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-- 180 years ago today - Sep 27, 1845 --
[Brigham Young]
I would also caution you against using the name of God in vain; it has been used too much and will be with us; like the ancients of old, they forbade them the frequent use of the same. For I tell you, the time is coming when that man who uses the name of the Lord and is used, the penalty will be affixed and immediately be executed on the spot. Why should we use it in our private and public conversation'"the ancients have given us an example of reverencing they had for the name of the deity by calling the priesthood not after God, but after Melchizedek. It must be held sacred, nor must it be the common practice from this time and henceforth. (1)
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-- 180 years ago today - 1845 27 Sept. --
Young criticizes Nauvoo police for shooting "a good man," apparently seventeen-year-old Isaac C. Phippen, out of "envy, hatred & malice." The official report is that this young Mormon was shot "accidentally." (2)
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-- 165 years ago today - Sep 27, 1860 --
President spoke of early times in the church. He said a devil stood at his head when he had chills and fevers, the Devil touched him several times sometimes on his hand and sometimes on his forehead, then the chills would commence again; by exercising faith and rebuking the Devil he kept him off the Devil and the chills & fever also. -- Salt Lake City (1)
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-- 135 years ago today - Sep 27, 1890 --
Utah Governor Arthur L. Thomas, in an interview in the SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE, points out that Wilford Woodruff's manifesto "in no way asserts that polygamy is wrong or the law right." The SALT LAKE TRIBUNE opines that the "manifesto was not intended to be accepted as a command by the President of the Church, but as a little bit of harmless dodging to deceive the people of the East." (3)
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-- 90 years ago today - Sep 27, 1935 --
[Heber J. Grant]
I have heard many people say that President Joseph F. Smith always appointed relatives to positions of importance in the Church. Every time that any one mentioned a relative he has appointed, I would ask that person who he would suggest for the position, and I was capable on all occasions of making him admit that President Smith's relative was better qualified for the position than the person he suggested.
I have to take it for granted, of course, that Bother Jones as the President of the Moapa Stake, in making appointments has selected the best person for the office; if he has done this, the fact that those appointed are relatives should have no bearing on the subject. (4)
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-- 85 years ago today - Sep 27, 1940 --
[Heber J. Grant]
I had an appointment this morning to be at the President's office to have a picture taken by the Tribune-Telegram, at 9 o'clock, but Brother McKay was not present. We waited a half hour for him, and when we went to take the pictures President Clark objected to my being dressed in a summer suit of gray clothes and the others in black. I went home and changed my clothes, and by the time I got back with a blue black suit an hour had passed. (5)
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-- 75 years ago today - Sep 27, 1950 --
Instructions on calling of missionaries-- Archives, Salt Lake City, Utah. ... Age: Young men should be twenty years of age before they depart for their missions unless they have had two years of college or military service, in which event the age requirement is waived. Young women should be twenty-three before they are recommended for missionary service. However, because of special requests from mission presidents for more experienced help, the age limit has temporarily been lowered to twenty-one. /... GEO. ALBERT SMITH, J. REUBEN CLARK, JR., DAVID O. MCKAY, First Presidency. (6)
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-- 60 years ago today - Sep 27, 1965 --
Reflecting Ezra Taft Benson's son Reed Benson's instructions to Utah members of the Birch Society, one rumor claimed that "2,000 professional demonstrators and Black Muslims will be imported to this area under NAACP sponsorship." Other widely circulated stories were that "all plane flights from Los Angeles to Salt Lake are chartered by `Watts Negroes,'" and that "3500 `transient Negroes' have already arrived in Salt Lake." As a result, the Utah National Guard began "riot control" maneuvers. (7)
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-- 20 years ago today - 2005 September 27 --
Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling is published by Knopf. (8)
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-- 10 years ago today - 2015 September 27 --
Some LDS survivalists anticipate cataclysms at a "blood moon" lunar eclipse, based on a vision to Julie Rowe. A church press release distances itself from such "speculation." (8)
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1 - On the Mormon Frontier, the Diaries of Hosea Stout. Juanita Brooks, ed. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1964. 1:74-76, 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 - Quinn, D. Michael, The Mormon Hierarchy: Origins of Power, Appendix 7: Selected Chronology of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1830-47, http://amzn.to/origins-power
3 - On This Day in Mormon History, http://onthisdayinmormonhistory.blogspot.com
4 - Heber J. Grant, Letter to Kate L. Taylor, 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
5 - Diary of Heber J. Grant, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies
6 - Original circular letter, L.D.S. Church in Clark, James R., Messages of the First Presidency (6 volumes)
7 - "NAACP Says 'Too Fantastic' Rumors of Demonstrations," Ogden Standard-Examiner, 27 Sept. 1965, 20; "Race Riots in Utah?" Daily Utah Chronicle, 28 Sept. 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 - Wikipedia, 21st Century (Mormonism), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/21st_century_(Mormonism)
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