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-- 180 years ago today - Aug 7, 1845 --
This morning I dreamed I saw brother Joseph Smith and as I was going about my business he says brother Brigham don't be in a hurry, this was repeated the second and third time, when it came in a degree of sharpness. -- Nauvoo, Illinois (1)
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-- 135 years ago today - Aug 7, 1890 --
[Brigham Young Jr.]
Pres[iden]t L[orenzo] Snow said none of the Twelve shall loose one of their children if they do not commit the unpardonable sin. (2)
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The First Presidency and apostles agree to loan $5,000 to the Church of Christ, Temple Lot, as a mortgage on part of their property in Independence, Missouri. Elder Hall of this "Hedrickite" group originally offers seven lots for $20,000 mortgage. (3)
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[Heber J. Grant]
At 2 attended a meeting of the First Presidency and Apostles in the Gardo House. All of the Presidency, ten of the Apostles and Counselor Wells were present. Thirteen clothed and we had a prayer circle. It was one of the largest circles that I have ever attended of the Presidency and Apostles. After our prayer circle we adjourned to the lower room of the Gardo and held a long meeting. It lasted until about seven PM ... The subjects that were talked about were Arizona Politics, the loaning of money to the Hedrickites on the Temple site. The Cannon House, The Street Car Stock sold Armstrong. Pres[iden]t Cannon's connection with the Bullion Beck and Champion Mining Co. It was decided that the Presidency of the Arizona Stakes should meet some of the brethren in California and that a decision should then be arrived at on Arizona politics. It was the opinion of those present that we should not vote solidly for either of the National Political Parties. Decided to loan $15,000 on the
Temple Site ... (4)
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-- 110 years ago today - Aug 7, 1915; Saturday --
[James E. Talmage]
Practically every spare moment of my time since my return from San Francisco has been given up to the revision of copy and reading of proofs for the book "Jesus the Christ" the printing of which is now well advanced. (5)
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-- 90 years ago today - Aug 7, 1935 --
[Joseph Anderson]
President Grant, to whom your letter of August 6 is addressed, is in the East at the present time.
I suggest that it would be better for you to confide in the Bishop of your Ward, who understands the nature of your husband better than does President Grant. We will say this, however, that it is a good thing for a man to realize that woman is mistress of her own body. (6)
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-- 85 years ago today - Aug 7, 1940 --
[President Heber J. Grant]
I did not go to sleep last night until after midnight. I was thinking of the political situation, and Franklin D. Roosevelt's running for a third term. I am unalterably opposed, and I doubt whether I am justified in keeping quiet. I feel that it is an outrage that any man should aspire to a third term in view of the history of all our Presidents up to the present time and the feeling of the people generally. I realize that it would create a good deal of ill will on the part of the people, but I think the way he secured the nomination was an outrage. As a gambler would say, 'the deck was packed to a fare-thee-well.' I just couldn't sleep. (4)
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-- 80 years ago today - Aug 7, 1945 --
[Joseph Fielding Smith]
The papers reported the dropping of an 'atom' bomb on Hiroshima, Japan which was more powerful than 200,000 tons of TNT. It practically destroyed the entire city. The terror of such warfare is appalling and the lengths that human beings can go to in bitter and deadly conflict is horrorfying. What can happen to the world if this report is true? (7)
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1 - 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
2 - Brigham Young Jr., Diary, as quoted in Minutes of the Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1835-1951, Electronic Edition, 2015
3 - The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn, [New Mormon History database ( http://bit.ly/NMHdatabase )]
4 - Diary of Heber J. Grant, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies
5 - James E. Talmage, Diary
6 - Joseph Anderson, Letter to Mrs. W. E. Cozzens, 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 - Joseph Fielding Smith 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
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