“The difference between our Savior and the rest of us is that we have had fathers who were mortal and therefore subject to death. Our Savior did not have a mortal Father and therefore death was subject to him. He had power to lay down his life and to take it again [see John 10:17–18], but we do not have power to lay down our lives and to take them again. It is through the atonement of Jesus Christ that we receive eternal life, through the resurrection of the dead and obedience to the principles of the gospel (Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Joseph Fielding Smith, p. 51).

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1930 - In response to reports that the Soviet Union was suppressing religious freedom, President Heber J. Grant spoke at a meeting in the Salt Lake Tabernacle on religious Freedom that was attended by leaders from several different faiths including the vicar general of the Salt Lake diocese of the Catholic Church, rabbi J. E. Krikstein of the local Jewis faith, and the bishop of the Episcopal diocese of Utah, and the president of the Salt Lake Ministerial Association.

2007 - The wallet, owned by Martin Harris when he carried $3,000 to the printer's shop to pay for the printing of the Book of Mormon in 1829, is donated to the Museum of Church History by Russell Martin Harris, a great-great-grandson of Martin Harris. Elder Dallin H. Oaks, a member of the Quorum of the Twelve and a direct descendent of Martin Harris' brother, Emer Harris, accepted the wallet on the Church's behalf.

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