Today in Mormon History - May 19

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-- 195 years ago today - May 19-20, 1831 --

At the 2nd Antimasonic State Convention of Massachusetts, the inscribed gold plate of Enoch is referred to: "Why is there no mention of splendid Masonic Processions, the Laying of Corner Stones, and the deposit of Plates, previous to the last century? And where are those plates? Amidst all the vast ruins of so many ages, and so many countries, not one is known to have been discovered." (1)
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-- 185 years ago today - May 19, 1841 --

The WARSAW SIGNAL editorializes: "We believe they [Mormons] have the same rights as other religious bodies posses. . . But whenever they, as a people, step beyond the proper sphere of a religious denomination, and become a political body, as many of our citizens are beginning to apprehend will be the case, then this press stands pledged to take a stand against th. . . It is bound to oppose the concentration of political power in a religious body, or in the hands of a few individuals." (2)
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-- 170 years ago today - May 19, 1856 --
[Heber C. Kimball letter]
... These men and women whom you recommend, must be individuals, who pay their tithing from year to year; who pray in their families, and do not speak against the authorities of the Church and Kingdom of God; nor steal; nor lie; nor interfere with their neighbors things; nor their neighbors wives or husbands; who attend strictly to meetings and prayer meetings, and those who pay due respect to their presiding officers, and Bishops and those who do not swear. We shall expect you to pickup the old and infirm; the lame and blind and the righteous poor, but not the devils poor. We would like to see many of the young and sprightly young persons who are strict to obey their parents. We shall require the Bishops to send their names in a letter fully recommended and tell them to qualify themselves by washing their bodies in pure water and bringing Temple clothing and oil for their anointings. As they live in the country, we want them to bring their eggs, butter, meat, bread and flour, and
the luxuries of [the farm] fit to grace the tables of the House of the Lord, to feed the men and women who administer unto them; and if there should be any left, that we may give it to the poor; and in so doing God will bless you and we will bless you. This by order of the First Presidency. te(1)
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-- 165 years ago today - May 19, 1861 --

Presidet Youngs address was upon the Resurrection of the Dead. He said that Some had thought that those who had lived in former dispensations would be raised first but this [is] not the Case. Joseph Smith will be the first man raised & he will raise his Friends & ordained them to raise those of there friends who had been Faithful. (4)
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-- 145 years ago today - May 19, 1881 --
[Wilford Woodruff]
19 I received a letter from Br Barfoot Concerning a cloak belonging to the Prophet Joseph Smith. Sister Viena Jaquist [Vienna Jaques, plural wife of Joseph Smith] made a Donation of it to the Museum. The Cloak was shown to me. I spent the day in the board of trade & night at the farm. 6 M. (4)
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1 - Grunder, Rick, Mormon Parallels: A Bibliographic Source
2 - On This Day in Mormon History, http://onthisdayinmormonhistory.blogspot.com
3 - Heber C. Kimball to David Evans, May 19, 1856, quoted in Anderson, Devery; The Development of LDS Temple Worship, 1846-2000: A Documentary History, http://amzn.to/TempleWorship
4 - Wilford Woodruff's Journal: 1833-1898 Typescript, Volumes 1-9, Edited by Scott G. Kenney, Signature Books 1993, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies