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-- 180 years ago today - Aug 3, 1845 --
[Brigham Young]
Well, it is no matter what day we observe or rest upon, if we rest the seventh part of the time. I don't remember that I have lived a Sabbath but I broke it; if we kindle a fire, we break it; if we prepare our victuals, we break it, if we eat, we break it. The fact is, in order to keep the Sabbath we must lie in bed all day and scarcely breathe. I take everything in life as it comes. I live for my friends and will seek to do everything in my power to heal them when they are sick, that is good to nourish and sustain their sinking nature. And if I could not heal them and they must die. ... (1)
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-- 150 years ago today - Aug 3, 1875 --
[Wilford Woodruff]
I spent the Evening with Bulah. Mrs Woodruff anointed her and I Blessed her of (2)
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-- 145 years ago today - Aug 3, 1880 --
The Mormon Salt Lake Herald reports that "not one-fourth of the registered voters" vote. (3)
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-- 105 years ago today - Aug 3, 1920 --
It was reported that the old Historian's Office had been turned over to the L.D.S. University and would be operated in connection with the Gardo House as part of the L.D.S. School of Music. ... President Guy C. Wilson of the L.D.S.U. states that he conferred with Brother Hooper who agreed that the University School of Music be permitted to occupy the old Historian's Office. (4)
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-- 50 years ago today - Aug 3, 1975-Sunday --
[Leonard Arrington]
I should tell also something I heard in the Friday meeting of Bob Thomas, Frank Fox, and myself with Ernest Wilkinson about volume 3 of the BYU history. Someone made a remark about the frenzy with which President [Spencer W.] Kimball has been traveling here and there, making talks. His wife and his counselors became concerned, and entered into a conspiracy to ask his doctor, Ernest Wilkinson, Jr., to counsel him on a medical basis to cut down this activity. So Dr. Wilkinson agreed to do so, and gave him counsel, larded with medical language, about why he should cut his activity some. President Kimball merely looked at him somewhat impatiently and said, "Dr., if you knew what I know, you would not be trying to put a break [brake] on my work." (5)
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-- 45 years ago today - Aug 3, 1980 --
Three BYU students are injured (Peter Bergstrom, a Swede, critically) in a terroristt bombing of the railway station of Bologna, Italy. (3)
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1 - Sermons and Writings of the Restoration. 4 Vols. Ogden Kraut, ed. Pioneer Press, 1994. 1:67-79; Manuscript. f 219, 81, quoted in The Complete Discourses of Brigham Young, Ed. Richard S. Van Wagoner, Smith-Pettit Foundation, Salt Lake City (2009), http://bit.ly/BY-discourses
2 - Wilford Woodruff's Journal: 1833-1898 Typescript, Volumes 1-9, Edited by Scott G. Kenney, Signature Books 1993, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies
3 - The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn, [New Mormon History database ( http://bit.ly/NMHdatabase )]
4 - First Presidency, Meeting with Presiding Bishopric, Minutes, as quoted in Minutes of the Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1835-1951, Electronic Edition, 2015
5 - Confessions of a Mormon historian : the diaries of Leonard J. Arrington, 1971-1997, Gary James Bergera, editor, Signature Books, 2018
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