[Sermon] Orson Pratt: King Limhi's Enquiry, From the Book of Mormon - Ammon Replies - Seership and the Urim and Thummim - The Brother of Jared - Hyrum Smith's Enquiry - What is a Generation - The Immense Number of Records to Be Revealed, JD 19:204 - 219 (1)
-- 1877
Church Membership at end of year: 115,065
New Converts : 3,954
Percent Change from previous year: 3.56% (2)
-- During 1877-78
[Apostle Rudger Clawson] Active member of Wasatch Literary Association. (3)
-- During 1877-
[Periodicals] Nordstjernan; Copenhagen, Denmark and (Changed to Stockholm, Sweden Nordstjarnan 1894) Frankfurt, Germany (Unified 1967) SWEDISH (Periodical) (4)
-- Jan 20, 1878
[Sermon] Erastus Snow: Origin of Man and Attributes of Deity - Philosophers and Astronomers versus the Scriptures - Man Possesses the Power of Improvement - this Developed By Inspiration, JD 19:322 - 329 (1)
-- Feb 10, 1878
[Sermon] Charles C. Rich: Blessing the Result of Obedience to Law - Our Agency in the Flesh - The Advantages of Union - Order in the Kingdom of God - The Eternal Warfare Between Good and Evil, JD 19:249 - 258 (1)
-- During Feb. 1878
[Lucy Mack Smith] The RLDS Publication Board appoints W. W. Blair, Joseph Smith III, and H. A. Stebbins as a committee to prepare an edition of Biographical Sketches. (5)
-- Mar 3, 1878
[Sermon] Erastus Snow: There is a God - Communion With Him An Inherent Craving of the Human Heart - Man in His Image - Male and Female Created He Them - Spirit and Flesh - Mortal and Immortal, JD 19:266 - 279 (1)
-- Apr 6, 1878
[Sermon] George Q. Cannon: Labors and Experience of the Elders - The Work Scarcely Begun - The Power of Union - Temporal Salvation Necessary As Well As Spiritual - Cooperation and the United Order, JD 20:77 - 88 (1)
[Sermon] Wilford Woodruff: The Blessings Realized By the Saints - Men Die, But Their Works Remain - a Day of Infidelity - the Coming Glory of Zion - Temple Building Again - Blessing at St. George, JD 19:295 - 300 (1)
-- Apr 7, 1878
[Sermon] George Q. Cannon: Ideas Held By the Latter - day Saints Winning Their Way - Territorial Prosperity - Mormonism - Not Favored of the Government - Latter - Day Saints to Save the Government - Good Counsel on Many Points, JD 20:1 - 8 (1)
[Sermon] Orson Pratt: Parable of the Vineyard - The Gradual Organization of the Church - Duties of Officers - Union in All Matters Advantageous and Inevitable - Political and Religious Growth, JD 19:330 - 334 (1)
-- Apr 8, 1878
[Sermon] John Taylor: No Man Can Direct the Kingdom of God - The Gospel Did not Originate With Joseph Smith: or Brigham Young: - The Saints Operating With God and the Angels - The Grand Organization of the Church - Other Institutions of Zion, JD 19:300 - 311 (1)
Footnotes:
1 - Journal of Discourses, http://jod.mrm.org
2 - Wikipedia, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Membership History, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Church_of_Jesus_Christ_of_Latter-day_Saints_membership_history
3 - Larsen, Stan (editor), A Ministry of Meetings:The Apostolic Diaries of Rudger Clawson, Significant Mormon Diaries Series No. 6, A Rudger Clawson Chronology, Signature Books in association with Smith Research Associates, Salt Lake City 1993
4 - Ludlow, Daniel H. editor, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Vol.4, Appendix 3: Church Periodicals
5 - Anderson, Lavina Fielding, Editor, Lucy's Book: A Critical Edition of Lucy Mack Smith's Family Memoir, 2001, Signature Books
Mormon History Timeline /Chronology
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