Second counselor N. Eldon Tanner, the Twelve's president Joseph Fielding Smith, and Apostle Mark E. Petersen held an emergency meeting with David O. McKay at his home in Huntsville, Utah. Tanner read the [8 Mar] Hunter letter and observed that "KSL, at the request of the John Birch Society, was rebroadcasting the address given recently by Brother Benson in the Assembly Hall, in which address he gave strong endorsement to the John Birch Society." The church president said that it was necessary to issue a statement disassociating the church from these activities. Then "President McKay suggested that Elder Benson might not be assigned to stake conferences if he referred to the John Birch Society. The President then said that Elder Benson should be instructed not to discuss the Birch Society in any meeting, and that he should not advocate this group." First counselor Hugh B. Brown was not present at this meeting to express his views or direct its outcome.
[Campbell and Poll, Hugh B. Brown, 259; minutes of meeting on 15 Mar. 1966 with David O. McKay, N. Eldon Tanner, Joseph Fielding Smith, and Mark E. Petersen in Huntsville, Utah. 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.]
65 years ago today - Mar 15, 1961
Dr. Romney made the research committee's report and proposal to the Education Committee. Noting the many overlapping activities of the various Auxiliary organizations, it recommended that all of the Auxiliaries be dissolved as they were then functioning, and that both the administrative structure, as well as the curriculum be organized not by organizational identities (e.g., Relief Society, Sunday School, etc.), but by age group (children, youth and adults) as priesthood-supervised organizations. In other words, the beloved and powerful Auxiliaries would, for all practical purposes, ceased to exist. The Education Committee rejected this recommendation, and directed Dr. Romney's research committee to reconsider another plan that would correlate the current Church Auxiliary organizations.
[Correlation Timeline, Compiled by Lisle Brown]
[Correlation Timeline, Compiled by Lisle Brown]
70 years ago today - Mar 15, 1956
A First Presidency letter about the large number of converts "to be absorbed in the existing stake and mission organizations of the Church. Their assimilation into these organizations has come to be a matter of grave concern." This statement refers to the 21,669 convert baptisms in 1955. In 1995 there are 304,330 convert baptisms.
[The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn, [New Mormon History database (http://bit.ly/NMHdatabase)]]
[The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn, [New Mormon History database (http://bit.ly/NMHdatabase)]]
70 years ago today - Mar 15, 1956
First Presidency letter about large number of converts "to be absorbed in the existing stake and mission organizations of the Church. Their assimilation into these organizations has come to be a matter of grave concern." This statement refers to 21,669 convert baptisms in 1955. In 1995 there are 304,330 convert baptisms.
75 years ago today - Mar 15, 1951
[President George Albert Smith]
"Not disoriented as he has been from other sedation." [Nurses Notes]
[Journals of George Albert Smith]
"Not disoriented as he has been from other sedation." [Nurses Notes]
[Journals of George Albert Smith]
75 years ago today - Mar 15, 1951
[President George Albert Smith]
"Arthur drove President Clark up this morning, so that we could have a short visit, President Clark and I, before the Council meeting, and at my request President Clark gave me a fine blessing, for which I was most grateful."
[Journals of George Albert Smith]
"Arthur drove President Clark up this morning, so that we could have a short visit, President Clark and I, before the Council meeting, and at my request President Clark gave me a fine blessing, for which I was most grateful."
[Journals of George Albert Smith]
75 years ago today - Mar 15, 1951
Not disoriented as he has been from other sedation.
[Nurses' notes regarding George Albert Smith's last days, as quoted in Minutes of the Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1835-1951, Electronic Edition, 2015]
[Nurses' notes regarding George Albert Smith's last days, as quoted in Minutes of the Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1835-1951, Electronic Edition, 2015]
75 years ago today - Mar 15, 1951
Arthur [Haycock] drove President Clark up this morning, so that we could have a short visit, President Clark and I, before the Council meeting, and at my request President Clark gave me a fine blessing, for which I was most grateful.
[George Albert Smith, Diary, as quoted in Minutes of the Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1835-1951, Electronic Edition, 2015]
[George Albert Smith, Diary, as quoted in Minutes of the Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1835-1951, Electronic Edition, 2015]
85 years ago today - Mar 15, 1941
[J. Reuben Clark]
Bro Wirthlin'Called him at his house'Checked on this Choir and BYU symphony for St Paul Oratorio. He has cleared with BYU and Cornwall.'Then called Bro Cornwall and checked about organists: suggested he have all three qualify, and especially Asper who has not yet returned.
[The Diaries of J. Reuben Clark, 1933-1961, Abridged, Digital Edition, Salt Lake City, Utah 2015]
Bro Wirthlin'Called him at his house'Checked on this Choir and BYU symphony for St Paul Oratorio. He has cleared with BYU and Cornwall.'Then called Bro Cornwall and checked about organists: suggested he have all three qualify, and especially Asper who has not yet returned.
[The Diaries of J. Reuben Clark, 1933-1961, Abridged, Digital Edition, Salt Lake City, Utah 2015]
85 years ago today - Mar 15, 1941
[Heber J. Grant]
In the afternoon we had a ride with Brother and Sister B. S. Hinckley and Sister May Anderson. Nearly all of our rides for the past week have been up Emigration Canyon, over Little Mountain, down into Parleys and home. The view as you go down the canyon to get into Parleys is very fine. I love the mountains when they are covered with white snow. On nearly all of our trips we have had the pleasure of seeing a few deer. One day we counted 81. The government rangers feed them about half way down the mountain. I have never had the pleasure of being present at one of the feedings, but on one occasion a dozen or more ran in front of our car and we stopped and I think it was eight or ten feet on the other side of the road, and to see them spring to the top of the bank was very interesting. They went up just like they were on rubber balls. ...
During the day I had quite a long talk with Brother Clark and Brother David O. McKay regarding calling some men to help the Quorum of the Twelve as so many of the Quorum are in poor health. We are all getting along in years and not capable of doing the work we formerly did.
[The Diaries of Heber J. Grant, 1880-1945, Abridged, Digital Edition Salt Lake City, Utah, 2015]
In the afternoon we had a ride with Brother and Sister B. S. Hinckley and Sister May Anderson. Nearly all of our rides for the past week have been up Emigration Canyon, over Little Mountain, down into Parleys and home. The view as you go down the canyon to get into Parleys is very fine. I love the mountains when they are covered with white snow. On nearly all of our trips we have had the pleasure of seeing a few deer. One day we counted 81. The government rangers feed them about half way down the mountain. I have never had the pleasure of being present at one of the feedings, but on one occasion a dozen or more ran in front of our car and we stopped and I think it was eight or ten feet on the other side of the road, and to see them spring to the top of the bank was very interesting. They went up just like they were on rubber balls. ...
During the day I had quite a long talk with Brother Clark and Brother David O. McKay regarding calling some men to help the Quorum of the Twelve as so many of the Quorum are in poor health. We are all getting along in years and not capable of doing the work we formerly did.
[The Diaries of Heber J. Grant, 1880-1945, Abridged, Digital Edition Salt Lake City, Utah, 2015]
95 years ago today - Mar 15, 1931
Richard B. Wirthlin, later a member of the Second Quorum of the Seventy, is born in Salt Lake City, Utah.
105 years ago today - March 15, 1921
[James E. Talmage]
Talmage leaves Eureka for Springville. In Springville Talmage visits and speaks at length with the former wife of Tintic's excommunicated Moses Gudmundson. Talmage seems to conclude that she was under the influence of an evil spirit and so administered to her. Talmage arrives in Springville to learn of complaints that local women have been holding secretive spiritual meetings requesting revelations, speaking in tongues, etc. without priesthood leadership or authorization.
In his journal Talmage writes the following:
I then went to . . . meet her daughter, Mrs. Erma Gudmundson, who appears to have been a victim of many painful conditions arising from the immoral state of affairs at West Tintic. She is the wife of Moses S. Gudmundson, who was excommunicated at the earlier trial. I found her to be virtually a physical wreck. She has been harassed by occasional visits and more frequent messages from her husband¿. In her impressionable state, such messages as these threaten her sanity and even her life. She was really in the grip of an evil power; and I have seldom experienced a meeting with such a potent adversary as the evil spirit by which she was possessed. She seemed to crave my aid, and yet she persistently refused to look me in the face, saying that my face and my eyes were so bright as to terrify her. I was not conscious of any unusual condition of this sort, but she turned her head and shaded her eyes whenever for the moment I caught her gaze. I proceeded to administer to her, and
rebuked the evil power, conscious all the while of a real struggle and conflict. Immediately after the administration she turned her eyes upon me and smiled, and was not disturbed by my gaze, but kept her eyes directed toward me. When I left her she was holding her baby and was in a state of comparative peace. I confess, however, that because of her weakened condition and of her state of nervous disturbance, I have not full faith that she will not suffer a relapse. [MSS 229, Box 6, Folder 2, Journal 24]
Upon my arrival at Springville this morning I was met by one of the Bishops, who requested that I meet the four Bishops of Springville together with certain relatives of the parties who have recently been dealt with in the Tintic Stake, and to this I assented. I was taken to the home of Bishop Bringhurst of the Springville 2nd Ward, where I found assembled the other Bishops and several women who were related to the unfortunate brethren and sisters with whom we have had to deal¿. They informed me of conditions that have long existed in Springville, this consisting essentially in the holding of meetings by women, and participated in by a few men, at which meetings messages were asked for. They told of alleged inspiration and revelation coming through women, and particularly of the frequency with which the gift of tongues was indulged in; and averred that by these means directions were sought as to individual and other affairs. ¿ In all these alleged proceedings, many of
which were conducted with semi-secrecy, the dominant thought seems to have been that individual inspiration, direction through speaking in tongues, and particularly dreams, were superior to all counsel or direction through the ordinary Church channels. It seems to me that the evil one is particularly busy in thus trying to undermine the faith of the people, that is of the few who are willing to be thus led, and in planting the germs of spiritual disease, generally in a soil of excessive piety. [MSS 229, Box 6, Folder 2, Journal 24]
[Chronology of the Life and Work of James E. Talmage, J. Trevor Antley, https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MJsHY83JZL_n6CjWq11y1trT_CVXMMXAx2uYOWAwn0c/edit#heading=h.2zfdaoa]
Talmage leaves Eureka for Springville. In Springville Talmage visits and speaks at length with the former wife of Tintic's excommunicated Moses Gudmundson. Talmage seems to conclude that she was under the influence of an evil spirit and so administered to her. Talmage arrives in Springville to learn of complaints that local women have been holding secretive spiritual meetings requesting revelations, speaking in tongues, etc. without priesthood leadership or authorization.
In his journal Talmage writes the following:
I then went to . . . meet her daughter, Mrs. Erma Gudmundson, who appears to have been a victim of many painful conditions arising from the immoral state of affairs at West Tintic. She is the wife of Moses S. Gudmundson, who was excommunicated at the earlier trial. I found her to be virtually a physical wreck. She has been harassed by occasional visits and more frequent messages from her husband¿. In her impressionable state, such messages as these threaten her sanity and even her life. She was really in the grip of an evil power; and I have seldom experienced a meeting with such a potent adversary as the evil spirit by which she was possessed. She seemed to crave my aid, and yet she persistently refused to look me in the face, saying that my face and my eyes were so bright as to terrify her. I was not conscious of any unusual condition of this sort, but she turned her head and shaded her eyes whenever for the moment I caught her gaze. I proceeded to administer to her, and
rebuked the evil power, conscious all the while of a real struggle and conflict. Immediately after the administration she turned her eyes upon me and smiled, and was not disturbed by my gaze, but kept her eyes directed toward me. When I left her she was holding her baby and was in a state of comparative peace. I confess, however, that because of her weakened condition and of her state of nervous disturbance, I have not full faith that she will not suffer a relapse. [MSS 229, Box 6, Folder 2, Journal 24]
Upon my arrival at Springville this morning I was met by one of the Bishops, who requested that I meet the four Bishops of Springville together with certain relatives of the parties who have recently been dealt with in the Tintic Stake, and to this I assented. I was taken to the home of Bishop Bringhurst of the Springville 2nd Ward, where I found assembled the other Bishops and several women who were related to the unfortunate brethren and sisters with whom we have had to deal¿. They informed me of conditions that have long existed in Springville, this consisting essentially in the holding of meetings by women, and participated in by a few men, at which meetings messages were asked for. They told of alleged inspiration and revelation coming through women, and particularly of the frequency with which the gift of tongues was indulged in; and averred that by these means directions were sought as to individual and other affairs. ¿ In all these alleged proceedings, many of
which were conducted with semi-secrecy, the dominant thought seems to have been that individual inspiration, direction through speaking in tongues, and particularly dreams, were superior to all counsel or direction through the ordinary Church channels. It seems to me that the evil one is particularly busy in thus trying to undermine the faith of the people, that is of the few who are willing to be thus led, and in planting the germs of spiritual disease, generally in a soil of excessive piety. [MSS 229, Box 6, Folder 2, Journal 24]
[Chronology of the Life and Work of James E. Talmage, J. Trevor Antley, https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MJsHY83JZL_n6CjWq11y1trT_CVXMMXAx2uYOWAwn0c/edit#heading=h.2zfdaoa]
105 years ago today - Mar 15, 1921
[Heber J. Grant]
Prest. Frank Y. Taylor and his counselor, Edward Anderson called and explained the status of the Joseph Musser case, and Bro. Penrose and I assured them that while we felt that their evidence would not be accepted in a court it was sufficient, in addition to the inspiration of the Spirit of the Lord, to excommunicate Musser from the Church. ...
Had a long interview with Bertha Langton today. She confessed to me a few days ago that she had been married by Patriarch Israel Barlow to John A. Burt. I afterwards asked her to repeat what she had said to me to Bertha Irvine, and Bertha took it down and the interview as taken down will follow this page of my journal. ...
Sister Bertha Langton, living at 841 W. 3rd North St., (phone Was. 4994) daughter of Isaac Langton (who was on a mission with President Grant in England) told President Grant in substance as follows:
There is a young sister named Delia Hansen whom she feels is also married to John Burt. She is on a mission in the Central States and she came home on a visit just before Brother Burt left on his mission, and that Bro. Burt spent a few days in the Central States on his way to his mission saying that he was well acquainted with Prest. Bennion.
Another girl named Gertrude Koeber who works in the temple, is thought also to be married to John Burt. Sister Langton had promised not to mention her name, and if inquiry is made in her case, Sister Langton does not wish it to be told that she gave the information. Sister Koeber was told by Sister Josephine Farrell that if she wanted to enter into plural marriage that if she would go to Patriarch Harrison Sperry he would undoubtedly perform the ceremony. After a long discussion she gave her this information.
Lilliam Halstead who lives in the same Ward as Bro. Burt told Sister Langton that John Burt had asked her to be his wife and that she had said no, and Bro. Burt told Sister Langton that when anyone said no he let them alone, and so had not had anything to do with her. But she learned later that he kept after her until she said yes. He said he had a special revelation in regard to Sister Halstead.
Pearl Arrington is a girl in poor health and lives near Twin Falls. She claims to have had a vision that John Burt will some day be the Prophet of the Lord.
There is a certain sister whose first name starts with '1/2I'| and ends with '1/2E'|, whom Sister Langton pledged who would not name, but who is married to John Burt. This girl knows that Miss Langton knows that she is married to John. (Iva Erstin has since confessed to Prest Geo F. Richards)
James Brown said to Gertrude Koeber that if she would convert some girl to plural marriage for him he would be much obliged. He is a temple worker.
Alma Hansen is not a temple worker but is working in the temple. He tried to get a young girl from Canada to marry him and it caused her to apostatize.
Sister Langton says she knows that Josephine Farrell is married to G.A. Hill. She lives at 1336 McClellan Avenue and he lives at 1334 McClellan Avenue. He is engaged as an electrical worker, his office is under Ashton-Jenkins real estate office. They are members of Emerson or Hawthorne Ward. One or two of the Apostles called on her and she announced to them in answer to questions that her relations were her own affair, and that she was to answer to God only. The Bishop of her Ward, when she refused to divulge anything, patted her on the back and said she was a brick, and Sister Langton was told one of the Apostles when she had refused to tell, said, '1/2Thank God, there is one woman who knows her place.'|
Sister Langton said she believed Lillie Shipp was married to John Burt, at least she knew John wanted her. Lillie Shipp sings in the temple choir.
Mrs. Toone is Mrs. _______ Whitaker in the Center Ward.
Gertrude Koeber told Sister Langton who married her.
Sister Langton asked John why he had kept his marriage to other girls from her, and he said the Patriarch told him not to tell. When Sister Langton asked Bro. Barlow if he told John not to tell one girl about the others, he said, '1/2No, I gave him no counsel at all. I did not tell him what to do, I said to follow his own counsel. There are about a dozen girls married to John Burt.'| The Patriarch asked Miss Langton if she knew there were that many and she told him no. Patriarch Barlow performed the ceremony for Gertrude.
Minnie Carpenter of the 19th Ward married a man named Worth _____ , she is a very quiet girl and attends faithfully to her religious duties.
Mentioned Fred W. Miner of the 28th Ward. His wife had told a Mrs. Cottam that he had married another woman in the temple. Mrs. Cottam lives on Sixth West between 2nd and 3rd North Sts.
Miss Langton lives in the 28th Ward. Miner lives on Second North almost to the corner of Second West.
Sister Langton said she had always desired to do right, had kept the Word of Wisdom, paid her tithing and attended to her prayers night and morning, and felt that no one could go wrong under these circumstances.
President Grant took occasion to show her that even those who had had the greatest manifestations had been led away when they failed to listen to the counsel of the servants of the Lord placed at the head of the Church; mentioned Oliver Cowdery having seen John the Baptist, Peter, James and John, and even those who had seen the Savior himself, also had fallen away from the Church. He also told of John W. Taylor seeing the Savior when away in the mountains, where he had gone with the idea that he would be free from religious restraint, and that on his return through the gift of tongues it was made known that he had seen the Savior, and he arose and testified to the fact in fast meeting. How Bro. Taylor followed he arose and testified to the fact in fast meeting.
How Bro. Taylor followed after Moses Thatcher instead of listening to President George Q. Cannon, who had the right to counsel and guide him, and though he was warned by the leading brethren and by dreams and otherwise, yet he followed his own course, which took him out of the church. President Grant told Sister Langton that one living prophet was worth twenty dead ones, and told of Moses W. Taylor who would not be led away even by those who tried to quote the words of his own father to him, and how he became President of a Stake, while John W. Taylor, who had tried to lead him away, had himself been excommunicated. President Grant said, '1/2To obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams, and that this was just as true today as it had ever been. Said that a man like John Burt had not proved himself able to take care of one wife.'|
[The Diaries of Heber J. Grant, 1880-1945, Abridged, Digital Edition Salt Lake City, Utah, 2015]
Prest. Frank Y. Taylor and his counselor, Edward Anderson called and explained the status of the Joseph Musser case, and Bro. Penrose and I assured them that while we felt that their evidence would not be accepted in a court it was sufficient, in addition to the inspiration of the Spirit of the Lord, to excommunicate Musser from the Church. ...
Had a long interview with Bertha Langton today. She confessed to me a few days ago that she had been married by Patriarch Israel Barlow to John A. Burt. I afterwards asked her to repeat what she had said to me to Bertha Irvine, and Bertha took it down and the interview as taken down will follow this page of my journal. ...
Sister Bertha Langton, living at 841 W. 3rd North St., (phone Was. 4994) daughter of Isaac Langton (who was on a mission with President Grant in England) told President Grant in substance as follows:
There is a young sister named Delia Hansen whom she feels is also married to John Burt. She is on a mission in the Central States and she came home on a visit just before Brother Burt left on his mission, and that Bro. Burt spent a few days in the Central States on his way to his mission saying that he was well acquainted with Prest. Bennion.
Another girl named Gertrude Koeber who works in the temple, is thought also to be married to John Burt. Sister Langton had promised not to mention her name, and if inquiry is made in her case, Sister Langton does not wish it to be told that she gave the information. Sister Koeber was told by Sister Josephine Farrell that if she wanted to enter into plural marriage that if she would go to Patriarch Harrison Sperry he would undoubtedly perform the ceremony. After a long discussion she gave her this information.
Lilliam Halstead who lives in the same Ward as Bro. Burt told Sister Langton that John Burt had asked her to be his wife and that she had said no, and Bro. Burt told Sister Langton that when anyone said no he let them alone, and so had not had anything to do with her. But she learned later that he kept after her until she said yes. He said he had a special revelation in regard to Sister Halstead.
Pearl Arrington is a girl in poor health and lives near Twin Falls. She claims to have had a vision that John Burt will some day be the Prophet of the Lord.
There is a certain sister whose first name starts with '1/2I'| and ends with '1/2E'|, whom Sister Langton pledged who would not name, but who is married to John Burt. This girl knows that Miss Langton knows that she is married to John. (Iva Erstin has since confessed to Prest Geo F. Richards)
James Brown said to Gertrude Koeber that if she would convert some girl to plural marriage for him he would be much obliged. He is a temple worker.
Alma Hansen is not a temple worker but is working in the temple. He tried to get a young girl from Canada to marry him and it caused her to apostatize.
Sister Langton says she knows that Josephine Farrell is married to G.A. Hill. She lives at 1336 McClellan Avenue and he lives at 1334 McClellan Avenue. He is engaged as an electrical worker, his office is under Ashton-Jenkins real estate office. They are members of Emerson or Hawthorne Ward. One or two of the Apostles called on her and she announced to them in answer to questions that her relations were her own affair, and that she was to answer to God only. The Bishop of her Ward, when she refused to divulge anything, patted her on the back and said she was a brick, and Sister Langton was told one of the Apostles when she had refused to tell, said, '1/2Thank God, there is one woman who knows her place.'|
Sister Langton said she believed Lillie Shipp was married to John Burt, at least she knew John wanted her. Lillie Shipp sings in the temple choir.
Mrs. Toone is Mrs. _______ Whitaker in the Center Ward.
Gertrude Koeber told Sister Langton who married her.
Sister Langton asked John why he had kept his marriage to other girls from her, and he said the Patriarch told him not to tell. When Sister Langton asked Bro. Barlow if he told John not to tell one girl about the others, he said, '1/2No, I gave him no counsel at all. I did not tell him what to do, I said to follow his own counsel. There are about a dozen girls married to John Burt.'| The Patriarch asked Miss Langton if she knew there were that many and she told him no. Patriarch Barlow performed the ceremony for Gertrude.
Minnie Carpenter of the 19th Ward married a man named Worth _____ , she is a very quiet girl and attends faithfully to her religious duties.
Mentioned Fred W. Miner of the 28th Ward. His wife had told a Mrs. Cottam that he had married another woman in the temple. Mrs. Cottam lives on Sixth West between 2nd and 3rd North Sts.
Miss Langton lives in the 28th Ward. Miner lives on Second North almost to the corner of Second West.
Sister Langton said she had always desired to do right, had kept the Word of Wisdom, paid her tithing and attended to her prayers night and morning, and felt that no one could go wrong under these circumstances.
President Grant took occasion to show her that even those who had had the greatest manifestations had been led away when they failed to listen to the counsel of the servants of the Lord placed at the head of the Church; mentioned Oliver Cowdery having seen John the Baptist, Peter, James and John, and even those who had seen the Savior himself, also had fallen away from the Church. He also told of John W. Taylor seeing the Savior when away in the mountains, where he had gone with the idea that he would be free from religious restraint, and that on his return through the gift of tongues it was made known that he had seen the Savior, and he arose and testified to the fact in fast meeting. How Bro. Taylor followed he arose and testified to the fact in fast meeting.
How Bro. Taylor followed after Moses Thatcher instead of listening to President George Q. Cannon, who had the right to counsel and guide him, and though he was warned by the leading brethren and by dreams and otherwise, yet he followed his own course, which took him out of the church. President Grant told Sister Langton that one living prophet was worth twenty dead ones, and told of Moses W. Taylor who would not be led away even by those who tried to quote the words of his own father to him, and how he became President of a Stake, while John W. Taylor, who had tried to lead him away, had himself been excommunicated. President Grant said, '1/2To obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams, and that this was just as true today as it had ever been. Said that a man like John Burt had not proved himself able to take care of one wife.'|
[The Diaries of Heber J. Grant, 1880-1945, Abridged, Digital Edition Salt Lake City, Utah, 2015]
115 years ago today - Mar 15, 1911
Went Temple; only Pres[ident] [Francis M.] Lyman, [Heber J.] Grant and I there adjourned subject to call. At Pres[iden]ts Office. Met [George H.] Brimhall and [Joseph B.] Keller, had confab on Evolution Professors, decided that they either conform to rules & B[righam] Y[oung] University and Church or be released.
[Charles W. Penrose, Diary, as quoted in Minutes of the Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1835-1951, Electronic Edition, 2015]
[Charles W. Penrose, Diary, as quoted in Minutes of the Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1835-1951, Electronic Edition, 2015]
120 years ago today - Mar 15, 1906
[John R. Winder to Heber J. Grant, Mar. 15, 1906] ... Your letter of the 21st of November last I suppose came duly to him [Joseph F. Smith], but was mislaid and only opened a few days ago. In it you state that a young woman of the London conference, who had returned from here on account of ill health after having received her endowments, was not likely to live long, and in the event of her death you desire to know what ought to be done about dressing her body in temple clothing, that is, whether she might order a temple suit from this city and keep it on hand to be used in case of her death, and whether or not her sister, who had not received her own endowments, might be allowed to be instructed how to cloth[e] the body. After conferring with Presidents [Joseph F.] Smith and [Anthon H.] Lund in regard to this matter, we concluded that it would not be a wise thing for this sister to keep on hand [her] suited temple clothing as she might not pass away, and in that event the clothing
might be subjected to the view of people not entitled to look upon it; and for this reason we concluded to say to you that the services of the wife of the president of the mission might be utilized in making the suit and clothing the body.
[Anderson, Devery; The Development of LDS Temple Worship, 1846-2000: A Documentary History, http://amzn.to/TempleWorship]
might be subjected to the view of people not entitled to look upon it; and for this reason we concluded to say to you that the services of the wife of the president of the mission might be utilized in making the suit and clothing the body.
[Anderson, Devery; The Development of LDS Temple Worship, 1846-2000: A Documentary History, http://amzn.to/TempleWorship]
120 years ago today - Mar 15, 1906
[John R. Winder to Heber J. Grant]
.... Your letter of the 21st of November last I suppose came duly to him [Joseph F. Smith], but was mislaid and only opened a few days ago. In it you state that a young woman of the London conference, who had returned from here on account of ill health after having received her endowments, was not likely to live long, and in the event of her death you desire to know what ought to be done about dressing her body in temple clothing, that is, whether she might order a temple suit from this city and keep it on hand to be used in case of her death, and whether or not her sister, who had not received her own endowments, might be allowed to be instructed how to cloth[e] the body. After conferring with Presidents [Joseph F.] Smith and [Anthon H.] Lund in regard to this matter, we concluded that it would not be a wise thing for this sister to keep on hand [her] suited temple clothing as she might not pass away, and in that event the clothing might be subjected to the view of people not
entitled to look upon it; and for this reason we concluded to say to you that the services of the wife of the president of the mission might be utilized in making the suit and clothing the body.
[Anderson, Devery; The Development of LDS Temple Worship, 1846-2000: A Documentary History, http://amzn.to/TempleWorship]
.... Your letter of the 21st of November last I suppose came duly to him [Joseph F. Smith], but was mislaid and only opened a few days ago. In it you state that a young woman of the London conference, who had returned from here on account of ill health after having received her endowments, was not likely to live long, and in the event of her death you desire to know what ought to be done about dressing her body in temple clothing, that is, whether she might order a temple suit from this city and keep it on hand to be used in case of her death, and whether or not her sister, who had not received her own endowments, might be allowed to be instructed how to cloth[e] the body. After conferring with Presidents [Joseph F.] Smith and [Anthon H.] Lund in regard to this matter, we concluded that it would not be a wise thing for this sister to keep on hand [her] suited temple clothing as she might not pass away, and in that event the clothing might be subjected to the view of people not
entitled to look upon it; and for this reason we concluded to say to you that the services of the wife of the president of the mission might be utilized in making the suit and clothing the body.
[Anderson, Devery; The Development of LDS Temple Worship, 1846-2000: A Documentary History, http://amzn.to/TempleWorship]
120 years ago today - Mar 15, 1906; Thursday
The meeting of the First Presidency and Twelve Apostles was held as usual this morning in the temple.
A letter had been written to Bishop John Ravsten of Clarkston [Utah], making inquiry as to whether or not there was a headstone at the grave of the late Martin Harris, who died there and was buried at Clarkston. A letter was now read from Bishop Ravsten stating that the headstone at the grave of Martin Harris was [in] a state of decay, and that the base of the headstone was entirely gone.
It was decided to erect a new monument of granite instead of the present headstone.
It was the sense of the Council also that an effort be made to learn whether or not there were headstones at the graves of Thomas B. Marsh and Oliver Cowdery, and if so, the condition they were in. ...
A communication to the General Board of Young Man's Mutual Improvement Associations by Brother B. H. Roberts; also a communication referred to a committee composed of Brothers [Thomas] Hull, Benjamin Goddard and Hinckley were read to the Council. Brother B. H. Roberts' communication advised that the character of the Mutual Improvement Associations be somewhat changed in this: the advanced theological studies be done away with, and the same transferred to the quorums of the priesthood, with the suggestion that the quorums receive the necessary support to make them efficient as a means of imparting religious instruction. It also advised that the organization of the General Board be somewhat changed, that the Apostles and members of the First Council of Seventy withdraw as members, and a new board be provided for to be composed of younger men, more in touch with our young people, but that they still be nominated by and be under Church authority. This communication was referred
by the Board in writing, in which they assigned reasons why the proposed changes should not be made. These communications were referred to the First Presidency, and they were now considered by this council.
All the members present expressed themselves on the subject, and the conclusion was reached that the time was inopportune at present to make any change whatever in Mutual Improvement Associations, or the general Board, and it was decided to write the General Board to this effect. The general sentiment of the Council however was that it would be a very proper thing for the
Stake Presidencies to devote their special attention to the quorums, with a view to getting them in the way of entering into the study of the gospel in a systematic and progressive way, and if this were done it was thought in time things would adjust themselves to Brother Roberts' idea without making any radical change.
President [Joseph F.] Smith informed the Council that Mr. A[lfred]. W. McCune desires to dispose of Calder's Park, and offers to sell it for $35,000., payable in bonds of the Utah Light & Railway Co[mapny]., that the Church had the bonds, and could spare them, and it was proposed to purchase the property through the six city and county stakes, and operate it as a pleasure resort through them, as though they owned it. The brethren coincided with this movement.
Meeting adjourned.
[First Presidency and Quorum of the Twelve minutes]
A letter had been written to Bishop John Ravsten of Clarkston [Utah], making inquiry as to whether or not there was a headstone at the grave of the late Martin Harris, who died there and was buried at Clarkston. A letter was now read from Bishop Ravsten stating that the headstone at the grave of Martin Harris was [in] a state of decay, and that the base of the headstone was entirely gone.
It was decided to erect a new monument of granite instead of the present headstone.
It was the sense of the Council also that an effort be made to learn whether or not there were headstones at the graves of Thomas B. Marsh and Oliver Cowdery, and if so, the condition they were in. ...
A communication to the General Board of Young Man's Mutual Improvement Associations by Brother B. H. Roberts; also a communication referred to a committee composed of Brothers [Thomas] Hull, Benjamin Goddard and Hinckley were read to the Council. Brother B. H. Roberts' communication advised that the character of the Mutual Improvement Associations be somewhat changed in this: the advanced theological studies be done away with, and the same transferred to the quorums of the priesthood, with the suggestion that the quorums receive the necessary support to make them efficient as a means of imparting religious instruction. It also advised that the organization of the General Board be somewhat changed, that the Apostles and members of the First Council of Seventy withdraw as members, and a new board be provided for to be composed of younger men, more in touch with our young people, but that they still be nominated by and be under Church authority. This communication was referred
by the Board in writing, in which they assigned reasons why the proposed changes should not be made. These communications were referred to the First Presidency, and they were now considered by this council.
All the members present expressed themselves on the subject, and the conclusion was reached that the time was inopportune at present to make any change whatever in Mutual Improvement Associations, or the general Board, and it was decided to write the General Board to this effect. The general sentiment of the Council however was that it would be a very proper thing for the
Stake Presidencies to devote their special attention to the quorums, with a view to getting them in the way of entering into the study of the gospel in a systematic and progressive way, and if this were done it was thought in time things would adjust themselves to Brother Roberts' idea without making any radical change.
President [Joseph F.] Smith informed the Council that Mr. A[lfred]. W. McCune desires to dispose of Calder's Park, and offers to sell it for $35,000., payable in bonds of the Utah Light & Railway Co[mapny]., that the Church had the bonds, and could spare them, and it was proposed to purchase the property through the six city and county stakes, and operate it as a pleasure resort through them, as though they owned it. The brethren coincided with this movement.
Meeting adjourned.
[First Presidency and Quorum of the Twelve minutes]
120 years ago today - Mar 15, 1906
It also advised that the organization of the [M. I. A.] General Board be somewhat changed, that the Apostles and members of the First Council of Seventy withdraw as members, and a new board be provided for to be composed of younger men, more in touch with our young people, but that they still be nominated by and be under Church authority. This communication was referred by the Board in writing, in which they assigned reasons why the proposed changes should not be made. These communications were referred to the First Presidency, and they were now considered by this council. All the members present expressed themselves on the subject, and the conclusion was reached that the time was inopportune at present to make any change whatever in Mutual Improvement Associations, or the general Board, and it was decided to write the General Board to this effect. The general sentiment of the Council however was that it would be a very proper thing for the Stake Presidencies to devote their
special attention to the quorums, with a view to getting them in the way of entering into the study of the gospel in a systematic and progressive way, and if this were done it was thought in time things would adjust themselves to Brother Roberts' idea without making any radical change. President [Joseph F.] Smith informed the Council that Mr. A[lfred]. W. McCune desires to dispose of Calder's Park, and offers to sell it for $35,000., payable in bonds of the Utah Light & Railway Co[mpany]., that the Church had the bonds, and could spare them, and it was proposed to purchase the property through the six city and county stakes, and operate it as a pleasure resort through them, as though they owned it. The brethren coincided with this movement. Meeting adjourned.
[Journal History, as quoted in Minutes of the Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1835-1951, Electronic Edition, 2015]
special attention to the quorums, with a view to getting them in the way of entering into the study of the gospel in a systematic and progressive way, and if this were done it was thought in time things would adjust themselves to Brother Roberts' idea without making any radical change. President [Joseph F.] Smith informed the Council that Mr. A[lfred]. W. McCune desires to dispose of Calder's Park, and offers to sell it for $35,000., payable in bonds of the Utah Light & Railway Co[mpany]., that the Church had the bonds, and could spare them, and it was proposed to purchase the property through the six city and county stakes, and operate it as a pleasure resort through them, as though they owned it. The brethren coincided with this movement. Meeting adjourned.
[Journal History, as quoted in Minutes of the Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1835-1951, Electronic Edition, 2015]
125 years ago today - Mar 15, 1901; Friday
Pres[ident]. [George Q.] Cannon left yesterday for Calif[ornia]. He is very feeble but thinks sea level will help him. Met Pres[ident]. [Lorenzo] Snow who looks so feeble that my heart was pained. Bro[tehr]. C[annon]. at death's door. Jos[eph]. F. S[mith]. feeble in health. Altogether gave me an unhappy feeling. Pres[ident]. Snow was shown a telegram from Pres[ident]. Cannon to Bro[ther]. C[harles]. H. Wil[c]ken. Come if possible.
[Brigham Young Jr., Diary]
[Brigham Young Jr., Diary]
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