Second Counselor Henry D. Moyle confides to BYU President Ernest Wilkinson that Apostles Joseph Fielding Smith and Harold B. Lee were in "real opposition" to his "accelerated missionary program." The program includes using baseball as a missionary tool to baptize teenage boys. (1)
-- 50 years ago - Sep 6, 1960
[Apostle Rudger Clawson] Leaves Moccasin, Arizona, travels to Rockville and marvels at scenery on way and grandeur of rugged cliffs around Rockville. (2)
-- 105 years ago - Sep 6, 1905
(Jesse Knight) : Born in Nauvoo, Illinois, to Newel Knight and Lydia Goldthwait. His parents' wedding was the first marriage performed by Joseph Smith. (3)
-- 165 years ago - 1845. September 6
1 - On This Day in Mormon History, http://onthisdayinmormonhistory.blogspot.com
2 - Larsen, Stan (editor), A Ministry of Meetings:The Apostolic Diaries of Rudger Clawson, Significant Mormon Diaries Series No. 6, A Rudger Clawson Chronology, Signature Books in association with Smith Research Associates, Salt Lake City 1993
3 - Van Wagoner, Richard and Walker, Steven C., A Book of Mormons
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