170 years ago today - Jul 14, 1844, Sunday

[William Clayton Writings] About the middle of July, the sisters of the branches of LaHarpe and Macedonia sent word to the temple committee and stated their anxiety to see this building progress still more rapidly.

They proposed if the committee would build another crane, they would furnish the means to build it with, and seemed wishful to go ahead with it immediately. The committed and recorder councilled on the subject and it was decided to comply with the wishes of the sisters.

Sister Clark, wife of Raymond Clark, was authorized to collect the contributions. She immediately started, and returned on the 29th with money and other property, amounting in the whole to $194, which was more than sufficient to build a new crane.

[Source: Fillerup, Robert C., compiler; William Clayton Nauvoo Diaries and Personal Writings, A chronological compilation of the personal writings of William Clayton while he was a resident of Nauvoo, Illinois. http://www.boap.org/LDS/Early-Saints/clayton-diaries]

2 comments:

  1. AnonymousJuly 14, 2014

    Application for our day: new cranes should be used to convert all 143+ LDS false temples into affordable townhouses or condominiums. Otherwise, if they don't (and everyone knows that they will not), the Lord is going to destroy all of them in his own due time someday in the future. Not one stone will be left standing upon another that will not be thrown down to the ground.

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  2. AnonymousJuly 14, 2014

    All LDS false temples should be converted into affordable townhouses or condominiums.

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