90 years ago today - Sep 22, 1929

Senior Seventy's president and assistant church historian Brigham H. Roberts tells a congregation in the Salt Lake Tabernacle that "the Latter-day Saints are conscious of receding from that zenith [of early Mormonism] in that they are no longer flooded with revelation." On 3 Oct. in a combined meeting of the First Presidency, Quorum of the Twelve, and the Seventy's presidents condemns his statement. He apologizes to them.

[The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn, [New Mormon History database ( http://bit.ly/NMHdatabase )]]

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