Wilford called back to Salt Lake City for a meeting of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles.
Day in the Life
Journal Entry
September 21, 1885 ~ Monday
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I have felt for several years that there was a
change coming over Zion, & over our Nation & the world
at large. I have spoken of it in public in several instances,
and it has commenced. The United States Government has sent
Judges & Marshals to Utah to prosicute all the Mormons they
can for Poligamy & cohabitation with their own wives
and they have turned it more into persecution than prosecution
untill our prisions are crouded with the Leading Men
of the Church. All the Leading Men are Either in prision
or Exhile All of the 3 first presidency are hid up & myself
& the Twelve Apostles are in Exhile and many other leading men
of the Church And the United States Government with the
Editors & P[riest] are laboring to destroy the saints of God we shall see
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Wilford sees his wife Phebe for the last time and gives her a blessing.
Phebe Woodruff dies; Wilford watches funeral from Church office to avoid arrest.