* 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:

It was superseded by section 132 of the modern LDS edition, which contains a revelation received by Joseph Smith on eternal marriage and teaches the doctrine of plural marriage.

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.

The LDS Church teaches that if one is not a direct descendant of one of the twelve tribes, upon baptism he or she is adopted into one of the tribes.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( LDS Church ) teaches that John received the promise of immortality from Jesus Christ, as recorded in John 21: 21 – 23.

The LDS Church teaches that John the Apostle is the same person as John the Evangelist, John of Patmos, and the Beloved Disciple.

" Thus, the LDS Church today teaches that plural marriage can only be practiced when specifically authorized by God.

LDS scripture ( Doctrine & Covenants section 132 ) teaches that marital sealings ( only done in an LDS temple ), between two spouses will continue in force in the afterlife.

Thus, LDS doctrine teaches that plural marriages which were valid at the time of the sealing, whether biblical or 19th-century Mormon, will continue in force in the afterlife.

However, the LDS Church teaches that even in the afterlife the marriage relationship is voluntary.

The LDS Church teaches that free agency is given to all and that those in the afterlife would have a choice whether to accept the marriage sealing performed on their behalf.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( LDS Church ) teaches that James has been resurrected and that in 1829 he — along with the resurrected Peter and the translated John — visited Joseph Smith and Oliver Cowdery and restored the priesthood authority with Apostolic succession to earth .< Ref > Doctrine and Covenants 27: 12 .</ ref >

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( LDS Church ) teaches that God the Father, Christ, and the Holy Ghost exist as three separate, individual beings.

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 LDS Church teaches that, through the atonement of Jesus Christ, believers may become joint-heirs with Jesus Christ.

LDS doctrine teaches that all individuals will have an equitable and fair opportunity to hear the ' fullness of the gospel ' as taught in this life, or in the life to come, and will subsequently have the opportunity to either accept the message of Jesus Christ and His gospel or reject it.

The LDS Church also teaches that the gathering of descendants of Ephraim and Manasseh in the Americas fulfills the prophecy of Jacob that " Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well ; whose branches run over the wall :"( Genesis 49: 22 ) wherein the " wall " of the " well " is understood to symbolize the oceans separating the American continent from Eurasia.

LDS doctrine teaches that many men and women since the beginning of mortal time have used their agency unwisely, limiting their own progress and their opportunity to receive light and knowledge.

" LDS doctrine teaches that whatever leads in this world to enslavement, addiction, or forced behavior is ultimately instigated by Satan.

The history of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( LDS Church ) is typically divided into three broad time periods: ( 1 ) the early history during the lifetime of Joseph Smith, Jr. which is in common with all Latter Day Saint movement churches, ( 2 ) a " pioneer era " under the leadership of Brigham Young and his 19th Century successors, and ( 3 ) a modern era beginning around the turn of the 20th century as the practice of polygamy was discontinued.

Many LDS young men choose to serve a two year proselytizing mission, during which they dedicate all of their time to the church, without pay.

However, the blocks in Salt Lake City became irregular during the late 19th century when the LDS Church lost authority over growth and before the adoption of zoning ordinances in the 1920s.

For instance, the Proclamation and the issues it addressed were discussed during the 2008 Worldwide Leadership Training meeting of the LDS Church.

" The principles established by the Proclamation were cited by Mormons during the campaign of the LDS Church and its members in support of California Proposition 8 ( 2008 ).

A large fire during the early 1980s destroyed much of the southern half of the town, but since then, the Elementary School / High School complex, an athletic field and an LDS Stake Center have been built in the area.

* Morris D. Rosenbaum-prominent businessman in early Utah and one of the few Jewish people to join the LDS Church during the 19th century.

On April 7, 1984, during the Saturday morning session of the annual worldwide General Conference of the LDS Church, Oaks was sustained an apostle and a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles.

On February 2, 2008, the group picketed during the funeral of former LDS Church president Gordon B. Hinckley in Salt Lake City, Utah, displaying picket signs intended to criticize him for being a " lying false prophet " and " leading millions of people astray ".

Between 1904 and 1906, the temple ceremony received very public scrutiny during the 1904 Senate investigation of LDS Apostle and U. S. Senator, Reed Smoot.

Commanded in an 1830 revelation ( LDS D & C 27: 2-4 ) not to purchase alcohol from enemies, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints focused on producing its own wine, eventually owning and operating vineyards and wineries in Utah and California ( including Napa Valley ) during the 19th century.

:# Rebaptism of faithful members: This ordinance is no longer performed in the mainstream LDS church, but was a significant ordinance during the Mormon Reformation.

Strangites welcomed African Americans into their church during a time when some other factions ( such as the Utah LDS church, until 1978 ) denied them the priesthood, or certain other benefits of membership.

In a similar vein, during a 1972 general conference of the LDS Church, Benson recommended that all Mormons read Gary Allen's New World Order tract " None Dare Call it A Conspiracy ".

The Indian Placement Program, or Indian Student Placement Program was a program of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1947 to 2000, in which LDS Native American ( i. e. those considered Lamanites in Mormon culture ) students were placed in Latter-day Saint foster homes during the school year, where they would attend public schools and become assimilated into American culture.

LDS church records indicate that Cutler was sealed to six other women during this timeframe, but members of his church adamantly deny this or any assertion that Cutler — or Joseph Smith, for that matter — approved of or practiced plural marriage.

The LDS dominated Slovenian politics during the first decade following independence.

Mormon fundamentalism ( also called fundamentalist Mormonism ) is a belief in the validity of selected fundamental aspects of Mormonism as taught and practiced in the nineteenth century, particularly during the administration of Brigham Young, an early president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( LDS Church ).

Civil rights tension resurfaced in January 1970 during a peaceful student demonstration before a Colorado State-Brigham Young University basketball game in protest of alleged racist practices of the LDS Church.

Due to the aggressive federal enforcement of this ruling, as well as the Edmunds Act of 1882 and the Edmunds-Tucker Act of 1887, many LDS Church leaders, including Smith's father Joseph F. Smith, were either imprisoned or forced into hiding and exile during most of the 1880s.

In LDS doctrine all people who have ever lived will have the ability to enter into this covenant during the Millennium.

The origins of another distinctive religious group, the Latter-day Saints ( LDS )— also widely known as Mormons — arose in the early 19th century during the " Golden Day of Democratic Evangelicalism.

While the holiday has strong links to the LDS Church, it is a celebration of everyone, regardless of faith and nationality, who emigrated to the Salt Lake Valley during the pioneer era, which is generally considered to have ended with the 1869 arrival of the transcontinental railroad.