Abraham Lincoln inaugurated as 16th President of 26 states.
3rd I attended my Prayer circle in the morning Bishop Sheets Prayed, R.
Burton was mouth. Thomas B. Broderick preached in the morning. Presid[en]t
Brigham Young Preached in the afternoon a vary interesting discourse, as
all his sermons are reported I do not pretend to write them or make a
synopsis of them ownly occasionally I record an item or two which I
will now do. He said in speaking of the coming of Christ "If Christ had
come & taken possession of the kingdom & set up his rule & governm[en]t upon
the Earth
in the days of Noah, Moses, or at his first coming or even now
He would have Entirely defeated his own plan He would have cut off the agency
of man the Lord will not come to rule upon the Earth untill all the spirits
appointed to tabernacle in the flesh in this world have come & taken tabernacles
& been born, this Church & Kingdom has got to grow & progress in its present
organization untill the Zion of God is built upon the Earth & the New Jerrusalem
build & the bride prepared for her husband & when all things are prepared
Christ will come & take the kingdom & reign over the Earth but we are
not yet prepared for that Event if Christ was to come now to reign you
would not like his dictation as well as you do mine for I am more like
you than He is and he would be more strict in his deal[ings] & dictation
ywith you than I am. The Lord intends to try us & prove us whether we will
build up the kingdom & gather the saints in our poverty &c." At the close of the
meeting the President said in the vestry, speaking of our government He said
Our Nation will not Have a general war all at one & then be setteled in a year
or two but the spirit of war, madness & disunion will increase for a number
of years they will commence to fight little by little & keep increase untill
they will have a general mash up & destruction throughought the
Land. I spent the evening at home
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