costly merchantdize wharewith thou art adorn
ed even as the capital of great Babylon, I am
ready to ask myself what am I & my Brethren
here for, & as the spirit answers to warn thee
of thine abominations & to exhort the[e] to repent of
thy wickedness & prepare for the day of thy visit
ation thy mourning thy calamity & thy wo. I am
ready to cry out Lord who is sufficient for
these things, O Mighty God of Jacob cloth us with
thy power. Let the power of the Priesthood rest
upon us & the spirit of our ministry & mission &
enable us to warn the inhadbitants of this city
in such a manner that our garments will be clean
of their Blood & that we may seek out the honest
in heart & the meek from among men & have many
souls as seals of our ministry
we spent the night at kings Arms, King street, Borough London distance of the day 114 mile
~ Wednesday
19th I wrot another letter to Phebe & enclosed it
in the one that I wrote to her last evening. {I enclosed a
sovereign and sent Phebe in the letter} I also wrote a letter to Elder Turley
I[n] which I enclosed my letters to Phebe & others which
we sent to him. We took a walk a mile or two into
the city passed London Bridge twice & returned
& spent the night at Kings Arms, King street, Borough
their is so much passings of Drays & horses & singing
& hollowing att all hours of the night in the streets
that it is with difficulty that I could sleep at
night. Elder Kimball & myself bought each of us an umbrella 4 m[iles]
Also we visited John Pye 16 Cursitor st Chancery
Lane he was a full believer of Jo in the prophecies
of Joanna Southcott & one of the society we then ret
urned through speed st & had a view of the Noted St
Pauls church the largest in the world excepting the church at Rome ^or Vati[c]an o[f] rome dedecated St Peter^ we returned through King James St
crossed the London Bridge took tea at 19 King street &
walked through union st went to Zions Chapel Water
loo Road & herd a downright comical serman deliver
ed by Mr Armstrong an Atkinite preacher I spent the
night at 58 King st at Mr's Loftus 6 mi
costly merchantdize wharewith thou art adorn
ed even as the Capital of great Babylon. I am
ready to ask myself what am I & my Brethren
here for, & as the spirit answers to warn thee
of thine abominations & to exhort thee to repent of
thy wickedness & prepare for the day of thy visit
ation thy mourning thy calamity & thy wo. I am
ready to cry out Lord who is sufficient for
these things. O Mighty God of Jacob cloth us with
thy power. Let the power of the Priesthood rest
upon us & the spirit of our ministry & mission &
enable us to warn the inhabitants of this city
in such manner that our garments will be clean
of their Blood & that we may seek out the honest
in heart & the meek from among men & have many
souls as seals of our ministry
we spent the night at kings Arms, King Street, Borough
London distance of the day 114 mile
~ Wednesday
19th [FIGURE] I wrot another letter to Phebe & enclosed it
in the one that I wrote to her last evening. {I enclosed a
sovereign and sent Phebe in the letter} I also wrote a letter to Elder Turley
In which I enclosed my letters to Phebe & others which
we sent to him. We took a walk a mile or two into
the city passed London Bridge twice & returned
& spent the night at Kings Arms, King street, Borough
their is so much passings of Drays & horses & singing
& hollowing att all hours of the night in the Streets
that it is with difficulty that I could sleep at
night. Elder Kimball & myself bought each of us an umbrella 4 m
Also we visited John Pye 16 Cursitor St Chancery
Lane he was a full believer in the prophecies
of Joanna Southcott & one of the society we then ret
urned through Speed St & had a view of the Noted St
Pauls Church the largest in the world excepting the
Church at Rome or Vatican of rome dedecated St Peter we returned through King James St
Crossed the London Bridge took tea at 19 King Street &
walked through Union St went to Zions Chapel Water
loo Road & herd a downright comical serman delive
ed by Mr Armstrong an Atkinite preacher I spent the
night at 58 King st at Mrs Loftus 6 mi
"Journal (January 1, 1840 – December 31, 1840)," August 18, 1840 - August 20, 1840, The Wilford Woodruff Papers, accessed December 27, 2024, https://wilfordwoodruffpapers.org/p/m6R