On this day in Mormon History
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-- 185 years ago today - Oct 18, 1840 --
[Wilford Woodruff]
.... I felt the spirit of God bear testimony that there would be a work in London.
We retired to rest in good season & I felt well in my mind & slept untill 12 at night. I awoke & meditated upon the things of God untlll near 3 oclock & while forming a determination to warn the people in London & overcome the powers of Darkness by the assistance of God; A person appeared unto me which I considerd was the Prince of Darkness or the Devel. He made war with me & attempted to take my life. He caught me by the throat & choaked me nearly to death. He wounded me in my forehead. I also wounded him in a number of places in the head. As he was about to overcome me I prayed to the father in the name of Jesus for help. I then had power over him & he left me though much wounded.
3 personage dressed in white Came to me & prayed with me & I was immediately healed & delivered me from all my troubles. (1)
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-- 150 years ago today - Oct 18, 1875 --
Patriarchal Blessing of Horatio Morrill by John L. Smith ... thou are ... entitled to all he gifts blessings and promises pertaining to the new and everlasting covenant the Priesthood or fullness with wives and children a mighty host which will be stars in thy crown given thee of thy Saviour for thou shalt stand on Mount Zion with the 140 and four thousand Thy name recorded among the righteous. Thy guardian angel hath and will continue to watch thy feet that they slip not... At thy command mountains be removed springs break forth in dry places the dead raised, prison walls burst assunder [asunder], the captives set free. ... (2)
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-- 125 years ago today - Oct 18, 1900; Thursday --
Brother Isaac Riddle, of Provo [Utah], in a communication to the Presidency, offered to donate $25,000. to a fund for the redemption of the center stake of Zion, this donation to be largely in real estate. (3)
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-- 80 years ago today - Oct 18, 1945 --
Ranking LDS General Authorities adopted an ambitious program—the first large-scale humanitarian outreach in Mormon history—to initiate overseas shipments of desperately needed food and clothing [following WWII]. They assigned Elders John A. Widtsoe, the Church's only living Europe-born apostle, and Thomas E. McKay, former European Mission president, to "make contact with all European missions" and to find "ways and means to send food and clothing to those [Saints] in need." (4)
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-- 45 years ago today - Oct 18, 1980 --
A Church News article about the LDS institute of religion at university: "Kim R. Rogers was warmly received despite [his] long hair, liberal attitudes.." (5)
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1 - Wilford Woodruff's Journal: 1833-1898 Typescript, Volumes 1-9, Edited by Scott G. Kenney, Signature Books 1993, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies
2 - Patriarchal Blessings
3 - First Presidency and Quorum of the Twelve minutes
4 - Gary James Bergera, "Ezra Taft Benson's 1946 Mission to Europe" Journal of Mormon History 34:2 (Spring 2008)
5 - The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn, [New Mormon History database (http://bit.ly/NMHdatabase)]
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