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Apr 18, 1840

Journal Entry

April 18, 1840 ~ Saturday

18th The time had come for the Twelve
to seperate & go into different parts of the
vineyard. It was thought wisdom for
Elder Kimble to visit the churches that he
had built up while in England, & that Orson
pratt
go North & visit Scotland that

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Kimball, Heber Chase
14 Jun 1801 - 22 Jun 1868
1455 mentions
Apostle
Pratt, Orson
19 Sep 1811 - 3 Oct 1881
1083 mentions
Apostle

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Autobiography Volume 1 circa 1842-1865
On the I parted from the rest of the Twelve who were to branch out in other directions and with Brigham Young started on my return to my fields of labour. We took train a^nd^ journied to Manchester and then continued by coach to Burslem where we spent the night at brother Johnstons Next day being Sunday Elder B. Young preached to the people of Hanly in the morning and evening and in the afternoon we communed with the Saints and spent an interesting time. We spent the night at Stoke with Brother Hulme. The following day we took coach at Stoke and rode to Stafford and thence to Wolverhampton where we stayed for the night and on the morrow we proceeded by coach to Dudly and had a good view of the old Dudly castle and from thence to Worcester in which city we spent several hours. Here we visited the ancient and noted Worcester Cathedral which surpassed for splendor and archetecture anything which I had ever viewed. Its length is about 400 feet and this magnificient structure is between [blank space] and yet in stands in our own days in stately grander for surpassing the archetectural

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Apr 18, 1840