Day in the Life
Journal Entry
June 11, 1859 ~ Saturday
11th I spent the day {making water gates watering the
garden. We had a very hard wind in the afternoon|Deseret Alphabet}
on the evening of the 11th The Presidentcy of the seventies & the
Twelve met at the historians office. O Hyde presented the busi
ness of the meeting which was to go out once more & warn the Saints
to sell no more grain but lay up all the food they can get to
prepair for a day of famine which is at the door the Saints have
been warned to do this for a long time but they have given no
heed to the warning ie many of them, others have. O Hyde
W Woodruff & E. T. Benson spoke upon the subject a meeting
was appointed on Sunday evening at 6 oclok for the sev-
enties & Twelve to appoint missionaries to go abroad am[on]g
the people for this purpose. The Eastern Mail came in brough
word that war had commenced in Europe
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Benson, Ezra Taft
22 Feb 1811 - 3 Sep 1869
379 mentions
Apostle
Hyde, Orson
8 Jan 1805 - 28 Nov 1878
697 mentions
Apostle
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O Hyde presented the busi ness of the meeting which was to go out once more & warn the Saints to sell no more grain but lay up all the food they can get to prepair for a day of famine which is at the door the Saints have been warned to do this for a long time but they have given no heed to the warning ie many of them, others have.
~ Orson Hyde
O Pratt Preached upon the second coming of Christ the Building of Zion & Jerrusalem & their final location on the Earth the Thrones of Christ & his Twelve Apostles will be in Jerrusalem while the New Jerrusalem & Zion of Enoch & the Zion of the Saints will be in Jackson County Mo. Adam dwelt in that land as the garden of Eden was there
~ Orson Pratt
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