Why did Brigham Young say the real “gold
rush” would be in Utah?
A)
A ploy to disinterest the Saints from leaving Utah for the
California gold fields
B)
What would be left behind by those traveling from the east to
California would be more valuable than gold
C)
The angel Moroni appeared to him showing him the large gold
fields of Utah
D)
He was referring to the gold statue angel Moroni that would one
day be placed on top of the Salt Lake Temple
Yesterday’s
answer:
(B)
1912
. . . the First Presidency asked the General
Relief Society in 1912 to create the “Temple and Burial Clothing Department” to
be the principal ceremonial clothing outlet for Latter-day Saints.
Jill
Mulvay Derr, Janath Russell Cannon, and Maureen Ursenbach Beecher, Women of Covenant: The Story of Relief
Society (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1992), 198.
Additional interesting
information:
Great care was taken to procure the finest
possible materials for clothing the dead.
Seymour
B. Young, Diary, July 27, 1921, typescript, Church History Library
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