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-- 190 years ago today - Oct 3, 1835 --
[Joseph Smith]
[I] exhibited to them [the Twelve] the ancient reccords in my possession [Egyptian papyri] and gave explanation of the same. Thus the day passed off with the blessings of the Lord. (1)
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-- 185 years ago today - Oct 3, 1840 --
A conference at Nauvoo decides to build a temple, each Saint tithing his tenth-day's labor to the project. (2)
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-- 150 years ago today - Oct 3, 1875 (Sunday) --
U.S. Grant, President of the United States, arrived in Salt Lake City, on a visit. He was met by Pres. Brigham Young and other prominent men at Ogden. (3)
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-- 140 years ago today - Oct 3, 1885 --
[Wilford Woodruff]
have arived at a strange state of affairs in the History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. I have recorded many Events in my Journals of the History of the Church for the Last 50 years of my life we have been persecuted by individuals villages towns Counties States & Now the whole great Nation of the United States of some 60,000,000 of people have set their hand to destroy the Church & Kingdom of God from off the Earth. The Congress Passed Laws in 1862 Against the Saints for practicing poligamy it being a tenit of our religion. The Nation was not ripe Enough to inforce untill of late.
In 1882 Congress passed a law making it a Crime to Cohabit with our wives. Made it a fine of $300 and imprisionment 6 months. Marshals & Judges were sent to Utah to Exicute this Law ...
The Judges & Marshals seem perfectly insane. Judge Zane puts the penalty of those who will not Deny the faith to the full extent of the Law then Blackguards the prisioners Calls their wives Prostitutes & Children Bastards For Cohabitation. All who do not Deny the faith are sent to Prision 6 month & have to pay a fine of $300....
Out of the whole Number so far up to date has been five parties whore Deserted their wives & Children, Broaken their Coven[an]ts Denyed their religion & dishonored God ... this is now the test which is to try all the Elders of Israel who have obeyed the Celestial Law of Marriage.
As a Historian I would say I would rather be shot dead in the Streets or struck with lightning than to Desert my Children Break my Covenants turn my wives into the Street & desert them with whom I have made sacred Covenants Deny my religion & Dishonor God. The decision I we now make will decide our Destiny for all time & Eternity. We have but a short time to live here but a long Eternity to Live on the other side of the Veil. And any man who is faithful to his wives & Children, his Covenants his religion & his God in this life if it Costs him fines, imprisionment Bonds, or Death No power beneath the Heavens Can deprive him from Enjoying the Society of his wives, & Children his family and friends, The prophets & Apostles & the society of God & Lamb, to all Eternity after the Resurrection. (4)
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-- 130 years ago today - Oct 3, 1895 --
[Heber J. Grant]
Abraham H. Cannon told of his having had typhoid fever in 1885 and that his spirit left the body and he visited his mother and had a chat with her. He had seen a beautiful country such as brother Merrill had told us of yesterday. His mother told him that he could remain with her if he wished and he said that he would be pleased to remain but when he came to think of his condition and how his family would be left financially if he were to pass away from the earth he decided that he would prefer to return to the earth again. He like brother Merrill had had noticed that there was no sun, but that there was a very brilliant light. I was told by a voice that I could live if I wished to and that the choice rested with me. When I returned to the earth and was about to enter my body again I felt a revulsion of feelings against doing so When I had entered my body and opened my eyes I found my family around me weeping and found that a cloth was tied around my head and preparations were being
made to save my body washed as it was thought that I was dead. Brother Franklin D. Richards came in soon after and administered to me and he used the same words that were used when I was with my mother in which I was told that it was for me to decide as to whether I should live or die. I was very sick after that and many times my folks thought that I would die but I knew that I would live as I had decided to live and the promise that I should do so I felt was from the Lord. (5)
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-- 125 years ago today - Wednesday, Oct 3, 1900 --
Apostle H. J. Grant was the next speaker. Felt, he said, that those who fail to observe the word of wisdom and pay their tithing ought not to be sustained in presiding positions.... (6)
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-- 120 years ago today - Oct 3, 1905 --
[At apostles' quarterly meetings:] ... Any good sister who may desire a blessing at the hand of her sisters before her confinement may be thus administered to. And any good sister who has received her endowments and who is in good standing in the Church might officiate in washing and anointing previous to confinement, if called upon, or if requested to do so, by the sister or sisters desiring the blessing. But in no instance should a sister take the initiative by offering to do this.... Some sisters are gifted in administering and comforting with faith, and yet may hold no official position in the relief society. Then again the sister desiring a blessing might have a choice as to whom she would prefer to render her this service. They should avoid all reference to ceremonies of the temple, and should be very careful not to detract from or encroach upon the privileges or uses of the priesthood. We have heard that the labors of our sisters in this respect have resulted in benefit
and blessing, and that the services of sisters capable of officiating in this ordinance are being sought after. The advice given to all of our sisters who may be called upon to render this service to our sisters approaching their confinement is that they shall regard it in the spirit of the greatest solemnity, and not fail to call upon the Lord in prayer previous to officiating in this as well as every other sacred duty. (7)
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-- 115 years ago today - Oct 3, 1910; Monday --
At 10:30 I met with the Council of the Twelve in the temple and heard the [Judson] Toleman case to conclusion and we excommunicated him, Patriarch Toleman for performing plural marriages and himself taking a wife since the declaration of
Pres[ident]. [Joseph F.] Smith of Apr[il]. 1904. (8)
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-- 115 years ago today - Oct 3, 1910 (Monday) --
Mrs. Emmeline B. Wells was chosen to succeed the late Bathsheba W. Smith as president of all the Relief Societies in the Church. (3)
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-- 110 years ago today - Oct 3, 1915 --
Joseph F. Smith preaches: "Not long ago I happened to be at the home of one of my children when the [ward] teachers came in. We called the family together and submitted ourselves to the duties of the teachers. The head teacher began by saying that he had been sent there by the bishop of the ward to inquire into the condition of the members of the family. He was instructed to inquire of them if they held family prayer, morning and evening, if they asked the blessing upon their food, at each meal. He was required by the bishop to inquire as to whether they kept the word of wisdom, as to whether they attended to their Sabbath meetings and honored the Sabbath day, as to whether those who were of age to attend the various other organizations of the Church, such as the Relief Society, the Young Men's and Young Ladies' Mutual Improvement Associations, the Sunday Schools, the Primary Associations, and the Religion Class, did so, and if they sustained in their hearts their bishop and his
counselors and were united in feeling and sentiment with them, and if they were in harmony in their feelings and sentiment with the presidency of their stake. And as to whether they sustained, by their faith and prayers, the presiding authorities of the Church, the Presidency of the Church and the Twelve Apostles, the Patriarch, the Presidents of Seventies, and the Presiding Bishopric. If they could pray for them in faith and in good feeling, and were in harmony with them. If they believed and observed the law of tithing, and were at peace with their neighbors, etc. Then he asked that the head of the family should arise and open his heart to the teachers and tell them just what he had to say in relation to all these inquiries and requirements that were made of the teacher by the bishop. I admired it. I thought it was just the right thing to do, and I approved of it, and so pronounced my approval of the thoroughness. the simplicity. and the honesty of the teacher to inquire into all
these things." (9)
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-- 95 years ago today - Oct 03, 1930 --
J. Reuben Clark is appointed as U.S. ambassador to Mexico, becoming the first Church member to be appointed as an ambassador.
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-- 55 years ago today - Oct 3, 1970 --
Fawn Brodie gives the first annual "American West" lecture at the Hotel Utah. Her lecture is titled "Can We Manipulate the Past?" (9)
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-- 50 years ago today - Oct 3, 1975 --
The organization of the First Quorum of the Seventy for the first time in 131 years and for the first time ever as a general authority quorum. Conference also sustains George P. Lee as a general authority, the first Native American (Navajo) general authority. (10)
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1 - Faulring, Scott (ed.), An American Prophet's Record: The Diaries and Journals of Joseph Smith: Joseph Smith Diary, 1835-36, http://amzn.to/jsdiaries
2 - Anderson, Lavina Fielding, Editor, Lucy's Book: A Critical Edition of Lucy Mack Smith's Family Memoir, 2001, Signature Books, http://bit.ly/lucys-book
3 - Jenson, Andrew, Church Chronology
4 - Wilford Woodruff's Journal: 1833-1898 Typescript, Volumes 1-9, Edited by Scott G. Kenney, Signature Books 1993, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies
5 - Diary of Heber J. Grant, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies
6 - 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
7 - Rudger Clawson Diary, 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
8 - George F. Richards, Diary
9 - On This Day in Mormon History, http://onthisdayinmormonhistory.blogspot.com
10 - The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn, [New Mormon History database (http://bit.ly/NMHdatabase)]
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