On this day in Mormon History
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-- 195 years ago today - Mar 12, 1831 --
"... The first idea of a "Book," was doubtless suggested to the Smiths by one Walters, a juggling fortune-teller, who made the ignorant believe that an old book in his possession, in the Latin language, contained an account of the ante-deluvians, &c. and the word was given out that the book Smith was about to find, was a history of hidden treasures.
Smith and his father belonged to a gang of money-diggers, who had followed that business for many years, Jo pretending he could see the gold and silver by the aid of what they called a "peep stone."
The book is chiefly garbled from the Old and New Testaments, the Apocraphy having contributed its share: names and phrases have been altered, and in many instances copied upwards--A quarto Bible now in this village, was borrowed and nearly worn out and defaced by their dirty handling. Some seven or eight of them spent many months in copying, Cowdery being principal scribe....
The whole gang of these deluded mortals, except a few hypocrites, are profound believers in witchcraft, ghosts, goblins, &c. From the best information we can obtain, the work has entirely stopped in this country, and some who have been the most ardent are beginning to have misgivings on the subject. ..." (1)
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Martin Harris arrives in Painesville from Palmyra and testifies in a hotel bar. "Every idea that he advanced, he knew to be absolutely true, as he said, by the spirit and power of God." Concludes "declaring, that all who believed the new bible would see Christ within fifteen years, and all who did not would absolutely be destroyed and dam'd." (2)
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-- 180 years ago today - Mar 12, 1846 --
At 6 Pm Pres Young and H Kimble & Richards in council in the historians Tent where a challenge of a duel on yesterday was reported the following order was instantly issued Camp of Iseral Mar 12 '46 Capt Stephen Markham, Sir, it is reported to the council that Jas. W Hemmick of the Pioneers on yesterday challenged Wilbur J Earl to fight a duel let J M Hemmick be discharged from service of this camp'forthwith'by order of the council W Richards Clerk Signed Brigham Young. (3)
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-- 175 years ago today - 12 March 1851 --
"He counseled the brethern to buy up the Lamanite children as fast as they could and educate them and teach them the gospel so that no many generations they would be a white and delightsome people. For the Lord could not have devised a better plan than to have put us where we are in order to accomplish this thing." (4)
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-- 175 years ago today - Mar 12, 1851 --
The Ship "George W. Bourne" arrives in New Orleans with a shipload of Mormon converts from England including two sisters who were excommunicated "for levity of behavior with some of the officers of the ship and continued disregard of the counsels of the President."
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-- 145 years ago today - Mar 12, 1881 --
Sister Eliza R. Snow Smith and Zina had prayers at the Altar to day <[that?] against the enemies of the Church as a representative of the prophet of God>. (5)
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-- 140 years ago today - Mar 12, 1886 --
Lorenzo Snow begins serving his sentence, for polygamy, in the Utah Territorial Penitentiary. Two physicians write to the prison authorities, "in consideration of the advanced age of the bearer, Lorenzo Snow, and also of his unusually delicate condition, we the undersigned, take the liberty of stating that we fear his health would be seriously jeopardized by depriving him of his hair and beard, as he has worn the latter 16 years on this account." Snow is allowed to keep his hair and beard. He is released on February 8, 1887, having served eleven months.
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-- 100 years ago today - Mar 12, 1926 --
Provo's DAILY HERALD reports that in a poll of 3000 Provo residents, forty-eight percent favored either outright repeal major modification of prohibition, while fifty-two percent advocated keeping the law as it stood
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-- 85 years ago today - Mar 12, 1941 --
President Heber J. Grant presents a copy of the Book of Mormon in braille to Helen Keller, a well-known advocate for the deaf and the blind.
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-- 65 years ago today - Mar 12, 1961 --
The first non-English-speaking stake is organized at The Hague in the Netherlands, which is also the first stake in continental Europe. (6)
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-- 45 years ago today - Mar 12, 1981-Thursday --
[Leonard Arrington]
Earl Olson said that in the meeting between him and Elder [G. Homer] Durham and Elders [Gordon B.] Hinckley and [Boyd K.] Packer yesterday afternoon Elders Hinckley and Packer authorized Elder Durham to begin negotiations to transfer Dean Jessee to the Joseph Fielding Smith Institute at BYU, effective as soon as it can be arranged. This was on the assumption that he really wanted to do this. The Brethren, on Elder Durham's recommendation, also agreed that our typewriters should be transferred to BYU so that we may take them with us when we move. This is on the assumption that they will become BYU property, not the property of us personally. Later this morning Earl informed me that Elder Durham was instructed to allow us to take our filing cabinets with us to BYU. The question was raised as to what is in these cabinets, and Earl assured them that nearly all of it consisted of our personal notes. That seemed to satisfy the Brethren, and so now we are permitted to take the file
cabinets with us. I assume there will not be any thorough search of our notes before they are released to go. ... (7)
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-- 20 years ago today - 2006 March 12 --
First broadcast of HBO's Big Love, a series about Mormon fundamentalists in Utah. The LDS Church criticizes the show for not differentiating clearly between mainstream and schismatic Mormonism. An LDS Church public statement cites concerns over the program's depiction of abuse, polygamy, use of stereotypes, and television's depiction of moral and civic values in general. In March 2009, the LDS Church stated that HBO displayed insensitivity to church members by depicting simulated segments of the church's Endowment ceremony in an episode of Big Love. The church also stated that the show had continued to blur the distinction between the LDS Church and "the show's fictional non-Mormon characters." (8)
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1 - Unidentified Palmyra Residents to Editor, 12 March 1831, Painesville (Ohio) Telegraph 2 (22 March 1831): 2., as cited in Dan Vogel, Early Mormon Documents: Palmyra Residents To Painesville (Oh) Telegraph
2 - Kenney, Scott, Saints Without Halos, "Mormon History 1830-1844," http://web.archive.org/web/20120805163534/saintswithouthalos.com/dirs/d_c.phtml
3 - John D. Lee 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
4 - [WWJ 4:24-25; Discourses of Brigham Young
5 - Wilford Woodruff's Journal: 1833-1898 Typescript, Volumes 1-9, Edited by Scott G. Kenney, Signature Books 1993, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies
6 - The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn, [New Mormon History database (http://bit.ly/NMHdatabase)]
7 - Confessions of a Mormon historian : the diaries of Leonard J. Arrington, 1971-1997, Gary James Bergera, editor, Signature Books, 2018
8 - Wikipedia, 21st Century (Mormonism), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/21st_century_(Mormonism)
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