Gordon B. Hinckley interviewed by Gustav Niebuhr of The New York Times. (1)
-- 15 years ago - Jul 17, 1995
First Presidency letter ends financial independence of Relief Society by stopping payment of dues, prohibiting traditional Relief Society bazaar ("a noisy, carnival-like or commercial atmosphere"), and requiring that individual "Relief Societies sould immediately turn over to the appropriate Stake, Mission, Ward, Branch, or District presiding officers all assets which they have accumulated." This clarifies full intent of brief letter of Jun 10. Eliminating Relief Society's autonomy is central goal of Harold B. Lee's vision of church "correlation." (2)
-- 40 years ago - Jul 17, 1970
[Anointed Quorum] Thursday prayer circle meeting of "the Holly order met at the usual place [] the old company present" from 4-8 p.m. (HCK, JT, WC-S). (3)
-- 165 years ago - Jul 17, 1845
1 - Sherry Baker: Mormon Media History Timeline: 1827-2007, http://byustudies.byu.edu/showTitle.aspx?title=7984
2 - On This Day in Mormon History, http://onthisdayinmormonhistory.blogspot.com
3 - Quinn, D. Michael, The Mormon Hierarchy: Origins of Power, Signature Books, 1994, Appendex: Meetings and Initiations of the Anointed Quorum, 1842-45
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