Day in the Life

Jun 26, 1840

Journal Entry

June 26, 1840 ~ Friday

26th We took the omnibus at the Junktion & rode to
Lane end at the Staffordshire Potterries via Wolverhamp
ton & Stafford 38 miles. It would be a difficult task
to give a description of the country from Birmingham to
Wolverhampton. I never saw any thing that comes so
near the description of the Lake of fire & Brimstone
spoken of by the Revelator John [Revelation 20:10] as several miles of
that country for it is one universal mass of coal pits &
Iron mines & while thousands of human beings are

under ground at work in the midst of fire, Brimston,
sulpher, Gas & cole &c. the whole face of the earth &
heavens air & horizon, men, women, & houses, are
filled & coverd with the composition of fire, cinders
Gas, sut, & smooke of their miserry & labours that
assended up out of their piles, firnesses, & pitts froom
day to day & from year to year. in fine, it is more
like Hell in comparrison than any place I have as
yet visited. (Uncommon) A boy by the name of
Thomas Skelsey 15 years of age is becomeing quite noted
between Wolverhampton & Burslem by following
the coaches or omnibus on foot & keeps pace with the them
the whole distance, he runs about 40 miles in 6 hours, he
has run through & returned in one day making 80
miles in about 12 hours when he gets weary he
takes hold of a strap on the hind end of the coach with
his hands but runs as usual. On one occasion he
run 14 miles in one hour & fife minutes he is a poor
boy & his ownly object is to get a living by recieving
what money the passegngers saw fit to give him about one
shilling per day he does this running with bare feet on
accadamized rodes.

We called upon the Saints at Lane end from thence to
Stoke & felt truly to rejoice to once more meet with
the Saints in this region. We preached in the evening
at Stoke had an interview with Elder Cordon spent the night
at Stoke distance of the day 40 miles

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Cordon, Alfred
28 Feb 1817 - 13 Mar 1871
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I had not been in the house but a short time before two men came in full of wrath & anger & brought a blind girl & demanded me to heal heal her & work a miracle that they might have a sign to make them believe. After telling them what the character was of tho se that sought signs one of them by the name of John Hadley brought much railing accusation against me & rejected my testi mony.
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Jun 26, 1840