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English
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The Seventies in the 1880s : Revelations and Reorganizing
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Dialogue : A Journal of Mormon Thought
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Spring 1983
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16
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62-88
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"'These 76 quorums were all torn to pieces.' That disturbing report card for seventies quorums came from Joseph Young, senior president of all seventies in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, in January 1880. Such a disrupted state could not long continue, and two 'thus saith the Lord' revelations to Church President John Taylor-- on 13 October 1882 and 14 April 1883-- triggered major reconstructions of the work and the quorums of the seventies. What circumstances prompted the revelations and what responses did they receive? Why was the then-current seventies quorum system malfunctioning? What did the revelations teach and mean in their 1880s context? How fully were the revelations' instruction implemented? How did the First Council of the Seventy interrelate with the First Presidency and the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles regarding seventies' work? Why was the vacant First Quorum of Seventy not recreated? What differences did the revelations and restructurings make to seventies' work? What does this episode teach us about the role continuous revelation plays in priesthood history? What seventies problems were left unresolved? This study draws heavily on seventies' records-- those of the First Council and of individual quorums-- and is thus biased towards those sources. The diaries of apostles Franklin D. Richards and Brigham Young, Jr., helped compensate for the First Presidency and Council of the Twelve minutes, unavailable for the 1880s." [Author]
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