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150 years ago
Brother Joseph Toronto presented President Brigham Young $2,500 in gold and told the Church leader "he wanted to give himself and all he had to the upbuilding of the Church and kingdom of God," according to History of the Church 7:433.
Brother Toronto also told the prophet that he would "henceforth look to
himT for protection and counsel" as the two met July 8, 1845, in Nauvoo, Ill. President Young noted, "I laid the money at the feet of the bishops."
The next day, Wednesday, July 9, about 50 members of the Joseph Smith Sr. family and seven widows attended a dinner at the Mansion House. The table was waited on by President Young, Elders Heber C. Kimball and John Taylor of the Twelve, and Bishops Newell K. Whitney and George Miller.
According to President Young, "Mother Smith addressed her kindred and the audience in a feeling and pathetic manner."
Quote from the past
"Inasmuch as our hearts are pure as a people, full of integrity and the Holy Ghost, no power shall ever prevail against us from this time henceforth and forever."
- Elder Orson Hyde, in an address given Nov. 15, 1857, in the Tabernacle on Temple Square.
