Posted by admin on Sep 28, 2011 in Glimpse of the Past - LDS Church History |

September 22, 1827 – Joseph Smith obtained the gold plates from Moroni at the Hill Cumorah (see JS-H 1: 59). Sept 25, 1842 – The Prophet Joseph spoke in the Grove in Nauvoo for “more than two hours, chiefly on the subject of persecution.” Sept 25, 1928 – The first institute building in the church, adjacent to the University of Idaho campus in Moscow, Idaho, is dedicated by Pres. Charles W. Nibley of the First Presidency.  The program had started a year earlier with fifty-seven students being taught by J. Wyley Sessions. Sept 26, 1955 – The Church College of Hawaii, now Brigham Young University – Hawaii, commenced its first day of classes with 153 students and 20 faculty/administrators in war surplus buildings moved to the Laie site.  Dr. Reuben D. Law became the first president of CCH. Sept 26, 1963 – U.S. Pres. John F. Kennedy speaks in the Tabernacle in Salt Lake City, Utah, while visiting the state just two months before he was...

Posted by admin on Sep 16, 2011 in Glimpse of the Past - LDS Church History |

September 21, 1823 – Joseph Smith, jun., while engaged in earnest prayer in his father’s house in Manchester, near Palmyra, N. Y., saw the room in which he had retired for the night filled with light surpassing that of noonday, in the midst of which stood a person dressed in white, whose countenance was as lightning, and yet full of innocence and goodness. This was the angel Moroni, who informed Joseph that God had a work for him (Joseph) to do, and that his “name should be had for good and evil among all nations.” The angel quoted many passages of Scripture, and told Joseph that the native inhabitants of America were a remnant of Israel who had anciently enjoyed the ministry of inspired men, that records engraved on plates of gold, containing their history and also the fulness of the everlasting Gospel had been preserved and were buried in a neighboring hill. While conversing with the angel, a vision was opened to Joseph’s view, so that he could see the place where the plates were deposited, and he was told by the angel that he should obtain them at some future day, if he was faithful. After imparting many instructions, the angel disappeared, but returned twice during the night, and repeated what he had said on his first visit; he also gave further instructions. Sept 16, 1840 – First apostle arrives in the Isle of Man (John Taylor). September 1856– Cache County was settled by Peter Maughan and others, who located what is now the town of Wellsville. September 16, 1855 – The Horticultural Society was organized in G.S.L. City, with Wilford Woodruff as president. Various other societies were organized in the forepart of the year, among which were the “Universal Scientific Society”, the “Polysophical Society”, the Deseret Philharmonic Society and the “Deseret Typographical Association.” Taken from Church Chronology, Andrew...

Posted by admin on Sep 8, 2011 in Glimpse of the Past - LDS Church History |

September 15, 1843 – Joseph Smith opened the Nauvoo Mansion as a hotel. September 12, 1852 – The first branch of the Church in India is organized at Poonah. September 12, 1974 – Elder Gordon B. Hinckley offers an invocation at the United States Congress. September 12, 1991 – Elder Boyd K. Packer dedicates the Republic of the Ukraine for the preaching of the...

Posted by admin on Sep 5, 2011 in Glimpse of the Past - LDS Church History |

Sept 16, 1840 – First apostle arrives in the Isle of Man (John Taylor). September 5, 1842 – The ladies of the Nauvoo Female Relief Society write a letter to Governor Thomas Carlin, Governor of the State of Illinois, stating their support for Joseph Smith as a “man of integrity, honesty, truth, and patriotism.”  They reminded him of their sufferings in Missouri and ask that he not allow the State of Missouri to take the Prophet Joseph back to stand trial as this would “be the delivering up the innocent to be murdered.” September 1849 – Perpetual Emigration Fund Company organized. Sept 7, 1958 – London Temple dedicated. September 5, 1982 – U.S. Pres. Ronald Reagan honors the Mormon Tabernacle Choir on its fiftieth anniversary of continuous weekly broadcasts with the CBS Radio...

Posted by admin on Aug 28, 2011 in Glimpse of the Past - LDS Church History |

August 31, 1840 – Apostle Heber C. Kimball baptized Henry Conner, a watchmaker, in London, England, as the first fruit of preaching the fulness of the gospel in that city. August 26, 1906 – First Prophet visits Britain (Joseph F. Smith) August 28, 1852 – The Church announces the expansion of missionary work in India, Siam, and Hong Kong. August 28, 1889 – A group of Hawaiian Saints arrives at the Church-owned ranch in Skull Valley, Utah, and names the settlement Iosepa (Joseph in Hawaii) in honor of Joseph Smith and Joseph F. Smith, who had served in Hawaii as a missionary. August 28, 1987 – The Frankfurt Germany Temple is dedicated by Pres. Ezra Taft...

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

August 26, 1906 –  First Prophet visits Britain (Joseph F. Smith) August 27, 1831 – Late in August, the Saints were commanded by revelation, through Joseph the Prophet, to purchase lands in Jackson County, Missouri, and the future persecutions of the Church were foreshadowed. (Doc. and Cov., Sec. 63.) August 21, 1927 – Thomas S. Monson, sixteenth President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, is born in Salt Lake City, Utah. August 21, 1999 – The Spokane Washington Temple is dedicated by President Gordon B....