6th[FIGURE] I attended the City Counsel for the
first time & was sworn into my aoffice as counsellor I found that those meetings will
be a profitable school unto me in giving me
a knowledge of parliamentary rules law &c
~ Sunday
7th Sunday I first called upon Br Joseph
with some of the Twelve from thence to B.
Young from thence to the meeting ground near
the Temple whare I found many hundreds of
Saints Elder Wm Clark preached about 2
hours when Br Joseph arose & reproved him as
pharisaical & hypocritical & not edifying
the people Br Joseph then deliverd unto us an
edifying address showing us what temperance
faith, virtue, charity & truth was he also said
if we did not accuse one another God would not
accuse us & if we had no accuser we should enter
heaven he would take us there as his back load
if we would not accuse him he would not accuse us
& if we would throw a cloak of charity over
his sins he would over ours for charity coverd
a multitude of sins & what many people called
sin was not sin & he did many things to break down
superstition & he would break it down he spoke
of the curse of ham for laughing at Noah while in
his wine but doing hino harm [Genesis 9:20-27]
~ Monday
NOV 1st I was sick & confined to
my bed through the day. The City Counci
l met for business, I was not able to attend
~ Tuesday
2nd I was still sick & confined to the
house Br Hodson assisted me in some tempo
ral business
6th [FIGURE] I attended the City Counsel for the
first time & was sworn into my office as
Counsellor I found that those meetings will
be a profitable school unto me in giving me
a knowledge of parliamentary rules law &c
~ Sunday
7th Sunday I first called upon Br Joseph
with some of the Twelve from thence to B.
Young from thence to the meeting ground near
the Temple whare I found many hundreds of
Saints Elder Wm Clark preached about 2
hours when Br Joseph arose & reproved him as
pharisaical & hypocritical & not edifying
the people Br Joseph then deliverd unto us an
edifying address showing us what temperance
faith, virtue, charity & truth was he also said
if we did not accuse one another God would not
accuse us & if we had no accuser we should enter
heaven he would take us there as his back load
if we would not accuse him he would not accuse us
& if we would throw a cloak of charity over
his sins he would over ours for charity coverd
a multitude of sins & what many people called
sin was not sin & he did many things to break down
superstition & he would break it down he spoke
of the curse of ham for laughing at Noah while in
his wine but doing no harm
"Journal (January 1, 1841 – December 31, 1842)," November 1, 1841 - November 7, 1841, The Wilford Woodruff Papers, accessed September 1, 2024, https://wilfordwoodruffpapers.org/p/Jgo