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-- 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. (1)
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-- 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." (2)
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-- 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. (3)
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-- 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. (4)
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-- 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. (5)
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-- 60 years ago today - Sep 06, 1965 --
The U.S. government designates Nauvoo, Illinois, as a national historical landmark.
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-- 45 years ago today - Sep 6, 1980 --
Latter-day Saint missionaries enter the African nation of Kenya for the first time. (6)
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1 - Cook, Lyndon, Revelations of the Prophet Joseph Smith: A Historical and Biographical Commentary of the Doctrine and Covenants, http://amzn.to/RevelationsofJosephSmith
2 - 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
3 - 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
4 - 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
5 - On This Day in Mormon History, http://onthisdayinmormonhistory.blogspot..com
6 - LDS Daily, www.ldsdaily.com
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