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Day in the Life

Oct 14, 1840

Journal Entry

October 14, 1840 ~ Wednesday

14th I parted with Br's Richards Young & Kimball
took coach & rode to Burslem. I met many of the
Saints at Br Johnsons I felt vary unwell in
Body & much dep'ressed in spirits in consequence of
the awful persecution & trials which is manifest
ing unto me daily by the power of God that is soon
to fall upon the heads of the Saints both in Europe
& America. Brother Samuel Hancock Priest came
to see me was some troubled in mind he had a vision
a few evenings before in the prayr meeting he saw much
wars & trouble among the Saints he saw a number
of the Elders & Priest in the potteries torn from their
families by press gangs, put in Irons, & forced to go
to war, for war was sore among the Nations.
A number of others had similar views & many
of the Saints at the present time feel a great wait
resting upon their minds as though great trouble
awaits both the Church & world. Distance 36 m

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Addresses
Reuben Hedlock No 3 East tarbett street Glasgow
Orson Pratt, No 40 North -
Richmond St Edinburghgh Edeinburgh
Theadore Curtis Hillsborough, Ireland, in the
care of William Johnson
John Tailor 72 Burlington St Liverpool
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Young, Brigham
1 Jun 1801 - 29 Aug 1877
3425 mentions
Apostle, Family
1 mention
Host
Kimball, Heber Chase
14 Jun 1801 - 22 Jun 1868
1455 mentions
Apostle
Taylor, John, b. 1808
1 Nov 1808 - 25 Jul 1887
1944 mentions
Apostle
Pratt, Orson
19 Sep 1811 - 3 Oct 1881
1083 mentions
Apostle
159 mentions
3 mentions
Curtis, Theadore
1815–1903
11 mentions
Richards, Willard
24 Jun 1804 - 11 Mar 1854
540 mentions
Apostle
Johnson, William
3 Dec 1789 - 5 May 1850
10 mentions
1840 British Convert

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and Kimball and took coach to Burslem on the and on the morning arose refreshed by sleep and better in body than I had been on the previous day. But my mind was troubled for the Spirit manifested much discomfort and persecution among the Saints throughout Europe and America and that many will fall away: also that the "Powers that be" in America will rise up against the Church and that it will be again driven and that while trouble lay in the future before the people of God greater calamities awaited the world This same spirit rested at that time upon the Elders and Saints generally in the British Mission and there was mourning because thereof and multitudes of the Saints were receiving testimonies of the clouds which were gathering over the Church and afterwards over the whole world for judgment begins first at the House of God. There is no doubt that the Lord was beginning at this time to manifest what in a few years afterwards completed the blackest written page of our history in the cruel martardom of Joseph and his brother Hyrum the Prophet and Patriarch of the Church and the merciless extermination of the Saints from Nauvoo Concerning the testimonies of calamities to fall upon the world direful wars to be poured out upon all nations the bloody civil war and rebellion in America which should resemble the former history of that continent as related in the Book of Mormon when two great divisons

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Oct 14, 1840