4 I budded about 100 green gage plums into wild stocks I cut about
500 buds of my best fruit for Lorenzo Snow to bud in his nursery I
paid $25 on my Territorial tax which was including county tax $51.90
city tax $20.60, 14 ward school house tax $130 total tax for 1860 $202.50
I spent my time in the office in the afternoon. On sunday Evening while
in conversation at the Historians office A Brother Williams & another man called
to get council of President Young concerning Brother William of Union
Fort who is possessed of the Devil & has been in the mountains 60 days to try
to starve himself to death but came home a living skeleton & finally
cut his throat & that did not kill him & he now wanted to drown himself
the men that came for counsel want the heads of the Church to unite
together & cast the Devil out of him the President said if he wants to
cut his throat or drown himself let him do it the devil is determined
to destroy his body any how if you want the devil cast out you may
go to work & cast him out if you can I shall not go down there to
do ^it^ we have devils enough to deal with up here without going abroad
after them if the devils destroy his body they will get through with
him that will be the end of there work with his tabernacle.
Brother Cannon said there was a learned Doctor [blank] that wanted
to be baptized believed in this work but wanted to close up his business
in New York City first said when he was baptized that He should lay
aside his practice of medicine as he believed the Lord had provided
means for the healing of his Saints without the practice of medicine
He is satisfied that the doctrin of the plurality of God and that Adam
is our Father is a true doctrin revealed from God to Joseph & Brigham
For this same Doctrin is taught in some of the old Jewish records
which have never been in print and I know Joseph Smith nor Brigham
Young have never had access to and the Lord has revealed this doctrin
unto them or they could not have taught it. President Young said
if all that God had revealed was in fine print it would more than
fill this room but vary little is written or printed which the Lord
has revealed when God restores the Priesthood and Apostleship
he gives the keys to unlock the fountain of knowledge power & glory
when An Apostle is called & ordained all of the keys of the kingdom
of God upon Earth are sealed upon him and God reveals heis mind
& will through that source to the children of men for the govern-
ment & salvation of the children of men, and he reveals much in
evry age when the priesthood is upon Earth which is not written
or printed
At about 3 oclock My Daughter Phebe wife of Lorenzo Snow
was taken in Labor at 3 oclok was taken in LDelivered of a daughter
at 15 minutes to 11 oclok She is doing vary well herself but her
daughter was supposed to be dead when born the midwife put the
child in warm water then in cold breathed into its lungs in
it remained without breathing for 30 minutes it then began
to breathed and breathed quit freely but was vary feeble through the night
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