why do not the Gentile merchants of this City embraced
this work because they have locked b[o]arded & bolted
their minds against it with evry lock they could
put on. They swore by evry power they possess before
they left home they would not embrace it they came
with but one object & that was to gain money & they
are determined not to be turned from their purpose
many good remarks were made by the president
I tarried at the party untill 12 oclok & then returned
home

January 3, 1854 ~ Tuesday

3rd I spent the fore part of the day at home writing

January 4, 1854 ~ Wednesday to January 7, 1854 ~ Saturday

4^th to 7^th I spent the time at the Legislature

January 8, 1854 ~ Sunday

8^th Sunday I attended a meeting Lorenzo^in^ Far preached
I reported his sermon

January 9, 1854 ~ Monday to January 14, 1854 ~ Saturday

9^th to 14 I spent this week in the Legislatur the mail
came in this week I received a Letter from
Sister William Benbow & a paper from O.
Pratt

January 15, 1854 ~ Sunday

15^th Sunday we have 8 inches of snow on the ground
this morning I spent the day at home.

January 16, 1854 ~ Monday to January 20, 1854 ~ Friday

16 to 20^th I spent this week in the Legislature which closed
on this 20 day of Jan 1854

January 21, 1854 ~ Saturday

21^st I commenced a school this morning in my family
with my own children

January 22, 1854 ~ Sunday

22nd ^[FIGURE]^ I attended meeting at the Tabernacle & I preached
in the morning to the saints from the following words
"whatsoever ye sow that shall you reap" I told the people
that if they sowed good principles in their own minds
& in the minds of their children that they will bring
forth good fruit which will tend to exhaltation & glory
so can we judge of the nations of the Earth if they indulge
in sin wickedness & abominations & their Children are
brought up in the same they must expect to reap the
whirlwind arrow & death, Judgment sorrow wo &
destruction. We should warn our children of all
danger & escape all sin ourselves we were here in
these vallies through the mercies of God & we should
make an improvement by our situation

President Young Preached in the Afternoon And I reported
his sermon At the close of the meeting I went in company
[FIGURE] with President Young to see President Willard Richards
who was vary sick with the palsy he was in an awful
spasm lying upon the floor with sever[al] men trying to hold
him he suffered immensly it seemed as though he was
strugling in the agonies of death He had been sick several
days I spent the night with him. He suffered much during
the night the presidency & Twelve administered to him by the