150 years ago
President Brigham Young met with other Church leaders March 1, 1845, in an all-day meeting at the Seventies Hall in Nauvoo, Ill., where they "decided to send nine brethren westward, to search out a location for the Saints," according to History of the Church 7:379.
The meeting also included "many eloquent speeches" concerning the status of the Church and present state of the Saints.
Despite the positive meeting on Saturday, March 1, President Young found himself at home ill the next day, Sunday, March 2. He noted that Elders Heber C. Kimball and John E. Page preached in the Music Hall that day, and that he felt well enough to visit "Father John Smith and the mother of the Prophet Joseph" on Sunday evening.
President Young's sickness continued into the next day, when he accompanied Elder Kimball to transact some business and then "returned home quite sick and went to bed."
Quote from the past
"The law of tithing is an obligation laid upon all the people of God. It has been so in every age, and we have no account of the prosperity and progress of God's people without tithing being a standing law in the midst, which they continually observed." - Elder Franklin D. Richards, in an address given at Logan, Utah, on June 28, 1873.