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Day in the Life

Dec 30, 1856

Journal Entry

December 30, 1856 ~ Tuesday

30 [FIGURES] I met with the Legislative Council in the forenoon President Young
was present the spirit of God was present. The 15 Chapter of
St John was read & commented upon it was then moved that both Houses
meet in Joint session we then came together & speeches were made by
Lorenzo Snow W. Woodruff Brigham Young H. C. Kimball & Hosea Stout
among the remarks made by President Young He said when the first Twelve
were Called He & Brother Kimball almost needed a stool in order to reach
high Enough to tie the shoes of John Boynton Lyman Johnson & Wm
E MCLellin
, but now they are gone & we remain Brother Woodruff &
Lorenzo Snows sayes that they never have felt the wait of their Apostleship
& responsibility as they do now this I have known all the time if Brother
Orson Hyde feels the wait of his responsibility as an Apostle to day I am glad
of it for it is the first day of his life that He ever did feel it, many other
remarks were made. It was finally moved that all members of
the Legislative Body of the Territory of Utah repent of their sins & go to
[the] font at 6 oclok ion the Temple Block & be baptized for the remission of their
sins
which was carried unanimously & the Legislature met at the font
& had to fill it with Buckets from the Creek & as the Presidency & Twelve
who had been here had been baptized F D Richards went into the font &
Baptized Elder Orson Hyde & some 17 others then James Cumings went into
the font & Baptized the rest also the missionaries 37 in number making
[blank] Baptized in all. we the Twelve laid hands upon Elder O Hyde & Confirmed
him W Woodruff was mouth then we confirmed the whole company I was
mouth in confirming 9 persons & assisted in confirming 12 others
this was a New feature in Legislation we believed that if we could get
the spirit of God we could do business faster & better than with the spirit
of the Devel or the spirit of the world there was 55 in all Baptized
and confirmed the Twelve done most of the confirming

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Young, Brigham
1 Jun 1801 - 26 Aug 1877
3299 mentions
Apostle, Family
Richards, Franklin Dewey
2 Apr 1821 - 9 Dec 1899
782 mentions
Apostle
Kimball, Heber Chase
14 Jun 1801 - 22 Jun 1868
1402 mentions
Apostle
Stout, Hosea
18 Sep 1810 - 2 Mar 1889
48 mentions
53 mentions
16 mentions
Apostle
Snow, Lorenzo
3 Apr 1814 - 10 Oct 1901
653 mentions
Apostle, Family
Johnson, Lyman Eugene
24 Oct 1811 - 20 Dec 1859
19 mentions
Apostle
Hyde, Orson
8 Jan 1805 - 28 Nov 1878
669 mentions
Apostle
McLellin, William Earl
18 Jan 1806 - 24 Apr 1883
28 mentions
Apostle

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Autobiography 1883 Tullidge's Quarterly Magazine Notes 3
I met with the Legislative Council in the forenoon. President Young was present and the Spirit of God was present. The XV Chapter of St. John was read and commented upon. It was then moved that both Houses meet in joint session. We then came together and speeches were made by Lorenzo Snow Wilford Woodruff Brigham Young H. C. Kimball and Hosea Stout Among the remarks made by President Young was that when the First Twelve were called he and brother Kimball almost needed a stool in order to reach high enough to tie the shoes of John Boyanton Lyman Johnson and Wm. E. McLellin but now they are gone and we remain. Brother Woodruff and Lorenzo Snow say they never have felt the weight of their Apostleship and

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

Dec 30, 1856