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-- 195 years ago today - Mar 3, 1831 --
Smith again writes Hyrum, warning him that creditors again pursuing Smith Sr. for unpaid debts. "Come to Fayette, bring father, do not go through Buffalo for they lie in wait for you." (1)
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-- 190 years ago today - Mar 3, 1836 --
Joseph Smith authorizes the ordination of African-American Elijah Abel to the office of elder. On Dec. 20 Abel is ordained to the office of Seventy. A skilled carpenter, Abel worked on the Salt Lake Temple but was never allowed to receive his endowments or have his family sealed together because of his race.
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-- 180 years ago today - Tuesday, Mar 3, 1846. --
After the encampment, Bishop Miller introduced Dr. Jewett to Dr. Richards in his tent, also President Young. Dr. Jewett gave a long history of experiments on animal magnetism and said it had nearly cured him of infidelity, and he thought the Mormons would understand the principle. President Young told him he did perfectly, that we believed in the Lord's magnetizing, that he magnetized Belthashazer so that he saw the handwriting on the wall. (2)
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-- 170 years ago today - Mar 3, 1856 --
[Wilford Woodruff]
Received a mission from President Young to day to prepare and go East in the spring to get the Deseret Alphabet type made & sore [some] books printed in it. (3)
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-- 165 years ago today - Mar 3, 1861 --
[Brigham Young]
If Christ was to Come now to reign you would not like his dictation as well as you do mine for I am more like you than He is and he would be more strict in his dealings & dictation with you than I am. ... speaking of our government He said Our Nation will not Have a general war all at one & then be settled in a year or two but the spirit of war, madness & disunion will increase for a number of years. They will Commence to fight little by little & keep increase until they will have a general mash up & destruction throughout the Land. (4)
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-- 125 years ago today - Mar 3,1901 --
Lorenzo Snow promises Salt Lake temple workers that "some of us would go back to Jackson County, Missouri." (5)
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-- 65 years ago today - Mar 3, 1961 --
BYU paper DAILY UNIVERSE article, "Archaeologists Explore Probable City Bountiful," claims that BYU expeditions into Central America from 1947 to 1956 have "discovered important evidence bearing on the location of the Book of Mormon city of Bountiful in the Xicalango jungle of western Campeche [as well as] the location of the major Book of Mormon city of Zarahemla in the middle Usumacinta valley"
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-- 60 years ago today - Mar 3, 1966 --
The entire First Presidency decided that "Elder Benson to be told not to mention Birch Society." (6)
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Apostle Benson notified the Twelve's president that President McKay had approved the apostle's acceptance of all invitations to speak at testimonials for the Birch Society's president, Robert Welch. "I feel no compunction to make the Church popular with liberals, socialists, or communists. I do feel responsible to tell the truth," Benson wrote. Of the fact that Mormons were joining the Birch Society and Birchers were becoming Mormons, he added: "and those who love the truth will embrace it without compromise and that is exactly what is happening." (7)
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-- 55 years ago today - Mar 3, 1971 --
The demolition begins of the old tabernacle at Coalville, Utah, formerly on the national register. Mormons and non-Mormons (primarily non-residents of Coalville) waged a court battle and petitioned the First Presidency not to destroy this meeting house now regarded as obsolete by church authorities. The First Presidency publishes a statement in defense of the demolition, which attracts enough attention to merit a feature story in the New York Times. (8)
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-- 25 years ago today - Mar 3, 2001 --
Church issued guidelines for the proper use of the church's name in media. The Church's should be referred to by its full name, and the use of "Mormon Church" was discouraged. (9)
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1 - Natural Born Seer, Richard Van Wagoner p. 459, Chronology of Mormon History, http://followtheprophets.com/chronology-of-mormon-history/
2 - Apostle Willard Richards Journal
3 - Wilford Woodruff's Journal: 1833-1898 Typescript, Volumes 1-9, Edited by Scott G. Kenney, Signature Books 1993, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies
4 - Wilford Woodruff's Journal, 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 - Quinn, D. Michael, The Mormon Hierarchy: Extensions of Power, Appendix 5, Selected Chronology of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1848-1996, http://amzn.to/extensions-power
6 - "Copy of First Presidency minutes digest 3-3-66," in "Hugh B. Brown's File on the John Birch Society." From D. Michael Quinn, Ezra Taft Benson and Mormon Political Conflicts, Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 26:2 (Summer 1992), also in Quinn, The Mormon Hierarchy: Extensions of Power Salt Lake City (Signature Books, 1994), Chapter 3.
7 - Ezra Taft Benson to Joseph Fielding Smith, 3 Mar. 1966, MS 4940, LDS archives. From D. Michael Quinn, Ezra Taft Benson and Mormon Political Conflicts, Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 26:2 (Summer 1992), also in Quinn, The Mormon Hierarchy: Extensions of Power Salt Lake City (Signature Books, 1994), Chapter 3.
8 - The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn, [New Mormon History database (http://bit.ly/NMHdatabase)]
9 - Correlation Timeline, Compiled by Lisle Brown
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