Day in the Life

Dec 31, 1889

Journal Entry

December 31, 1889 ~ Tuesday

31. I signed 12 Recommends I received 8 Letters
I signed 4 public Letters & some 20 free Telegraph charts
It was a vary cold night I went to the farm 6 Mils
I looked over my Journal & recorded on the following pages
A synopsis of the same

Thus Ends the year 1889 And the word of the Prophet
Joseph Smith is begining to be fulfilled that the whole Nation
would turn against Zion & make war upon the Saints. The
Nation has never been filled so full of lies against the
Saints as to Day 1890 will be an important year with
the Latter Day Saints & the American Nation

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Smith, Joseph (Jr.)
23 Dec 1805 - 27 Jun 1844

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Thus Ends the year 1889 And the word of the Prophet Joseph Smith is begining to be fulfilled that the whole Nation would turn against Zion & make war upon the Saints. The Nation has never been filled so full of lies against the Saints as to Day 1890 will be an important year with the Latter Day Saints & the American Nation
~ Wilford Woodruff

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Wilford receives revelation on politics and polygamy; will not trade religion for statehood.
Church membership 188,000; Utah Territory 210,779; population of 44 United States. 62,948,000.

Dec 31, 1889