Day in the Life

Aug 2, 1857

Journal Entry

August 02, 1857 ~ Sunday

2nd Sunday I attended meeting all day Elias Smith H C Kimball
& B Young spoke in the fore noon in great plainness the
spirit & power of God was upon them the reporters took
a report of their sermons, so I do not make any minutes
of them. G A Smith spoke in the Afternoon gave an account
of his experience from the begining told of being sealed up
to Eternal Damnation 9 times by a prysbeterian priest
when he was a boy because he would not go to an
anxious seat gave a rehersal of the smith family
blesed his friends & cursed his Enemies &c I attended
the prayer Circle many remarks were made upon the subject
of sending the U S troops to this Territory President Young said
that our enemies will perish in their own corruptions. I think it
will be well to send some missionaries through the states and tell
the brethren to pick up their budgets & come to the valley and
go to England let the brethren do this that go with the Mail
The U S are fools to come upon this people & so are those men
who are bringing great quantities of goods unto us this season
if the United States send out troops to fight us this season we
shall whip them out then they will send out reinforcements
then we shall have the Lamanites with us & the more the United
states send out the wors off they will be for they will perish
with Famine. I do not think any thing about guns or powder for
if the United States begin war with us I intend they shall furnish

with arms and aminition all we want if they do undertake is
the Lord will lead them or let them go into a snare and ther
folly will be manifest. G. A. Smith said if we defeat them
you may look for 100000 men. President Young said it would be
so much the worse for them but I do not believe that He will get
a great force here for if they are defeated this year the people
will be down upon Bucannon But I should not wonder if we
heard he was dead soon. Wells said this was Buchanan own
measure some time ago I Baptized G. A. Smith J M Bernhisel
& Truman O Angel. I confirmed them with F. D. Richards

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Young, Brigham
1 Jun 1801 - 29 Aug 1877
3440 mentions
Apostle, Family
Wells, Daniel Hanmer
27 Oct 1814 - 24 Mar 1891
799 mentions
Apostle
Smith, Elias, b. 1804
6 Sep 1804 - 24 Jun 1888
190 mentions
Richards, Franklin Dewey
2 Apr 1821 - 9 Dec 1899
816 mentions
Apostle
Smith, George Albert
26 Jun 1817 - 1 Sep 1875
1433 mentions
Apostle, Missionary
Kimball, Heber Chase
14 Jun 1801 - 22 Jun 1868
1456 mentions
Apostle
69 mentions
Historical Figure
Bernhisel, John Milton
23 Jun 1799 - 28 Sep 1881
321 mentions
41 mentions

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England
Great Salt Lake Valley, Utah Territory
Utah Territory

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Autobiography Volume 3 circa 1865-1866
In the Prayer Circle

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Aug 2, 1857