halley's] Commet and seeing the Eclipse of the moon and eat[ing] Cake, Cream and strawberry[s]. (8)
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-- 55 years ago today - May 23, 1970 --
A Church News article about Yoshiko Nakamura, the Relief Society president in Hiroshima where her only child was burned to death by the atomic blast in 1945 and her husband later died of radiation sickness. She comments: "I have no resentment for America now." (5)
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-- 50 years ago today - May 23, 1975-Friday --
[Leonard Arrington]
This morning we met from 9:30 to 11:00 a.m. with the advisors to the department from the Twelve-Elders [Delbert L.] Stapley and [Howard W.] Hunter. ...
(1) There is no response yet on our letters regarding studies of plural marriage and Indian history. ...
(3) The Quorum of Twelve had discussed our proposal on doing biographical studies of Brigham Young. The general sentiment there, according to Brother Stapley and Brother Hunter, was favorable. One or two members cautioned about putting in matters that might reflect unfavorably on the Church. Brother Hunter and Brother Stapley were not able to obtain any minutes giving the final conclusion on the matter and so they have withheld their approval pending receipt of approval from the First Presidency. ... (9)
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1 - Homer, Michael, 'Similarity of Priesthood in Masonry':The Relationship Between Freemasonry and Mormonism, Dialogue, Vol. 27, No. 3
2 - Fillerup, Robert C., compiler; William Clayton Nauvoo Diaries and Personal Writings, A chronological compilation of the personal writings of William Clayton while he was a resident of Nauvoo, Illinois. http://www.boap.org/LDS/Early-Saints/clayton-diaries
3 - An Uncommon Common Pioneer: The Journals of James Henry Martineau 1828-1918, edited by Donald G. Godfrey XXX Rebecca S. Martineau-McCarty
4 - On This Day in Mormon History, http://onthisdayinmormonhistory.blogspot.com
5 - The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn, [New Mormon History database ( http://bit.ly/NMHdatabase )]
6 - Wilford Woodruff's Journal: 1833-1898 Typescript, Volumes 1-9, Edited by Scott G. Kenney, Signature Books 1993, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies
7 - Jenson, Andrew, Church Chronology
8 - 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
9 - Confessions of a Mormon historian : the diaries of Leonard J. Arrington, 1971-1997, Gary James Bergera, editor, Signature Books, 2018
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