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 [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 of[f] itself
just below the elbow & it fell. April 4^th 1841 President
Harrison Died in one month after taking the chair.

February 13, 1841 ~ Saturday

13^th [FIGURE] 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 2^nd 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 pro-
gress 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 Classed leader. We have a conf
erence on the morrow which is the first conference
held in London