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Day in the Life

Aug 4, 1889

Journal Entry

August 04, 1889 ~ Sunday

4th Sunday
Morning
I signed 30 Recommends during the day Meeting opened
at 10 oclok F M Lyman spoke 45 M. M Thatcher 28
G. Q. Cannon 16 M. Afternoon The statistical report
was presented And Authorities sustained After which
W Woodruff spoke 53 M. among other things spoke upon
the United Order As Brother Thatcher had spoken
strongly upon that subject I said I had been aquainted
with several Branches of the order but all had
failed so far But said if Cash Valley Stake
was prepaired for the organization of the order
I would appoint Moses Thatcher to go to work
& organize the Cash Valley Stake into the United
Order G.Q. Cannon spoke 15 M we spent the night
with Brother Thatcher

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Lyman, Francis Marion
12 Jan 1840 - 16 Nov 1916
269 mentions
Apostle
Cannon, George Quayle
11 Jan 1827 - 12 Apr 1901
2243 mentions
Apostle
425 mentions
Apostle

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Cache Valley, Utah Territory

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Letter from Joseph E. Capell, 4 August 1889
President Wilford Woodruff, Dear Brother some time ago I was called on a mission to Great Britiaain. And afterwards was released for the time being from the call made upon me so I could be able to secure my Land before filling the call. Our land ins not Surveyed and we do not know when it will be it may be too or three years too years they said at the Land office and if it meets the approval of the Presidency I am willing to go on the 14th inst pleas let me know be return mail and oblige your Bro in the Gospel. Jos E. Capell OK inform him L J n
Discourse 1889-08-04
President Woodruff narrated in detail the circumstances that existed in Kirtland when so many apostatised giving great trials & trouble to the Prophet Joseph. Half of the quorum of the Twelve fell away & all these circumstances gave evidence that we must rely on the Almighty in all our labors & that truth & fidelity are the only safeguards to salvation. He admonished the saints to avoid the spirit that induced that apostacy & to seek the spi- rit of God to guide us aright. He narrated his mission to Fox Islands with others, where he baptised 100 souls & organ- ised a branch & God was with them. He spoke of the death of Joseph & Hyrum & the peculiar events connected with it. He also alluded to the death of David Patton & the death & dep- arture of many of the Twelve, with other great men who died in the faith, but he never felt to mourn for them because they had done their work. He spoke of the return of many to the church who had fallen away, but were not the men they were before. He spoke of the doctrine of Baptism for the dead & asserted its grandeur & validity, & the perpetuity of the marriage covenant &c. He discoursed on the United Order & said he believed in that order & stated that if ever we enter the Celestial Kingdom it will be in that order. He narrated the establishment of the U nited order in Sunset & in Brigham City. These things have passed & have been abolished not because the principle is wrong but because the people were not prepared for it. He urged the saints not to sell their homes. He felt to say, Wherever there are a people ready to enter the United Order he would enter into it & if, there is an element here in Logan prepared to go into that order, he would appoint Apostle Moses Thatcher to supervise it. He bore a faithful testimony to the truth of the work of God upon the earth

Aug 4, 1889