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Day in the Life

Jan 21, 1860

Journal Entry

January 21, 1860 ~ Saturday

21st I spent the day in the office. I spent the evening at A. O. Smoot
with a party O. Pratt J. Taylor & W. Woodruff of the Twelve, Hon
J. M. Bernhisel & many others were present I paid M Cannon $1 For line of Battlesnip

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Smoot, Abraham Owen
17 Feb 1815 - 6 Mar 1895
556 mentions
1835 Southern Convert
Bernhisel, John Milton
23 Jun 1799 - 28 Sep 1881
313 mentions
Taylor, John, b. 1808
1 Nov 1808 - 25 Jul 1887
1834 mentions
Apostle
26 mentions
Pratt, Orson
19 Sep 1811 - 3 Oct 1881
1037 mentions
Apostle

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Historian's Office, Great Salt Lake City, Great Salt Lake County, Utah Territory

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President Young said that all the world would have been warned long ago in our day if all the world had bee[n] as faith- ful in warning his Neighbor as He & many of the Elders of this Church. When going to Zion in 1834 Joseph reproved the camp while standing upon a waggon wheel I said I had done the best I could & could not Better it if I was to try it again H. C. Kimball said the same. They said they had been in the Church nearly half of his life. (I WW have been in the Church more than half of my life) I remarked that it was an interesting time to live to to see the fulfillment of the President Young said it was an interesting time. H C Kimball said we should see it Just as well if Dead as if alive. President Young said, while we are in the flesh, we have to contend against evil spirits and Devils in a way which will be hid from us in the Spirit World. Brother Kimball said in speaking of our Prayer circle I never saw T. D. Brown in that circle but what I felt sorry to see him there. President Young said He would never have been there If you had not Recommended him for I had not confidence enough in him He leacked [lacked] & so did Wm. W. Phelps & others, what is spoken in a prayer circle should never be Named out of the circle not [to] a wife or any body Els if there is any thing to be said I will say it I could preach
~ Wilford Woodruff

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1860
Church membership 61,000; population of Utah Territory 40,273, population of 33 United States 31,443,000.

Jan 21, 1860