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Day in the Life

Jan 8, 1865

Journal Entry

January 08, 1865 ~ Sunday

8. I met with my Quorum in the morning & attended meet-
ing at the Tabernacle all day. E. T. Benson spoke in the morning
& President Young in the afternoon which was a vary interesting
discourse He conveyed the idea that Adam & Eve done right
in partaking of the forbidden fruit they were sent to the Earth
to do it that man might know the contrast good & Evil
In the Evening we mightt for prayer 8 of the Twelve were pres-
ent. I preached in the 19 ward in the Evening

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248 mentions
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Young, Brigham
1 Jun 1801 - 26 Aug 1877
3301 mentions
Apostle, Family
24 mentions
Scriptural Figure
Benson, Ezra Taft
22 Feb 1811 - 3 Sep 1869
365 mentions
Apostle

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Tabernacle, Great Salt Lake City, Great Salt Lake County, Utah Territory

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Sunday Jan 1, 1865 Jan 1, 1865 This is the commencement of a New Year The past year has been an Eventful year in many respects Esspecially in the history of the United States war has contine- ued to rage with awful carnage through the year between the North & South, and apparently with No prospect of peace. All Nations steem to be prepareing for war and great calamity await the wicked. yet Zion still prospers and God is with her He defends Zion & sustains his servants
~ Wilford Woodruff
E. T. Benson spoke in the morning & President Young in the afternoon which was a vary interesting discourse He conveyed the idea that Adam & Eve done right in partaking of the forbidden fruit they were sent to the Earth to do it that man might know the contrast good & Evil
~ Brigham Young

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Jan 8, 1865