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-- 190 years ago today - 23 March 1836 - Wednesday --
[Joseph Smith]
Attended School - this is a pleasant day and fine sleighing- 2. more were received into the church by baptism (1)
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-- 170 years ago today - Mar 23, 1856 (Evening) --
[Brigham Young]
If some bring slaves they must not sell them but treat them well and send them to school. I don't want one word about it in the constitution, don't mouth it one way or the other. I wish you to define your position on slavery... One line is the traffic in slaves to buy and sell and if a black man strikes a white man he can be killed without any law - then there is the abolition question - the children of Ham were trafficked in as slaves - do we want the southern slavery, the northern abolition or the decree of God? -- Salt Lake City (2)
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-- 80 years ago today - March 23-24, 1946 --
[Ezra Taft Benson in post WWII Europe]
(Berlin) "The worst destruction I have witnessed was seen today," he wrote. ". . . I smelled the odor of decaying human bodies, saw half-starved women paying exorbitant prices anxiously for potato peelings." "The sisters have been ravished . . .," he continued. "Some have been beaten and flogged to insensibility, others murdered and still others deported . . ." "Words cannot begin to describe the ruin that has been heaped upon this once proud city," he told the First Presidency. "Traveling amid such surroundings leaves one with a feeling so appalling that it must be experienced to be understood." "The job of taking care of our Saints ...is over whelming," he admitted, "and as we contemplate their rehabilitation, it becomes staggering." (3)
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-- 60 years ago today - Mar 23, 1966 --
[David O. McKay] "I told Brother [Ezra Taft Benson] Benson that I think it would be best for him not to speak at strictly John Birch Society meetings, but approved of his filling speaking appointments already accepted which were not associated with this group." (4)
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1 - Joseph Smith, "Sketch Book for the use of Joseph Smith, jr.," Journal, Sept. 1835-Apr. 1836
2 - The Complete Discourses of Brigham Young, Ed. Richard S. Van Wagoner, Smith-Pettit Foundation, Salt Lake City (2009), http://bit.ly/BY-discourses
3 - Gary James Bergera, "Ezra Taft Benson's 1946 Mission to Europe" Journal of Mormon History 34:2 (Spring 2008)
4 - David O. McKay diary as referenced in Gregory A. Prince and Wm. Robert Write, David O. McKay and the Rise of Modern Mormonism. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press (2005)
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