Today in Mormon History - Jan 21

Book of Mormon first published in Liverpool, England for Brigham Young by J. Tompkins (4,050 copies). (1)
-- 170 years ago - Jan 21, 1841

[D and C] Doctrine and Covenants 137: A vision given to Joseph Smith the Prophet, in the temple at Kirtland, Ohio, January 21, 1836. HC 2: 380-381. The occasion was the administration of the ordinances of the endowment as far as they had then been revealed.
1-6, The Prophet sees his brother Alvin in the celestial kingdom; 7-9, The doctrine of salvation for the dead is revealed; 10, All children are saved in the celestial kingdom. (2)
-- 175 years ago - Jan 21, 1836

Zebedee Coltrin: Ordained elder 21 January 1831 by John Whitmer. (3)
-- 180 years ago - Jan 21, 1831


1 - Sherry Baker: Mormon Media History Timeline: 1827-2007, http://byustudies.byu.edu/showTitle.aspx?title=7984
2 - Doctrine and Covenants
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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