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Box 2

 Container

Contains 15 Results:

First Presidency, Correspondence, 1899-1903

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 11
Identifier: I
Scope and Contents George Reynolds, secretary to the First Presidency, letter to Ben E. Rich, 11 March 1899, says: "If an Elder feels that he has just cause and is moved upon by the Spirit of God to wash his feet against a person or persons who have violently or wickedly rejected the truth, let him do so quietly and beyond noting it in his journal let him not make it public. Nothing should be published in the Southern Star or else-where on this subject. Elders should be...
Dates: 1899-1903

First Presidency, Correspondence, 1903-1908

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 12
Identifier: I
Scope and Contents First Presidency, letter to Heber J. Grant, 12 October 1906, says: "It has always been held that a man tainted with Negro blood is not eligible to hold the Priesthood; neither is a white man who marries a Negro woman, or a woman tainted with Negro blood."
Dates: 1903-1908

First Presidency, Correspondence, 1909-1912

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 13
Identifier: I
Scope and Contents First Presidency, letter to William Budge, president of the Logan Temple, 20 February 1912, says: "This will authorize you to permit the temple work to be done in behalf of the father of the bearer, Anna J. Keller, of Mink Creek, Idaho, and then perform the sealing ordinance in behalf of her parents, to whom she wishes to be sealed, leaving the record showing the sealing of her mother to Bishop Rasmussen unchanged. P.S. Please make a note on the record in connection with the sealing of the...
Dates: 1909-1912

First Presidency, Correspondence, 1912-1916

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 14
Identifier: I
Scope and Contents First Presidency, letter to the General Boards of the YLMIA, Primary, and Relief Society, 22 September 1916, says: "We feel that there exists a pressing need of improvement and reform among our young people, specifically in the matter of dress and in their social customs and practices. Our women are prone to follow the demoralizing fashions of the world; and some of the daughters of Zion appear to vie with one another in exhibitions of immodesty and of actual indecency in their attire.... Many...
Dates: 1912-1916

First Presidency, Correspondence, 1916-1935

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 15
Identifier: I
Scope and Contents First Presidency, letter to Thomas J. Yates, 6 February 1917, in answer to the question, namely, "Where a mother and father have joined the Church and are doing work in the temple, we take it that the father is heir for his line and the mother is heir for her line. Question: Does the mother lose her heirship when her oldest son receives the Higher Priesthood, if he is a good and faithful man, or does she retain it, having commenced the work for her line?" says in answer: "The mother does not...
Dates: 1916-1935