Seven Southern states secede from Union. (Confederacy includes 15 states and territories by 1862.)
13. Sunday I met with my Quorum in the morning A O Smoot Prayed
Bishop Hunter was mouth I attended meeting at the Tabernacle
John Taylor preached in the morning & Brigham Young in the ofternoon
He gave a vary interesting discourse to the people Presidents Young & Kimball
& W Woodruff J STaylor G. A. Smith of the Twelve met for prayer H C Kimball
prayed G. A. S. was mouth. In speaking of the Government President
Young said the United States Government was in the fix that the man
was that had to swim a river or meet a Lion if He swam the river
He would drown if he met the Lion he would be devoured So with
the United States they are bound to be destroyed. Those things which
[they] wished to bring upon us shall come upon them. The brethren spoke
upon the subject of their Early travels President Young called upon
a leading Quaker who spiritualized all the scriptures and when he got
through his arguments among which was the doctrin that the forbidden
fruuit was in the heart. President Young asked him how Eve got into
the heart of Adam to partake of the forbidden fruit before Adam did
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President Young spoke of one Baily who cursed Joseph Smith & the
God that called him to be a prophet & the man was taken crazy on the
Ground was taken home & died insane. He said Dr Henry Ward Beecher
would not preach as he did if he did not read Mormon Books.
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