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Day in the Life

Jan 1, 1854

Journal Entry

January 01, 1854 ~ Sunday

Synopsis of W. Woodruff travels & Journals from
1834 to 1853 Inclusive making Nineteen years
Travled during this period through England Scotland Walles six Islands of the sea Twenty of the United States & Three Territories including the rocky mountains & Utah & crossed the Atlantic Ocean four times Total distance Travled (80558) 80558 miles
Held public meetings & preached 1395 times
I Attended in the vineyard 86 conferences 86 conferences
I Attended Elders counsels 123 counsels
I Attended General Conferences of the Church 15 conferences
I Attended 217 counsels with the Presidency & 12 217 counsels
I met 15 times with the High Counsel 15 Times
I Baptized (696) Assisted in baptizing thousands of others 696 Baptized
I confirmed 1004 I helped confirm thousands 1004 confirmed
I was baptized for 36 Dead friends 36 Dead
I ordained 4 Patriarchs 4 Patriarchs
I ordained 10 Bishops 10 Bishops
I ordained 24 High Council 24 H Counsel
I ordained 25 High Priests 25 H Priests
I ordained 13 Seventies 13 Seventies
I ordained 162 Elders 162 Elders
I ordained 142 Priests 142 Priests
I ordained 63 Teachers 63 Teachers
I ordained 13 Deacons 13 Deacons
I ordained 1 president & 2 counsellors of a stake 3 Zion
I assisted the Twelve in ordaining 275 Elders & Seventies in Nauvoo not counted in the above April 18th 1842
I Administered unto the sick by laying on of Hands 498 sick
I blessed 135 children 135 Blessed
I Administered the marriage covenant to 13 couple
I Planted 51 churches 51 churches
I esstablished 77 Preaching Places 77
I Had 10 mobs rise against me 10 mobs
I recorded in my Journals 30 of Joseph Smith 30 sermons
I Recorded 25 of the sermons of the Twelve 25 Apostles
I wrote 1557 Letters 1557 Letters
I Received 1063 [letters] 1063
I collected for the Temple in kirtland & Nauvoo $1674 dollars
I Procured subscribars for our Papers 205 subscribars

I Printed the Times & seasons & Nauvoo Neighbor
in company with John Taylor for two years
we sterrotyped the Doctrins & Covenants

I Printed 2500 copies of the Millennium Star

I Published 3000 copies of the Doctrins & Covents
And secured the copy wright in England

I Published 20,000 Proclamations of the Twelve Apostles

I have been ordained during the foregoing period
To the office of Teacher Priest Elder member
of the second quorum of seventies first quorum
of seventies & to the quorum of the Twelve Apostles

I blessed 45 missionaries Appointed to go to the world

I received my washings & Anointings sealings
And Endowments under the hand of President
Brigham Young

I received the washing of feet under the hand
of President Heber C. Kimball

I was Appointed a member of the Regency
And met with them 16 days 16 days

I was Appointed a chaplain in the Nauvoo Legion

I was elected a member of the Legislature
And spent with them 107 days

I was Appointed Clerk & Historian of the Twleve Apostles

I Attended the dedication of the Temple ground
in the city of the Great Salt Lake And the laying
of the cornor stones of that Temple on the 6 April 1853

I spent 111 day in overseeing the tithing hands
while diging out the foundation for the Temple

JAN 1st 1854. Sunday I attended meeting at
the Tabernacle the people were addressed in an inter-
esting & ediyfying manner in the morning By Elder
Orson Hyde. In the afternoon By Elder Wilford Woodruff
& Followed By Presenident Brigham Young. He spoke as He always
does much to the edifycation of the People

People

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Young, Brigham
1 Jun 1801 - 29 Aug 1877
3425 mentions
Apostle, Family
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
Smith, Joseph (Jr.)
23 Dec 1805 - 27 Jun 1844
2346 mentions
Hyde, Orson
8 Jan 1805 - 28 Nov 1878
693 mentions
Apostle

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came on a Sunday. I attended at the Tabernacle The people were addressed in an interesting discourse by Orson Hyde. In the afternoon by Elder Wilford Woodruff who was followed by President Brigham Young Next day the new year was celebrated by the usual social manner. I delivered an address to the inhabitants of the Fourteenth Ward in the forepart of the day and was followed by several others In the evening I attended a party at the Social Hall. The time was mostly spent in music and dancing. We had however an interesting address from President Brigham Young on Dancing and Music "I consider this a suitable place to give some instruction. We have assembled here to have music and dancing. The world have had very strange ideas concerning these things. They have supposed it was very wicked for a Christian to dance or hear music. Many preachers of the day have said that fidling and music came from hell; but I say there is no fiddleing inor music in hell. There is not a fiddler in hell nor any music of any kind. Music belongs to heaven to cheer God angels and men. If we could hear the music there is in heaven it would overwhelm mortal man The Lord gave us that organ that makes music so delightful to man and the Devil has stolen music and many other things that was ordained of God for the benefit of man and he has turned it to an evil use; but music and dancing is for the benefit of the holy ones and if those who come here to night are not holy and righteous and do not feel to worship and praise God they have no business here What strange ideas the world have of a Prophet They would expect to see a man with finger nails a foot long with his hair hanging to his hips his body covered with dirt and filth his head bowed down ^in sorrow^ for the sins of the world and that

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January 1854
Wilford serves fourth term as member of Territorial Legislature.

Jan 1, 1854