At age 32 Wilford is ordained an Apostle at the temple site in Far West, Missouri.
June 25 I spent the day in Montros with the Twelve there being six of the quorum present. Orson
Hide was one of the number, & a more humble & penitant man I never saw, & well he might be for
in the time of the persecution in Zion or far west, he deserted the cause, denyed the faith & betrayed
his brethren, & assisted Thomas B. Marsh (the presiden[t] of the Twelve Apostles) in jeperdizing the
lives of Joseph & his council & the whole church in Zion & the blood of the whole of them would
have been shed if they had not been spared by the immediate hand of God. Brother Hide for several
months past has had a deep scense of his high handed wickedness & the horrors of hell has roll'd
oer his soul even to the wasting of his flesh & he has now humbled himself in the dust desire
ing to return to the Church. The manner that O. Hide & T. B Marsh Jeopardized the Church
was by bearing fals testimony against the presidency & the Church before the authorities of the
state of Missouri which was a leading cause of the Governour's calling out thirty thousand
of the Militia against the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints & when the Militia came
out against the Church Col George M. Hinkle (an Elder in church & the one that led the Saints as
they went out to stand in their own defence) sold the presidency & the whole Church into the hands
of the Malitia which were determined on taking our lives. yea Hinkle proved one of the worst of
traitors that ever occupied a standing on earth yet the Lord deliverd his Saints & Blessed be his name
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