Today in Mormon History - Sep 25

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On this day in Mormon History http://TodayInMormonHistory.com/ -- 165 years ago today - Sep 25, 1860 -- I never saw Presidet Young feel Better. He gave a short address... He blessed the Saints, and gave instruction to the Sisters upon the subject of wearing Hoops. He said when we followed that Custom we followed the Custom of Hores & prostitute women and all who ware large hoops expose themselves and show there folly. He advised the Sisters to lay them aside.... (1) ---------------------- -- 135 years ago today - Sep 25, 1890 -- .... Upon examining the papers this morning we found there was a very meager account of President [Wilford] Woodruff's manifesto [issued the previous day]. We sent for Brother W. B. Dougall and got him to prepare a dispatch to the Associated Press agent at Chicago [Illinois], asking him to publish it in full, and whatever charges there were would be met. ... Brother [Hiram B.] Clawson was requested to translate the manifesto into cipher and send it to Colonel [Isaac] Trumbo for publication in California. Brother Lorenzo Snow failed to come down yesterday, but reached here today, and the manifesto was submitted to him. He read it carefully and approved of it, and also thought it a judicious move to have it issued at the present time. A copy of the manifesto was also sent to Brother John T. Caine, and he was requested to have it published as widely as possible. (2) ---------------------- At 2pm met with 3 1st Pres[iden]ts & L[orenzo]. Snow for prayer at Gardo House ... deliberated about the Manifesto as LS was not present then [yesterday]. (3) ---------------------- -- 135 years ago today - Sept 25, 1890 -- Wilford Woodruff writes in his diary: "arived at a point in the History of my life as the President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints whare I am under the necessity of acting for the Temporal Salvation of the Church. The United State Governmet has taken a Stand & passed Laws to destroy the Latter day Saints upon the Subjet of poligamy or Patriarchal order of Marriage. And after Praying to the Lord & feeling inspired by his spirit I have issued . . . [a] Proclamation which is sustained by my Councillors and the 12 Apostles." The Church had been disincorporated and all its property in excess of $50,000 confiscated by the federal government; more than a thousand men had been sentenced to prison for unlawful cohabitation. In February the Supreme Court had upheld the Idaho law which disfranchised anyone unwilling to take an oath denouncing plural marriage. (4) ---------------------- -- 130 years ago today - Sep 25, 1895 -- [Franklin D. Richards] Sister Mary Bowdige Berry Smith asks me what about & why Angus M. Cannon will not sign her recommend to the Temple to do work in connexion with her son James F. Smith by her 2nd husband that she may be sealed to his father & he to them because she married & had two dau[ghter]'s by a former husband James Preston Berry who had negro blood in him. (2) ---------------------- -- 125 years ago today - Sep 25, 1900; Tuesday -- An order for $94.50 was issued in favor of Sister Susa Y. Gates which is to pay her fare to Toronto [Canada] and return where she is going to deliver an address by invitation before the National Women's association of which she is a director. (5) ---------------------- -- 115 years ago today - Sunday, Sep 25, 1910 -- [Second Counselor John Henry Smith] The funeral of President Bathsheba W. Bigler Smith of the Relief Societies of the Church was held at 2 p.m. in the Tabernacle. (6) ---------------------- 1 - Wilford Woodruff's Journal: 1833-1898 Typescript, Volumes 1-9, Edited by Scott G. Kenney, Signature Books 1993, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies 2 - Franklin D. Richards 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 3 - Diary Excerpts of Franklin D. Richards, 1887-1897, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies 4 - On This Day in Mormon History, http://onthisdayinmormonhistory.blogspot.com 5 - First Presidency and Quorum of the Twelve minutes 6 - Jean Bickmore White (editor), Church, State, and Politics: The Diaries of John Henry Smith, Signature Books in association with Smith Research Associates, Salt Lake City, 1990, http://bit.ly/johnhenrysmith via todayinmormonhistory-email https://ift.tt/kR4JQ6m Manage Unsubscribe from these notifications or sign in to manage your Email service.