Day in the Life

Feb 15, 1857

Journal Entry

February 15, 1857 ~ Sunday

15th Sunday I attended meeting at the Tabernacle Brother
George Sims spoke in the morning, gave quite a musical Physioliogical
discourse. He was followinged by Aropene the Utah chief he delivered
a powerful discourse & exhorted the Saints in the strongest manner to
follow their leaders & do right not drink whiskey or do wrong in any thing
I followed him & told the people to lay that exertation to heart as it was
given by a Lamanite chief I spoke at length which was reported
by J. D. Watt. I was followed By D. H. Wells who bore testimony
to what had been said

I attended the prayer Meeting. President Young had the minutes read
of his discourse on the 8th Aug 1844 at the ^re^organization of the Church
after this was read President Young said that he asked Br James to
Preached a funeral sermon he stuck up his nose about it & said if Brigham
Young wanted a funeral sermon preached he might preach it for he should
not do it. the Last time that I herd Sidney Rigdon preached He hised
for the fly & was going to take little [Queen] Vic[toria] by the nose. He also said there
is one thing I want done I want to have these stores removed for they
gathered all the trash of the City

I went to 15 ward & preached to the people. I followed David J Russ
I had the spirit of the Lord upon me & had a good meeting

{I spoke to President Young about my daughter Phebe. He did not wish to take any more young wives but would see that she was take up in due time.}

People

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Young, Brigham
1 Jun 1801 - 29 Aug 1877
3441 mentions
Apostle, Family
1 mention
Chief Arapeen
unk.-1860
23 mentions
Native American
Wells, Daniel Hanmer
27 Oct 1814 - 24 Mar 1891
799 mentions
Apostle
10 mentions
125 mentions
10 mentions
Snow, Phebe Amelia Woodruff
4 Mar 1842 - 15 Feb 1919
345 mentions
Family
Rigdon, Sidney
19 Feb 1793 - 14 Jul 1876
220 mentions
Victoria of the United Kingdom
24 May 1819 - 22 Jan 1901
64 mentions
Historical Figure

Places

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Adobe Tabernacle, Great Salt Lake City, Great Salt Lake County, Utah Territory
Great Salt Lake City, Great Salt Lake County, Utah Territory

Events

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December 30, 1856
Members of Territorial Legislature rebaptized (Wilford for the fifth time).
1857
Church membership is 55,236.

Feb 15, 1857