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-- 180 years ago today - Apr 23, 1845 --
[Nauvoo Neighbor]
Letter to John Taylor about the Whistling and Whittling Brigade [a group that intimidates critics] -- Signed, "A.H." -- Describes some recent actions taken by the whistling and whittling brigade.
- Story: Rigdon Forms New Church Leadership -- Signed, "Pelagaram" -- Announces Sidney Rigdon's appointment of a new quorum of Twelve and Seventy....
- Announcement: Sale of Some of Joseph Smith's Estate -- Emma signs as "Guardian," and offers some of Joseph's Land for sale. (1)
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[Wilford Woodruff]
I looked over Elder Lorenzo D. Barnes Trunk. ...I carefully filed them all with his own compositions & Journals Patriarchal Blessings [and other items] of which I carefully put in a package & sealed it with wax & stamped it with a large Masonic Stamp ...
After I retired to rest at night I fell asleep And had the following dream: I was in company with a number of the Twelve & other Brethren. I thought I had Just returned to Nauvoo from my English mission. We met with Br Joseph Smith the Prophet. I shook hands with him And asked him if he & his family were well. He said they were. I Thought the endowment had been given & he was counciling us about taking a mission abroad some portion of the time. While talkinghe sat in a Chair & leaned upon my breast. He said he was going to take a mission to India & pointed out the man to go with him but I cannot now call him by name. G. A. Smith asked liberty of Joseph to become better acquainted with me or to spend more time with me that we might be prepared to take a mission together. It was granted him. O Pratt had his mission appointed I do not know whare. Lyman Wight was spoken of. Do not recollect what was said. We had an interesting time together. All seemed happy to once more see
the Prophet. (2)
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-- 145 years ago today - 1880 Apr 23 --
SLTrib publishes 11/1/1825 agreement for Stowell treasure dig (3)
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-- 135 years ago today - Apr 23, 1890 --
[Apostle Abraham H. Cannon]
I listened this forenoon to a narration by Bp. Timothy Winters of Rexburg [Idaho] of the course of [Stake] Pres. Thos. E. Ricks of the Bannock Stake. Bro. Winters has received notice to prepare for a mission to New Zealand in August next, and he believes that Pres. R. has been instrumental in having him called through spite because their views have not been alike. I learned through Bp. Winters, whom I am at liberty to quote as authority, that Pres. R. is very arbitrary in his way thus creating a feeling against him among the people. He also drinks and has been seen more than once in a drunken condition. About five weeks ago as he was returning from Salt Lake he joined some of the Home Missionaries who had been laboring in Eagle Rock and Pocatello and rode with them to Market Lake. At the latter place as they were waiting for a team to convey them to Rexburg, he invited these brethren and some strangers who were present to step up to the bar and drink with him and then play cards.
The brethren refused to drink, but indulged in card-playing. He, however, drank until he was intoxicated and also played cards. These matters are talked about in the stake and are sure to injure his standing. ... (4)
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-- 125 years ago today - Apr 23, 1900 --
[Apostle Marriner W. Merrill]
Monday. Richmond. I attended Priesthood Meeting at 10 a. m., about 65 of the Brethren present. Bishop Skidmore resigned as Bishop and the resignation was accepted, and Thomas Hazen Merrill was chosen by 33 persons to fill his place. There were 35 names presented, ranging from 1 to 33 votes; 33 for T. H. Merrill was 12 more than any other one got. Alma Merrill got the next highest vote, 21, and August Schow and James Funk got the next highest, 15 and 12 each, and they were chosen Counselors to the Bishop. In the afternoon a full congregation was in attendance of all the people and the action of the Priesthood Meeting was ratified. (5)
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-- 75 years ago today - Apr 23, 1950 --
[Spencer W. Kimball]
A MIRACLE Certainly it was a miracle when my voice cleared up so nearly immediately after administration by Elders Lee and Pres. Clark and Elder Moyle. People calling me on the telephone (Ida Romney and others) who heard me answer were almost shocked. Pres. Clark was overjoyed when he heard my voice. Since the blessing it has been strong and not too harsh. For ten days prior thereto I could hardly make a sound that could be heard more than a few feet. How grateful I am the Lord [?]. I am positive that nothing that the Doctors were doing had or did affect that change. (6)
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-- 65 years ago today - Apr 23, 1960 --
THE CHURCH NEWS quotes First Presidency Counselor Reuben J. Clark: "I am not a strict constructionalist, believing that we seal our eternal progress by what we do here. It is my belief that God will save all of His children that he can; and while, if we live unrighteously here, we shall not go to the other side in the same status, so to speak, as those who lived righteously; nevertheless, the unrighteous will have their chance, and in the eons of the eternities that are to follow, they, too, may climb to the destinies to which they who are righteous and serve God, have climbed to those eternities that are to come" (7)
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-- 40 years ago today - Apr 23, 1985 --
Alvin Rust advances Hofmann $150,000 to purchase "McLellin Collection" in New York City. Hofmann later tells Rust that he has sold the McLellin Collection to the LDS church for $300,000. (8)
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1 - http://boap.org/LDS/Nauvoo-Neighbor
2 - Wilford Woodruff's Journal: 1833-1898 Typescript, Volumes 1-9, Edited by Scott G. Kenney, Signature Books 1993, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies
3 - https://docs.google.com/document/d/10ttN3vOzf2UcVhruCrvDf9pF27T0o0PP0Xj1X98tKBc/edit?fbclid=IwAR3HXLgL-X-M_c5LT2W-_F7AYqsqqaQ0yIhfNuyeFsX85irSPuEO6_Q993A
4 - Abraham H. Cannon (Author), Edward Leo Lyman (Editor), Candid Insights of a Mormon Apostle: The Diaries of Abraham H. Cannon, 1889-1895, Signature Books
5 - Notes from the Miscellaneous Record Book, 1886-1906: Selected diary notes from the journal books of Marriner Wood Merrill, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies
6 - Spencer W. Kimball 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
7 - On This Day in Mormon History, http://onthisdayinmormonhistory.blogspot.com
8 - 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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