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-- 180 years ago today - Wednesday, Mar 18, 1846. --
.... Also, verbal intelligence that an agent of William Smith had demanded the keys of the [Nauvoo] Temple; [and] that Elder O. Hyde had received and printed a revelation on Strangism. The guard expected an attack on the Temple from the Strangites and Smithites. William had stated that he would be giving endowments in the Temple within 2 weeks. ... (1)
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-- 180 years ago today - Mar 18, 1846 --
[Wilford Woodruff]
.... After riding a while Phebe [Woodruff's daughter] looks around and says whare is my Mother? I asked her which one. She said the one that come with you & I told her she had gone back. ... (2)
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-- 170 years ago today - Mar 18, 1856 --
Apostle Orson Hyde refers to "the last General Epistle of Franklin Pierce, Chief Apostle of the United States of America, written to his brethren of the Senate and House of Representatives in General Conference assembled." Brigham Young's daughter Susa Young (Gates) is born in the Lion House in Salt Lake City. When hearing the baby was a girl Susa's mother, Lucy Bigelow exclames "Shucks." Zina D. Huntington Jacobs Smith Young, (also a wife of Brigham) who is assisting replies, "No! It isn't all shucks, it's wheat, and full weight too !" Susa is Brigham Young's 41st child. She enters the University of Deseret at age thirteen but is soon banished to St. George by her father for helping her sister Dora elope. Later when she is president of the Relief Society and has an office in the Church Office Building (the only woman to have one at the time) she is jokingly referred to as the "thirteenth apostle."
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18th March 1856 Mrs Phebe W. Woodruff & myself in Company with our two oldest Children Wilford & Phebe repaired to the house of the Lord that Our children might receive their endowment. I washed & anointed my Son Wilford and ordained him to the office of an Elder & sealed upon him all the Blessings of his ordination, Anointing, & my Birthright in Compliance with Council of President Kimball.
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I spent the day in the Council House & had an interesting day long to be remembered for the Blessing that Father Joseph Smith the Patriarch sealed upon my head before I had any children was fulfulled this day upon my head in a measure for He said that I should live to have posterity who should recieve the priesthood & my oldest son received it this day under my hands. (2)
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-- 165 years ago today - March 18, 1861 --
Monday the 18th I rode into Farwest & called upon John Whitmer one of the witnesses to the Book of Mormon who was cut off from the Church Some 22 years before he received me very kindly & apeared to be glad to see me I Spent 4 or 5 hours with him in conversation he still testefied that the Book of Mormon is true & that Joseph Smith was a Prophit of the Lord he also Said that he believed that the Elders Preached the Gospel Right when the[y] went out into the World & that Brigham Young was careying out the Doctren & sistom which which Joseph Smith taught but he (Whitmer) did not believe in a mans haveing more than one Wife & finely he said that he & his Brother David often talked about the affairs of the Church & it had been made known unto them that it was wisdom for them to Stay where they were & refered me to the case of the harlot Rahab who hid the Spyes &c I invited him to come to Salt Lake City & pay us a visit he said he would not say that he would not come he did not know
what he might do I bid him good by with a feeling of sorrow to think that a man who was once a Bright & shineing light in the kingdom of God should be so lost to his own interest & the wallfare of his family (3)
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-- 140 years ago today - Mar 18, 1886 --
Deseret News editorial in support of George Q. Cannon's forfeiting bond to become a fugitive from justice: "No one believes he would have had a fair trial." The editorial adds: "And our slandering enemies need not talk about Church funds being used for this purpose, either. It is none of their business anyhow." (4)
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-- 105 years ago today - Mar 18, 1921 --
[George F. Richards]
A Brother Alma Hansen was told by me that he could not come to the temple any more until he had put himself in harmony with the First Presidency and the presidency of the temple on the marriage question. He thinks the practice of plural marriage should continue. (5)
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-- 100 years ago today - Mar 18, 1926 --
[Heber J. Grant]
We discussed the recommendations made by Superintendent Adam S. Bennion, namely the closing of the Brigham Young College, the Ricks Academy and some other schools and curtail the activities of the Brigham Young University. No final decision arrived at. Meeting lasted until 5:30 ... (6)
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-- 85 years ago today - Mar 18, 1941 --
[J. Reuben Clark]
Postmaster Smoot'Called his attention to a folder going through the mails advertising a book "The Bible Unmasked"I suggested he try to get it excluded: He said he would work on it at once. ...
Mr Hamer'Post Office'Told him all we knew of the ado. in re "The Bible Unmasked." (7)
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-- 65 years ago today - Mar 18, 1961 --
Assistant to the Twelve and future member of First Presidency Alvin R. Dyer addresses a missionary conference in Oslo, Norway. His talk, "For What Purpose" is copied and distributed to missionaries and passed around for years to come: "what I say is not to be given to your investigators by any matter of means.... Why is it that you are white and not colored? Have you ever asked yourself that question? Who had anything to do with your being born into the Church and not born a Chinese or a Hindu, or a Negro? Is God such an unjust person that He would make you white and free and make a Negro cursed under the cursing of Cain that he should not hold the Priesthood of God?...I want to talk to you just briefly about this, not with any information that you would convey to your investigators, but that you, yourselves, may have a better understanding of what we are doing in the mission field today... There were three divisions of mankind in the pre-existence, and when you are born into this
life, you are born into one of these three divisions of people. There is an imposed judgment placed upon everyone who leaves the Spirit World just the same as there will be when they leave this life and go into one of three places. When they left the Spirit World, they had already been judged by what they had done in the Spirit World and in their previous life. From what judgment is determined how they shall be born in this life? When you understand that, you know that God is not unjust to cause a righteous spirit to be born as a cursed member of the black race or to be cursed as one of the other people who have been cursed. Everything is in order. The procreation of man is orderly and in accordance with the plan of life and salvation. -In keeping with this thought, when Noah went into the Ark, here again he took with him his three sons-one representing the cursed lineage.... Those who have been cursed in the pre-existence were born through this lineage of Ham. -I suppose, and you
may have often heard missionaries say it or have asked the question: Why is a Negro a Negro? And, you have heard this answer. 'Well, they must have been neutral in the pre-existence or they must have straddled the fence. That is the most common saying-they were neither hot nor cold, so the Lord made them Negroes. This, of course, is not true. The reason that spirits are born into Negro bodies is because those spirits rejected the Priesthood of God in the pre-existence. This is the reason why you have Negroes upon the earth. -You will observe that when Cain was influenced by the power of Lucifer to follow him...Cain rejected the counsel of God. He rejected again the Priesthood as his forbearers had done in the pre-existence. Therefore, the curse of the pre-existence was made institute through the loins of Cain. Consequently, you have the beginning of the race of men and women into which would be born those in the pre-existence who had rejected the Priesthood of God....Ham reinstated
the curse of the pre-existence when he rejected the Priesthood of Noah, and in consequence of that he preserved the curse on the earth. Therefore, the Negroes to be born thereafter, or those who were to become Negroes, were to be born through the loins of Ham. -All of this is according to a well worked-out plan, that these millions and billions of spirits awaiting birth in the pre-existence would be born through a channel or race of people. Consequently, the cursed were to be born through Ham.... The cursed people are the descendants of Ham. The chosen people are the descendants of Shem... Through these lineages the spirits that compare with their station are born in this life. This is why you have colored people, why you have dark people and why you have white people.-May the Lord bless you in it and bless you with this knowledge. I bear record of its truthfulness in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen."
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1 - Apostle Willard Richards Journal
2 - Wilford Woodruff's Journal: 1833-1898 Typescript, Volumes 1-9, Edited by Scott G. Kenney, Signature Books 1993, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies
3 - John Whitmer Interview with Jacob Gates, (Jacob Gates Journal, March 18, 1861, MS 1501, LDS Church History Library, Salt Lake City)
4 - The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn, [New Mormon History database (http://bit.ly/NMHdatabase)]
5 - George F. Richards, Diary, as quoted in Minutes of the Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1835-1951, Electronic Edition, 2015
6 - The Diaries of Heber J. Grant, 1880-1945, Abridged, Digital Edition Salt Lake City, Utah, 2015
7 - The Diaries of J. Reuben Clark, 1933-1961, Abridged, Digital Edition, Salt Lake City, Utah 2015
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