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Dec 24, 1877

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December 24, 1877 ~ Monday

24. A folded letter/box A hand pointing to the right Received 60 wrote 1, 74. I spent the day in council

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Letter from Jesse O. Ballenger, 24 December 1877
Questions regarding eating at one Table Sunset Arizona Dec. 24th 1877 Pres. John Taylor and the Twelve. Dear Breathren I feel it will not be amiss to write a few lines to inform you of our present good health and prospects; Knowing the intres you have in this mission. We are at our camp at this time about two hundred souls. All enjoying good health and a plenty of work We work all together as one family and live as near a like as we can. We are building a dining room and are calculating to all eat at the same table like they do at Orderville. But the rumer has come here that the Twelve council otherwise and the brethren do not feel so well united about eating together as they did before and
Letter from Anonymous, 24 December 1877
Thus sayeth the Lord God. To You Joseph F Smith, Orson Pratt Wilford Woodruff Franklin D Richards and George Q Cannon. I the Lord Your God revealed through My servant Joseph Smith that I would in the year 1890, come to this Earth with ten thousand times ten thousand of Mine Angels to dwell in the midst of My People And I will be Their God and They shall dwell in peace and love. I will pour out My Spirit upon my People Therefore- Thus sayeth the Lord Your God. That I am going to build My City Zion and in that city I will build My house the pattern thereof
Letter to John Taylor from Wilford Woodruff, Erastus Snow, and Joseph Fielding Smith, 24 December 1877
Salt Lake City, : To President John Taylor, Trustee in Trust of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints, Dear Brother: "We the undersigned Committee appointed to audit the accounts of the Trustee in Trust at the Semi Annual Conference held October 7, 1877 respectfully submit the en- closed transcript of an Account on the Trustee in Trust Ledgers, known as the "Railroad Contract" Account, in which we find the sum of Eighty-eight thousand dollars sate stated as "Sundries" to its credit. Whcich amount we are informed by the Clerks who made the entries was paid in Utah Central Railroad First Mortgage Bonds, Whciich Bonds have beeen helfd by President Brigham Young and the interest thereon has been drawn by him since their issuance amounting to $49,500.00 The said Bonds and the interest thereon in our opinion belong to the Church and should be delivered to the present Trustee in Trust. We also herewith submit evidence is substaintiation of the foregoing. Respectfully Your Brethren W. Woodruff Erastus Snow Jos. F. Smtith

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Dec 24, 1877