Day in the Life

Dec 17, 1856

Journal Entry

December 17, 1856 ~ Wednesday

17th I felt unwell Yet I called upon Brother Blair we then went to Brother
Ballantyne found him quite sick we laid hands upon him rebuked his
desease & the spirit of God rested upon us & we rebuked his desease & he was
better He dreamed that He was about to die saw his coffin & grave which was dug
deep. Just before he was to die He dreamed He was invited to a wedding but He was
to sick to go. He dreamed that W. Woodruff with some other one came to him &
administered to him & he was saved from death. after we administered
to him we then went to Bishop Hoaglands & found him quite sick confined
to his bed with the Rheumatism & also much troubled with Evil spirits we
administered to him by the laying on of hands & rebueuked the desease & evil
spirits we felt a good spirit in administering to him. we then went down
to administer to F. D. Richards who had been confined to his house for
several days but we found him up & in good spirits. I then called
upon President Kimball who had been sick several days I found him
up & quite comfortable. I sat & conversed with him a short time I then
went to Presidents Youngs & saw him he was quite comfortable I then
went to the office & spent the remainder of the day I rented my front
rooms two of them to Brigham Y. Hamptons who commenced keeping House
to day

I attended meeting at the 19th ward during the evening &
I heard Elder Hovey speak followed by Elder Earl then the Bishop
Brother Rolley spoke lengthy I then followed then for some
half an hour I had the spirit of speaking

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Hoagland, Abraham Lucas
24 Mar 1797 - 14 Feb 1872
Raleigh, Alonzo Hazeltine
7 Nov 1818 - 13 May 1901
Young, Brigham
1 Jun 1801 - 29 Aug 1877
3441 mentions
Apostle, Family
Richards, Franklin Dewey
2 Apr 1821 - 9 Dec 1899
816 mentions
Apostle
Kimball, Heber Chase
14 Jun 1801 - 22 Jun 1868
1456 mentions
Apostle
Ballantyne, Richard
26 Aug 1817 - 8 Nov 1898
Blair, Seth Millington
13 Mar 1819 - 17 Mar 1875

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Autobiography Volume 3 circa 1865-1866
On the in company with Brother Blair I called upon Brother Ballantine who had sent for me to administer to him He was quite sick. We laid hands upon him and rebuked his desease and he was better. He had dreamt that he was about to die and saw his coffin and grave which was dug deep. Just before he was to die he thought he was invited to a wedding but he was too sick to go. And he dreamed that brother Woodruff with some other one came to him and administered to him and he was saved from death.

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Members of Territorial Legislature rebaptized (Wilford for the fifth time).
Church membership is 55,236.

Dec 17, 1856