July 8 ^1860^
Sunday I met with my Quorum in the morning for prayer Wilford
prayed E F Sheets was mouth I attended meeting at the Tabernacle through the
day. President Young Preached in the forenoon & afternoon and spoke much to the
Edification of the people. I spent a short time in his office in the afternoon
I met with our Quorum in the evening. Erastus Snow prayed F. D. Richards
was mouth Mr MC Cummings stoped for the night with his company 9 IIn my lot, had 70 Horses, 50 sheep of full Blood French Mereno
~ Monday
9 Mr MC Cummings left this morning with his company. I went
over Jordon to carry Br Aitken to my Grass lot to cut my hay
I then went to the office & spent the day
~ Tuesday
10 I rode down to the field in the morning in the afternoon Wilford
& mysef went to my field to get some hay it raisned iall the time
we were rakeing it up and we left it & went home in the rain
~ Wednesday
11 I spent the forenoon Hunting my cow and assisting Wilford to load
sand for the school house
~ Thursday
12 I spent the day drawing Hay. Lorenzo Snow spent the night with me
~ Friday
13 I spent the forenoon watering & Budding and the afternoon in the afternoon office I called upon President Yoong & read to him a Letter from
Capt W. M. Gibson. President Young gave me an invitation to go up the Big Cotton Wood Canyon on the 24th July with my Family & Friends
~ Saturday
14. I spent the forenoon pruning deead wood out of my trees the afternoon
in the office
~ Sunday
15 Sunday I met with my Quorum in the morning H Stout Prayed Arza Hinkley was mouth I attended meeting at the BoweryJ. W. Cumings
spoke was followed by President Kimball, who spoke much to the edifycation
of the people He was followed By President Young who followed upon the
same subject that Brothers Kimball & Cummings had spoken upon
viz the Judgments of God upon the present generation President Young
said that all that Had been manifest in our day in storms, pestilence,
or Judgment was nothing more than a text in comparason to the sermon
the Lord will preach when the Elders have finished their missions among
the Gentile and are gatherd with the Saints to Zion the Lord ^would^ open the
Earth & swallow up such cities as New York, Boston, Philadelphia, & other
great cities of the Nations and the sea would heave itself beyoungd its bounds [Doctrine and Covenants 88:90]
and famines would spread not ownly over this continent but it
will spread & be felt in states, Nations, & continents and the Saints
~ Sunday
July 8 1860
Sunday I met with my Quorum in the morning for prayer Wilford
prayed E F Sheets was mouth I attended meeting at the Tabernacle through the
day. President Young Preached in the forenoon & afternoon and spoke much to the
Edification of the people. I spent a short time in his office in the afternoon
I met with our Quorum in the evening. Erastus Snow prayed F. D. Richards
was mouth Mr MC Cummings stoped for the night with his company
In my lot, had 70 Horses, 50 sheep of full Blood French Mereno
~ Monday
9 Mr MC Cummings left this morning with his company. I went
over Jordon to carry Br Aitken to my Grass lot to cut my hay
I then went to the office & spent the day
~ Tuesday
10 I rode down to the field in the morning in the afternoon Wilford
& mysef went to my field to get some hay it rainedall the time
we were rakeing it up and we left it & went home in the rain
~ Wednesday
11 I spent the forenoon Hunting my cow and assisting Wilford to load
sand for the school house
~ Thursday
12 I spent the day drawing Hay. Lorenzo Snow spent the night with me
~ Friday
13 I spent the forenoon watering & Budding and the afternoon in the
office I called upon President Young & read to him a Letter from
Capt W. M. Gibson. President Young gave me an invitation to go up the
Big Cotton Wood Canyon on the 24th July with my Family & Friends
~ Saturday
14. I spent the forenoon pruning dead wood out of my trees the afternoon
in the office
~ Sunday
15 Sunday I met with my Quorum in the morning H Stout Prayed
Arza Hinkley was mouth. I attended meeting at the Bowery. J. W. Cumings
spoke was followed by President Kimball, who spoke much to the Edifycation
of the people He was followed By President Young who followed upon the
same subject that Brother Kimball & Cummings had spoken upon
viz the Judgments of God upon the present generation President Young
said that all that Had been manifest in our day in storms, pestilence,
or Judgment was nothing more than a text in comparason to the sermon
the Lord will preach when the Elders have finished their missions among
the Gentile and are gathered with the saints to Zion the Lord would open the
Earth & swallow up such cities as New York, Boston, Philadelphia, & other
great cities of the Nations and the sea would heave itself beyound its bounds
and famines would spread not ownly over this continent but it
will spread & be felt in states, Nations, & continents and the Saints
"Journal (January 1, 1860 – October 22, 1865)," July 8, 1860 - July 15, 1860, The Wilford Woodruff Papers, accessed November 28, 2024, https://wilfordwoodruffpapers.org/p/lO3M