* 1844 – The Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, headed by Brigham Young, is reaffirmed as the leading body of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( LDS Church ).

Members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( Mormon or LDS Church ) who hold the Melchizedek priesthood may use consecrated oil in performing the ordinance of blessing of the " sick or afflicted ", though oil is not required if it is unavailable.

At the intersection of Columbus Avenue and West 65th Street, Broadway passes by the Juilliard School and Lincoln Center, both well-known performing arts landmarks, as well as a temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( the Mormon or LDS Church ), known as the Manhattan New York Temple.

He was the President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( LDS Church ) from 1847 until his death in 1877, he founded Salt Lake City, and he served as the first governor of the Utah Territory, United States.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( the LDS Church or, colloquially, the Mormon Church ) is a Christian primitivist church that considers itself to be a restoration of the church founded by Jesus Christ.

This vision would come to be regarded by the LDS Church as the most important event in human history after the resurrection of Jesus.

Brigham Young led the LDS Church from 1844 until his death in 1877.

The standard works of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( LDS Church ) are the four books that currently constitute its open scriptural canon, due to the LDS belief in continuous revelation.

The standard works are printed and distributed by the LDS Church in a single binding called a quadruple combination and as a set of two books, with the Bible in one binding, and the other three books in a second binding called a triple combination.

" There are six recorded instances of this happening in the LDS Church:

When a doctrine undergoes this procedure, the LDS Church treats it as the word of God, and it is used as a standard to compare other doctrines.

The manuscripts of the Joseph Smith Translation of the Bible state that " the Song of Solomon is not inspired scripture ," and therefore it is not included in LDS canon and rarely studied by members of the LDS Church.

Although the Apocrypha was part of the 1611 edition of the KJV, the LDS Church does not currently use the Apocrypha as part of its canon.

However, with the exceptions of Smith's translation of portions of the book of Book of Genesis ( renamed Selections from the Book of Moses ) and the translation of Matthew ( called Joseph Smith – Matthew ), no portions of the Joseph Smith Translation have been officially canonized by the LDS Church.

In the LDS Church's Sunday School and Church Educational System classes, the standard works are studied and taught in a four-year rotation:

On page 72 of the 1998 edition of the Church Handbook of Instructions, the LDS Church created a new policy that a woman may also be sealed to more than one man.

According to the LDS Church, the vision teaches that God the Father and Jesus Christ are separate beings with glorified bodies of flesh and bone ; that mankind was literally created in the image of God ; that Satan is real but God infinitely greater ; that God hears and answers prayer ; that no other contemporary church had the fullness of Christ's gospel ; and that revelation has not ceased.

The deaths of Sylvester Q. Cannon and Rudger Clawson created two vacancies in the LDS Church's Quorum of the Twelve Apostles in mid-1943.

On November 12, 1888, the LDS Church created Bannock Stake Academy in Rexburg.

From 1922 to 1927, Roberts was appointed president of the Eastern States Mission, and there he created an innovative " mission school " to teach LDS missionaries the most effective ways to proselytize.

According to several LDS writers ( such as Cleon Skousen in his book The First 2000 Years ), the earth was created near Kolob over a period of 6000 years, and then moved to its present position in our solar system.

" He is then shown the “ world upon which he was created ”— referring to the premortal spirit realm where the LDS believe that all men and women lived before birth — and “ all the children of men which are, and which were created ” ( cf.

A new LDS mission, the Language Training Mission ( LTM ), was created with its own mission presidency and mission organization, with the geographic extent of the mission to be the perimeter of the building.

On October 20, just 13 days before Utahns voted on the amendment, the LDS church officially stated that " Any other sexual relations, including those between persons of the same gender, undermine the divinely created institution of the family.

The music of Tyrian was created by Alexander Brandon with additional music by Andreas Molnar, and is in the LDS ( Loudness Sound System ) format.

The searchable indexes are created by volunteers using FamilySearch Indexing software developed by the LDS Church.

The Orchestra was created in 1999 under the direction of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( LDS Church ; see also Mormon ) Church President Gordon B. Hinckley as part of the creative initiative to continually strengthen and expand the capabilities of the LDS Church music organizations.

LDS Humanitarian Services was created to coordinate these efforts in partnership with government and other nonprofit agencies around the world.

In June 1907, the Elders ' Journal was merged with The Liahona, a weekly publication created in April 1907 for use in all missions of the LDS Church in the United States.

The hymn also appears in the Protestant New Church Hymnal, with new lyrics for the charged LDS oriented third verse created by lyricist Avis B. Christianson.

In Utah, Pratt's strong skills in analysis and writing led Young to assign him to produce sermons and pamphlets dealing with LDS topics.

Penrose was known for his writing, including missionary tracts and for penning lyrics for LDS hymns, including God of Our Fathers, O Ye Mountains High, and Up, Awake, Ye Defenders of Zion.

In 1878, as a young man, Whitney began a career in writing with the business office of the LDS newspaper, the Deseret News, later becoming a reporter and the city editor.

One of these, Grant Palmer, a former director of LDS Institutes of Religion who was disfellowshipped by the LDS Church in 2004 after writing An Insider's View of Mormon Origins, argued that moderns " tend to read into Witnesses ' testimonies a rationalist perspective rather than a nineteenth-century magical mindset .... They shared a common world view, and this is what drew them together in 1829.

The central component of the scheme was the LDS Church's purchase of the Eagle Emporium, a conglomerate of mercantile companies owned by William Jennings.

Roberts " frequently took a broader view " of the place of the LDS Church " in the heavenly scheme of things than did some of his colleagues.

The LDS teaches that there is a pre-mortal stage of human existence, known as pre-existence, during which pre-mortal human spirits, called spirit children, are able to make choices that influence their upcoming fully mortal existence as a direct result of the individual spirit's choices regarding truth, love and faith.

< p > LDS Church members who do not actively participate in worship services or church callings are often called " less-active " ( akin to the qualifying expressions non-observant or non-practicing used in relation to members of other religious groups ).

While premiering a TV series in January 2009, Hanks called supporters of Proposition 8 " un-American " and criticized the LDS ( Mormon ) church members, who were major proponents of the bill, for their views on marriage and their role in supporting the bill.

LDS Church members believe that Joseph Smith, Jr. was called by God to restore the true teachings of Jesus Christ

The LDS believe that God the Father and His Son, Jesus Christ, appeared to a 14-year old boy named Joseph Smith and called him to be a prophet.

Through Christ's Priesthood authority and divine direction from Christ, the LDS believe that Joseph Smith was called and ordained to re-establish Christ's church.

" The term " latter-day saints " refers to the fact that members of Christ's church were originally called " saints " and that The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is Christ's restored church in these, what LDS and other Christian denominations believe, are the last days prior to prophesied second coming of Jesus.

A group of volunteers puts on an annual musical theater production celebrating the city's Latter-Day Saint history called " This Is Kirtland ", which is held at the nearby LDS meetinghouse.

In 1863 Harrisville was organized as a branch of the LDS Church, and in 1868 it was organized into a county precinct, at which time it was officially called Harrisville.

Polygamy ( called plural marriage by Mormons in the 19th century or the Principle by modern fundamentalist practitioners of polygamy ) was taught by leaders of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( LDS Church ) for more than half of the 19th century, and practiced publicly from 1852 to 1890.

The militia, officially called the Nauvoo Legion, was composed of Utah's Mormon settlers ( members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints or LDS Church ).

Due to his membership in the Utah National Guard and the threat of being called up to serve in the Korean War, Oaks was unable to serve as a missionary for the LDS Church.

Adherents of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( LDS ), commonly called Mormons, believe that founder Joseph Smith, Jr., was a prophet of God, chosen to restore the primitive, apostolic church established by Jesus, now " in its fullness ", rather than to reform the church or priesthood, which had ceased to exist in any substantial or authoritative sense shortly after the end of the apostolic age and before the First Council of Nicaea in 325.

Between that time and Willard Richards being called back to Preston on 7 March 1838 about 40 people were baptised members of the LDS Church in the Bedford area.

In a similar vein, the earliest sections of the Doctrine and Covenants contain statements such as " if ye have desires to serve God ye are called to the work " ( LDS D & C 4: 3 ) and " whosoever will thrust in his sickle and reap, the same is called of God " ( LDS D & C 6: 4 ).

Prior to revisions in 1990, the LDS Church's version of the endowment also included a gesture called a " penalty.

The LDS Church has never commented officially on these similarities, although certain features of the two rituals have been called " analogous " by one official Church Historian.

In The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( LDS Church, commonly called Mormons ), the Holy Sacrament of the Lord's Supper, most often simply referred to as the sacrament, is the sacrament in which participants partake of bread and drink water in remembrance of the body and blood of Jesus Christ.