so their is an atmosphere surrounds all persons which you
feel when you meet with them, some persons atmosphere you
light like others you do not with some you feel safe other you do not
it is so in meeting with families. Jesus said when you go
into a house let your peeace dwell upon it but if they do not
receive you let your peacece return unto you again. This is true
doctrin (let my atmosphere be good so that the spirit of God &
good men may dwell with me in peace for that person who dwells
near the Lord & has an Eye single to his glory can tell whether he
has the spirit of God or not when he meets with him many
bodies are opake & not luminous but when the light of a lumin
ous body strikes them it sets them all in a blaze so with one
who has the spirit of God when his spirit rests upon another
it overshadows him it sets him in a blaze & the great light
can see the Heart. We are all as it were painters painting our
own characters and evry good deed will give our sign a
white coulor & evry wicked deed a black colour & when we
have painted unto the End of our days our character will be
presented before God in its true light & we shall see as we are
seen & know as we are known some think the Judgment
will not be untill after the resurrection of some thousands
of years but remember that when you lie down at night & are
weary and fall asleep before you are aware of it the morning
comes the time is past & you are awoke. But in the church &
kingdom of God what is sealed on Earth is sealed in Heaven what
is bound on Earth is bound in Heaven and if a man sins
he is soon brought into Judgment for now is the Judgment
with him. God will Judge the world but He may not Judge one
individual Himself but His servants will Judge them under his
direction. It is said the saints will Judge Angels but what
Angels why fallen Angels for those Angels who remain in
Heaven are now above us while those who are fallen are below
us for who is better able to Judge them than the Saints who
cast them out. Many other interesting remarks were made by
Elder Hyde.

Elder H. C. Kimball arose & said the remarks of Elder Hyde were
good and I will apply them and I want all to lift up their
sign and I want to imitate the best painted sign in Israel
& the character that is most like God I never expect to see a
time in all Eternity but what I shall have to abide a law
be trimmed & scourged untill I am a fit subject to become a
God. If you get into Heaven & rebell you will be cast out
their is always danger of falling as long as we are going up a
ladder.

August 25, 1851 ~ Monday

[FIGURE] Aug 25^th [FIGURE] I spent the day in council with my
Brethren & while in the council the mail arived from
the States in 20 days from Independance the largest ever recieved
about 400 lbs I received 3 letters one from Azmon one from Thompson
& one from Ilus. My Brothers Azmon & Thompson Woodruff
informed me in their letters that my Step Mother Azubah Woodruff
Died [FIGURE] March 20^th March 20^th 1851 at 7 1/2 oclok P.M. and that
that my Brothers Azmons wife Elizabeth Woodruff
Died [FIGURE] Jan 3rd January 3rd 1851 Both were own sisters by birth I found