At general conference, a special jubilee year celebration was inaugurated. Charitable actions, reminiscent of Old Testament jubilee celebrations, included rescinding half the debt owed to the Perpetual Emigrating Fund Company, distribution of cows and sheep among the needy, and advice to the Saints to forgive the worthy poor of their debts. (1)
-- 130 years ago - Apr 6, 1880
"The message of the Ages" performance in Salt Lake Tabernacle as first historical pageant of the LDS church. It involves 1,500 persons. On Jul 24 "Footprints on the Sands of Time" is first pageant at Hill Cumorah, near Palmyra, New York. Since Jul 1937 official "Cumorah Pageant" occurs annually. Renamed "America's Witness for Christ," pageant attracts 100,000 people at its fiftieth anniversary in 1987. Similar LDS pageants develop at other sites from Calgary, Canada, to Manti, Utah, to Auckland, New Zealand. (2)
-- 80 years ago - Apr 6, 1930
Pratt, Parley Parker: Arrived in England 6 April 1840. First editor of The Latter-day Saints Millennial Star (Manchester, England). (3)
-- 170 years ago - Apr 6, 1840
1 - Church News: Historical chronology of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
2 - On This Day in Mormon History, http://onthisdayinmormonhistory.blogspot.com
3 - Cook, Lyndon W., The Revelations of the Prophet Joseph Smith: A Historical and Biographical Commentary of the Doctrine and Covenants, Seventy's Mission Bookstore, Provo UT, 1985
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