Today in Mormon History - Aug 04

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-- 185 years ago today - Aug 4, 1837 --
[Heber C. Kimball]
We adminersted the sackrement and the[n] we lade on hands upon 26. The Lord was with us. B. Hide had a vission of an angel he was in the poster [position] of recording those blessing that we was conferming upon them, so we felt to Rejoice to think the Lord Excepted of those thing that we was dowing. The power of God was with us. (1)
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-- 180 years ago today - Aug 4, 1842 --

Woodruff recorded in his journal that Smith told Mormon missionaries “to ‘confine’ their activities ‘to the free states’ and not go into any of the ‘Slave States’.” Bringhurst feels this was due to southern antipathy to Mormonism as “a northern-based movement” with “distinctive doctrines and teachings” peculiar to a Yankee world-view that the southerners could not embrace. (2)
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The first rafts carrying high-quality wood from Church-operated sawmills in the Black River area of Wisconsin arrive for the temple project. (3)
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-- 175 years ago today - Aug 4, 1847 --

H. C. Kimball to bro Tubbs [charged with adultry] & those concerned. [I]ts my advice'I am for Sal[vatio]n. & never had any o[the]r. intentions since I came into the Ch[urch]'[A]ny man or woman who varies from right are destined for damn[ation]. If I violated my Cov[e]n[ant]. I wo[ul]d. come bef[ore]. my bre[thre]n & tell [them] all ab[ou]t. [it], if there was a chance of Sal[vatio]n. I sho[ul]d. want it'& if it was to take my head of[f] my shoulders its better for me to die than to go to hell'I sa[y] this to bro Tubbs & those concerned'for it will turn to rust & corrupt[io]n.'I sa[y] bro Tubbs now save yourself'tell it to the Council & they['l]l save you'unless you have sinned unto death. (4)
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-- 165 years ago today - Tuesday, Aug 4, 1857 --

Fancher party arrives in Great Salt Lake City

Brigham Young appoints Jacob Hamblin president of the Southern Indian Mission in a letter.

"Another emigrant train with a large drove of cattle arrived in G.S.L. City." (5)
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-- 145 years ago today - Aug 4, 1877 --

Brigham Young obtains a cancellation of his debts in Ogden, Utah, dating back to 1849. (6)
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-- 135 years ago today - Aug 4, 1887 --

President [Wilford] Woodruff called up for consideration the subject of the State Constitution. ... George Q. Cannon read some telegrams that had passed between the First Presidency and parties in Washington [D.C.]. A general but orderly conversation ensued as several members had been absent in exile and were therefore not so fully informed of the details of this most important yet most strictly confidential enterprise. Brother George Q. Cannon read a statement of John W. Young showing the expenditure of $23,000.00 dated July 27, 1887, for means used where it would do most good. ... (4)
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-- 135 years ago today - Thursday, Aug 4, 1887 --

On motion of G. Q. Cannon the brethren in Charge of the Temples were instructed to give free access to the Temples to any and all of the Apostles. (7)
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-- 135 years ago today - Aug 4, 1887 --
[Heber J. Grant]
The labors of John W. Young at Washington and in New York were fully discussed; and in addition to the money already forwarded to him, it was voted to send him another five thousand dollars. All of the brethren present expressed their lack of perfect confidence in the manipulations of Brother Young. (8)
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-- 125 years ago today - Aug 4, 1897; Wednesday --

[George Teasdale speaking:] Expressed his love for his religion, the principles of liberty and the constitution of his country. Felt that every man who had taken an oath to sustain the constitution of his country and subsequently voted in favor of the Edmunds-Tucker law, was a covenant breaker. Plural marriage was one of the principles approved by Almighty God, and the Church of Christ cannot be fully established on the earth without this principle. Referred to many of our young girls who were marrying outsiders, and said that he believed that God would yet open the way so that our young women who were willing and anxious to become virtuous wives and honored mothers would have the privilege of doing so, and there would be no necessity of marrying non-Mormons. Stated that he was in perfect harmony with his brethren, and with each and all of the principles of the gospel. ...

MARRINER W. MERRILL told of his recent visit to the Bannock and Oneida [Idaho] Stakes, also of a short mission to Montana. There have been established a branch or two of our people at different points in Montana. At Anaconda there is a branch, and there are some forty or fifty of our people located there. At Anaconda he found quite a number of Mormon girls married to non-Mormons, and in some cases they were supporting their husbands. These marriages were nearly all the result of the suspension of plural marriage, and several of the sisters informed him that they would never have contracted these marriages had they seen any opportunity of becoming the wife of a Latter-Day-Saint. They would have gladly become a plural wife in preference to the marriage which they had contracted. ...

[Lorenzo Snow:] He said the Patriarch Joseph Smith, the father of the Prophet, had stated in his patriarchal blessing, that he should have power, when not able to visit the sick, to send his handkerchief to them, and that the afflicted by touching it should be made whole. To the unbelieving, such a statement as this would be very ridiculous. But on one occasion, a sister residing at Kaysville [Utah], whose husband was very sick, and who had read Pres[iden]t. Snow's patriarchal blessing, sent from Kaysville to Brigham City [Utah] in the dead of winter, requesting him to send a handkerchief to her husband, which he did, after having first blessed it, and the brother was healed immediately upon receipt of the handkerchief. (9)
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1 - Kimball, Stanley B. ed, On the Potter's Wheel: The Diaries of Heber C. Kimball
2 - Bringhurst, Saints & Slaves (pp. 60 and 77 n. 48), in LDS (or related) Documents on Walker Lewis, the Lowell, Mass. Branch of the Mormon Church and its missionaries and members, and the Priesthood Ban against Blacks, Compiled by Connell O'Donovan http://people.ucsc.edu/~odonovan/Mormon_Chronology.html
3 - LDS Church News: Nauvoo -- The City of Joseph, http://www.ldschurchnews.com/articles/58063/Church-history--Nauvoo.html
4 - Minutes, as quoted in Minutes of the Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1835-1951, Electronic Edition, 2015
5 - Mountain Meadows Massacre timeline, Will Bagley
6 - The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn, [New Mormon History database ( http://bit.ly/NMHdatabase )]
7 - 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
8 - The Diaries of Heber J. Grant, 1880-1945, Abridged, Digital Edition Salt Lake City, Utah, 2015
9 - Heber J. Grant, Diary