he did not take a diferent course in his Phylosophy & order of reasening he would not
stay long in this Church. he made other remarks I arose to go out Brother Brigham
said Brother BrighamWoodruff whare are you going come dont be in a hurry I shall be
Jealeous of you does not the spirit of God dwell here I want men to stop
here who has the spirit of God it rests me I am crowded all day with
men & things which makes me weary. I said I did not intend to be in
a hurry I had some appointments to which I thought of attending but I
enjoy myself here & I like to be here so I set with my brethren untill meeting
time then with O Hyde & L Snow I went to the 70s Hall & found the House full
& F D. Richards making 4 of the Twelve. we called upon the seventies to
speaks or the Presidents they all spoke & was followed by the Twelve who had
much of the spirit & power of God & gave much good instruction we still
expressed our feelings to the Presidents of the 70s about surrendering their presidency
to the Presidency of the Church
~ Tuesday
30
I met with the Legislative Council in the forenoon President Young
was present the spirit of God was present. The 15 Chapter of
St John was read & commented upon it was then moved that both Houses
meet in Joint session. we then came together & speeches were made by
Lorenzo Snow W. Woodruff Brigham Young H. C. Kimball & Hosea Stout
among the remarks made By President Young He said when the first Twelve
were called He & Brother Kimball almost needed a stool in order to reach
high Enough to tie the shoes of John Boyonton Lyman Johnson & Wm
E MCLellin, but now they are gone & we remain Brother Woodruff &
Lorenzo Snows sayes that they never have felt the wait of their Apostleship
& responsibility as they do now this I have known all the time if Brother
Orson Hyde feels the wait of his responsibility as an Apostle to day I am glad
of it for it is the first day of his life that He ever did feel it, many other
remarks were made. It was finally moved that all members of
the Legislative Body of the Tertritory of Utah repent of their sins & go to
[the] font at 6 oclok ion the Temple Block & be baptized for the remission of their
sins which was carried unanimously & the Legislature met at the font
& had to fill it with Buckets from the creek & as the Presidency & Twelve
who had been here had been baptized F. D. Richards went into the font &
Baptized Elder Orson Hyde & some 17 others then James Cumings went into
the font & Baptized the rest also the missionaries 37 in number making
[blank] Baptized in all. we the Twelve laid hands upon Elder O Hyde & confirmed
him. W Woodruff was mouth then we confirmed the whole company. I was
mouth in confirming 9 persons & assisted in confirming 12 others
this was a New feature in Legislation we believed that if we could get
the spirit of God we could do business faster & better than with the spirit
of the Devel or the spirit of the world there was 55 in all Baptized
and confirmed the Twelve done most of the confirming
~ Wednesday
31st I met in council with the Legislature all in Joint assembley
till one oclok there was a good spirit made manifest they adjo[urne]d till
Friday. I went with my family & took dinner with Bishop
Smoot & we had a good time. I met with President Young &
Twelve & the missionaries at the Historians office & we heard
the report of all the missionaries & a vary interesting address from
President Brigham Young who spoke in the power of God upon
our enemies & said the spirit of the Lord told him that inasmuch
as he had delivered us through all our troubles thus far while in
the land of our Enemies that if we would trust still to him & do [o]ur
duty the Lord would bless us & still deliver us & that we need not
have any fears.
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he did not take a diferent course in his Phylosophy & order of reasening he would not stay long in this Church. he made other remarks I arose to go out Brother Brigham said BrotherWoodruff whare are you going come dont be in a hurry I shall be Jealeous of you does not the spirit of God dwell here I want men to stop here who has the spirit of God it rests me I am crowded all day with men & things which makes me weary. I said I did not intend to be in a hurry I had some appointments which I thought of attending but I enjoy myself here & I like to be here so I set with my brethren untill meeting time then with O Hyde & L Snow I went to the 70s Hall & found the House full & F D Richards making 4 of the Twelve. we called upon the seventies to speak or the Presidents they all spoke & was followed by the Twelve who had much of the spirit & power of God & gave much good instruction we still expressed our feelings to the Presidents of the 70s about surrendering their presidency to the Presidency of the Church
~ Tuesday
30 FIGURES I met with the Legislative Council in the forenoon President Young was present the spirit of God was present. The 15 Chapter of St John was read & commented upon it was then moved that both Houses meet in Joint session we then came together & speeches were made by Lorenzo Snow W. Woodruff Brigham Young H. C. Kimball & Hosea Stout among the remarks made by President Young He said when the first Twelve were Called He & Brother Kimball almost needed a stool in order to reach high Enough to tie the shoes of John Boynton Lyman Johnson & Wm E MCLellin, but now they are gone & we remain Brother Woodruff & Lorenzo Snows sayes that they never have felt the wait of their Apostleship & responsibility as they do now this I have known all the time if Brother Orson Hyde feels the wait of his responsibility as an Apostle to day I am glad of it for it is the first day of his life that He ever did feel it, many other remarks were made. It was finally moved that all members of the Legislative Body of the Territory of Utah repent of their sins & go to on the Temple Block & be baptized for the remission of their sins which was carried unanimously & the Legislature met at the font & had to fill it with Buckets from the Creek & as the Presidency & Twelve who had been here had been baptized F D Richards went into the font & Baptized Elder Orson Hyde & some 17 others then James Cumings went into the font & Baptized the rest also the missionaries 37 in number making [blank] Baptized in all. we the Twelve laid hands upon Elder O Hyde & Confirmed him W Woodruff was mouth then we confirmed the whole company I was mouth in confirming 9 persons & assisted in confirming 12 others this was a New feature in Legislation we believed that if we could get the spirit of God we could do business faster & better than with the spirit of the Devel or the spirit of the world there was 55 in all Baptized and confirmed the Twelve done most of the confirming
~ Wednesday
31st I met in council with the Legislature all in Joint assembly till one oclok there was a good spirit made manifest they adjourned till Friday. I went with my family & took dinner with Bishop Smoot & we had a good time. I met with President Young & Twelve & the missionaries at the Historians office & we heard the report of all the missionaries & a vary interesting address from President Brigham Young who spoke in the power of God upon our Enemies & said the spirit of the Lord told him that inasmuch as he had delivered us through all our troubles thus far while in the land of our Enemies that if we would trust still to him & do our duty the Lord would bless us & still deliver us & that we need not have any fears.
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