Second Constitutional Convention held and petition for State of Deseret delivered to Washington, D.C.
13th Sunday Elder O. Pratt preached in the forenoon upon
the evidences of the Book of Mormon. He quoted a good
deal from Lord Kingsborough extensive work upon the
Antiquities of the American Indians & Mexicans the most
extensive work ever got up by the gentiles upon this subject
it is in 9 volumes each vol will weigh 30 or 40 lbs many of
the manuscrips have been deposited among the Archives of
Europe for hundred of years there was but 30 or 40 copies
ever published it is said, & but two of those copies are in America
one in the Philadelphia Museum & the other in the City of the Great
Salt Lake owned by Professor Orson Pratt.
J. M. Grant Preached
in the Afternoon spoke of Golightly's shop being broaken open & 150
lbs of flour taken from it. W. Woodruff lost 35 lbs from his
bakery. W. Woodruff followed & said that those that took his
flour if they took it because they were suffering with Hunger
& would ask a Blessing upon the bread when it was made & send
him home the bags he would not bring an Accusation against
them at the close of the meeting the bags were put in sight &
brought to me next morning
I met in the prayer circle in the evening And the
following named persons received their blessings & was
set apart for their Missions. Elders O. Pratt G A Smith, E. T. Benson
Erastus Snow, Truman O. Angel, & Phineas Young. W Woodruff
wrote them all from memery 3 days afterwards & had them
copied into the Historians Book of Events. G A. Smiths Blessing
was written by his dictation By T. Bullock the remainder
W. Woodruff wrote
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