Today in Mormon History - May 30

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-- 185 years ago today - 1841: 30 May --
[Patriarchal Blessing]
James Newberry. (Given by Hyrum Smith.)

"... thou art a descendant of Nathan that Prophet, that with boldness said thou art the very man; when he stood in the presence of the King. (1)
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[Patriarchal Blessing]
Mary Newberry. (Given by Hyrum Smith.)

"... Behold I seal upon your head the comforter the second comforter even the promise of eternal life to come forth and chear [sic] your heart in the day of affliction and tribulation that when you read these sacred words and your heart shall leap with joy you shall know the promise is true. (1)
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-- 180 years ago today - May 30, 1846 --
[William Clayton]
Went and borrowed A[aron] Farr's ornaments and robe. Then rode with Dr. Richards about 3 miles on the prairie. There were 5 others and carriages[.] President Young [brought our two tents]. We fixed them up and then met and clothed. There was President B[righam] Young, H[eber] C. Kimball, P[arley] P. Pratt, W[illard] Richards, O[rson] Pratt, J[ohn] Taylor, Geo[rge] A. Smith, A[masa] Lyman, John Smith, N[ewel] K. Whitney, D[aniel] Spencer, O[rson] Spencer, C[harles] C. Rich, E[zra] T. Benson, W[illia]m Huntington and myself. Clothed and having offered up the signs [and then] offered up prayer[,] H. C. Kimball being mouth. We then conversed a while and prayed again, G. A. Smith being mouth. A[lbert] P. Rockwood and W[illiam] Kimball were guarding the tent. Prayers were offered that we might be delivered from our enemies and have teams to go on our journey &c. About 2 o'clock we returned to camp. (2)
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-- 165 years ago today - May 30, 1861 --
[Brigham Young]
In his sermon, when speaking of the Mountain Meadows Massacre, he [Pres. Young] said: Do you know who those people were that were killed at the Mountain Meadows? I will tell you who those people were. They were fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters, uncles, aunts, cousins and children of those who killed the Saints, and drove them from Missouri, and afterwards killed our Prophets in Carthage jail. ... And yet after all this, I am told that there are many of the brethren who are willing to inform upon and swear against the brethren who were engaged in that affair. I hope there is no truth in this report. I hope there is no such person here, under the sound of my voice. But if there is, I will tell you my opinion of you, and the fact so far as your fate is concerned. Unless you repent at once of that unholy intention, and keep the secret of all that you know, you will die a dog's death, and be damned, and go to hell. I do not want to hear of any more treachery among my people. -- Fort
Harmony, Utah (3)
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At 4 P.M. he [Pres. Young] preached 120 minutes in my family hall. Said this was the best fort that had ever been built in this territory. Reproved the Bishops for using tithing [for personal ends], Bishop R. D. Covington in particular. ... Pres. Young said that the company that was used [killed] up at the Mountain Meadows were the fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters and connections of those that murdered the Prophets; they merited their fate, and the only thing that ever troubled him was the lives of the women and children, but that under circumstances could not be avoided. Although there had been [some] that wanted to betray the brethren into the hands of their enemies, for that thing [they] will be damned and go down to hell. I would be glad to see one of those traitors, though I [don't] suppose that there is any here now. They have ran away, and when he came to the monument that contained their bones, he made this remark: '"Vengeance is mine, saith the Lord, and I have taken a
little of it.'" -- Fort Harmony, Utah (3)
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-- 160 years ago today - May 30, 1866 --
[Brigham Young]
I heard Joseph Smith say about thirty two years ago, when the State of Missouri refused to redress the wrongs of our brethren who were driven from Jackson County, if the Government of the United States and the State of Missouri did not take up that matter and redress the wrongs of this innocent people, they should have mob upon mob, until the country, east and west, north and south, would be subject to one continual scene of mob violence. If we have not already seen the fulfillment of this, we will, for it will come, as the Lord lives, if we do not repent of our sins as a nation, and refrain from persecuting the innocent, and those that love and serve God according to the best of their ability. Many of you will live to see mobs rule and reign, until the only law of the land will be mob law among all the people who will not serve God; and the time will come that he, who will not take up his sword against his neighbor, must needs flee to Zion. ...

In regard to the Haunts Mill massacre, I will remark that it never would have occurred if the Counsel of the prophet Joseph had been strictly obeyed.... (3)
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-- 150 years ago today - May 30, 1876 (Tuesday) --

The mail coach was robbed near the Sevier river, in Juab County. (4)
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-- 65 years ago today - May 30, 1961 --

The Church News describes Duad Sahim as the "first Asiatic Indian to be ordained an elder in the Church." (5)
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1 - Typescript; RLDS Archives, Up N423, in Selected LDS Patriarchal Blessings, New Mormon Studies CD ROM, Signature Book, 2009, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies
2 - William Clayton diary, May 30, 1846, in Anderson, Devery; The Development of LDS Temple Worship, 1846-2000: A Documentary History, http://amzn.to/TempleWorship
3 - Mormonism Unveiled 258-259, 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
4 - Jenson, Andrew, Church Chronology
5 - The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn, [New Mormon History database (http://bit.ly/NMHdatabase)]