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Day in the Life

Nov 20, 1838

Journal Entry

November 20, 1838 ~ Tuesday

20 We have made arangments this morning to seperate Brother Thomas & Townsend think some of
stoping by the way to winter while Brothers E. Luce & C. Brown & myself will continue our journey
together. our company is truly getting small. one of my horses is vary sick for the night truly the Lord
ownly can open my way to continue my Journey after getting our waggon mended we travled to an Inn
within 7 miles of woster & spent the night. my horse is much better & performs his Journey well our 12 [miles]
21company is now reduced to three families we feel united in spirit & are determined to Journey
in the name of the Lord we had a comfortable room at the Inn by ourselves for the night & while
sitting by the fireside Sister Lydia Luce a faithful Saint & full of faith related a dream that she had
on the night of the 19th the dream was of consequence & full of meaning it was as follows She saw
the moon in the North of a silver colour she saw a small sun in the south & while looking at the strange
appearance of the heavens there appeared a ring of Blood in the west & there soon appeared several
other rings of Blood of a larger size all encircling each other being a ring in a ring & there soon appeared
a ladder of fire in the heavens & it fell to the earth & broke in two pieces one part of the ladder had an
Iron plate fassened to the end of it with sumthing fassended to it & I Willford Woodruff went & picked
it up & read it & behold it contained the XV Chapter of Isaiah read the chapter for yourselves &
learn wisdom

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Brown, Charles
abt. 1805-1839
37 mentions
Family, Maine Mission
Luce, Ephraim
30 Sep 1799 - 2 Mar 1880
35 mentions
Maine Mission
Townsend, James Foss
20 Feb 1808 - 2 Apr 1886
91 mentions
Luce Markham, Lydia Maria Macomber
17 Aug 1798 - 30 Jun 1873
13 mentions
Maine Mission
Thomas, Nathaniel
abt. 1803-1844
73 mentions
Maine Mission

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Wooster, Wayne County, Ohio

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Daybook (3 October 1838 - 4 March 1839)

20 We have made arangments this morning to seperate Brothers Thomas & Luce Townsend think

Daybook (3 October 1838 - 4 March 1839)

some of stoping for the winter while Brothers E Luce & C. Brown & myself will contin- ue our journey together our company is truly getting small one of my horses is vary sick for the night truly the Lord ownly can open my way to con- tinue my journey after getting our waggon mended we travled to an Inn within 7 miles of Woster & spent the night Distance of the day 12 m My horse is much better & performed his journey well. our company is now reduced to three families we feel un- ited in spirit & are determined to jour- ney in the name of the Lord. We had a comfortable room at the In by our- selves for the night, & while sitting by the fire Sister Lydia Luce a Saint

Daybook (3 October 1838 - 4 March 1839)

full of faith related a Dream that she had on the night of the 19th The Dream was of consequence & full of meaning It was as follows she say^w^ the Moon in the North of a psilver colour. She saw a small sun in the South & while looking at the strange appearance of the heavens their appeared a ring of Blood in the heavens in the [blank] & their soon appeared several other rings of Blood of a larger size all encircling each other being a ring in a ring & their soon appeared a ladder red as fire & it fell to the earth & broke in two pieces one peace of the Ladder had a Iron plate fassened to it with sumthing printed on it. I Willford Woodruff went & picked it up & read it & behold it con- tained the XV chapter of Isaiah. read the chapter for yourselves & learn wisdom {shorthand} Does not the sun & Moon seen represent the signs in the heavens spoken of by the

Daybook (3 October 1838 - 4 March 1839)

prophets & the Ladder the dividing of our company. while journeying to Zion & the rings of Blood the war of the gentiles with the Saints in Zion While Moab is the gentiles & they go against Zion to Battle will not Zion be terrible to her enemies as her horn becomes Iron & hoofs Brass &c. then will not Moab do as Isaiah says in all things to the letter litterly see Isa XV ch Time must determine all things After we read this chapter & viewing it to mean sumthing of Interest, I took up a late News paper containing an account this the gentiles in Missouri had gone to war with the Saints the in- habitants of Zion the people called Mor- mons & that the Saints were overcome- ing them &c. if this be true then is not the commencement of the fulfillme- nt of the Dream. But time must Determine all things

Autobiography Volume 1 circa 1842-1865

On the we made arrangements to further devide our little company, as brothers Thomas and Townsend w[ere] inclined to stop by the way and winter Our company was truly getting very small there being now only brothers Luce Brown and myself and our families to continue our way together but we felt united in spirit and determined to go onward That night we had a comfortable room at a Inn 7 miles from Worster. We were by ourselves for the night; and while sitting by the fire side Sister Lydia Luce related a dream that she had on the night before. It was as follows: She saw a small sun in the South and while looking at the strange phenomenon there appeared a ring of blood in the West. There also appeared directly several other rings of blood of a larger size all encircling each other, forming a ring within a ring. Soon following this a ladder of fire was seen blazing in the heavens and it fell to the earth and broke into two peaces. One part of the ladder had an iron plate fastened to the end of it with something also attached to it. She said that in her dream I went and picked it up and read it and it contained the XV. Chapter of Isaiah. By reading this chapter it will be seen that this ^is^ very typical of what has to befall this Gentile nation in particular and the world in general in the last days. As we travelled along we were continually hearing of the Mormon war as it was called and the inhabitants of Missouri were persecuting and puting the Saints to death because of their religion

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Nov 20, 1838