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Jan 30, 1884

Journal Entry

January 30, 1884 ~ Wednesday

30. A folded letter/box I received 2 letters to day I spent the forenoon in
the office I attended the council in the Afternoon

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Historian's Office, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah Territory

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Discourse 1884-01-30
In the evening a priesthood meeting was held and largely attended. The presidents of the several quorums gave very cheering reports of the faith- fulness of the brethren of this stake. Bishop William H. Warner reported that the deacons, mostly, had hauled about 50 loads of wood for the poor and our meeting house, and they made it a practice of turning out in quorums and chopping the wood up. Apostle Wilford Woodruff said during his re- marks at this meeting that this was the first time that he had ever heard that the deacon's quorums had ever magni- fied their calling. He also said that all those who had been ordained to the Priesthood were expected to magnify their callings or they would be con- demned.
Letter to John Taylor, 30 January 1884
Salt Lake City, Jany. 30, 1884. President John Taylor, Dear Sir—We are now getting at our labors, contemplated in the appointment of Brother F. D. Richards as Assistant Historian and Recorder to the Church. Commencing, as our work does, with the death of President B. Young, in August, 1877, the devolvement of the Presidency of the Church upon the Twelve Apostles, with President John Taylor as the President of that Council, is the important fact that presents itself almost at the very outset of our work. The character and importance of this sub- ject is such to all the Church, and to yourself in particular, that in our judgment you are the most fitting, and perhaps the only proper, person to deal competently with the subject, and so elaborate it as to place the facts on record that will set the question of jurisdiction of the Council, and of yourself as President of

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Jan 30, 1884