Anti-Masons hold a fourth convention in Le Roy, New York. Dissatisfied with both parties, they form the Anti-Masonic Party. (McCarthy 1903, p. 379).
[Wikipedia: Chronology of Mormonism, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronology_of_Mormonism]
195 years ago today - Aug 4, 1828
Alexander Campbell describes to his readers his ecstatic experience of seeing three "kingdoms" of individuals who have received God's blessings.
[Mark Lyman Staker, Hearken, O Ye People: The Historical Setting of Joseph Smith's Ohio Revelations: A Selective Chronology of Significant Events in Ohio's LDS History]
[Mark Lyman Staker, Hearken, O Ye People: The Historical Setting of Joseph Smith's Ohio Revelations: A Selective Chronology of Significant Events in Ohio's LDS History]
45 years ago today - Aug 3, 1978
Two days after the suicide of Mormon schismatic Immanuel David due to the collapse of his sect, his wife Rachel throws each of their seven children off the eleventh floor of the Salt Lake City hotel, and then jumps herself. She and the sex children die in front of dozens of horrified witnesses on the street, while her fifteen-year-old daughter is paralyzed.
[The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn, [New Mormon History database ( http://bit.ly/NMHdatabase )]]
[The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn, [New Mormon History database ( http://bit.ly/NMHdatabase )]]
50 years ago today - Aug 3, 1973-Friday
[Leonard Arrington]
Ron Esplin showed to me the suicide note which Orson Pratt wrote in 1842. This was shortly after his return from his mission to England. He had heard about the flirting and sexual immorality of his wife Sarah. [Sarah Marinda Bates] In confronting her with it, she had told him that Joseph Smith had made advances toward her and that she had attempted to evade him. This had made him so despondent that he could not see any reason for living. On the one hand, could he believe Joseph Smith in whom he had had faith for twelve years? On the other hand, could he doubt his wife whom he loved very much and was devoted to? Apparently a number of people in Nauvoo had heard of his despondency and were concerned about him. Missing him, they looked all over for him and finally located him down at the edge of the river as if he were about to jump in. We have in our archives a number of signed statements by individuals in a position to know, testifying as to Sarah's immorality and questionable behavior with John C. Bennett while Orson Pratt was on his mission in England. These were some people like Daniel H. Wells and others who were not members of the Church but who had seen Bennett and Sarah in a compromising position and had observed Bennett's comings and goings to her apartment. They deported themselves as man and wife. Apparently this evidence and the integrity of those giving it finally persuaded Pratt that his wife was not trustworthy. This led him to come back into the church and to become reconciled with the brethren. On the other hand, he may have felt guilty leaving his wife behind as he went on his mission to England and may have forgiven his wife Sarah. That explains his remaining with her and bringing her with him to Utah. Sarah, of course, later became divorced from Orson and she continually told as if true the story of the Joseph Smith importunities. In this she was, of course, encouraged by the apostates and anti-Mormons. [[Later historians would wonder if these statements against Sarah were reliable. An attempt to discredit her and other women who had talked about polygamy is evident in a circular issued by the Times and Seasons titled Affidavits and Certificates, Aug. 31, 1842, a replica typescript by H. Michael Marquardt available at Internet Archive, archive.org; for details about the Sarah Pratt incident, see Bergera, Conflict in the Quorum, 7-51.]]
[Confessions of a Mormon historian : the diaries of Leonard J. Arrington, 1971-1997, Gary James Bergera, editor, Signature Books, 2018]
Ron Esplin showed to me the suicide note which Orson Pratt wrote in 1842. This was shortly after his return from his mission to England. He had heard about the flirting and sexual immorality of his wife Sarah. [Sarah Marinda Bates] In confronting her with it, she had told him that Joseph Smith had made advances toward her and that she had attempted to evade him. This had made him so despondent that he could not see any reason for living. On the one hand, could he believe Joseph Smith in whom he had had faith for twelve years? On the other hand, could he doubt his wife whom he loved very much and was devoted to? Apparently a number of people in Nauvoo had heard of his despondency and were concerned about him. Missing him, they looked all over for him and finally located him down at the edge of the river as if he were about to jump in. We have in our archives a number of signed statements by individuals in a position to know, testifying as to Sarah's immorality and questionable behavior with John C. Bennett while Orson Pratt was on his mission in England. These were some people like Daniel H. Wells and others who were not members of the Church but who had seen Bennett and Sarah in a compromising position and had observed Bennett's comings and goings to her apartment. They deported themselves as man and wife. Apparently this evidence and the integrity of those giving it finally persuaded Pratt that his wife was not trustworthy. This led him to come back into the church and to become reconciled with the brethren. On the other hand, he may have felt guilty leaving his wife behind as he went on his mission to England and may have forgiven his wife Sarah. That explains his remaining with her and bringing her with him to Utah. Sarah, of course, later became divorced from Orson and she continually told as if true the story of the Joseph Smith importunities. In this she was, of course, encouraged by the apostates and anti-Mormons. [[Later historians would wonder if these statements against Sarah were reliable. An attempt to discredit her and other women who had talked about polygamy is evident in a circular issued by the Times and Seasons titled Affidavits and Certificates, Aug. 31, 1842, a replica typescript by H. Michael Marquardt available at Internet Archive, archive.org; for details about the Sarah Pratt incident, see Bergera, Conflict in the Quorum, 7-51.]]
[Confessions of a Mormon historian : the diaries of Leonard J. Arrington, 1971-1997, Gary James Bergera, editor, Signature Books, 2018]
100 years ago today - Aug 3, 1923
[Heber J. Grant]
President Moroni Lazenby of the North Sevier Staked called and discussed sending young men on missions who were users of tobacco, believing that they would reform in the missionfield. I told him I doubted the advisability of taking chances on their corrupting the good lives of those who were observers of the Word of Wisdom; told him, however, if he would write me a letter suggesting that we call young men subject to their first reforming, that perhaps we would do this.
[The Diaries of Heber J. Grant, 1880-1945, Abridged, Digital Edition Salt Lake City, Utah, 2015]
President Moroni Lazenby of the North Sevier Staked called and discussed sending young men on missions who were users of tobacco, believing that they would reform in the missionfield. I told him I doubted the advisability of taking chances on their corrupting the good lives of those who were observers of the Word of Wisdom; told him, however, if he would write me a letter suggesting that we call young men subject to their first reforming, that perhaps we would do this.
[The Diaries of Heber J. Grant, 1880-1945, Abridged, Digital Edition Salt Lake City, Utah, 2015]
130 years ago today - Aug 3, 1893
[Francis M. Lyman]
The burden of our prayers was for the relief financially so that Z[ions] S[avings] B[ank] and Trust Co[mpany]. and State Bank may not have to close their doors. We freelyacknowledged there is no human ability can save those institutions except the Lord guide them. ... Pres[ident] [George Q.] Cannon then reported fully his efforts in London to raise money and was unsuccessful. The fact that Cannon Grant and Co[mpany]. are staggering under the weight of the sugar factory with fair prospects that they would succumb. It was asked that the Trustee and Trust take up the load as it was shouldered by Cannon Grant and Co[mpany]. to raise the money to build the factory when it could not be raised by the church. I moved that the Trustees in Trust relieve Cannon and Grant & Co[mpany]. by taking up the lead and giving Trustee in Trust notes secured by Sugar Factory notes. Seconded by Pres[ident] L[orenzo]. Snow and carried unanimously. If this can be properly done it may save Cannon Grant & Co[mpany]. who have jeopardized all they have on earth to carry out the inspiration of the Lord through President [Wilford] Woodruff and his Counselors.
[Francis M. Lyman 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]
The burden of our prayers was for the relief financially so that Z[ions] S[avings] B[ank] and Trust Co[mpany]. and State Bank may not have to close their doors. We freelyacknowledged there is no human ability can save those institutions except the Lord guide them. ... Pres[ident] [George Q.] Cannon then reported fully his efforts in London to raise money and was unsuccessful. The fact that Cannon Grant and Co[mpany]. are staggering under the weight of the sugar factory with fair prospects that they would succumb. It was asked that the Trustee and Trust take up the load as it was shouldered by Cannon Grant and Co[mpany]. to raise the money to build the factory when it could not be raised by the church. I moved that the Trustees in Trust relieve Cannon and Grant & Co[mpany]. by taking up the lead and giving Trustee in Trust notes secured by Sugar Factory notes. Seconded by Pres[ident] L[orenzo]. Snow and carried unanimously. If this can be properly done it may save Cannon Grant & Co[mpany]. who have jeopardized all they have on earth to carry out the inspiration of the Lord through President [Wilford] Woodruff and his Counselors.
[Francis M. Lyman 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]
110 years ago today - Aug 2, 1913
"Warning Voice" in the August 16, 1913 issue of the Deseret News. ... The "Warning" was directed particularly at dream mines and their operators. The First Presidency requested the letter to be read in church meetings.
[Clark, James R., Messages of the First Presidency (6 volumes)]
[Clark, James R., Messages of the First Presidency (6 volumes)]
125 years ago today - Aug 2, 1898
[Heber J. Grant]
At ten attended a meeting in the President's office of some of the leading men of the Church, and there was some talk on political matters. The feeling of all present was that it would be wise for our people to remain true to their political parties in the coming State election unless they felt to combine because of silver or some other item of this kind. None felt that it would be wise for us to have a nonpartisan party for a State ticket.
Personally I am in favor of Bro B H Roberts running as Representative to Congress and I hope sincerely that it is what will please the Presidency and that he will get the office.
[The Diaries of Heber J. Grant, 1880-1945, Abridged, Digital Edition Salt Lake City, Utah, 2015]
At ten attended a meeting in the President's office of some of the leading men of the Church, and there was some talk on political matters. The feeling of all present was that it would be wise for our people to remain true to their political parties in the coming State election unless they felt to combine because of silver or some other item of this kind. None felt that it would be wise for us to have a nonpartisan party for a State ticket.
Personally I am in favor of Bro B H Roberts running as Representative to Congress and I hope sincerely that it is what will please the Presidency and that he will get the office.
[The Diaries of Heber J. Grant, 1880-1945, Abridged, Digital Edition Salt Lake City, Utah, 2015]
130 years ago today - Aug 2, 1893
[Heber J. Grant]
I have and do pray with all my heart and soul that the Lord will keep our Banks from failing. I feel that nothing but His power can do it.
[The Diaries of Heber J. Grant, 1880-1945, Abridged, Digital Edition Salt Lake City, Utah, 2015]
I have and do pray with all my heart and soul that the Lord will keep our Banks from failing. I feel that nothing but His power can do it.
[The Diaries of Heber J. Grant, 1880-1945, Abridged, Digital Edition Salt Lake City, Utah, 2015]
140 years ago today - Aug 2, 1883
John Taylor and several apostes state their preference for conferring only the Aaronic priesthood part of the endowment ceremony on newly endowed adults. No decision is made.
[The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn, [New Mormon History database ( http://bit.ly/NMHdatabase )]]
[The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn, [New Mormon History database ( http://bit.ly/NMHdatabase )]]
180 years ago today - Aug 2, 1843
[Nauvoo Neighbor]
Letter to the Editor: -- Recommends voting against Cyrus Walker for the US Congress because he charged Joseph Smith $500 for legal services.
[http://boap.org/LDS/Nauvoo-Neighbor]
Letter to the Editor: -- Recommends voting against Cyrus Walker for the US Congress because he charged Joseph Smith $500 for legal services.
[http://boap.org/LDS/Nauvoo-Neighbor]
190 years ago today - Aug 2, 1833
Joseph Smith receives two revelations (D&C 94 & 97) urging the creation of a city plat by "laying out and preparing a beginning." If the saints are obedient in building a temple, the City of Zion (in Missouri) will prosper and become glorious, and Zion cannot be "be moved" out of its place. It will "become glorious, very great and very terrible ... Surely Zion is the city of our God, and surely Zion cannot fall, neither be moved out of her place ..." The saints did not build a temple as commanded, and were subsequently driven out of Missouri by the Extermination Order.
[D&C 94 & 97]
[D&C 94 & 97]
60 years ago today - Aug 1, 1963
First Presidency statement that Latter-day Saints should not dance with "grotesque contortions of the body such as shoulder and hip shaking or excessive body jerking." As result Mormon youth generally cease dancing the popular "Twist" at LDS dances throughout the world, an adherence that had not uniformly followed the first announced ban two years earlier by youth auxiliaries.
RLDS First Presidency statement published in SAINT'S HERALD entitled, "Our Position on Race and Color:" "The internal racial problems in our church have been very minor. Integration has been such a natural process that there would be no need to discuss it in these columns were it not for the national attention that has resulted from the tense integration question. We have Negroes in our branches, in our priesthood, and in our church college. Our integration preceded any social pressures or Supreme Court decisions. It would be difficult to say how many of our Negroes now hold priesthood. No systematic records have been kept based on race or color. We have felt no reason for such accounting." The RLDS church allowed Blacks to have the priesthood in the 1800's
RLDS First Presidency statement published in SAINT'S HERALD entitled, "Our Position on Race and Color:" "The internal racial problems in our church have been very minor. Integration has been such a natural process that there would be no need to discuss it in these columns were it not for the national attention that has resulted from the tense integration question. We have Negroes in our branches, in our priesthood, and in our church college. Our integration preceded any social pressures or Supreme Court decisions. It would be difficult to say how many of our Negroes now hold priesthood. No systematic records have been kept based on race or color. We have felt no reason for such accounting." The RLDS church allowed Blacks to have the priesthood in the 1800's
125 years ago today - Aug 1, 1898; Monday
Bro[ther]. Farnsworth wished to have the sealing of his deceased daughter to her husband annulled, alleging that the latter, who was now living, had discarded his garments, and it was believed that he hastened his wife's death by administering to her medicine, purchased by him, to produce abortion. Pres[iden]ts. Woodruff and Cannon told Bro[ther]. Farnsworth that nothing could be done in this matter without giving the accused an opportunity to defend himself.
[First Presidency and Quorum of the Twelve minutes]
[First Presidency and Quorum of the Twelve minutes]
135 years ago today - Aug 01, 1888
Moroni Timbimboo, a member of the Northwestern Shoshone nation and the first Native American bishop in the Church, is born at Washakie, a Church-sponsored farming community in Utah.
140 years ago today - Aug 1, 1883
[Wilford Woodruff]
I spent the forenoon in the office. I received one letter from Br Card Containing the Expenditure on the Logan Temple $606,447.41 up to the Present date.
[Wilford Woodruff's Journal: 1833-1898 Typescript, Volumes 1-9, Edited by Scott G. Kenney, Signature Books 1993, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
I spent the forenoon in the office. I received one letter from Br Card Containing the Expenditure on the Logan Temple $606,447.41 up to the Present date.
[Wilford Woodruff's Journal: 1833-1898 Typescript, Volumes 1-9, Edited by Scott G. Kenney, Signature Books 1993, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
180 years ago today - Aug 1, 1843
[William Clayton]
... J. [Joseph Smith] told him [Walter Bagby, the county tax assessor] that he had always been ready to pay all taxes when called upon & he did not think it good behavior to sell his lots when he was willing to pay the taxes whenever called upon. Bagby said he had done more for J. than for any other man in the County. J. reiterated that he had abused the citizens here and was always doing so. Bagby then told him he was a liar at which J. got out of his Buggy. When Bagby saw him get out he ran to pick up a stone to through at which J. was so enraged that he followed him & struck him two or three times. Esqr. Wells stepped between them & succeeded in getting them apart and J. told him to assess the fine and he was willing to pay it. J. rode down to Whitneys & got the fine [for assult] assessed & then returned to the political meeting. Bagby staid a while muttering that J. was a coward &c. ...
[The Nauvoo Diaries of William Clayton, 1842-1846, Abridged, Digital Edition, Salt Lake City, Utah, 2015]
... J. [Joseph Smith] told him [Walter Bagby, the county tax assessor] that he had always been ready to pay all taxes when called upon & he did not think it good behavior to sell his lots when he was willing to pay the taxes whenever called upon. Bagby said he had done more for J. than for any other man in the County. J. reiterated that he had abused the citizens here and was always doing so. Bagby then told him he was a liar at which J. got out of his Buggy. When Bagby saw him get out he ran to pick up a stone to through at which J. was so enraged that he followed him & struck him two or three times. Esqr. Wells stepped between them & succeeded in getting them apart and J. told him to assess the fine and he was willing to pay it. J. rode down to Whitneys & got the fine [for assult] assessed & then returned to the political meeting. Bagby staid a while muttering that J. was a coward &c. ...
[The Nauvoo Diaries of William Clayton, 1842-1846, Abridged, Digital Edition, Salt Lake City, Utah, 2015]
185 years ago today - 1â␦␦Aug 3, 1838 - Wednesdayâ␦␦Friday
[Joseph Smith]
... we saw the publication of the Oration deliverered by Prest. [Sidney] Rigdon on the 4th day July 1838 it was published in the Far West, a paper published in Liberty Clay County Mo. [["... for to be mobed any more without taking vengeance, we will not."]]
[Joseph Smith, “The Scriptory Bookâ€"of Joseph Smith Jr.â€"President of The Church of Jesus Christ, of Latterday Saints In all the World,†Journal, Mar.â€"Sept. 1838]
... we saw the publication of the Oration deliverered by Prest. [Sidney] Rigdon on the 4th day July 1838 it was published in the Far West, a paper published in Liberty Clay County Mo. [["... for to be mobed any more without taking vengeance, we will not."]]
[Joseph Smith, “The Scriptory Bookâ€"of Joseph Smith Jr.â€"President of The Church of Jesus Christ, of Latterday Saints In all the World,†Journal, Mar.â€"Sept. 1838]
15 years ago today - 7/31/2008
[Proposition-8]
Bloggers at Feminist Mormon Housewives (http://www.feministmormonhousewives.org/?p=272) begin discussing in earnest the relevancy of personal leanings toward/away from gay marriage and temple recommends when a guest reveals, "In my stake temple recommend earlier this month I was told that if I do not agree with the church's position on gay marriage, that I am not worthy to attend the temple."
[Mormons for Marriage: A Prop 8 Timeline, http://mormonsformarriage.com/?page_id=68]
Bloggers at Feminist Mormon Housewives (http://www.feministmormonhousewives.org/?p=272) begin discussing in earnest the relevancy of personal leanings toward/away from gay marriage and temple recommends when a guest reveals, "In my stake temple recommend earlier this month I was told that if I do not agree with the church's position on gay marriage, that I am not worthy to attend the temple."
[Mormons for Marriage: A Prop 8 Timeline, http://mormonsformarriage.com/?page_id=68]
30 years ago today - Jul 31, 1993
The Salt Lake Tribune reports that LDS missionary-couples in Nauvoo, Illinois have worked "for 88 consecutive hours without sleep" to help protect the historical properties of the RLDS church in Nauvoo from the rampaging Mississippi River.
[The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn, [New Mormon History database ( http://bit.ly/NMHdatabase )]]
[The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn, [New Mormon History database ( http://bit.ly/NMHdatabase )]]
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