Jan 11^th 1863

^ ^ President Young Preached in the Afternoon. He read the
Vision given to Joseph Smith & Sidney Rigdon then He preached
upon it He spoke of the various glories & the different characters
who would occupy them He said all children who died in childhood
would go to the celestial kingdom and thereir Mothers if they do
not keep the celestial layw will not go whare there children
are & will never see them again but the children will be given
to others. He said many interesting things. I met with the
Twelve at 5 oclok for prayer O Pratt Prayed E. T. Benson was
Mouth. I attended Meeting at the 14 ward school House O. Pratt
Preached A vary singular discourse. He spoke of building the
New Jerrusalem in Missouri said we must not build
log Houses as the city would be translated & they would
be Everlasting Habitations & would remain forever He spoke
of the starry Heavens He did not think the sun or any star
which mortal Eye could see were celestial Bodies but as soon
as a world became celestial it could not be seen by man no more
than a spirit could be seen or a resurrected body by mortal
Man. in speaking of the creations of God He said they could not be
numbered and to illustrate it take a cubit inch of fine sand & with
a magnifying glass number the millions of particles of sand in the cubic
inch then multiply the cubic inches in our globe then multiply
the cubic inch of one Million of Millions of worlds and this
would not be the begining of the creations of God and yet his
curtains are stredched out still & from all the creations of God
He had taken the Zion of God into his own bosom. He referd
to different Asstronemers who had in ages past marked
upon there maps the starry heavens & many of those fixed
stars had since been removed, & could not be seen & he
believed that when this Earth was consumed by fire & reorga-
nized & became celestial that it could not be seen by the
inhabitants of any planet in our solar system, or by any
Except a celestial body. The Zion of God must be a vast
body if it contained a Zion from all the creations which
God had made. Many remarks were made by professor Pratt
and He carried our minds so far from Home it took me till midnight to get back

Jan 11th 1863 [FIGURE] President Young Preached in the Afternoon. He read the Vision given to Joseph Smith & Sidney Rigdon then He preached upon it He spoke of the various glories & the different characters who would occupy them He said all children who died in childhood would go to the celestial kingdom and their Mothers if they do not keep the celestial law will not go whare there children are & will never see them again but the children will be given to others. He said many interesting things. I met with the Twelve at 5 oclok for prayer O Pratt Prayed E. T. Benson was Mouth. I attended Meeting at the 14 ward school House O. Pratt Preached A vary singlar discourse. He spoke of building the [FIGURE] New Jerrusalem in Missouri said we must not build log Houses as the city would be translated & they would be Everlasting Habitations & would remain forever He spoke of the starry Heavens He did not think the sun or any star which mortal Eye could see were celestial Bodies but as soon as a world became celestial it could not be seen by man no more than a spirit could be seen or a Resurrected body by mortal Man. in speaking of the creations of God He said they could not be numbered and to illustrate it take a cubit inch of fine sand & with a magnifying glass number the millions of particles of sand in the cubic inch then multiply the cubic inches in our globe then multiply the cubic inch of one Million of Millions of worlds and this would not be the begining of the creations of God and yet his curtains are streched out still & from all the creations of God He had taken the Zion of God into his own bosom. He referd to different Asstronemers who had in ages past marked upon there maps the starry heavens & many of those fixed stars had since been removed, & could not be seen & he believed that when this Earth was consumed by fire & reorganized & became celestial that it could not be seen by the inhabitants of any planet in our solar system, or by any Except a celestial body. The Zion of God must be a vast body if it contained a Zion from all the creations which God had made. Many remarks were made by professor Pratt and He carried our minds so far from Home it took me till midnight to get back