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-- 195 years ago today - Jan 12, 1831 --
Dispatched from New York in accordance with a now-unknown revelation, John Whitmer arrives in Kirtland with the newly revealed book of Moses and other revelations designating Kirtland as the eastern edge of the land of Zion—which extends to the Pacific Ocean—and directing the Saints not to sell their lands, but rather to purchase as much as they can. (1)
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-- 190 years ago today - Jan 12, 1836 --
The Kirtland High Council nominates a committee to draft rules for the soon-to-be-dedicated Kirtland temple. The committee consists of Joseph Smith, Sidney Rigdon, W.W. Phelps, David Whitmer, and Hyrum Smith. The rules drafted include: "1st It is according to the rules and regulations of regular & legal organized bodies to have a president to keep order. "2nd The body thus organized are under obligations to be in subjection to that authority." ". . .No man shall be interrupted who is appointed to speak by permission of the Church, by any individual person or persons in the congregation, by whispering, by laughing, by talking, by menacing gestures, by getting up and running out in a disorderly manner, or by offering indignity to the manner of worship, or the religion, or to any officer of said Church while officiating in his office, in any wise whatever by any display of ill manners or ill breeding from old or young, rich or poor, male or female, bond or free, black or white,
believer or unbeliever and if any of the above insults are offered, such measures will be taken as are lawful to punish the aggressor or aggressors and eject them out of the House. . . ." "6th All persons are prohibited [from] cutting, marking or maiming the inside or outside of the House with a knife, pencil or any other instrument whatever, under pain of such penalty as the law shall inflict. "7th all children are prohibited from assembling in the House above or below or in any part of it to play or for recreation at any time and all parents, guardians or masters shall be amenable for all damage that shall occur in consequence of their children. "8th All persons whether believer or unbelievers shall be treated with due respect by the authorities of the Church."
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-- 185 years ago today - Jan 12, 1841 --
Joseph Smith teaches that not all sin is vice and that murders cannot be redeemed in this life. (1)
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-- 180 years ago today - 12 [Jan 1846] --
[Brigham Young]
The remainder of the day I spent at the alter officiating in the ordinances of sealing -- In the evening Evan M. Greene: my clerk through sickness was compelled to retire from his labour Br. John D. Lee I appointed to take his place there being a few records to be kept sepperately & apart containing the first Sealings of the living & of Proxy of adoptions & also that of the 2nd anointings which I found to be quite a task for one man to perform therefore I employed Bro. Franklin D. Richard to assist in keeping those Records above aluded too- Such was the anxiety manifested by the Saints to receive the ordinances of Endowment & no less on our part to have them get the keys of the Priesthood- that I gave myself up entirely to the work of the Lord in the Temple almost night & Day I have spent not taking more than 4 hours upon an average out of 24 to Sleep- - - & but seldom ever allowing myself the the time & opportunity of going home once in a week--- (2)
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-- 180 years ago today - Jan 12, 1846 --
Young tells a temple congregation that General instructed him in the colors and design of a flag that he intends to unfurl in the "valleys that are within the Mountains." The Flag of the Kingdom of God proved to be similar to the American flag but with twelve white stars encircling one large star, and blue and white stripes. (3)
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Apostle Parley P Pratt: accused by Apostle Orson Pratt the 12 Jan. 1846 before Twelve that while on mission he (Parley P Pratt ) would "seduce girls or females and sleep & have connexion with them contrary to the law of God," Parley P Pratt said this was a misunderstanding of cohabiting with plural wives, though he did not inform Brigham Young of an unauthorized relationship with Phoebe Soper (4)
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[Hosea Stout]
This morning about 2 oclock A. m. I was awoke by Joseph Taylor who had come from the Temple to let me know that the troops from Carthage were coming in and I immediately arose and went to the Temple and found some of the guard present[.] The Twelve were some of them up and on the ground and so I sent out spies to see where they had gone to. Near daylight I was informed that they had taken Andrew Colton and sent him to carthage and a party remained till day for what we knew not. In the mein time I had sent for all the guard to be called together at the Temple and there be ready for an emergency.... (5)
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-- 175 years ago today - Jan 12, 1851 (Afternoon) --
[Brigham Young]
"I think more of men who are polite and do not come into the church - than those who do come in " (6)
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-- 175 years ago today - Jan 12, 1851 --
President Brigham Young, preaching against "swareing or takeing the name of God in vain," says "the time might Come when the Lord would require him & the Elders of Israel to sharpen up their swords & go fourth & hew down the wicked in their midst. He said any Righteous man that Herd any one of his Children take the name of God in vain that He might whip them until He was satisfied." (1)
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-- 145 years ago today - Jan 12, 1881 --
[Franklin D. Richards]
J[oseph]. F. S[mith]. Prayed and appointed next Wednesday to meet and wash our feet against certain of our enemies, and bearing witness against them before the Lord. (7)
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-- 140 years ago today - Wednesday, Jan. 12th, 1886 --
[General Authority Abraham H. Cannon]
Bro. Thatcher prophesied that if the people would do right they would be prospered here and would. . .
I dwelt on the return of the Saints to Jackson Co. and their final destiny. I felt quite free after getting started and several of the brethren said they were glad I had touched upon the subjects I did, for many of the Saints are beginning to lose sight of the fact that we are to return to Jackson Co. and there build up the Center Stake. (8)
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-- 60 years ago today - Jan 12, 1966 --
[David O. McKay]
Consideration was given to a letter from H---- B---- de E----, also a letter from Bishop K----F-------- S----- and Counselors * , these letters having reference to the problems involved in this sister's marriage to a Negro. She became a member in 1961, received her endowments in 1963, and was divorced from her former husband in 1965. She has subsequently married a Negro non-member, and has been told by the Bishopric that no further Temple visits would be allowed her, and that because of her marriage to a Negro her Temple endowments are ineffective. It was decided to write the bishopric asking that they inform this sister that the fact of her marriage to a Negro does not cancel her endowments; that, however, under the circumstances she should not be recommended to the Temple for further ordinance work. The Bishopric also are to be told that any children born of this marriage cannot hold the Priesthood; however, there is no reason why she cannot be active in the Ward and Stake. (9)
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-- 45 years ago today - Jan 12, 1981-Monday --
[Leonard Arrington]
Lowell Durham and I have now conducted conversations with 10 of the 16 scholars appointed to do volumes for the Sesquicentennial series. Here is a brief summary, as I remember it, of these.
Richard Bushman, who has finished his manuscript in final form, will be paid in full $20,000 for his work. I strongly encouraged him to submit his manuscript to Johns Hopkins University Press for possible publication by them, or, alternatively, with Cornell University Press. I told him I thought he owed it to the Church and to the Mormon community to have it published as soon as possible so as to provide an alternative to [Fawn M.] Brodie's No Man Knows My History, which is used as a basic source for early Mormon history. If he does so and if they agree to publish the manuscript, they are to understand that Deseret Book will also reserve the right to publish the book eventually in a series, and Richard will agree to share royalties he may receive from such university press publication with Deseret Book, up to the amount of $10,000. Of course he'll never receive any such amount, but this is Deseret Book's way of trying to recoup on paying him the full amount if it is
published elsewhere first. [[Joseph Smith and the Beginnings of Mormonism was published by the University of Illinois Press in 1986.]]
Mick Backman. Since his manuscript [on the Kirtland era] has been completed and approved, he has already been paid the $20,000-or received part of the payment spread over several years-and will leave his manuscript with Deseret Book to be published eventually by them. [[The Heavens Resound: A History of the Latter-Day Saints in Ohio, 1830-1838, pub- lished by Deseret Book in 1983.]]
Max Parkin has essentially finished his research for his volume on Missouri and will be given a payment of $10,000 from Deseret Book. He will expect to finish the volume on his own good time-perhaps within two years-and have it published by Deseret Book. He does not expect to submit it elsewhere. [[Parkin never finished the manuscript, although he wrote several articles and contrib- uted to other books on the subject.]]
Glen Leonard, representing also the Ed Lyon family. An agreement had already been made at the time of the death of Ed Lyon that Glen was to receive $15,000 and the Lyon family $ [[Nauvoo: A Place of Peace, A People of Promise, published by Deseret Book in 2002.]],000. Glen expects to suggest to Deseret Book that payment of $5,000 be made to the Lyon family. He, Glen, will then work on the volume [on the Nauvoo era] during the next couple of years and expect to finish it and expect to give the manuscript to Deseret Book, which will then hold it until they are ready to publish it. Gene Campbell brought his manuscript [on early pioneer Utah] with him, something like 24 chapters in rough form and roughly 3 chapters in finished form. He has done all the research. He will expect Deseret Book to give him $15,000 for all that he has done. He will then put in finished form all of the chapters, expecting that task to be completed by July, and the manuscript will go to Deseret Book
which will then hold it for possible publication sometime in the future. [[Establishing Zion: The Mormon Church in the American West, 1847-69, published by Signature Books in 1988.]]
Richard Cowan was assigned the period 1930 to 1950. He says he has completed one draft and has received suggestions from Maureen [Ursenbach Beecher] and us about improving the manuscript. He will be given $15,000 by Deseret Book and will then put the manuscript on the shelf, and in a matter of 2 or 3 years when Deseret Book is ready to consider publication he will complete the job using Maureen's suggestions and others that come up in the meantime and leave it to them to publish. ... [[The Church in the Twentieth Century, published by Bookcraft in 1985.]]
Jim Allen has not yet indicated definitely his plan, but essentially he wants to finish the book [on the late pioneer period] in a matter of a year or two and then receive the full payment from Deseret Book and leave it to them to publish.
Doug Tobler has done all the research and one hundred pages of the manuscript for his book [on the church in Europe]. Lowell estimated this to be roughly 3/4 completed and therefore suggested it would give him $15,000 and the remaining $5,000 when he delivers the manuscript which he said he would do within two years. He would leave the publication up to Deseret Book. If he should consider publishing it earlier through BYU Press, he will work out an arrangement with Deseret Book. [[Tobler's book was never published, though he authored several articles on the topic.]]
Lanier Britsch has finished both of his manuscripts [on Asia and Oceania]; one of them has been approved, the other being reworked by Maureen. Lanier has already received part of the full payment of $20,000. He will expect both manuscripts to be published by Deseret Book. Lowell indicated that he will submit one of Lanier's manuscripts to his board within a year and that will hopefully be the first volume of the sesquicentennial history to be published. While Lowell is now thinking in terms of Asian history, I am thinking that when Maureen finishes the South Sea islands history, which I expect will be within a month, we will urge Lowell to publish that one first. He will be so excited about having the book that I think he will do so. [[Unto the Islands of the Sea: A History of the Latter-day Saints in the Pacific, published in 1986; From the East: The History of the Latter-day Saints in Asia, 1851-1996, published in 1999, both from Deseret Book. Britsch was originally asked
to do one volume, and he divided the topic in two.]]
Davis Bitton has not yet indicated his own feelings, but I expect he will settle for half of the total payment and finish his volume [on social and cultural issues] within the next year or two [[Bitton's book was never published.]] and leave it to Deseret Book to publish. [[Originally the sixteen-volume series was to be titled "The History of the Latter-day Saints, 1830-1980," with Arrington as the general editor. The other volumes were to have been Reed C. Durham on the early pioneer experience, never published; Charles S. Peterson on the later pioneer period, never published; Thomas G. Alexander on the early twentieth century, published as Mormonism in Transition by University of Illinois Press; F. LaMond Tullis on Central/South America, covered in part by his work from Utah State University Press as Mormons in Mexico; S. George Ellsworth on the expansion of the church through missionary outreach, never published; and John L. Sorenson on twentieth-century social]] (10)
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1 - Painesville [Ohio] Telegraph, Eber D. Howe, ed.http://www.sidneyrigdon.com/dbroadhu/OH/paintel2.htm#011831 copy here , [New Mormon History database (http://bit.ly/NMHdatabase)]
2 - Brigham Young Journal # 4 in the handwriting of: William Clayton, Evan Greene, John D. Lee, Willard Richards. First person account kept by others. 'Lieut. Genl Brigham Young's Journal 1844'
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 - Quinn, D. Michael, The Mormon Hierarchy: Origins of Power, Appendix 6, Biographical Sketches of General Officers of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1830-47, http://amzn.to/origins-power
5 - Diaries of Hosea Stout
6 - Thomas Bullock Minutes, in The Complete Discourses of Brigham Young, Ed.. Richard S. Van Wagoner, Smith-Pettit Foundation, Salt Lake City (2009), http://bit.ly/BY-discourses
7 - Franklin D. Richards 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 - Abraham H. Cannon Journal Excerpts, http://www.amazon.com/Apostles-Record-Journals-Abraham-1889-1896/dp/B000MFD1K4
9 - David O. McKay diary, Jan. 12, 1966; hyphens added to conceal names, in Anderson, Devery; The Development of LDS Temple Worship, 1846-2000: A Documentary History, http://amzn.to/TempleWorship
10 - Confessions of a Mormon historian : the diaries of Leonard J. Arrington, 1971-1997, Gary James Bergera, editor, Signature Books, 2018
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