Posted by admin on Nov 10, 2011 in Glimpse of the Past - LDS Church History |

November 4, 1833 – Joseph Smith, jun., returned to Kirtland, O., from his mission to Canada. November 5, 1833 – Col. Thos. Pitcher, commanding the mob militia, in Jackson County, demanded that the Saints should give up their arms, which order was reluctantly complied with. During the following night and the next day the mob drove the Saints from their homes at the point of the bayonet. The exiles were thereby exposed to the most severe sufferings from cold and hunger. November 9, 1856 – Capt. James G. Willie’s handcart company arrived in G.S.L. City, after great sufferings from scarcity of provisions, cold and over-exertion in the mountains. It left Iowa City, Iowa, July 15th, with 120 handcarts and six wagons, numbering about five hundred souls, of whom 66 died on the journey. Captain Abraham O. Smoot’s wagon train arrived the same day. November 8, 1841– The temporary baptismal font in the Nauvoo Temple was dedicated. November 11, 1854 – Professor Orson Pratt discovered “a new and easy method of solution of the cubic and biquadratic equations.” Taken from History of Church; & Church Chronology by Andrew...

Posted by admin on Nov 1, 2011 in Glimpse of the Past - LDS Church History |

November 1, 1808 – John Taylor was born in Milnthorpe, Westmoreland, England. November 1, 1831 – At a special conference held at Hiram, Oliver Cowdery was appointed to go to Independence, Jackson Co., Mo., with the revelations which Joseph the Prophet had received up to that time and get them printed. The revelation known as the Preface to the Doctrine and Covenants was given.” (Doc. and Cov., Sec. 1.) November 3, 1831 – John Whitmer was called by revelation to accompany Oliver Cowdery to Missouri, and to travel among the different branches of the Church in order to obtain information in his capacity as Church Historian. (Doc. and Cov., Sec. 69.) November 2, 1838 – Joseph Smith, jun., and fellow-prisoners were taken to Far West under a strong guard and permitted to see their families, from whom they then were rudely torn and started under a strong guard, commanded by Generals Samuel D. Lucas and Robert Wilson, for Independence, Jackson Co., where they arrived on the 4th. Taken from History of Church; & Church Chronology by Andrew...

Posted by admin on Oct 24, 2011 in Glimpse of the Past - LDS Church History |

October 23, 1835 – The Prophet Joseph Smith invited Oliver Cowdery, David Whitmer, Hyrum Smith, John Whitmer, Sidney Rigdon, Samual H. Smith, Frederick G. Williams, and W. W. Phelps, to his home to unite in prayer, “with one voice, before the Lord,” to pray for deliverance from the afflictions and difficulties of the Saints, especially those in Missouri. (History of Church, 3:166) October 30, 1838 – A mob under the leadership of Col. Wm. O. Jennings attacked a little settlement of Saints at Haun’s Mill, Caldwell Co., Missouri, and killed and mortally wounded several Saints.  Others were severely wounded, but recovered. October 29, 1839 – Joseph Smith, jun., accompanied by Sidney Rigdon, Elias Higbee and O. Porter Rockwell left Commerce for Washington, D. C., to lay the grievances of the Saints before the President and Congress of the United States. October 23, 1843 – The Prophet Joseph met with the members of the Twelve who had just returned from their missions and gathered the money donated by the Saints in the East for the building of the Temple in Nauvoo.  He immediately “gave directions to send to St. Louis for groceries and different articles necessary for the Temple and the workmen thereon.” (History of Church 6:60-61) October 23, 1903 – Brigham Young Academy in Provo, Utah, officially changes its name to Brigham Young University. October 23, 1976 – The first missionaries enter the island nation of Micronesia. October 23, 1985 – A new genealogical library in Salt Lake City, Utah, later renamed the Family History Library, is dedicated by President Gordon B. Hinckley of the First Presidency. Taken from History of Church; & Church Chronology by Andrew...

Posted by admin on Oct 22, 2011 in Glimpse of the Past - LDS Church History |

October 22, 1843 – Apostles Brigham Young, Heber C. Kimball and George A. Smith returned to Nauvoo from a mission to the Eastern States. October 18, 1847 – Thirty-two of the Battalion boys, who were anxious to meet their families at Winter Quarters, left G.S.L. City for that place, where they arrived Dec. 18th, after a hard journey. October 1849 – Tabernacle Choir organized. October 16, 1980 – First multi-regional conference held in London. October 23, 1985 – Elder Neal A. Maxwell visited Ireland to perform its...

Posted by admin on Oct 12, 2011 in Glimpse of the Past - LDS Church History |

Oct 9, 1838 – The Saints living in Dewitt, Missouri, continued under siege by the mob.  The Prophet Joseph was with them hoping to find a way for the Saints to stay in peace.  He records that they were starving as the mob would not let them leave to gather food.  They were being shot at and conditions were unbearable.  He records, “Some of the brethren perished from starvation; and for once in my life, I had the pain of beholding some of my fellow creatures fall victims to the spirit of persecution.” History of Church 3:158. Oct 9, 1848 – The last group of Saints (known as the “poor camp”) who had been thrown out of Nauvoo, Illinois, during the “Battle of Nauvoo” and who are camped on the West side of the Mississippi River in terrible conditions, avoid starvation through the “miracle of the quail.”  Hundreds of quail land in the camp and are easily caught, providing meat for the starving Saints. Oct 9, 1875 – The tabernacle on Temple Square in Salt Lake City, Utah, is dedicated by Elder John Taylor.  While it had been used for several years, it had not yet been dedicated. Oct 9, 1898 – Lorenzo Snow is sustained as the fifth President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Oct 9, 1982 – The First Presidency announces the plans for a temple in Freiberg, German Democratic Republic.  It was the only Temple built in a communist nation. Taken from History of Church & Church Chronology, Andrew...

Posted by admin on Oct 3, 2011 in Glimpse of the Past - LDS Church History |

October 3, 1805 – Oliver Cowdery, born in 3 October, 1805, in Wells, Rutland Co., Vermont October 1830 – Oliver Cowdery, Parley P. Pratt, Peter Whitmer, jun., and Ziba Peterson started westward as the first missionaries to the Lamanites. On their journey they established a large branch of the Church at Kirtland, Geauga Co., O. Among those baptized by Parley P. Pratt was Sidney Rigdon. October 4, 1838 – The Kirtland Camp arrived at its destination, Adam-ondi-Ahman. October 2, 1841– An important general conference was commenced in the Grove at Nauvoo. It was continued till the 4th. Joseph Smith declared, as the will of the Lord, that the Church should not hold another general conference until the Saints could meet in the Temple. October 7, 1842 – Joseph Smith again left home to elude the pursuit of his enemies, leaving his wife Emma sick. He returned on the 20th. October 6, 1845 – The first general conference of the Saints for three years was commenced in the Temple, the Prophet Joseph having ordered that they should not hold another general conference until they could meet in that house. The conference continued for three...