without limit for their own use or any other purpose their should
be fixed sum for Every man
~ Thursday
5 I spent the day in the office I wrote 2 letters to Sharp and G Thatcher & sent them my annual Rail Road Passes
I went to the farm at night 6 Miles
~ Friday
6 I returned from the farm and it was made known to me that there was an Insane man in the City said He
came from Calafornia Professed to be Christ and said
God had ordained him to Baptize by fire all who did not
receive his testimony and that was to be through a pistol
or Rifle he was to kill every one who did not receive
his testimony and He was Esspecially ordained to kill John Taylor & George Q Cannon I laid the matter before
President Taylor But he did not seem to have any fears
upon the matter But we thought it proper to lay the Matter
before the Probate Judge and as the court thot him a dangerous
man to be at libyerty arangements were made to put the
man in the Insane assylum. We had a hard snow storm
I wrote a Joint letter to Bro McAllister & Bleak
~ Saturday
7 I wrote one letter to cousin Malinda Woodruff Hatch of
6 pages sent my Photograph I spent the night at the Grass lot 6 M[iles] 8 Sunday I attended the quarterly conference in the Afternoon Joseph E. Taylor was speaking when I went in gave good
council. A T Thurber spoke followed By Bishop Murdock Elias Smith spoke some 16 M[inutes].
without limit for their own use or any other purpose their should
be fixed sum for Every man
~ Thursday
5 [FIGURE] I spent the day in the office I wrote 2 letters to Sharp and
G Thatcher & sent them my annual Rail Road Passes
I went to the farm at night 6 Miles
~ Friday
6 I returned from the farm and it was made known to
[FIGURE] me that there was an Insane man in the City said He
came from Calafornia Professed to be Christ and said
God had ordained him to Baptize by fire all who did not
receive his testimony and that was to be through a pistol
or Rifle he was to kill every one who did not receive
his testimony and He was Esspecially ordained to kill
John Taylor & George Q Cannon I laid the matter before
President Taylor But he did not seem to have any fears
upon the matter But we thought it proper to lay the Matter
before the Probate Judge and as the court thot him a dangerous
man to be at liberty arangements were made to put the
man in the Insane assylum. We had a hard snow storm
I wrote a Joint letter to Bro McAllister & Bleak
~ Saturday
7 [FIGURE] I wrote one letter to cousin Malinda Woodruff Hatch of
6 pages sent my Photograph I spent the night at the Grass lot 6 Miles
I attended the quarterly conference in the Afternoon
Joseph E. Taylor was speaking when I went in gave good
council. A T Thurber spoke followed By Bishop MurdockElias Smith spoke some 16 Minutes.
"Journal (February 1880 – December 1885)," January 4, 1881 - January 8, 1882, The Wilford Woodruff Papers, accessed November 24, 2024, https://wilfordwoodruffpapers.org/p/GRj0