Dec 2930 1866

And G. Q. Cannon spok 25 All the Presidency & most of the
Twelve met in President B Youngs house for Prayer in the
Circle, Joseph F Smith opened by Prayer, & President Young
was mouth. Oil was Consecrated to use in the 2nd Anointing
I Attended meeting in the 1615 ward & preached to the[m]

December 31, 1866 ~ Monday

Dec 301. [FIGURE] James Geary shot himself with a pistol
ball through the body. He went out with some boys to
shot at a mark & while the boy was setting up the mark
the pistol went off in the mans hands & the man fell to the
ground. He was carried into the House of James Cummings
wha[r]e he was living, I visited him at 11 oclok he was
suffering much. The surgeons did not think he would
live. I met with the Presidency & Twelve in the Endowment
[FIGURES] House we clothed & offered up prayers then
President D H Wells & his 4 wives received their second
Anointing at 1 oclok. I returned home and Found my
Indian boy Sarrowkeets with great Pain in the head
I administered to him & he got Better. I conversed
with Wilford upon the Principle of improvement of over-
coming our passions & bringing them all in subjectinon to
to the law of Christ. I wrote 3 letters to Phebe, Leslie, &
[FIGURE] Susan Scholes

January 1, 1867 ~ Tuesday

Jan 1^st I paid tithing for 1866, ($235^77^.86) still due $23.
($247.86)

Thus the year 1866 has closed, past away, and gone
and bourn its report to heaven of all men & Nations
1860 & 66 have been two years which many men have
looked forward to as being periods of vast importance
to the world. 1860, commenced the dissolving of
the American aUnion, the southern states seceded which
was followed by a 4 years war which laid in the dust
two millions of men, who were the strengs [strength] bone & sinnew
of the Nation, and cost the Northern states alone Four
thousand Million dollars and left upon the world all the
Evils which follow a Bloody civil war