Day in the Life

Dec 12, 1858

Journal Entry

December 12, 1858 ~ Sunday

12 Sunday A snowey day I met with the Quorum at 12 ock
Bishop Hunter prayed L. W. Hardy was mouth. I met with
the Quorum of the Twelve at 6 oclok O Hyde Prayed O pratt
was mouth the spirit of God was with us & we had a good
Meeting all the Twelve were present except A Lyman &
Lorenzo Snow. we all called upon President Young at
his private Room when the following conversation
took place. President Young said have you any message to me
O Hyde said I do not know as I have ownly we came in to
tsoe [see] you. I have a message to you. you are some of you memb-
ers of the Legislature and I want you to so conduct business
in such a way that it will be exceptable unto the Lord and
that the Devil cannot find find fault with you. President
Young asked if we had been to the coircus. none of the Twelve had
been He then said Thomas Williams would cut our throat if
he had the power and yet he has full houses I wonder who sup-
ports him. President Young said that Martin was getting
out Bills to circulate through this country which was to
speculate out of the people He promises to pay Treasury drafts
on the government when $400 dollars was presented to him
& the people shouuld not take it for it will be a Loss to this
community I want you to Find this out yourselves & put a stop
to it ore yuse your influence to do it without the peoples knowing
that I said any thing about it. In speaking of the opposition
against this work President Young said I should loose all
hope if I did not know that God begun it & begun it in
the right time and has sustained it & carried it on
ever since and he is able to Finish it & will do it

People

Browse people Wilford Woodruff mentioned on this day in his journal. Click on the person's name to view a short bio and other pages they are mentioned on or click on "View in Family Search" to view their FamilySearch profile.

Lyman, Amasa Mason
30 Mar 1813 - 4 Feb 1877
298 mentions
Apostle
Young, Brigham
1 Jun 1801 - 29 Aug 1877
3440 mentions
Apostle, Family
277 mentions
Hardy, Leonard Wilford
31 Dec 1805 - 31 Jul 1884
233 mentions
Family
Snow, Lorenzo
3 Apr 1814 - 10 Oct 1901
699 mentions
Apostle, Family
Hyde, Orson
8 Jan 1805 - 28 Nov 1878
693 mentions
Apostle
Pratt, Orson
19 Sep 1811 - 3 Oct 1881
1082 mentions
Apostle
Williams, Thomas Stephen
2 Jan 1827 - 18 Mar 1860
20 mentions

Quotes

View selected quotes from this page in Wilford Woodruff's journal.

In speaking of the opposition against this work President Young said I should loose all hope if I did not know that God begun it & begun it in the right time and has sustained it & carried it on ever since and he is able to Finish it & will do it
~ Brigham Young

Events

View selected events in the two months surrounding this date in Wilford Woodruff's life. Click on the dates to jump to that day in Wilford Woodruff's journal.

December 1858
Wilford serves ninth term as member of Territorial Legislature.

Dec 12, 1858