Seven Southern states secede from Union. (Confederacy includes 15 states and territories by 1862.)
18th Nov ^1860^
Sunday I met with my Quorum in the morning Br John M. Mody prayed
Jonathan Pugmyre was mouth I attended meeting at the Tabernacle J. L. Hey-
wood & E. D. Woolley Preached in the afternoon Capt Walter M. Gibson
& spoke followed by President Brigham Young Brother Gibson said that
He was about to take another mission was going to Jappan, Siam, & the
Malay Islands. He has had an invitation by the Historian of Jappan to
visit that Land, is intimately acquainted with the King of Siam & has been
strongly invited by the princes & chiefs of the Malay Islands to visit
them He seems to have been raised up as an instrument in the Hands of
God to open the way among those Nations for the receptions of the gospel
President Young Blessed him & said He would go with a commissin
to all Nations upon the Earth & he should go with his good will
& blessing.
Presidents B Young H. C. Kimball & D. H. Wells met at the
Historians office in the evening also W Woodruff J. Taylor & G. A. Smith
B Young Prayed G A Smith was mouth
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Brother Gibson said that He was about to take another mission was going to Jappan, Siam, & the Malay Islands. He has had an invitation by the Historian of Jappan to visit that Land, is intimately acquainted with the King of Siam & has been strongly invited by the princes & Chiefs of the Malay Islands to visit them. He seems to have been raised up as an instrument in the Hands of God to open the way among those Nations for the receptions of the gospel President Young Blessed him & said He would go with a commission to all Nations upon the Earth & he should go with his good will & blessing.
The Mountaineer to day contains the news By Poney Express concerning the withdrawal of the Southern States from the union it commenced in South Carolina in fulfillment of the prophecy [FIGURES] of Joseph Smith the Prophet or the revelation of the Lord through him which has been published in the pearl of Great Price & written in various Books for many years it really looks as though the United States were ripe for the Harvest
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