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Day in the Life

Apr 6, 1861

Journal Entry

April 06, 1861 ~ Saturday

6th The General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter
Day Saints met this morning in the Tabernacle of the Lord in Great Salt
Lake City. Orson Hyde called the meeting to order before the presidency
got there which was a little before the time of 10 oclok President Young showed
us this was wrong that He was the president of the Church & we should have
waited for him to have opened the meeting it did not Enter the mind of
any of the Twelve but what it was right at the Time. Lorenzo Snow opened
by Prayer. E. T. Benson spoke followed by Presidents D. H. Wells H. C. Kimball
& B. Young in the fore noon. In the afternoon offices voted for then
John Taylor Isaac Morley & G. A. Smith Preached. In the evening the High
Priests & Bishops met at the 13th ward assembly room. The Bishops made
there reports of the teams going East for the poor eported all ready & the
grain tithing in various parts of the country reported. President Young
spoke to the people upon various subjects said we should want to take
East flour for 1000 of our Emigration 200 lbs Each making 200,000 lbs
He also spoke upon the subject of thieving He called upon the Bishops
to clens their wards of all thieves to cut them off from the Church
& from the Earth. He spoke in grate plainness

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Young, Brigham
1 Jun 1801 - 26 Aug 1877
3302 mentions
Apostle, Family
Wells, Daniel Hanmer
27 Oct 1814 - 24 Mar 1891
773 mentions
Apostle
Benson, Ezra Taft
22 Feb 1811 - 3 Sep 1869
366 mentions
Apostle
Smith, George Albert
26 Jun 1817 - 1 Sep 1875
1380 mentions
Apostle, Missionary
Kimball, Heber Chase
14 Jun 1801 - 22 Jun 1868
1402 mentions
Apostle
56 mentions
Taylor, John, b. 1808
1 Nov 1808 - 25 Jul 1887
1834 mentions
Apostle
Snow, Lorenzo
3 Apr 1814 - 10 Oct 1901
655 mentions
Apostle, Family
Hyde, Orson
8 Jan 1805 - 28 Nov 1878
670 mentions
Apostle

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Apr 6, 1861