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Day in the Life

Jun 28, 1874

Journal Entry

June 28, 1874 ~ Sunday

28. [FIGURE] I wrote a letter to David & attended Meeting at the Bowery
Sunday O Pratt opened by Prayer The Articles of the United Order
was read. President Young spoke 18 M[inutes] O Pratt one H[our] & 10 M[inutes].
He said all the virgins had been asleep 40 years & Just begining
to wake up & were wondering what New thing had come in
the United Order. Afternoon Prayer By G. W. Ward
President Young spoke 47 Minuts [FIGURES] In speaking of giving
divorces, He said when he sealed a woman to a man he asked
nothing for it but if they asked for a divorce I charge him
$10 for his folly for it is no better than a peace of white Paper
for when I seal a woman to a man it takes a higher power
then I am to take her away Some women say I do not want to
live with my Husband in Eternity they need not trouble themselves
about it for she will not ^be^ troubled with him in Eternity unless
he keeps the commandments of God & if He goes to the Celestial
Kingdom & she is not worthy of it, she will not be troubled with
him for she will not go there. One man will say I do not want
to go to heaven if such a man goes, but no one need be troubled
about such matters for they will not go to Heaven themselves unless
they are worthy & they will not meet any one there that is not
worthy. W Woodruff followed spoke 15 Minuts

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Young, Brigham
1 Jun 1801 - 26 Aug 1877
3299 mentions
Apostle, Family
Woodruff, David Patten
4 Apr 1854 - 20 Jan 1937
217 mentions
Family
3 mentions
Pratt, Orson
19 Sep 1811 - 3 Oct 1881
1036 mentions
Apostle

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Bowery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah Territory

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June 23, 1874
Poland Act passed by Congress becomes legal basis for the prosecution of polygamists in the 1870s and 1880s.

Jun 28, 1874