Journal (January 1, 1854 – December 31, 1859)
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March 30th Sunday I attended at the Tabernacle the
meeting throug the day & the prayer meeting in the evening
to
March 31 to April 5th I spent this week ploughing & putting
in wheat I finished putting in 14 1/2 Acres of wheat
April 6th 1856 Conference commenced in the Bowery
this morning at 10 oclok the Minutes of which are
published in the Deseret News of April 9th. At 5 oclock pm
Elders P P Pratt O Pratt, W Woodruff L Snow & E Snow
Blessed 115 Missionaries who were appointed to go on Missions
to the Lamanites & Gentiles. The day was occupied by President
Young G. A. Smith And O pratt.
7th The fore part of the day was occupied by P. P. Pratt &
L. Snow in the Afternoon W Woodruff delivered an
Address upon the Deseret Agricultural and Manufacturing Society
All the Authorities of the Church were presented & received
And W. Woodruff was Appointed Assistant Historian was to
take care of charge of the office during the absence of G. A. Smith
The Twelve met in the Tabernacle at 5 oclok & Blessed &
set apart 88 Missionaries thay blessed & set apart 257
255 persons in all During the conference W. Woodruff ordained
in company with others 12 to the office of Seventies He Blessed
Wilford Woodruff Brandon & ordained him He was named
after me 18 years ago I Baptized his Father & Mother 22 years
ago in Tennessee his Father has been dead several years I
took him home to my house gave him one Dollar a Blessing
& good council & let him go his way
8th The day was mostly occupied by E T Benson O Pratt
& Patrick Lynch. Conference Adjourned till the 6th day
of Oct next
to
9th to 12 I spent the time farming & gardning the Calafornia
Mail had came in about the first of the Month & brought me
one letter from J. M. Bernhisel & the Mormon I wrote
5 letters 3 to J Taylor & 2 to J M Bernhisel I was
called to lay hands upon sister J. M. Bernhisel some 2 weeks
since she was delivered of a fine son the same night
13th Sunday Elder O. Pratt preached in the forenoon upon
the evidences of the Book of Mormon. He quoted a good
deal from Lord Kingsborough extensive work upon the
Antiquities of the American Indians & Mexicans the most
extensive work ever got up by the gentiles upon this subject
it is in 9 volumes each vol will weigh 30 or 40 lbs many of
the manuscrips have been deposited among the Archives of
Europe for hundred of years there was but 30 or 40 copies
ever published it is said, & but two of those copies are in America
one in the Philadelphia Museum & the other in the City of the Great
Salt Lake owned by Professor Orson Pratt.
J. M. Grant Preached
in the Afternoon spoke of Golightly's shop being broaken open & 150
lbs of flour taken from it. W. Woodruff lost 35 lbs from his
March 30th Sunday I attended at the Tabernacle the meeting throug the day & the prayer meeting in the evening
to
March 31 to April 5th I spent this week ploughing & putting in wheat I finished putting in 14 1/2 Acres of wheat
April 6th 1856 Conference commenced in the Bowery [FIGURE] this morning at 10 oclok the minutes of which are published in the Deseret News of April 9th. At 5 oclock PM Elders P P Pratt O Pratt, W Woodruff L Snow & E Snow Blessed 115 Missionaries who were appointed to go on Missions to the Lamanites & Gentiles. The day was occupied by President Young G. A. Smith And O pratt.
7th The fore part of the day was occupied by P. P. Pratt & L. Snow in the Afternoon W Woodruff delivered an Address upon the Deseret Agricultural and Manufacturing Society All the Authorities of the Church were presented & received And W. Woodruff was Appointed Assistant Historian was to take charge of the office during the absence of G. A. Smith
The Twelve met in the Tabernacle at 5 oclok & Blessed & set apart 88 Missionaries thay blessed & set apart 255 255 persons in all During the conference W. Woodruff ordained in company with others 12 to the office of Seventies He Blessed Wilford Woodruff Brandon & ordained him He was named after me 18 years ago I Baptized his Father & Mother 22 years ago in Tennessee his Father has been dead several years I took him home to my house gave him one Dollar a Blessing & good council & let him go his way
8th The day was mostly occupied by E T Benson O Pratt & Patrick Lynch. Conference Adjourned till the 6th day of Oct next
to
9th to 12 I spent the time farming & gardning the Calafornia Mail had came in about the first of the Month & brought me one letter from J. M. Bernhisel & the Mormon I wrote FIGURES 5 letters 3 to J Taylor & 2 to J M Bernhisel I was called to lay hands upon sister J. M. Bernhisel some 2 weeks since she was delivered of a fine son the same night
13th Sunday Elder O. Pratt preached in the forenoon upon the evidences of the Book of Mormon He quoted a good deal from Lord Kingsborough extensive work upon the Antiquities of the American Indians & Mexicans the most extensive work ever got up by the gentiles upon this subject it is in 9 volumes each vol will weigh 30 or 40 lbs many of the manuscrips have been deposited among the Archives of Europe for hundred of years there was but 30 or 40 copies ever published it is said, & but two of those copies are in America one in the Philadelphia Museum & the other in the City of the Great Salt Lake owned by Professor Orson Pratt.
J. M. Grant Preached in the Afternoon spoke of Golightly's shop being broaken open & 150 lbs of flour taken from it. W. Woodruff lost 35 lbs from his