They Did It Differently Then

What was practiced at the end of Sacrament meeting during the Kirtland years of the Church that we don’t do anymore?

A)                 The Sacrament blessed and passed at the conclusion of the meeting

B)                 A Fireside immediately following Sacrament meeting

C)                 All in the congregation participating in vocal prayers, on their knee’s, prior to the conclusion of Sacrament meeting

D)                 Sacrament meetings were for the blessing and the passing of the sacrament only

Yesterday’s answer:

(B)   Jesus and His Apostles

The following from Zebedee Coltrin:

   The salutation as written in the Doctrine and Covenants [D&C 88:136-141] was carried out at that time, and at every meeting, and the washing of feet was attended to, the sacrament was also administered at times when Joseph appointed, after the ancient order; that is, warm bread to break easy was provided and broken into pieces as large as my fist and each person had a glass of wine and sat and ate the bread and drank the wine; and Joseph said that was the way that Jesus and his disciples partook of the bread and wine. And this was the order of the church anciently and until the church went into darkness. Every time we were called together to attend to any business, we came together in the morning about sunrise, fasting and partook of the sacrament each time, and before going to school we washed ourselves and put on clean linen.

Minutes, Salt Lake City School of the Prophets, October 3, 1883.

A Sacramental Meal

Who did Joseph Smith claim broke the bread portion of the Sacrament in fist sized pieces?

A)                 The Nephites

B)                 Jesus and His Apostles

C)                 Melchezidek and Abraham

D)                 Enoch and his people

Yesterday’s answer:

(B) A Methodist University

L. John Nuttall, secretary to President John Taylor, makes the following interesting observation in his journal:

Bro. James A. Bean & John W. Turner from Provo called, & Bro. Bean told me about the proposed sale of the Court House Block also of the proposed building of a Methodist University at Provo & some of our half-hearted Saints subscribing for it.

L. John Nuttall Diary Excerpts, (Salt Lake City; Pioneer Press, 1994), 168.

Provo's First Unversity

It was proposed that what university be constructed in Provo?

A)     Brigham Young Academy

B)     A Methodist University

C)     The University of Utah

D)     Deseret University

Yesterday’s answer:                                                             

(D)   The Tunkers

While by the nineteenth century the Tunkers were the only Christian group to anoint the sick. The Tunkers were also called the “Dunkers” and are now typically known as the Old German Baptist Brethren.

Minutes of the Annual Meetings of the Church of the Brethren: Containing All Available Minutes from 1778 to 1909 (Elgin, Ill.: Brethren Publishing House, 1909), 19, 30, 50.

We Weren’t the Only Ones

What one other Christian group anointed the sick during the 19^th century?

A)     The Quakers

B)     The Methodist

C)     The Congregationalist

D)     The Tunkers

Yesterday’s answer:

(C)   Young University

During the early 1890’s the Church decided to form Young University which was renamed University of The Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-day Saints a year later. Willard Young (Brigham Young’s son) served as president and James Talmage was placed over the science department. Due to the competition for students the University of Utah asked the First Presidency if they would close the school. In return the University of Utah agreed to make James Talmage the University's president. As a result, the only year that the University of The Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-day Saints was opened was the 1893-1894 school year.

Michael D. Quinn, “The Brief Career of Young University at Salt Lake City,” Utah Historical Quarterly 41 (Winter 1973), 69-89; Jed L. Woodworth, “Refusing to Die: Financial Crises at Brigham Young Academy, 1877-1897,” BYU Studies 38 (1999), 70-123.

Early University Rivals

In the early 1890’s the University of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was in direct competition with the University of Utah for students. What was the university known as prior to the University of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints?

A)     Phoenix University

B)     John Taylor University

C)     Young University

D)     The School of the Prophets

Yesterday’s answer:

(D)   On the emigrant ships

Imagine an entire stake on a ship. Believe it or not, it did happen.

   Agents for the Perpetual Emigration Fund tried to charter entire ships, or if they couldn’t do this at least section off a part of a ship for the Mormon emigrants. Quite often these groups would be led by returning missionaries and the group would be split into wards (the various languages being one of the prerequisite for a ward division), with as many as twelve wards on the larger ships.

Kenneth W. Godfrey, Audrey M. Godfrey, and Jill Mulvay Derr, Women’s Voices-An Untold History of The Latter-day Saints: 1830-1900 (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Company, 1982), 200.

They had wards, where?

As strange as it may seem, they had organized wards, where?

A)     Among Ute tribes when the Saints first entered the valley?

B)     In the Mormon Battalion

C)     At the University of Deseret

D)     On the emigrant ships

Yesterday’s answer:

(B)   Any general authority, dead or alive

   Monday, 26 [January 1846], our four children were washed, anointed and sealed to Joseph and Hannah Fielding. And we (Joseph and Hannah) were sealed to Hyrum Smith for time and eternity by Elders Brigham Young and Heber C. Kimball. [Footnote 88: Since Joseph and Hannah's four children were born to them before their marriage was sealed by the power of the holy priesthood, it was, according to Mormon doctrine, necessary for their children to be sealed to them for eternity as if they had been born under the promises of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. These blessings pronounced by the priesthood were not promised by ministers nor civil authorities authorized to perform marriages."] [Footnote 89: "As Joseph and Hannah's children needed to be sealed to their parents, so also Joseph and Hannah needed to be sealed to `parents' who were worthy of the sealing ordinances. Since Joseph's parents were not members of the Church, he elected to be sealed to Hyrum Smith, his brother-in-law and deceased Patriarch to the Church. The `Law of Adoption' that operated to establish the Patriarchal Order was intended to connect all families who would be exalted in the Celestial Kingdom back to Adam, the first man."]

Joseph Fielding, Diary (1843-1846), Church Archives in "They Might Have Known That He Was Not a Fallen Prophet"--The Nauvoo Journal of Joseph Fielding," transcribed and edited by Andrew F. Ehat, BYU Studies 19 (Winter 1979).

An Adoptive Sealing

In the early Church, if a husband and wife were sealed together and also had their children sealed to them, but the couples parents were not members, then who was the couple sealed to?

A)     The presiding prophet of the Church

B)     Any general authority, dead or alive

C)     To their parents anyways, hoping eventually they would join the Church

D)     To Adam and Eve

Yesterday’s answer:

(B)   They were both born in Sharon, Vermont

Interestingly, Stephen Miles was born at Royalton, Sharon Township, Windsor County, Vermont; Sharon Township was also the birthplace of the Prophet Joseph Smith. Born October 19, 1789, Miles was sixteen years older than the Prophet, and as an eighteen-year-old apprentice to Windsor printer Nahum Mower, Miles emigrated with him in 1807 to Montreal. By 1810, Miles was in Kingston, involved in the printing of the Kingston Gazette. In March 1811, Miles withdrew from Kingston to seek employment as a journeyman printer, first in Plattsburgh, New York, and then in Montreal, but by September of that same year he was back in Kingston, this time for good. Miles was “a member of the Methodist group in Kingston” and “a class leader and occasional local preacher.” He established “the first religious weekly in Upper Canada, the Kingston Gazette and Religious Advocate, which ran from 20 June 1828 to 26 March 1830.”

Dictionary of Canadian Biography, Vol. IX (1861-1870) (Toronto: University of Toronto/Universite Laval, 1976), s.v. “Miles, Stephen.”

The “Canadian Revelation”

Martin Harris wavered for a time at covering the cost for the printing of the Book of Mormon. Joseph Smith and a few of the brethren brainstormed over what they could do to cover the cost if Martin bailed out from his responsibility. It was at this time that Joseph Smith received a revelation known as the “Canadian Revelation.” Don’t bother trying to find it in your current edition of the Doctrine and Covenants, it’s not there. The only place you can read it is in the original Doctrine and Covenants, back in the day when it was referred to as the Book of Commandments. Joseph was commanded to send some of the elders to Canada to try and sell the copyright to a Canadian Publisher in hopes of covering the publishing costs. While in Kingston, Ontario, one of the publishers that the elders solicited was a man by the name of Stephen Miles. Believe it or not, Joseph Smith and Stephen Miles share a common tie. What was it?

A)     They share the same maternal great-grand mother

B)     They were both born in Sharon, Vermont

C)     Stephen was a member that Joseph converted at the time of the organization of the Church

D)     They both resided in Palmyra and were boyhood friends

Yesterday’s answer:

(D)  A very large, very fast swimming animal

 During the years 1860-1870 and even later, reports circulated concerning the existence of a strange animal in the waters of Bear Lake (On the border of Idaho and Utah), which became known as the Bear Lake Monster. It was supposed to be very large, with ears or bunches on the side of its head about the size of a pint cup, and it was said to be capable of spouting water from its nose or mouth. Some said it remained stationary in the water, while others asserted it could swim with incredible speed.

   A party of ten young people returning to Paris from Fish Haven reported that they were suddenly attracted by the peculiar motion of the waves in Bear Lake quite a distance out. Thomas Slight, one of the group, said he distinctly saw the animal, which was of a brownish color, and he supposed it to be about forty feet in length. It was going south, and all agreed that it was moving very fast.

   Around 1892 it was reported that an English tourist had seen a monster in Utah Lake resembling a sea serpent. At other times the animal or other animals of like shape and characteristics were reported to have been seen even in Great Salt Lake where no life would possibly exist. All of these reports are a matter of conjecture, since none of these creatures have ever been washed ashore or seen at close enough range to give verification to the stories.

Chronicles of Courage, Compiled by Lesson Committee (Salt Lake City: Daughters of Utah Pioneers, 1991), 256.

There’s a what living in Bear Lake?

My youngest son, who is currently serving a mission to the people of Uruguay, and I enjoy hiking and at one time hiked Christmas Meadows in the High Uintah’s of  northeastern Utah. It’s a pretty place in our neck of the woods and attracts hikers, campers, and fishing enthusiast from all over the region. We hiked through the meadows and then turned up, one of three tributaries that form the headwaters of Bear River, to Amethyst Lake. It was a beautiful hike and the meadows were gorgeous with the deep blue waters of Bear River flowing through in haste to Wyoming. The river eventually swings north and then in a broad turn, heads back into Idaho and eventually empties into the northern end of Bear Lake on the border of Idaho and Utah. I’ve never seen Bear Lake, but I do know that many people in Logan and the Cache Valley cool off in its waters. It’s a large lake and like Loch Ness in Scotland and Okanagan Lake in British Columbia, shares a secret.

What did pioneer Thomas Slight see in the waters of Bear Lake?

A)     A Ute war canoe

B)     A Sea Monster

C)     A record setting Lake Trout

D)     A very large, extremely fast swimming animal

I failed to ask a question yesterday, nonetheless, I do have one more story in regards to women blessing other women:

Finally, one more instance on June 3, 1847, Patty Sessions shares the following from her journal:

   Fair weather. We expect to start tomorrow for the mountains. I called to Sarah Anns this evening with E. R. Snow. Sisters Whitney and Kimball came in. We had a good time. Things were given to us that we were not to tell of but to ponder them in our hearts and profit thereby. Before we went down there E. Beaman, Eliza or Emily Partridge, Zina Jacobs came here laid their hands on my head blessed me and so did E. R. Snow. Thank the Lord.

The Diaries of Perrigrine Sessions, comp. Earl T. Sessions (Bountiful, Utah: Carr Printing Co., 1967).

Sunday Tidbits- Women Anointings

   I read a lot. Lately (for the last 2 ½ years) I’ve been seriously engaged in the scriptures like never before in a fascinating study, one that I hope will eventually publish. As I read, I’m amazed at what I don’t know. I chuckle at myself sometimes as I ask the questions I do in this blog, simply because there was a time when I didn’t know the answer myself. I know this stuff only because I read, and not because I’m an expert in the Church and pioneer heritage field (I’ll leave that to the real historians, the people at the Church History department, and the pros at BYU). I’m also amazed at the things we used to do in the Church, which are no longer practiced today. For instance, the temple baptismal fonts are no longer used for eight-year old baptisms, baptisms for healing, or rebaptisms. Members are no longer sealed to a general authority, we don’t pay tithing in produce, talks or songs are not said or sung during the passing of the sacrament, we no longer endow 12-year olds, and we don’t attend fast and testimony meeting on the first Thursday of the month. The Church evolves, only because of modern and continuous revelation which allows it to evolve. The big steps in Church evolution in my years while on earth has been the priesthood given to all worthy males regardless of race, the consolidation of meeting times, and the updated scriptures. I have no doubt that before I’m called home that I will experience additional change.

   So, does it seem improbable for women in the pioneer phase of the Church to participate in anointings and blessings? All are familiar with Mary Fielding Smith and her praying over, or blessing (whichever story you read) her oxen. But, did this extend to more than just animals? In my years of reading I’ve come across a few interesting situations where women either anointed or blessed others.

In a letter to her husband, Apostle George A. Smith, on October 2, 1842, Bathsheba Smith states the following:

   George Albert was sick last Saturday and Sunday. He had quite a fever. I was very uneasy about him. I was afraid he was going to have the fever. I took him to the font and had him baptized and since then he has not had any fever. He is about well now. Looks a little pale. I anointed him with oil a good may times and washed his little body with whisky and water which was burning with fever but it did not do the good I wanted it should.

See Zora Smith Jarvis comp., Ancestry Biography and Family of George A. Smith (Provo, Utah: Zora Smith Jarvis, 1962).

                                The following from the journal of Patty Bartlett Sessions:

March 17, 1847 . . . . Mr. Sessions and I went and laid hands on the widow Holmans step daughter. She was healed.

The Diaries of Perrigrine Sessions, comp. Earl T. Sessions (Bountiful, Utah: Carr Printing Co., 1967).

Again, from Patty Sessions journal of May 29^th, 1847:

   Packed 186 pounds of pork for the mountains. I then went to collect some debts. Got nothing. Then went to a meeting to Eliza Beamans with many of the sisters. Sisters Young and Whitney laid their hands upon my head and predicted many things that I should be blessed with that I should live to stand in a temple yet to be built and Joseph [Smith] would be there. I should see him and there I should officiate from my labors should then be done in order and they should be great and I should be blessed and by many and there I should bless many and many should be brought unto me saying your hands were the first that handled me bless me after I had blessed them their mothers would rise and bless me for they would be brought to me by Joseph himself for he loved little children and he would bring my little ones to me and my heart was filled with joy and rejoicing.

The Diaries of Perrigrine Sessions, comp. Earl T. Sessions (Bountiful, Utah: Carr Printing Co., 1967).

The following from the journal of Julina Lambson Smith of February 14^th, 1886:

   Sister Coles came to be administered to. She has a large lump growing in her Opu [stomach or womb]. It pains her considerably. Sister Young anointed the affected part, and Jos. Albert with some of the other Elders administered to her.

Kenneth W. Godfrey, Audrey M. Godfrey, and Jill Mulvay Derr, Women’s Voices: An Untold History of The Latter-day Saints 1830-1900 (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Company, 1982), 354.

Since I failed to ask a question yesterday, I will provide you with another great story from the Cardston, Alberta temple:

An experience recorded by Earl W. and Beth Hemp

   What a wonderful, spiritual experience we had that day in the 1940’s in the sealing room of the Alberta Temple with President E. J. Wood. There was a sister from Montana who was sealed to her deceased husband and then the children of her large family were placed around the altar. President Wood commenced sealing the children to their parents. After naming about three of the children’s names President Wood stopped and said, “Sister, are all your children here?” She answered, “Yes.” President Wood started naming the children again and stopped at the same place. “Sister, are all the children’s names on this sheet you gave me?” questioned President Wood. Again she answered, “Yes.” The third time President Wood commenced the sealing and again stopped at the same place and asked, “Sister, didn’t you ever have any other children?” She began to cry and said, “President Wood, I did have one baby who lived only a short time and that baby’s name is not on the sheet.” “Yes, I know. Every time I came to that place while naming the children a spirit in this room, right beside me kept telling me that it belonged to this family and to please not leave him or her-(we don’t remember which one it was)-without belonging to the family,” declared President Wood.

We didn’t hear the spirit speaking to President Wood but we will never forget that sweet, peaceful, heavenly feeling that was in that room. President Wood certainly was in tune with the Spirit to hear the spirit of that child pleading with him.

   Another person was chosen to be the proxy for that deceased child and it was sealed along with the living children to the parents. There must have been much rejoicing also in the heavens that day.

V.A.Wood, The Alberta Temple-Center and Symbol of Faith, (Self published, 1989) pg. 172-173.

A Cardston Miracle

Let’s face it; I’m partial to the Cardston, Alberta temple. I was raised in Calgary, and so the first baptism for the dead that I acted as proxy for, my personal endowment, and my sealing to my wife for time and eternity all took place within the walls of this temple. Like all temples, there are many stories of miracles. I don’t have a question today, just a great story from one of many spiritual experiences that come to us from the Cardston, Alberta temple.

Many great and spiritual experiences have taken place in the [Cardston], Alberta Temple. Among them was one that resulted from the fervent prayers of the parents of a young elder who drowned while on his way to a mission in South America. His grieving father and mother could not be comforted.

   One evening while the father was in the [Cardston,] Alberta Temple, he heard his son’s voice, although he did not see him. The young elder told his father that the grieving of his parents was making it impossible for him to fill the heavenly mission to which he had been called. The boy promised that as a witness to the importance of the work he had been called to do, the father would be asked to speak at a special meeting that day in the temple.

 Unexpectedly that afternoon the temple president stopped the work of those in the temple and announced that there would be a testimony meeting. He asked several people to participate, and the father anxiously awaited his time.

When another man was announced as the concluding speaker, the sorrowing father left the meeting fearful that the visit with his son had been only his imagination.

Before the man left the building, however, the temple president arose and announced that he had heard a voice directing him to ask this man to speak to the group. Those in the room reported that the father had left. “Then go and find him,” the president urged.

When the father returned to the meeting, he told the group of his unusual experience, while tears of comfort and joy glistened in his peace-filled eyes.

Lucile C. Reading, Shining Moments Vol. 2 (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Company, 1986), 123-124.

Yesterday’s answer:

B)   We will be your guard

Lucy Mack Smith recorded this story which took place in Far West, Missouri: I was standing at the door of the room where [Joseph] was sitting, and . . . I saw a large company of armed men advancing toward the city. . . . The officers dismounted and eight of them came up to the house. Thinking that they wanted refreshment or something of that sort, I set chairs. But instead, they entered and placed themselves in a menacing line like a rank of soldiers across the room. . . . “We do not choose to sit. We have come here to kill Joe Smith and all the Mormons. . . .” “Then you are going to kill me with the rest, I suppose,” said I. “Yes, we will.” . . .  Having finished his letter, [Joseph] asked me for a wafer to seal it. Lucy Continued: “Gentlemen, suffer me to make you acquainted with Joseph Smith the Prophet.” He looked upon them with a very pleasant smile and, stepping up to them gave each of them his hand in a manner which convinced them that he was neither a guilty criminal nor yet a cowering hypocrite. . . . Joseph sat down and entered into conversation with them and explained the views and feelings of the people called “Mormons,” what their course had been, and the treatment which they had received from their enemies since the first. . . . After this he rose and said, “Mother, I believe I will go home. Emma will be expecting me.” At this two of the young men sprang to their feet saying, “You shall not go alone, for it is not safe. We will go with you and guard you”

Autobiography of Parley P. Pratt, pg. 47-48.

They Said It

At a time when persecutions ran high at Far West, Joseph was visiting his parents home when an armed mob broke in with every intention of killing the Prophet. Joseph Smith reasoned with them. When Joseph excused himself to go home, what did two members of the mob say?

A)     “I don’t think so. We came here to kill you.”

B)     “You can’t go home by yourself! It’s dangerous out there! We will go with you and guard you.”

C)     Joseph asked them to kneel down with him for the evening prayer

D)     “You’re not a prophet. You look like a regular man.”

Yesterday’s answer:

(A)     Indians

The Newspaper Editors in London are either very ignorant of Geography west of the Mississippi, or they believe and publish lies rather than truth; for instance, the past fortnight. One day they publish Brigham Young arrested by Col. Sumner and on his way to Washington guarded by troops. In a day or two they publish he is gone on a secret tour to hide away from the rebellious Mormons. In a day or two after that we hear he is in Russian America establishing a new colony. Next he is at the head of the Utah troops within a 100 miles of Omaha City come to fight the U.S. Troops. In a day or two after we learn he is in Council with Col. Van Vleit in the Social Hall, threatening to burn every house in the Valley and go into the Mountains leaving all a desolate waste. And today I learn that a large company of Mormons dressed as Indians, have killed 500 U.S. Soldiers somewhere in Minnesota. Such conflicting statements appear, and they are all believed to be true. No apology for the previous lies, no qualification for the rapid change of events. No telling how time and distance is annihilated or how he has the power to be in several places hundreds, yea thousands of miles apart at one time.

Thomas Bullock to Henrietta Rushton Bullock, 25 November 1857, Thomas Bullock Collection, LDS Church Archives. Most of Bullocks’ letters to Henrietta during 1857-58 can be found in the Henrietta Ruston Bullock Collection.

Bizarre and Humorous Press

While Thomas Bullock was on a mission to England from 1856 to 1858 he states that he read a British newspaper describing the events surrounding the Utah War (Johnston’s army). What did the British press say the Mormons dressed up as and killed 500 U. S. soldiers?

A)                 Gold seekers

B)                 Indians

C)                 Cowboys

D)                 The Mormon Battalion

Yesterday’s answer:

True

Even when the Saints were first in the Valley, ministers from other faiths were permitted to preach. The following from the journal of Eliza Lyman on September 16^th, 1849:

Attended meeting. Heard a discourse from the Reverend Mr. Marble an emigrant.

Kenneth W. Godfrey, Audrey M. Godfrey, and Jill Mulvay Derr, Women’s Voices: An Untold History of The Latter-day Saints 1830-1900 (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Company, 1982), 257.

Religious Freedom at the Pulpit

During the Nauvoo years of the Church, Joseph Smith encouraged the Saints to listen to and respect traveling ministers from other faiths. Joseph believed that all had a right to believe however they wanted and gave ministers ample time at LDS pulpits to explain their beliefs. True or false, did this practice continue once the Saints entered the Salt Lake Valley?

Yesterday’s answer:

C)   Native American

The following from the autobiography of Jesse Crosby reminiscing his days while living on his father’s farm in western New York:

“Many others followed the example, and a branch of the Church was organized [1838]. The Holy Ghost was poured out insomuch that many were healed of their infirmities, and prophesied, some saw visions, others spoke in different languages by the gift and power of God as on the day of Pentecost. The language or dialect of various tribes of the American Indians was spoken, and that too by persons who had never spoken with an Indian in their lives. I will own, that though I believed, I was astonished, but will add that I have since traveled among various tribes of Indians in the central and uncultivated parts of America and have recognized not only the language, but the gesture and very manner in which it was spoken.

   “One may inquire why it was that the spirit of God dictated these individuals to speak in the language of these wandering outcasts. Oh! here is the mystery that the world hath not seen. These are a remnant of Israel, the descendants of Joseph, and heirs to the promises made to their fathers; see Book of Mormon.”

Autobiography of Jesse W. Crosby, Typescript, Harold B. Lee

Library, Brigham Young University; http://www.boap.org/

John Corrill sheds additional light on the subject

“I attended several meetings, one of which was the laying on of hands for the gift of the Holy Ghost, which, I thought, would give me a good opportunity to detect their hypocrisy. The meeting lasted all night, and such a meeting I never attended before. They administered the sacrament, and laid on hands, after which I heard them prophesy and speak in tongues unknown to me. Persons in the room, who took no part with them, declared, from the knowledge they had of the Indian languages, that the tongues spoken were regular Indian dialects, which I was also informed, on inquiry, the persons who spoke had never learned. I watched closely and examined carefully, every movement of the meeting, and after exhausting all my powers to find the deception, I was obliged to acknowledge, in my own mind that the meeting had been inspired by some supernatural agency. The next day I returned home, satisfied that the evil reports were not true, and spent about six weeks more in the further investigation of the subject.”

John Corrill, A Brief History of the Church of Christ of Latter Day Saints (Commonly Called Mormons, Including an Account of their Doctrine and Discipline, with the Reasons of the Author for Leaving the Church) (St. Louis, n.p., 1839).

The Gift of Tongues

During pioneer times, what was a typical language to hear while one was speaking in tongues?

A)                 Spanish

B)                 Canadian

C)                 Native American

D)                 Hebrew

Yesterday’s answer:

(A)     Endowments were performed here

   The first public building in Salt Lake City was the Council House, started in 1849 and completed in 1850. Its functions were many and varied over the years. It was built in mind as a meeting place for the territorial legislature. Other uses was the home of the territorial public library, surprisingly, endowments were given here, and finally, for many years, housed the University of Deseret (University of Utah).

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints,Church History In The Fulness of Times (Salt Lake City: Published by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints), 341.