Seven Southern states secede from Union. (Confederacy includes 15 states and territories by 1862.)
Day in the Life
Journal Entry
December 16, 1860 ~ Sunday
16th Sunday I met with wimy Quorum in the morning for prayer
I attended meeting at the Tabernacle IJ. D. Ross preached in the Morning
D H Wells in the afternoon followed by H. C. Kimball & B. Young all
spoke well Brother Wells exhorted the people old & young to put away
the intoxicating cup & scease drinking strong drink as it was
intoxicating the brain and destroying their influence he made
a strong appeal to the mothers. He was Followed by President
Kimball who bore testimony to the truth of what D. H. Wells had
said. He also exhorted the people to be united & live their religin
President Young spoke of the sermon of J. D. Ross, who quoted
the scripture that sayes My "I have other sheep which are not of
this Fold &c" [3 Nephi 16:1] He says that is not a correct translation it should
read ["]I have other sheep of this fold" For there is but one Fold
& one shepherd. He allso said that no Elder understood all the first
principles of the gospel if any man did he knew more than
he did. the gospel was like a cotton Factory or paper Mill a
person must understand the whole machinery in order to know how
cloth or paper is maide He also spoke of the Celestial Law said we
show [should] not have the celestial law revealed to us untill we get into
the Celestial Kingdom there is a Law belonging to every kingdom [Doctrine and Covenants 88:36]
what kingdom are we in. we are not even in a Terrestrial kingdom
then let us not talk about keeping a Celestial Law untill we get into
a Celestial Kingdom at least untill we can keep the Law of the gospel
while in a Telestial kingdom.
weI met with B. Young D. H. Wells J. Taylor G. A. Smith L. Snow,
for prayers J. Taylor Prayed & G. A. Smith was mouth. L. Snow
& myself visited A. O. Smoot who has been quite sick he had an
ague shake which shook his system to peaces but we found him better
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Smoot, Abraham Owen
17 Feb 1815 - 6 Mar 1895
584 mentions
1835 Southern Convert
Young, Brigham
1 Jun 1801 - 29 Aug 1877
3440 mentions
Apostle, Family
Wells, Daniel Hanmer
27 Oct 1814 - 24 Mar 1891
799 mentions
Apostle
Smith, George Albert
26 Jun 1817 - 1 Sep 1875
1433 mentions
Apostle, Missionary
Kimball, Heber Chase
14 Jun 1801 - 22 Jun 1868
1456 mentions
Apostle
Ross, James Darling
1824-1878
29 mentions
Taylor, John, b. 1808
1 Nov 1808 - 25 Jul 1887
1954 mentions
Apostle
Snow, Lorenzo
3 Apr 1814 - 10 Oct 1901
699 mentions
Apostle, Family
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I attended meeting at the Tabernacle J. D. Ross preached in the Morning D H Wells in the afternoon followed by H. C. Kimball & B. Young all spoke well. Brother Wells exhorted the people old & young to put away the intoxicating cup & scease drinking strong drink as it was intoxicating the brain and destroying their influence he made a strong appeal to the mothers. He was Followed by President Kimball who bore testimony to the truth of what D. H. Wells had said. He also exhorted the people to be united & live their religion
~ Wilford Woodruff
President Young spoke of the sermon of J. D. Ross, who quoted the scripture that sayes My "I have other sheep which are not of this Fold &c" He says that is not a correct translation it should read ["]I have other sheep of this fold" For there is but one Fold & one shepherd. He allso said that no Elder understood all the first [FIGURE] principles of the gospel if any man did he knew more than he did. the gospel was like a cotton Factory or paper Mill a person must understand the whole machinery in order to know how cloth or paper is maide
~ Brigham Young
He also spoke of the Celestial Law said we show [should] not have the Celestial law revealed to us untill we get into the Celestial Kingdom there is a Law belonging to every kingdom what kingdom are we in, we are not even in a Terrestrial kingdom then let us not talk about keeping a Celestial Law untill we get into a Celestial Kingdom at least untill we can keep the Law of the gospel while in a Telestial kingdom.
~ Brigham Young
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