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-- 195 years ago today - Nov 20, 1830 --
Letter to the Editor: "You have probably heard of the Gold Bible taken from the earth by Joseph, the money-digger. This he has translated from the Egyptian reformed language to English, by a pair of stone spectacles (provided by an angel) and a dark hat before his eyes. The books have been printed, and J.S. [Josiah Stowell?] and Mr. N--s [Joseph Knight(s), Sr.?] are engaged in peddling the same. The society are increasing. Eighteen have been baptized in a day. ... The leaders pretend to cast out devils and work miracles, heal the sick, &c. We have seen none of their miracles here, except N.N. [Newel Knight] I heard say in meeting, that he had the devil cast out." I just add, that I have been almost in contact with these peddlers in different parts of this county, having my information from them only through most credible second hand informers, who state that they said, they know the book, and the manner in which it is said to have been found, was true; or that they did not
believe it, but know it. They are said to be respectable men. The wife of one of them, though immersed formerly by an Elder in this county, has been immersed or baptized again into this new system. I only state facts, and leave the judicious and pious to their own reflections.
CLERICUS. (1)
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-- 190 years ago today - Nov 20, 1835 --
[Joseph Smith]
We spent the day in translating [from Egyptian papyri] and made rapid progress.
At evening, President [Oliver] Cowdery returned from New York bringing with him a quantity of Hebrew books for the benefit of the school. He presented me with a Hebrew Bible, lexicon and grammar, also a Greek Lexicon and Webster's English Lexicon. (2)
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-- 140 years ago today - Nov 20, 1885 --
[Wilford Woodruff]
"I was Just informed that Lorenzo Snow was arested at Brigham City." [He was returning from a mission among Indian tribes in the Northwest, when arrested for unlawful cohabitation. After a trial and unsuccessful appeals, he was taken to the Utah Territorial Penitentiary on March 12, 1886.] (3)
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-- 50 years ago today - Nov 20, 1975-Thursday --
[Leonard Arrington]
After the meeting of executives I met with Elder Robert D. Hales for a period of 30 or 40 minutes. Here are random memories of the conversation. He said he is attempting to bring a little imagination, courage, and spontaneity into the church magazines. He feels that Doyle Green's regime [1970-72] has been autocratic, that he had been peremptory in what he would permit and not permit, and the result is loss of spontaneity. We end up with bland, milk-toast articles that are not creative and stimulating. Having been criticized and beaten down repeatedly, they quit fighting and publish[ed] lots of pretty pictures. ... "Why did you put in so many pictures in the New Era?" "Because it is simpler to put pictures than some text that they will get after us for!" Anyway, he encourages us to submit once more some teenager stories from Church History and thinks they will be a little more permissive of historical truth than they may have been in the past. The same goes true of the Ensign. Says
they are planning a special women's issue of the Ensign for March. This will feature an article by Claudia Bushman, poetry by Carol Lynn Pearson, and other things. ... he thinks they have got to be less paranoid in what they will accept for publication. There was a poem of Carol Lynn Pearson which they had accepted, ran it through Correlation, and Correlation came back with objection to a line which talked of people with spears. They didn't like that line "because she really means women libbers.["] He said he told them to get out of the office-that was ridiculous. They also suggested she change a line which said she had learned that her Heavenly Father was as smart as ... And she will [have to] change it to "smarter than ..." He said it is slow to change an institution-to get it moved where it needs to be, must be [aggressive]. ... Said he sympathized with our problems. Certain things are history-our history-but need they be said? Like the BY [Brigham Young] letters to his sons.
Did we need to mention that one of Brigham Young's sons had trouble with drugs, with the bottle? It's history, but need it be mentioned? He said he had given up the goal of getting unanimous feeling among the brethren. Among the 15 [First Presidency and Twelve Apostles] there are some who feel strongly on this, some on that, and he now feels that one can't be pushed by one person alone to do or not to do something. Must consider what the majority are willing to support. (4)
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-- 40 years ago today - Nov 20, 1985 --
Mark Hofmann's attorney announces that Hofmann passed the polygraph test and thus did not kill Sheets and Christensen. (5)
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1 - Letter to editor, Brattleboro' (VT) Messenger, 20 November 1830., as cited in Dan Vogel, Early Mormon Documents: Brattleboro' (Vt) Messenger
2 - Faulring, Scott (ed.), An American Prophet's Record: The Diaries and Journals of Joseph Smith: Joseph Smith Diary, 1835-36, http://amzn.to/jsdiaries
3 - Wilford Woodruff's Journal: 1833-1898 Typescript, Volumes 1-9, Edited by Scott G. Kenney, Signature Books 1993, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies
4 - Confessions of a Mormon historian : the diaries of Leonard J. Arrington, 1971-1997, Gary James Bergera, editor, Signature Books, 2018
5 - Whittaker, David J., The Hofmann Maze, A Book Review Essay with a Chronology and Bibliography of the Hofmann Case, BYU Studies Vol. 29, No. 1, pg.80,
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