was presented to us for an example {O God stay thy hand and judgment on Kirtland O Wilford
remember this warning escape judgment lest thou fall O God save me for Christ's sake|shorthand}
Spent the Past week in school in the Lords house
19, 20 was spent in school I commenced studying the GREEK
GRAMMER on Monday the 19th Dec 1836
~ Tuesday
20 At candle light I repaired to the house of the Lord
for a meeting with the quorum of the Seventies
the third Seventyies had been chosen & the business
of this meeting was to organize them & ordain them
but as they were not all present they were not all
ordained or organized their was 27 twenty seven
of the third Seventy ordained to the High Priesthood
& as members of the third Seventy Elder Abram
O. Smoot, was among the number ordained to the
third Seventy which fulfilled what I Pronounced
upon his head by the testimony of JESUS on the
30th of June while in Tenn[essee] See June 30th 1836
The above mentioned were ordained under the hands of
Presidents Aldrich, Young, ^&^ Coltrin. We had an inter-
esting meeting much of the spirit of Prophecy was poured
out upon those Presidents while ordaining the third Seventy
they Proclaimed great & marvelous things upon
their heads President Young had visions while
performing this ordinance
was presented to us for an example {O God stay thy hand and judgment on Kirtland O Wilford
remember this warning escape judgment lest thou fall O God save me for Christ's sake}
Spent the past week in school in the Lords house
19, 20 was spent in school I commenced studying the GREEK
GRAMMER on Monday the 19th Dec 1836
~ Tuesday
20 At Candle light I repaired to the house of the Lord
for a meeting with the quorum of the Seventies
the third Seventies had been chosen & the business
of this meeting was to organize them & ordain them
but as they were not all present they were not all
ordained or organized their was 27 twenty Seven
of the third Seventy ordained to the High Priesthood
& as members of the third seventy Elder Abram
O. Smoot was among the number ordained to the
third seventy which fulfilled what I Pronounced
upon his head by the testimony of JESUS on the
30th of June while in Tenne See June 30th 1836
The above mentioned were ordained under the hands of
Presidents Aldrich, Young, & Coltrin. We had an inter
esting meeting much of the spirit of Prophecy was poured
out upon those Presidents while ordaining the third Seventy
they Proclaimed great & marvelous things upon
their heads President Young had visions while
Performing this ordinance
"Journal (December 29, 1833 – January 3, 1838)," December 11, 1836 - December 25, 1836, The Wilford Woodruff Papers, accessed December 30, 2024, https://wilfordwoodruffpapers.org/p/Dx
