Today in Mormon History - Feb 09

[Joseph Smith Sermon] Joseph said in answer to Mr stout that Adam Did Not Comit sin in [e]ating the fruits for God had Decred that he should Eat & fall--But incomplyance with the Decree he should Die--only he should Die was the saying of the Lord therefore the Lord apointed us to fall & also Redeemed us--for where sin a bounded Grace did Much more a bound --for Paul says Rom--5. 10 for if--when were enemys we were Reconciled to God by the Death of his Son, much more, being Reconciled, we shall be saved by his Life [McIntire Minute Book] (1)
-- 170 years ago today - Feb 9, 1841

[Apostle Rudger Clawson Diary] 11 a.m. Meeting of the brethren. Present: Pres. Snow and Cannon, Apostles J. H. Smith, H. J. Grant, A. O. Woodruff, A. H. Lund, M. F. Cowley, Geo. Teasdale, and R. Clawson.

A letter from Saml. R. Brough, bishop of Owen Ward, Woodruff Stake, was read. He requested that Apostle Lyman be sent to attend the funeral of [James] Henry Rollins, one of the oldest members of the Church.

Apostle Cowley called attention to the fact that a missionary in the Brooklyn Branch of the church had been kept in the cook shop instead of the missionary field. Pres. Snow said that the president of the mission [Alonzo P. Kesler] would soon be honorably released to come return [sic] home and that would probably lead to the release of Elder [Lashbrook] Laker from the kitchen. Benediction by Pres. Geo. Q. Cannon. (2)
-- 112 years ago today - Thursday, Feb 9, 1899

1 - The Words of Joseph Smith by Joseph Smith by Andrew F. Ehat and Lyndon W. Cook
2 - Stan Larson (editor), A Ministry of Meetings: The Apostolic diaries of Rudger Clawson, Signature Books in association with Smith Research Associates, Salt Lake City, 1993

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