turned a Deaf ear to their cries. O America it
is because of these things that thou art weighed in
the balance & found wanting. from this time forth
perplexity shall rest upon the nation, confusion
reign in thy government, wisdom righteousness & truth
will depart from thy senators & rulers, Discord
& folly shall shall sit in thy congress & senate, thy
shame shall be known among the nations of the
Earth thy pride shall be humbled in the dust & thy
haughtiness laid low, the heads of thy rulers shall
be cut off & lade in the Dust, it shall be a vexation to
understand the report of the sorrow pain & wo that
shall come upon thee by sword, fire, tempest, Earthqu
akes, & pestilence, from the hand of God even these
things shall come upon thee untill thy government is
broken up & thou art destroyed as a nation from
under Heaven: for thou hast not kept the command-
ments of the Lord but hast Broken them, Betrayed
the Constitution of the Land, Polluted thine inheritan
ts, robed the innocent, shed the Blood of Saints
& made many widows & orphans. Therefore from this
hour these things shall come upon thee & shall not
scease untill the whole is accomplished & fulfilled upon
thine HEAD
Omens In the fall of 1840 the great chandelier in the represe
ntatives Hall in Washington weighing about 6000 lbs, fell with
a tremendious crash & broke into a thousand atoms. About the
same time the female figure godess of liberty on the east side of
the capitol lost her hand that held the balances it broke of[f] itself
just below the elbow & it fell. April 4th 1841 President Harrison Died in one month after taking the chair.
~ Saturday
13th I received 2 letters, one from Br Thomas
Smith, & one from Elder Young to Br Kimball
& myself I Also received the three first numb-
ers of the 2ndVol of the Times & Seasons & it
was truly a feast to my soul to once more hear
from the Saints in that Land, & to hear of the pro-
gress of the work in that land I wrote a letter to Elder Young one to Br Thomas Smith. I
went to Tabernacle Square & Baptized 2 persons
one was a Methodist classed leader. We have a conf
erence on the morrow which is the first conference
held in London
turned a Deaf ear to their cries. O America it
is because of these things that thou art weighed in
the balance & found wanting. from this time forth
perplexity shall rest upon the nation, confusion
reign in thy government, wisdom righteousness & truth
will depart from thy senators & rulers, Discord
& folly shall sit in thy congress & senate, thy
shame shall be known among the nations of the
Earth thy pride shall be humbled in the dust & thy
haughtiness laid low, the heads of thy rulers shall
be cut off & lade in the Dust, it shall be a vexation to
understand the report of the sorrow pain & wo that
shall come upon thee by sword, fire, tempest, Earthqu
akes, & pestilence, from the hand of God even these
things shall come upon thee untill thy government is
broken up & thou art destroyed as a nation from
under Heaven: for thou hast not kept the commandments of the Lord but hast Broken them, Betrayed
the Constitution of the Land, Polluted thine inheritan
ts, robed the innocent, shed the Blood of Saints
& made many widows & orphans. Therefore from this
hour these things shall come upon thee & shall not
scease untill the whole is accomplished & fulfilled upon
thine HEAD [FIGURE]
[FIGURE] Omens In the fall of 1840 the great chandelier in the represe
ntatives Hall in Washington weighing about 6,000 lbs, fell with
a tremendious crash & broke into a thousand atoms. About the
same time the female figure godess of liberty on the east side of
the capitol lost her hand that held the balances it broke off itself
just below the elbow & it fell. April 4th 1841 President
Harrison Died in one month after taking the chair.
~ Saturday
13th [FIGURE] I received 2 letters, one from Br Thomas
Smith, & one from Elder Young to Br Kimball
& myself. I Also received the three first numbers of the 2nd Vol of the Times & Seasons & it
was truly a feast to my soul to once more hear
from the Saints in that Land, & to hear of the progress of the work in that land. I wrote a letter
[FIGURE] to Elder Young and one to Br Thomas Smith. I
went to Tabernacle Square & Baptized 2 persons
one was a Methodist Class leader. We have a conf
erence on the morrow which is the first conference
held in London
"Journal (January 1, 1841 – December 31, 1842)," February 12, 1841 - February 13, 1841, The Wilford Woodruff Papers, accessed January 7, 2025, https://wilfordwoodruffpapers.org/p/Bnn