-- May 3, 1834
Church adopted the designation "Latter-day Saints" (see Church, Names of). (1)
A conference of elders renames the Church of Christ to the Church of the Latter Day Saints at Sidney's suggestion. (2)
Joseph calls volunteers in Kirtland together, speaks for a short time, and seals them up to eternal life:
we ware all Sealed up to Eternal Life by Joseph and said they should come forth in the day of the Lord if they comited sins they would be delivereth over to the bufetings of Satan for the destruction of the flesh but they should come forth in of the day of the Lord Jesus. Reuben McBride diary (2)
At a Conference of Elders in Kirtland, the Church was first named "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints." (3)
Church re-named "The Church of the Latter Day Saints" (as proposed by Sidney Rigdon). (4)
At Kirtland "the Conference proceeded to discuss the subject of names and appellations when a motion was made by Sidney Rigdon, and seconded by Newel K. Whitney, that this church be known hereafter by the name of THE CHURCH OF THE LATTER DAY SAINTS. Appropriate remarks were delivered by some of the members, after which the motion was put by the Moderator, and passed by unanimous voice." This new title first appears in a letter by the presidency January 22. (5)
The name of the church is changed from The Church of Jesus Christ to The Church of the Latter Day Saints upon a proposal by Sidney Rigdon, seconded by Newel K. Whitney and passed by the church. (6)
Kirtland, Ohio. Joseph Smith presided over a conference of elders that discussed the name by which the Church was to be known. (7)
[Joseph Smith] At Kirtland the First Presidency obtains the sustaining vote of a conference to change the name of the church to the Church of the Latter Day Saints. This new title first appears in a letter by the presidency 22 Jan. (8)
-- May 4, 1834
Kirtland, Ohio. Joseph Smith preached to the Saints under the shade of the new schoolhouse. (7)
[Joseph Smith] In New Portage, Orson Pratt addresses his camp on the second coming and millennium, and "the Saints inheriting the earth forever." Orson Pratt journals, 40. (9)
[Joseph Smith] Joseph calls volunteers in Kirtland together, speaks for a short time, and seals them up to eternal life: (9)
[Joseph Smith] Sidney Rigdon, 149. (9)
Footnotes:
1 - Hemidakaota, "Church Chronology from 1800-2000," http://www.lds.net/forums/scripture-study-forum/12108-church-chronology-1800-2000-part-1-a.html#post214550
2 - Kenny, Scott, "Mormon History 1830-1844," http://saintswithouthalos.com/dirs/d_c.phtml
3 - Richards, Franklin Dewey and Little, James A., Compendium of the Doctrines of the Gospel, Church Chronology, Ch.66, p.306
4 - Tidd, N. R., "Mormon Chronology," http://bit.ly/14Qt5F
5 - On This Day in Mormon History, http://onthisdayinmormonhistory.blogspot.com
6 - Wikipedia, 19th Century (Mormonism), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/19th_century_(Mormonism)
7 - BYU Studies Journal, volume 46, no. 4: A Chronology of the Life of Joseph Smith
8 - Quinn, D. Michael, The Mormon Hierarchy: Origins of Power, Appendix 7: Selected Chronology of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1830-47"
9 - Kenny, Scott, Zion's Camp Chronology (1834), http://saintswithouthalos.com/c/1834_zc.phtml
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