Today in Mormon History - Aug 30

Today in Mormon History ...

Martin Harris (age 88) arrived in Salt Lake City and bore Testimony to truth of Book of Mormon at General Conference. (1)
-- 140 years ago - Aug 30, 1870

[Joseph Smith Sermon] Instruction delivered at Lee County, Iowa August 30, 1840,
Nauvoo, Ill.
Sabath 30 Joseph Smith Jr continued his discourse on eternal Judgement and the eternal duration of matter. (2)
-- 170 years ago - 30Aug40

[Lucy Mack Smith] Joseph Sr. and Don Carlos visit Joseph Sr.'s relatives in Potsdam and Stockholm, New York, for a week, taking Joseph's father Asael Sr. a copy of the Book of Mormon. (3)
-- 180 years ago - late Aug. 1830


1 - Ludlow, Daniel H. editor, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Macmillan Publishing, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Vol. 4, Appendix 2: A Chronology of Church History
2 - The Parallel Joseph, http://www.boap.org/LDS/Parallel/
3 - Anderson, Lavina Fielding, Editor, Lucy's Book: A Critical Edition of Lucy Mack Smith's Family Memoir, 2001, Signature Books

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