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-- 185 years ago today - Oct 2, 1840 --
[Wilford Woodruff]
Oct 2d Elder Kimball & myself arose from our bed in the morning with the power of God resting upon us. Yea the spirit of God is like fire shut up in my bones. O my God, why is thy spirit thus upon me? Why is mine eyes this morning a fountain of tears? What art thou about to do O my God that causes this thing? I ask the father to tell it unto me in the name of Jesus Christ thy son.
Thus Saith the Lord God unto thee my servant Willford. This is my spirit that resteth upon thee to enlighten thy mind to show the things to cum not ownly upon thee but upon all my faithful servants upon the face of the whole earth. Therefore lift up thy voice & spare not for I am about to perform a great work upon the face of the earth Saith the Lord. Mine indignation is about to be poured out without mixture upon the heads of this nation & all the nations of the earth & they shall not escape. The cry of the poor, the widow & orphan is assending into mine ears Saith the Lord & I am about to avenge the cry of mine elect by laying low the oppresser & executing the decree of mine heart upon all the ungodly from among men.
Therefore I put my spirit upon the & say unto thee lift up thy voice & spare not & Call upon all men to repent that cume within the sound of thy voice & many souls shall be given unto the & great shall be thy reward & eternal shall be thy glory Saith the Lord.
The people are much stired up throughout the Potteries. They feel as they never felt before. They believ that sumthing in earnest is cuming in. Great distress is resting upon the peopl. The poor are perishing for bread through the streets. I walked to Stoke & we preached to the people. The power of God was upon us. 3 were Baptized & we confirmed them. We spent the night at Stoke. 3 miles. (1)
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-- 150 years ago today - Oct 2, 1875 --
[Orson Pratt]
"God has sent forth His warning message in the midst of this nation, but they have rejected it and treated His servants with contempt; the Lord has gathered out His people from their midst, and has planted them here in these mountains; and He will speedily fulfill the prophecy in relation to the overthrow of this nation, and their destruction. We shall be obliged to have a government to preserve ourselves in unity and peace; for they, through being wasted away, will not have the power to govern; for state will be divided against state, city against city, town against town, and the whole country will be in terror and confusion; mobocracy will prevail and there will be no security, through this great Republic, for the lives or property of the people." (2)
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-- 135 years ago today - Oct 2, 1890 --
The matter being introduced by President Woodruff, after due consideration, Brother F[rancis]. M. Lyman moved that it be the sense of the Council that we fully approve and will sustain the manifesto on plural marriage issued by President Woodruff. Seconded by A[nthon]. H. Lund and carried unanimously. The question of the advice to be given those brethren who were brought before the courts for adultery and unlawful cohabitation with regard to promising to obey the law, was taken up and considered at length. President George Q. Cannon moved that we use our influence quietly with our brethren (not openly to bring us in conflict with the Manifesto) to prevent them going into court and promising to obey the law, and that negotiations be entered into looking to an arrangement between ourselves and the Government as to how in the future polygamists should treat their already existing families. Seconded by President Joseph F. Smith and carried unanimously. (3)
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[Heber J. Grant]
At noon attended a meeting of the Presidency and Apostles in the Gardo House. Prest. Woodruff wished to have the expressions of the brethren regarding the Manifesto and a vote was taken fully endorsing it. There was a feeling that it would be a good thing to have theManifesto voted on at Conference by the people among some of the brethren and with others that it should not be referred to only so far as to tell the saints that it had the approval of the Counselors of Presidnet Woodruff and the Aprostles. I wanted the announcement made but did not want it put to the saints for a vote. There was no decision made but we were requested to make the matter a subject of prayer and then we could decide on some action in the premises. Our meeting was an interesing [sic] one and Prest. Woodruff explained the reasons that caused him to publish the Manifesto. The question came up that now our enemies would demand that our people come into court and promise to obey the law and to descard their
wives. Prest. Woodruff said that he would see them in the very best possible kind of a hell first. He said that htere was no telling what we might have to do in the future, but at the present time he felthtat we must be true to our wives. There was a motion carried that we use our influence privately to get our people not to promise to desert their wives when they are taken into court. (4)
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-- 130 years ago today - Oct 2, 1895 --
[Brigham Young Jr.]
Bro[ther] Moses T[hatcher]. called upon Pres[iden]ts [George Q.] C[annon] & [Joseph F.] S[mith]. were present. Bro[ther]. M[oses]. talked as he did to me quite set in his opinions that he was illy used by Pres[idency]. & Twelve. He could see how the Pres[idency]. can dictate to him or anyone else in political matters in which I think he is right, but how Bro[ther]. M[oses]. T[hatcher]. can throw down the responsibilities of his priesthood and pick up politics without consulting the authority under which he has covenanted to labor is beyond my comprehension. He throws away the Priesthood & hugs politics, rendering fealty to the world at the same time inconstant to his former vows. (5)
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-- 130 years ago today - Wednesday, Oct 2, 1895 --
Bro. [Marriner W.] Merrill gave us an account of dreams and visions given to him, also a marvelous escape from death being rescued by an unseen hand when a large log had rolled upon him and he was unable to help himself. He lost himself and when he came to, his wagon was loaded and he was on it riding home and fully one mile from where the accident had occured. (6)
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-- 115 years ago today - Oct 2,1910 --
First anti-Mormon film, Victim of the Mormons ("Mormonens Offer"), opens in Copenhagen, Denmark. Film goes into international distribution, is publicly condemned by Apostle David O. McKay at next general conference. It is target of first censorship effort led by Utah governor (William Spry, LDS). (7)
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-- 50 years ago today - Oct 2, 1975 --
The conclusion of the last Relief Society conference. The Primary and Young Women's organizations held their last conferences the previous Apr. and June. Beginning in September 1978, there are annual meetings for women, but these lack the several days of training workshops previously directed by women. (8)
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[Leonard J. Arrington]
A Relief Society conference is held on the heels of conferences in April and June for the Primary and Young Women organizations. The format is changed to eliminate training workshops directed by women. Confusion caused by general authorities repeating the same addresses to all three conferences results three years later in limiting the Relief Society to an annual evening meeting in April and the Young Women to a short evening program in September, while dropping the Primary from the conference schedule altogether. (9)
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-- 40 years ago today - Oct 2, 1985 --
A letter from the LDS Church Education System's Zone Administrators of Curriculum and Instruction Division to area directors, associate area directors, teaching support consultants, CES coordinators, institute directors, and seminary principals: "Even if the letters [circulated by mark Hofmann] were to be unauthentic [as they are], such issues as Joseph Smith's involvement in treasure-seeking and folk magic remain. Ample evidence exists for both of these, even without the letters. The publicity surrounding the letters served only to heighten the general public's awareness of these two issues." (8)
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1 - Wilford Woodruff's Journal: 1833-1898 Typescript, Volumes 1-9, Edited by Scott G. Kenney, Signature Books 1993, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies
2 - Orson Pratt, Deseret Evening News, Oct. 2, 187, as quoted in The Last Days and December 1890 2nd Coming of Jesus Christ, y George D. Speer Sr., privately circulated
3 - First Presidency Office Journal, 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
4 - Diary of Heber J. Grant, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies
5 - Brigham Young Jr. 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
6 - 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
7 - 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
8 - The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn, [New Mormon History database (http://bit.ly/NMHdatabase)]
9 - Chronology, in Confessions of a Mormon historian : the diaries of Leonard J. Arrington, 1971-1997, Gary James Bergera, editor, chronology by Joseph Geisner, and Lavina Fielding Anderson
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