(DRAFT RESOURCES) LDS Blacks and the priesthood / temple attendance

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" joy and relief" 
" I didn't understand why; I couldn't identify with any of the explanations that were given"
" revelation that confirmed what they desired and gave them a feeling of rightness about the time."
"they went to the Lord, I think with a semi-proposal, that this be done"
"Revelation comes in a lot of different ways. God speaks to His children in many ways. A face-to-face vision of God is very rare. That was the First Vision of God to Joseph Smith. Another way that revelation comes is by the appearance of an angel. The Apostle Paul had that kind of experience. Revelation can also come in a dream or a vision. None of those were the experience in the revelation on the priesthood. Other ways that revelation comes are in comfort (feeling of comfort), information, communicating restraint, or impelling one to do something, or to give a feeling."

http://www.mormonnewsroom.org/additional-resource/elder-dallin-h-oaks-reaction-to-priesthood-revelation


"...by the end of his life in 1844 Joseph Smith, the founding prophet of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, opposed slavery. During this time some black males were ordained to the priesthood."
http://www.mormonnewsroom.org/article/race-church

Brigham Young, 5 February 1852
https://dcms.lds.org/delivery/StreamGate?is_rtl=false&is_mobile=false&dps_dvs=1414443613480~519&dps_pid=FL4530991

http://www.mormonnewsroom.org/topic/race-relations

https://www.lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/od/2?lang=eng

Question 13th. Are the Mormons abolitionists.

Answer. No... we do not believe in setting the Negroes  free.
http://josephsmithpapers.org/paperSummary/elders-journal-july-1838?p=11&highlight=negro

JANE MANNING JAMES: BLACK SAINT, 1847 PIONEER
https://www.lds.org/ensign/1979/08/jane-manning-james-black-saint-1847-pioneer?lang=eng

"...when Green joined the church, a black seventy named Elijah Abel had just returned from a mission, and members of the Quorum of the Twelve were promoting Joseph Smith’s proposal to free all the slaves in the United States. Not long after Green arrived in the Great Basin, however, church leaders began to exclude black men from the priesthood, a change that also limited black members’ access to the temple."
http://history.lds.org/article/green-flake-pioneer?lang=eng

“ALL ARE ALIKE UNTO GOD”
https://si.lds.org/bc/seminary/content/library/talks/ces-symposium-addresses/all-are-alike-unto-god_eng.pdf

Jamaica
http://history.lds.org/article/pioneers-in-every-land-jamaica-victor-nugent?lang=eng

"...we “poked fun” at an old Yorkshireman, who was assumed, by way of mirth, to be a Cœlebs in search of polygamy at an epoch of life when perhaps the blessing might come too late; and at an exceedingly plain middle-aged and full-blooded negro woman, who was fairly warned—the children of Ham are not admitted to the communion of the Saints, and consequently to the forgiveness of sins and a free seat in Paradise—that she was “carrying coals to Newcastle."
http://history.lds.org/overlandtravels/trailExcerptMulti?lang=eng&sourceId=5732


Dan Camp, He was a Negro slave.
https://history.lds.org/overlandtravels/pioneerDetail?lang=eng&pioneerId=44319

Orson Hyde was present. after Supper asked what is the situation of the Negro
http://josephsmithpapers.org/paperSummary/journal-december-1842-june-1844-book-1-21-december-1842-10-march-1843?p=47&highlight=negro

"...the Indians have greater cause to com plain of the treatment of the whites than the Negroes or  Sons of Cain"

Footnote 72 states: "The concept of Cain as the progenitor of blacks was an old and prevalent one."

http://josephsmithpapers.org/paperSummary/journal-december-1841-december-1842?p=14

"Still he says, he is independent. If he is, let him live alone; and when he has lived alone six months, he will be apt to come to his senses, if he has bread enough to keep him until then.

At the end of that time he would be wishing for the society of the negro baboon, or anything at all like the human form. He would hunger and thirst for an association with his fellow being..."

A Discourse by Elder Amasa M. Lyman, Delivered in the Tabernacle, Great Salt Lake City, December 9, 1855

Volume 3, discourse 23, pages 164-177

http://journalofdiscourses.com/3/23

"Why are so many of the inhabitants of the earth cursed with a sin of blackness? It comes in consequence of their fathers rejecting the power of the Holy Priesthood, and the law of God. They will go down to death. And when all the rest of the children have received their blessings in the Holy Priesthood, then that curse will be removed from the seed of Cain, and they will then come up and possess the priesthood, and receive all the blessings which we now are entitled to."

http://journalofdiscourses.com/11/41

Remarks by President Brigham Young, in the Bowery, G.S.L. City, August 19, 1866

Volume 11, discourse 41, pages 266-272

"Gone is every element of discrimination."

The question of extending the blessings of the priesthood to blacks had been on the minds of many of the Brethren over a period of years.

On this occasion he raised the question before his Brethren—his Counselors and the Apostles. Following this discussion we joined in prayer in the most sacred of circumstances.

...by the power of the Holy Ghost there came to that prophet an assurance that the thing for which he prayed was right, that the time had come, and that now the wondrous blessings of the priesthood should be extended to worthy men everywhere regardless of lineage.

There was not the sound “as of a rushing mighty wind,” there were not “cloven tongues like as of fire” (Acts 2:2–3)... No voice audible to our physical ears was heard. But the voice of the Spirit whispered with certainty into our minds and our very souls.

All of us knew that the time had come for a change and that the decision had come from the heavens. The answer was clear. There was perfect unity among us in our experience and in our understanding.

https://www.lds.org/ensign/1988/10/priesthood-restoration?lang=eng