...A letter was read from President Alma O. Taylor of the Japanese Mission, dated 9th ult., stating in effect that the translation of the Book of Mormon was now finished, and all references inserted down to the end of 3rd Nephi, 3rd chapter, and the first part of the translation had gone to the printer. Brother Taylor also stated that he had been thinking for some time that, after completing his work on the publication, that he would like to visit China and Korea for the purpose of getting an idea of conditions in those countries, as he had been led to believe that opportunities for missionary work were superior to those in Japan.
It was the sense of the Council, on motion of Brother John Henry Smith, that permission be given to Brother Taylor to visit China and Korea, as contemplated by him, and on motion of Brother Heber J. Grant it was thought well for Brother Fred Caine to accompany him. ...
[Source: First Presidency and Quorum of the Twelve minutes]
115 years ago today - Mar 3, 1899
[Abraham Owen Woodruff] Spent most of the day at the Office straining every point possible to accomplish the will of the Lord.
[Source: Abraham Owen Woodruff Diary, as quoted in Minutes of the Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1910-1951, Privately Published, Salt Lake City, Utah 2010]
[Source: Abraham Owen Woodruff Diary, as quoted in Minutes of the Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1910-1951, Privately Published, Salt Lake City, Utah 2010]
125 years ago today - Mar 3, 1889
THE POSITION OF ADAM AND NOAH IN THE PRIESTHOOD
The Prophet Joseph taught us that father Adam was the first man on the earth to whom God gave the keys of the everlasting priesthood. He held the keys of the presidency, and was the first man who did hold them. Noah stood next to him, he being the father of all living in his day, as Adam was in his day. THESE TWO MEN WERE THE FIRST WHO RECEIVED THE PRIESTHOOD IN THE ETERNAL WORLDS, BEFORE THE WORLDS WERE FORMED. They were the first who received the everlasting priesthood or presidency on the earth. Father Adam stands at the head, so far as this world is concerned. Of course, Jesus Christ is the Great High Priest of the salvation of the human family. But Adam holds those keys in the world today; he will hold them to the endless ages of eternity. And Noah, and every man who has ever held or will hold the keys of presidency of the kingdom of God, from that day until the scene is wound up, will have to stand before Father Adam and give an account unto the lord, of the principles that we have received when our work is done in the flesh.
[Source: Deseret Weekly, 38:389 by Wilford Woodruff as quoted in Quotations Dealing with the Relationship of Our First Earthy Parents to Our Heavenly Parents (1830-1978)]
The Prophet Joseph taught us that father Adam was the first man on the earth to whom God gave the keys of the everlasting priesthood. He held the keys of the presidency, and was the first man who did hold them. Noah stood next to him, he being the father of all living in his day, as Adam was in his day. THESE TWO MEN WERE THE FIRST WHO RECEIVED THE PRIESTHOOD IN THE ETERNAL WORLDS, BEFORE THE WORLDS WERE FORMED. They were the first who received the everlasting priesthood or presidency on the earth. Father Adam stands at the head, so far as this world is concerned. Of course, Jesus Christ is the Great High Priest of the salvation of the human family. But Adam holds those keys in the world today; he will hold them to the endless ages of eternity. And Noah, and every man who has ever held or will hold the keys of presidency of the kingdom of God, from that day until the scene is wound up, will have to stand before Father Adam and give an account unto the lord, of the principles that we have received when our work is done in the flesh.
[Source: Deseret Weekly, 38:389 by Wilford Woodruff as quoted in Quotations Dealing with the Relationship of Our First Earthy Parents to Our Heavenly Parents (1830-1978)]
130 years ago today - Mar 3, 1884
[J.D.T. McAllister Diary] Set women apart as midwives
drove to Toquerville. I set apart Susann A.S. Bringhurst. as a midwife. Bishop Wm A Bringhurst. Set apart Regula Benz Naegle. Bp Cannon. Set apart Mary L. Jackson. all for the same purpose.
[Source: Diary Excerpts of J.D.T. McAllister, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
drove to Toquerville. I set apart Susann A.S. Bringhurst. as a midwife. Bishop Wm A Bringhurst. Set apart Regula Benz Naegle. Bp Cannon. Set apart Mary L. Jackson. all for the same purpose.
[Source: Diary Excerpts of J.D.T. McAllister, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
130 years ago today - Mar 3, 1884
... Oliver Cowdry never to my knowledge denied any part of his testimony, on the contrary as I have done protested against every fabrication made by designing persons & parties & emphatically testified as written in the Book of Mormon until Death which occured in this place[.] his wife & child yet living furnish one of the best pictures of a living faith in what their father testified to before death as written in the B[ook] of M[ormon].
David Whitmer
per [George W.] Schweich
{Editorial Note:
On 3 March 1884, David Whitmer wrote to Edmund L. Kelley (1844-1930), a prominent member of the RLDS Church then debating Church of Christ minister Clark Braden in Kirtland, Ohio. Whitmer described the Book of Mormon manuscript in his possession and reaffirmed his and Oliver Cowdery's testimonies. Whitmer's letter was written in response to an inquiry from Kelley}
[Source: David Whitmer to E. L. Kelley, 3 March 1884, Whitmer Papers, RLDS Church Library-Archives, Independence, Missouri., as cited in Dan Vogel, Early Mormon Documents: David Whitmer To E. L. Kelley]
David Whitmer
per [George W.] Schweich
{Editorial Note:
On 3 March 1884, David Whitmer wrote to Edmund L. Kelley (1844-1930), a prominent member of the RLDS Church then debating Church of Christ minister Clark Braden in Kirtland, Ohio. Whitmer described the Book of Mormon manuscript in his possession and reaffirmed his and Oliver Cowdery's testimonies. Whitmer's letter was written in response to an inquiry from Kelley}
[Source: David Whitmer to E. L. Kelley, 3 March 1884, Whitmer Papers, RLDS Church Library-Archives, Independence, Missouri., as cited in Dan Vogel, Early Mormon Documents: David Whitmer To E. L. Kelley]
165 years ago today - Mar 3, 1849 (Council Meeting)
[Brigham Young Sermon] I want their cursed heads to be cut off that they may atone for their sins, that mercy may have her claims upon them in the day of redemption'- He would show them that he was not afraid to take their head but do as you please with them. [Meeting of the Council of Fifty]
[Source: Quorum of the Twelve Minutes, Archives, Church History Library, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Salt Lake City, Utah as quoted in The Complete Discourses of Brigham Young, Ed. Richard S. Van Wagoner, Smith-Pettit Foundation, Salt Lake City (2009), http://bit.ly/BY-discourses]
[Source: Quorum of the Twelve Minutes, Archives, Church History Library, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Salt Lake City, Utah as quoted in The Complete Discourses of Brigham Young, Ed. Richard S. Van Wagoner, Smith-Pettit Foundation, Salt Lake City (2009), http://bit.ly/BY-discourses]
170 years ago today - Mar 3, 1844
Sunday evening prayer circle of "the quorum"; political meeting accepted Joseph Smith's nomination of his first choice as vice presidential candidate, Mormon James Arlington Bennet; "remarks from a number of the brethren." The female members of the Anointed Quorum apparently attended this meeting without voicing views on its political agenda .
[Source: Quinn, D. Michael, The Mormon Hierarchy: Origins of Power, Signature Books, 1994, Appendex: Meetings and Initiations of the Anointed Quorum, 1842-45, http://amzn.to/origins-power]
[Source: Quinn, D. Michael, The Mormon Hierarchy: Origins of Power, Signature Books, 1994, Appendex: Meetings and Initiations of the Anointed Quorum, 1842-45, http://amzn.to/origins-power]
175 years ago today - Mar 3, 1839
[Joseph Smith] Joseph makes his second escape attempt from Liberty jail by digging through the wall. The tools break before the wall does, but he is pleased because, to fix the wall, he states, "cost the county a round sum."
[Source: Conkling, Christopher J., Joseph Smith Chronology]
[Source: Conkling, Christopher J., Joseph Smith Chronology]
55 years ago today - Mar 2, 1959
First Presidency letter: "A few years ago we authorized a few inter-stake missions to be set up on an experimental basis to carry the Gospel to the Jews." Letter explains that these "specially prepared missionaries" should not "confine their proselyting effort to searching out the Jews only."
[Source: http://www.advent-adam.com/jakestand.html (cached, now defunct)]
[Source: http://www.advent-adam.com/jakestand.html (cached, now defunct)]
110 years ago today - Mar 2, 1904
Before committee of U.S. Senate, President Joseph F. Smith testifies under oath: "I have never pretended to nor do I profess to have received revelations. I never said that I had a revelation except so far as God has shown me that so-called Mormonism is God's divine truth, that is all." Smith also testifies that he is cohabitating with his plural wives and acknowledges that he is in violation of laws of both the church and of the state. Although he is truthful about his own illegal post-manifesto cohabitation he lies under oath about official church involvement in post-manifesto plural marriages. He is following advice he had given to others: "We should consider the interests of the Church rather than our own." He is the first LDS president to testify before congress.
[Source: http://www.advent-adam.com/jakestand.html (cached, now defunct)]
[Source: http://www.advent-adam.com/jakestand.html (cached, now defunct)]
125 years ago today - Mar 2, 1889 (Saturday)
Charles W. Penrose, who was under indictment for u.c. [Unlawful Cohabitation, I.E. living with a polygamous wife], was pardoned by Pres. Cleveland, at the solicitation of friends.
[Source: Jenson, Andrew, Church Chronology]
[Source: Jenson, Andrew, Church Chronology]
135 years ago today - Mar 2, 1879
John Taylor preaches: "I think full, free talk is frequently of great use; we want nothing secret nor underhanded, and I for one want no associations with things that cannot be talked about and will not bear investigation."
[Source: http://www.advent-adam.com/jakestand.html (cached, now defunct)]
[Source: http://www.advent-adam.com/jakestand.html (cached, now defunct)]
160 years ago today - Mar 2, 1854
[Apostle Wilford Woodruff Journal] One spoke in tongues & Brother Covington interpeted it. The following is the substance of it:
That you should not give heed to the medium & spirit rappers that are in the land. For when the Lord sent the Holy Ghost anciently to the servants of God it came in the form of a dove. And when the Holy Ghost came to Abraham while He was bound & about to be slain by the Priest of Elkena He came in the form of a Dove & so when He came to Jesus He came in the form of a Dove. We continued our meeting through evening & had a good time.
[Source: Wilford Woodruff's Journal: 1833-1898 Typescript, Volumes 1-9, Edited by Scott G. Kenney, Signature Books 1993, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
That you should not give heed to the medium & spirit rappers that are in the land. For when the Lord sent the Holy Ghost anciently to the servants of God it came in the form of a dove. And when the Holy Ghost came to Abraham while He was bound & about to be slain by the Priest of Elkena He came in the form of a Dove & so when He came to Jesus He came in the form of a Dove. We continued our meeting through evening & had a good time.
[Source: Wilford Woodruff's Journal: 1833-1898 Typescript, Volumes 1-9, Edited by Scott G. Kenney, Signature Books 1993, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
185 years ago today - Mar 2, 1829
Harmony, Pennsylvania. At the urging of Martin Harris, who sought assurance that Joseph Smith had the golden plates, Joseph received the revelation Doctrine & Covenants 5.
[Source: BYU Studies Journal, volume 46, no. 4: A Chronology of the Life of Joseph Smith, http://byustudies.byu.edu]
[Source: BYU Studies Journal, volume 46, no. 4: A Chronology of the Life of Joseph Smith, http://byustudies.byu.edu]
135 years ago today - Mar 1, 1879
The first demonstration of the telephone in Salt Lake City takes place between the residence of L.E. Holden on South Temple and Fort Douglas.
[Source: Sherry Baker: Mormon Media History Timeline: 1827-2007, http://byustudies.byu.edu/showTitle.aspx?title=7984]
[Source: Sherry Baker: Mormon Media History Timeline: 1827-2007, http://byustudies.byu.edu/showTitle.aspx?title=7984]
135 years ago today - Mar 1, 1879
[Apostle Wilford Woodruff Journal] ... I followed John D. T McAllister into the Creation Room in St George Temple. I there met with 159 Brethren and Sisters who had met to get their Endowments for the Dead and all but ten of them had met to get Endowments for my Dead friends as a Birth day Present for me. 100 women & 48 Men were going through for me.
... I went to the Altar in Company with sister Mariah Marks Harmon who officiated as Proxy for my Dead friends And I had sealed to me at the Altar 74 single women who were Dead which makes 267 in all of the dead single women who have been sealed to me in the Endowment House in Salt Lake City, and in the St George Temple.
I also was sealed to day for 65 Couple of dead friends of the Hart family Making 139 sealings and 7 Adoptions Making 146 sealings and Adoptions in one day. I think it is the most sealings Ever Administered to any one Couple in one day and at one time in this generation if not in this world.
I was weary in body. ...
[Source: Wilford Woodruff's Journal: 1833-1898 Typescript, Volumes 1-9, Edited by Scott G. Kenney, Signature Books 1993, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
... I went to the Altar in Company with sister Mariah Marks Harmon who officiated as Proxy for my Dead friends And I had sealed to me at the Altar 74 single women who were Dead which makes 267 in all of the dead single women who have been sealed to me in the Endowment House in Salt Lake City, and in the St George Temple.
I also was sealed to day for 65 Couple of dead friends of the Hart family Making 139 sealings and 7 Adoptions Making 146 sealings and Adoptions in one day. I think it is the most sealings Ever Administered to any one Couple in one day and at one time in this generation if not in this world.
I was weary in body. ...
[Source: Wilford Woodruff's Journal: 1833-1898 Typescript, Volumes 1-9, Edited by Scott G. Kenney, Signature Books 1993, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
145 years ago today - Mar 1, 1869
[Wilford Woodruff] Zion's Cooperative Mercantile Institution (ZCMI) dedicated
[Source: Kenney, Scott (editor), Wilford Woodruff's Journals 1833-1898, Chronology Signature Books, Midvale, Utah, http://bit.ly/wwjournal]
[Source: Kenney, Scott (editor), Wilford Woodruff's Journals 1833-1898, Chronology Signature Books, Midvale, Utah, http://bit.ly/wwjournal]
170 years ago today - Mar 1, 1844
[Joseph Smith] Times and Seasons publishes Joseph's name publicly for the first time as candidate for the United States presidency.
[Source: Conkling, Christopher J., Joseph Smith Chronology]
[Source: Conkling, Christopher J., Joseph Smith Chronology]
50 years - Feb 29,1964
[Bonus leap-year entry]
After forty one years teaching in Church Education System, George S. Tanner writes that " a large majority" of CES teachers are so narrow and ignorant that it is a shame to have them indoctrinating our young people. I would much rather my sons and daughters go to other schools in the state than have them led by these religious fanatics."
[Source: Quinn, D. Michael, The Mormon Hierarchy: Extensions of Power, Appendix 5, Selected Chronology of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1848-1996, http://amzn.to/extensions-power]
After forty one years teaching in Church Education System, George S. Tanner writes that " a large majority" of CES teachers are so narrow and ignorant that it is a shame to have them indoctrinating our young people. I would much rather my sons and daughters go to other schools in the state than have them led by these religious fanatics."
[Source: Quinn, D. Michael, The Mormon Hierarchy: Extensions of Power, Appendix 5, Selected Chronology of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1848-1996, http://amzn.to/extensions-power]
30 years ago today - Feb 28, 1984
At a BYU devotional speech general authority Paul H. Dunn tells the audience, "I pitched against Willie Mays as he broke into baseball and I was leaving the scene."
He also tells of his WWII experiences landing on Iwo Jima: "We jump in the water, the water's chest high. You gotta hold your rifle over your head. If the muzzle drops in the water-that's salt water-it would blow up when you fire. Did you ever try to run in water up to your chest, loaded down? You don't move very fast. And the enemy starts to pick you up. You're pushing with the butt of your rifle the dead bodies and wounded bodies of your friends and associates you've been training with. The coral is so sharp it cuts the boots off your feet and your feet are starting to bleed like mincemeat, and you're trying to get ashore. I was one of the first ashore that morning. And I dug my first foxhole with my fingernails and I crawled in it. And just as I crawled into that mucky hole an ambu gun opens up that shoots about 700 rounds a minute and it went down my right arm and took off my identification bracelet."
The official history of his battalion says there was no combat action when they landed and that Dunn's boat was caught on a coral reef and didn't land until the next day, after the beach had been secured.
[Source: http://www.advent-adam.com/jakestand.html (cached, now defunct)]
He also tells of his WWII experiences landing on Iwo Jima: "We jump in the water, the water's chest high. You gotta hold your rifle over your head. If the muzzle drops in the water-that's salt water-it would blow up when you fire. Did you ever try to run in water up to your chest, loaded down? You don't move very fast. And the enemy starts to pick you up. You're pushing with the butt of your rifle the dead bodies and wounded bodies of your friends and associates you've been training with. The coral is so sharp it cuts the boots off your feet and your feet are starting to bleed like mincemeat, and you're trying to get ashore. I was one of the first ashore that morning. And I dug my first foxhole with my fingernails and I crawled in it. And just as I crawled into that mucky hole an ambu gun opens up that shoots about 700 rounds a minute and it went down my right arm and took off my identification bracelet."
The official history of his battalion says there was no combat action when they landed and that Dunn's boat was caught on a coral reef and didn't land until the next day, after the beach had been secured.
[Source: http://www.advent-adam.com/jakestand.html (cached, now defunct)]
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