On this day in Mormon History
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-- 190 years ago today - May 7, 1835 --
[Brigham Young]
tended a meting 2 miles west of Laonia - P. Pratt preachd (1)
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-- 180 years ago today - May 7, 1845 --
[Patriarchal Blessing of Robert Campbell]
.... thou shalt ... live till your satisfied with life, even to see the winding up scene of this generation stand on the earth with the Savior and reign with him a thousand years being clothed with all the power of the Priesthood. I seal these blessings upon thy head if thy faith does not fail and I seal you up to eternal life because thou art of the house and lineage of Joseph and of the blood of Ephraim even so Amen. (2)
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-- 175 years ago today - May 7, 1850 --
Brigham Young, pessimistic about converting the Indians, tells colonists in Utah Valley that the "older Indians would never enter into the New and Everlasting Covenant but that they would die and be damned (3)
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-- 175 years ago today - May 07, 1850 --
Louisa Barnes Pratt, wife of missionary Addison Pratt, is called and set apart to go to the islands of the sea with her husband to help proclaim the gospel. Louisa's calling represents an important step toward the calling of single sisters in the Church as full-time missionaries, which did not take place until 1898.
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-- 165 years ago today - May 7, 1860 --
Pres[iden]t B[righam] Young was led to remark from a passing circumstance, that a little Necromancy existed amongst us, and alluded to the deaths of cattle and hogs which had taken place; this necromancy also existed in Nauvoo. All these things shew that Hell is boiling. The President also alluded to Landerson [Samderson] the Astrologer getting away an animal from a person that would leap from the belly to the mouth up and down, when got away it appeared something like a bladder and being exposed to the air soon melted away. -- Salt Lake City (4)
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-- 155 years ago today - May 7, 1870 (Morning, Conference) --
[Brigham Young Sermon]
It is no matter with regard to the monogamy of father Adam and mother Eve, they were just enough to start the work of populating the earth. If man had lived as he ought to have lived, the earth would have been peopled quite soon enough, and to its utmost capacity, but there is enough upon it now; and if men will hearken to, obey the truth, and will cease their adulterous practices and whoredoms, cease their wickedness with the sex, and repent of their sins, we will fling up at once and will have but one wife; and if there are two or three women left with-out husbands, we will give them to the best man we can find. The reason the Lord requires His people to practice the principle of celestial marriage is to save those who are willing to be saved; (4)
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-- 140 years ago today - May 7, 1885 --
The U.S. Court in Salt Lake is running in full blast aresting Every Man they Can find who has more than one wife. All leading Men who do not want to get arested has to hide [-]. (5)
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-- 100 years ago today - May 07, 1925 --
John Scopes was arrested for teaching evolution in his Dayton, Tennessee, high school biology class. (6)
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-- 80 years ago today - May 7, 1945 --
Germany surrenders. (7)
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-- 40 years ago today - May 7, 1985 --
Ron Lafferty is found guilty of murdering his sister-in-law and her baby and is sentenced to death. He awaits execution for the two murders, while his brother Dan, who was sentenced to life, serves his time with the main population at Utah State Prison. The murders were in response to a "revelation" that Ron received. Two members of Dan's jury later claimed Dan had manipulated them by "psycho-sexual seduction." (3)
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1 - Brigham Young Journal, 1832 Apr. 9-1836, Sept. 9, typescript
2 - Patriarchal Blessings
3 - On This Day in Mormon History, http://onthisdayinmormonhistory.blogspot.com
4 - Brigham Young Office Journals, 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
5 - Wilford Woodruff's Journal: 1833-1898 Typescript, Volumes 1-9, Edited by Scott G. Kenney, Signature Books 1993, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies
6 - Cline, Austin, History of American Religion: Timeline
7 - Sherry Baker: Mormon Media History Timeline: 1827-2007, http://byustudies.byu.edu/showTitle.aspx?title=7984
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