Day in the Life

Jan 30, 1851

Journal Entry

January 30, 1851 ~ Thursday

30th I dined at the Bath House with The Presidency
of the Church and the Twelve & their families the
keeper of the Bath House Brother Hendricks had a
daughter Married the ceremony was performed By
President Young a[f]ter which He addressed the Assembly
& said here are elements gathered together which
will create & make a heaven or create & make a Hell Just
as the course you choose to persue He exhorted the
people to righteousness & wished them to keep the command-
ments of God we spent the evenigng together

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Young, Brigham
1 Jun 1801 - 29 Aug 1877
3440 mentions
Apostle, Family
1 mention
Hendricks, James, b. 1808
23 Jun 1808 - 8 Jul 1870
1 mention

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many have arisen in these last days professing to be Elijah the prophet but they have bro- ught forth Nothing of interest to the people will any one tell me what the office of Elijah the prophet was to be to the Earth when he come the answer is to turn the hearts of the children to their fathers & the fathers to the children lest I come & smite the whole Earth with a curse the answer
~ Brigham Young

Events

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December 5, 1850
Wilford appointed to the Council (Legislature) of the State of Deseret (serves a total of 21 terms).
1851
Wilford moves his cabins from Old Fort to construct home on the corner of South Temple and West Temple.

Jan 30, 1851