It is the responsibility of the researcher to obtain any copyright clearances. Permission to publish material from this/these transcript(s) must be obtained from the Supervisor of Reference Services and/or the L. Tom Perry Special Collection Coordinating Committee. [Notes added by transcribers are in square brackets. Dashes in square brackets indicate unclear words or letters. indicate words the author inserted to a previously written line.] MSS SC 2056 – Thomas English Daniels Journal and Patriarchal Blessings Number of Tasks: 159 ----- new page (MSSSC_2056_p002.jpg) [Column 1] DESERET NEWS SEMI-WEEKLY. TUESDAY, - FEB. 6, 1877. CHARITY. The pilgrim and stranger who through the day Holds over the desert his trackless way, Where the terrible sands no shades have known, No sound of life save the camel's moan, Hears at last, through the mercy of Allah to all, From his tent door at evening the Bedou- in's call; "Whoever thou art whose need is great, In the name of God, the Compas- sionate And Merciful One, for thee I wait." For gifts in his name of food and rest The tents of Islam of God are b'est. Thou who hast faith in the Christ above, Shall the Koran teach thee the law of love? O Christian! open thy heart and door, Cry east and west to the wandering poor: "Whoever thou art whose need is great, In the name of Christ, the Compas- sionate And Merciful One, for thee I wait." JOHN G. WHITTIER. WASHINGTON'S VISION. BY WESLEY BRADSHAW. The first time I ever saw An- thony Sherman was on the 4th of July, 1859, on Independence Square. He was then ninety-one, and be- coming very feeble; but though so old, his dimming eyes rekindled as he looked in Independence Hall, which, he said, he had come to gaze upon once more before he was gathered home. "What time is it?" said he, rais- ing his trembling eyes to the clock in the steeple, and endeavoring to shade the former with a shaking hand, "what time is it? I can't see so well as I used to." "Half-past three." "Come, then," he continued, "let us go into the hall; I want to tell you an incident of Washington's life—one which no one alive knows of except myself, and if you live, you will, before long, see it verified. Mark me, I am not superstitious, but you will see it verified." Reaching the visitor's room, in which the sacred relics of our early days are preserved, we sat down on one of the old-fashioned wooden benches, and my venerable friend related to me the following singular narrative, which, from the pecu- liarity of our national affairs at the present time, I have been induced to give to the world. I give it, as nearly as possible, in his own words: "When the bold action of our Congress, in asserting the indepen- dence of the colonies, became known to the world, we were laughed and scoffed at as silly, pre- sumptuous rebels, whom British grenadiers would soon tame into submission; but undauntedly we prepared to make good what we had said. The keen encounter came, and the world knows the result. It is easy and pleasant for those of the present generation to talk and write of the days of '76, but they little know—neither can they im- magine—the trials and sufferings of those fearful days. And there is one thing that I much fear, and that is, that the American people do not properly appreciate the boon of freedom. Party spirit is yearly becoming stronger and stronger, and unless it is checked, will, at no distant day, undermine and tumble into ruin the noble structure of the Republic. But let me hasten to my narrative. [Column 2] From the opening of [---] [---] tion we experienced all phases of fortune—new good and now ill, at one time victorious, and at another conquered. The darkest period we had, however, was, I think, when Washington, after several reverses, retreated to Valley Forge, where he resolved to pass the winter of '77. Ah! I have often seen the tears coursing down our dear old com- mander's care-worn cheeks as he would be conversing with a confi- dential officer about the condition of his poor soldiers. You have doubtless heard the story of Wash- ington going to the thicket to pray. Well, it is not only true, but he used often to pray in secret for aid and comfort from that God, the in- terposition of whose providence alone brought us safely through those dark days of tribulation. "One day, I remember it well— the chilly wind whistled and howl- ed through the leafless trees, though the sky was cloudless and the sun shining brightly—he remained in his quarters nearly the whole of the forenoon, alone. When he came out, I noticed that his face was a shade paler than usual, and that there seemed to be something on his mind of more than ordinary im- portance. Returning just after dusk he dispatched an orderly to the quarters of the officer I mentioned, who was presently in attendance. After a preliminary conversation, which lasted some half an hour, Washington, gazing upon his com- panion with that strange look of dignity, which he alone could com- mand, said to the latter: "I do not know whether it was owing to the anxiety of mind, or what, but this afternoon, as I was sitting at this very table, engaged in preparing a dispatch, something in the apartment seemed to disturb me. Looking up, I beheld stand- ing exactly opposite me, a singu- larly beautiful female. So astonish- ed was I—for I had given strict or- ders not to be disturbed—that it was some moments before I found language to inquire the cause of her presnece. A second, third, and even a fourth time did I repeat the question, but received no answer from my mysterious visitor other than a slight raising of the eyes. By this time I felt a strange sensa- tion spreading through me. I would have risen, but the riveted gaze of the being before me render- ed volition impossible. I essayed once more to address her, but my tongue had become paralyzed. A new influence, mysterious, potent, irresistible took possession of me. All I could do was to gaze steadily, vacantly, at my visitant. Gradu- ally the surrounding atmosphere seemed as though becoming filled with sensations, and grew lumi- nous. Everything about me seem- ed to rarify, the mysterious visitor herself becoming more airy, and even more distinct to my sight than before. I now began to feel as one dying, or rather to experi- ence the sensations which I have sometimes imagined accompany dissolution. I did not think, I did not reason. I did not move; all were alike impossible. I was only conscious of gazing, fixedly, vacant- ly, on my companion. "Presently I heard a voice, say- ing, 'Son of the Republic, look and learn!' while at the same time my visitor extended her arm and fore- finger eastwardly. I now beheld a heavy white vapor at some distance, rising fold upon fold. This gradu- ally dissipated, and I looked upon a strange scene. Before me lay stretched out in one vast plain all the countries of the world—Europe, Asia, Africa, and America. I saw rolling and tossing, between Europe and America, the billows of the Atlantic, and between Asia and America lay the Pacific. 'Son of the Republic,' said the same mys- terious voice as before, 'look and learn!' "At that moment I beheld a dark, shadowy being like an angel, stand- ing, or rather floating in mid air between Europe and America. Dip- ----- new page (MSSSC_2056_p003.jpg) Biography of My early Days I had very little schooling in my Boyhood I was put to work in in my 9th year and had to do hard labour for a boy my Father Died when I was in my 8th or 9th year I do not rem- ember which Bro Parley P Pratt assisted our Family to emigrate after my Fathers Death we was hard r[-]m we all had to work I engaged with a Matthew Gibbons in a shoe store to run erreands & clean shoes for the sum of 4 shillings per week or 96 cents my Sister Alice emigrated in the year, 41 we followed, 1842 and landed at New Orleans in December November we came up the River to Saint Louis here we staied all winter in the spring moved up to Qu incy staid there one year then moved to Nauvoo then staid there till the expuls[-] I loved the sound of the Gospel when first I heard it. The more I know of it the better I like it. I followed the Mississippi river for several years as cabin Boy in th[-] way I assisted My Parent to & Family to ev[--] the hand of the Lord was made manifest in our getting our cattle back again for w[-] lost them we thought forever I was ordained to the Priesthood of a seventy in the year 18.50..or spring of. 51 We staid at Mount Pisgah in Iowa for three years farming [--] during part of this time I went on the river as cabin boy my sister Lizy died while I was away from home. She is buried at Pisgah while on the river I had many tem- ptations to contend with I was surrounded with Boys that drank smoked gambled & s swore but through all this the Lord saved me I remembered my prayers & the Lord heard me. . . ----- new page (MSSSC_2056_p004.jpg) The following is a Blessing that I recieved in the year 1854 January 8th At Fort Supply Green River Co by Bro William Smith and Bro Fosset of Provo They said that I should have the desires of my heart granted unto me and gain my Inheritence in zion that I should have Partners in Life and my sons should be mighty in the Priesthood and they shall grow up fair and beautifull And I should have the interpretations of Tounges and the Lord was well pleased with me. I should be blessed with flocks Herds Houses and Lands Barns should be full to overflowing. Thousands should look up to me for Council should be blessed with great wisdom and pass through the fiery but should come out unscathed and should be preserved from the Destroyer be faithfull and all these blessings are yours amen & amen Given at Fort Supply Green River Januay 8th 1854 By by Bro Wm Fossett & Wm Smith ----- new page (MSSSC_2056_p005.jpg) Provisions Issued in the Year 1869 to Flour January 1st 5.70 to Flour April 26th 6.50 to Corn Meal January 1.30 to Flour 100 pounds Bought 1 00 to fifty pounds borrowed 50 to 150 pounds ground 1 50 to 100 pound 1 00 1855 1842 13 8 21 Wheat Raised on Hard Serable 1.40 Wheat Raised in Big Field 1 83 323 Wheat paid out of the Mill to Mrs Cloward & G Madison [-]92 3½ to Moroni Manwell 420 7.[-] to J M Coombs on school Bill 3.00 5 to George Patten cutting Wheat 4 50 7¼ to Peter Windward 7 80 13[-] to C C Burr on Lumber 3 00 5 to James Manwell cutting grass [---] 8 to Levi Colvin cutting wheat 4 20 7 to Tithing 1500 25 To [-] H Moore 210 3½ to T Marsh Southerners & Redington 180 3½ to Mrs Cutter 150 2½ 60 5277 2½ to Robert Wimmer 145 54¼ to Vilate 2 ----- new page (MSSSC_2056_p006.jpg) Wheat Raised in the year 18.70 in the big field 2.50 Bus Bus Paid out for hands to thrash 4 for teams to haul wheat 4 for harvesting 21 on meeting house 5 for School Bill to T Marsh 5 on Store account at Pond town 2 one Grist for family use 13 for tithing 15 for herd bill to D Laut 4 for Deseret News 3 for Seed. for the year 18.71 12 88 Bus 250 88 Ballence on hand in Mill 162 October 8th received grist of ten Bus 3[-]0 pound [---] Nov 4 paid four & ¼ Bushells as city tax 4½ " paid 6 Bushells for coal October 6 " paid to C Wightman for Blacksmithing 5 " paid to Wm Hatch for Lags [-]0 Bus paid for weaveing 2½ Dec paid P W[-]dward for Stove 8 40/60 Januay 15 received 10 Bushells for flour 80 Bushells Raised Jas W Huish owing 2.30 June 11 to Brooms 80 De 1875 paid 6 Brooms 240 ----- new page (MSSSC_2056_p007.jpg) [-] Richardsons Account to meat 250 Jan 9 to Brooms 11.25 October 29 to meat 1.00 Feb 5th 1869 to one Broom 125 Settled March 4th 1865 1600 Wm C Wightmans Account for 1868 [-] to Shoeing horses 500 [-] to 4 Brooms 600 [-] 68 to Ballence on old account 600 Due on settlement October 25 <1868> 16.66 settled up January 11 1865 and Paid off 1868 P Ballads Account 1 Broom 125 24 2 Brooms 200 B F Stewarts Account 2 Brooms 300 1 Broom 150 3 Brooms 300 2 Loads of Strew 500 4 Brooms 400 Garden [--]ds 150 [-]ch 26 Delivered 10 Brooms [-] 250 [-]pril 1 Sheep [---] wool 200 October 25 4 Bushells Potatoes 400 December to 2 head of [-]heep 10.00 Levin as school Bill singing 2.00 4[-]50 47.50 Due on Sheep herding Feb 19th 1869 to B F Stewart Due to B [-] Stewart 18 40 Due to B F Stewart 5 [-] [-] 85 ----- new page (MSSSC_2056_p008.jpg) [Column 1] ping water out of the ocean in the hollow of each hand, he sprinkled some on America with his right and, while he cast upon Europe some with his left. Immediately a dark cloud arose from each of those countries, and they joined in mid ocean. For a while it remained stationary, and then moved slowly westward until it enveloped Amer- ica in its murky folds. Sharp flash- es of lightning now gleamed throughout it at intervals, and I heard the smothered groans and cries of the American people. "A second time the angel dipped from the ocean, and sprinkled it out as before. The dark cloud was then withdrawn back to the ocean, into whose heaving waves it sank from view. A third time I heard the mysterious voice, 'Son of the Republic, look and learn!' "I cast my eyes upon America, and beheld villages, cities and towns, springing up one after an- other, until the whole land, from the Atlantic to the Pacific, was dotted with them. Again I heard the mysterious voice say, 'Son of the Republic, the end of a century cometh—look and learn!" "At this, the dark shadowy an- gel turned his face southward, and from Africa, I saw an ill omened spectre approaching our land. It flitted slowly over village, town and city, of the latter, the inhabit- ants of which presently set them- selves in battle array, one against the other. As I continued looking, I saw a bright angel, on whose brow rested a [--]own of light, on which was traced the word Union, bearing the American flag, which he placed between the divided Na- tions, and said, 'Remember ye are brethren!' "Instantly, the inhabitants, cast- ing from them their weapons, be- came friends once more, and united around the national standard. And again I heard the mysterious voice saying, 'Son of the Republic, the second peril is passed—look and learn!' "And I beheld the villages, towns and cities of America increase in size and numbers, till at last they covered all the land from the At- lantic to the Pacific, and their in- habitants became as countless as the stars of heaven or the sands of the sea shore. And again I heard the mysterious voice, saying: 'Son of the Republic, the end of a cen- tury cometh—look and learn.' "At this, the dark, shadowy angel placed a trumpet to his mouth, and blew three distinct blasts, and taking water from the ocean sprinkled it out upon Europe, Asia and Africa. "Then my eyes looked upon a fearful scene. From each of those countries arose thick, black clouds, which soon joined into one, and throughout this mass gleamed a deep red light, by which I saw hordes of armed men, who, moving with the cloud, marched by land and sailed by sea to America, which country was presently enveloped in the volume of the cloud. And I dimly saw the vast armies devas- tate the whole country, and pillage and burn villages, cities and towns that I had beheld springing up. As my ears listened to the thundering of cannon, clashing of swords, and shouts and cries of the millions in mortal combat, I again heard the mysterious voice, saying, 'Son of the Republic, look and learn!' [Column 2] "When the voice had ceased, the dark, shadowy angel placed his trumpet once more to his mouth and blew a long, fearful blast. "Instantly a light, as from a thou- sand suns, shone down from above me, and pierced and broke into fragments the dark clouds which enveloped America. At the same time I saw the angel on whose forehead still shone the word UNION, and who bore our national flag in one hand, a sword in the other, descend from heaven, at- tended by legions of bright spirits. These immediately joined the in- habitants of America, who, I per- ceived, were wellnigh overcome, but who, immediately taking cour- age again, closed up the broken ranks and renewed the battle. Again, amid the fearful noise of the conflict I heard the mysterious voice saying, 'Son of the Republic, look and learn.' "As the voice ceased, the shadowy angel for the last time dipped water from the ocean and sprinkled it upon America. Instantly the dark cloud rolled back, together with the armies it had brought, leaving the inhabitants of the land victo- rious. Then once more I beheld the villages, towns and cities springing up where they had been before, while the bright angel, planting the azure standard he had brought in the midst of them, cried in a loud voice to the inhabitants, 'While the stars remain and the heavens send down dew upon the earth, so long shall the Republic last.' "And taking from his brow the crown, on which still blazed the word UNION, he placed it upon the standard, while all the men kneel- ing down said, 'Amen.' "The scene instantly began to fade and dissolve, and I at last saw nothing but the curling white va- por I had at first beheld. This also disappearing, I found myself gaz- ing once more on my mysterious visitor, who, in the same mysteri- ous voice that I had heard before, said, 'Son of the Republic, what you have seen is thus interpreted: three perils will come upon the Republic. The most fearful is the second, passing which, the whole world united shall never be able to prevail against her. Let every child of the Republic learn to live for his God, his Land and Union!' "Such, my friend," concluded the venerable narrator, "were the words I heard from Washington's own lips, and America will do well to profit by them. Let her remember that in Union she has her strength, in disunion her destruction.—Cin- cinnati Times. By Telegraph. CONGRESSIONAL. SENATE. WASHINGTON, 1.—Bogy present- ed resolutions of the Missouri le- gislature favoring the speedy con- struction of the southern transcon- tinental railroad; referred. Bailey was appointed to fill the places vacated by Key on the post office committee and education and labor committee. A bill passed appropriating $20,- 000 for the relief of the destitute in the District of Columbia. WASHINGTON, 2.—When the Senate met, the bill passed provid- ing for the punishment of manu- facturers of counterfeiter's tools. The bill passed relating to public accounts. Several bills on the calendar were then passed. Ingalls introduced a bill to enable the Indians to become citizens of the United States; referred. [Column 3] resurrection, and when these great events take place on the earth, which are so clearly predicted by so many of the an- cient worthies, who held communion with God, the graves will give up the righteous dead. The saints who were heard singing that new and beautiful song, even the spirits of the just, will come from the ce- lestial paradise to claim their resurrected bodies, no more to be subject to death— they will be immortal and eternal. They will have intelligence in proportion to that exalted condition of their spirits and bodies, and the earth will be adapted to them as a dwelling place. This is the rea- son why these changes are to take place. Geologists say it would take some mil- lions of years to effect any changes of the earth in regard to the location of its con- tinents and islands, and a great number of intelligent readers are inclined to this belief. But there is a God who will disap- point them all, who will show forth his power, causing the earth to rock to and fro, like a drunken man; a God whose power is able to cause the mountains to be cast down, and the valleys to come up. When it rains upon the exalted valleys, it will wash down the rich soil upon the rocky mountains which have sunk beneath, making them fertile; and thus the whole surface of the earth will become a fit abode for man in his improved and perfected state, whether immortal or mortal. "Do you think," one may say, "there will be mortal beings living on the earth, when these heavenly hosts come?" Yes, and they will dwell together. What, peo- ple not subject to sickness, or to sorrow, or punishment, people whose bodies are celestial and immortal, who will endure in their bodies to all eternity! Will they mingle with mortal beings? Yes. Have we any scripture to sustain us in this? Yes. Our Saviour was immortal when he arose from the tomb, his body of flesh and bones was no longer sensitive to pain; it was a glorified, immortal and eternal body. Could he mingle with the children of mor- tality? Yes, for on a certain occasion the apostles, doubtless thinking the Saviour to be dead, went to their nets, their former pursuit. But, Jesus knowing their hearts, went to the sea-shore and there made a fire. By and by, he called them to land and they came. He took a fish and broiled it on the coals and gave it to them to eat, and he ate with them. He was immortal, they were mortal. Was there any per- ceptible difference between the appearance of the Saviour on this occasion, and his disciples? No; he did not permit his glory to shine forth, as he did on the Isle of Pat- mos, when John received his heavenly manifestations. His glory was withheld, and they had no difficulty in looking upon his person. I have no doubt there will be a certain degree of the glory of the immortal beings withheld from the children of mortality, during the whole period of the millen- nium. Kings and priests will come here to reign, and will mingle freely among their children of whom they are ancestors. And those who are mortal can receive in- struction from those who are immortal, that will prepare them for the time when the earth is to undergo a still greater change. The children of mortality will need this preparation in order to live when this earth is burning up, which is to be its final destiny. When Jesus comes the events that I have named will take place. The earth is destined to pass away; after these immor- tal beings have dwelt upon it for one thousand years, after Jesus has been here reigning as King of kings and Lord of lords, and people have become familiar with him and all the ancients, by and by the earth will be burned up. You may inquire, "What is the use of burning it up?" I tell you my reason why I suppose the earth will be burntup. It has been cursed by reason of the fall. In the early ages God said, "Cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow thou shalt eat of it all the days of thy life," etc. That curse has not been fully removed to this day, the earth has groaned under wickedness. Its inhabitants have had to suffer all the inclemencies of a rigid climate or the in- tensities of heat and cold. Millions have thus suffered for many thousands of years, all in consequence of the curse that came upon this creation. This curse is not all to be removed at once, it will be removed, in part, during the Millenium. The curse will not occupy the whole face of the earth to the same extent during that time as it has during the days of wickedness. ----- new page (MSSSC_2056_p009.jpg) [Columns 1 and 2 the same as last page, pasted over handwritten text] ----- new page (MSSSC_2056_p010.jpg) [bottom left corner is torn, obscuring some text] Scribner's Monthly THE TEN LOST TRIBES. At the Methodist Ministers' meeting this morning the Rev. Joseph Williams of Mendon, read an essay on "Anglo Israel; or, the Anglo-Saxon Nation Identical with the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel." The first part of the essay treated of the difference between Judah and Israel. He showed from various texts of scripture that Christ's disciples were taken from the tribe of Benjamin; that His work was chiefly in that tribe; and that it was from the tribe of Benja- min, and not from Judah, that so many were converted at the memorable pente- cost. Israel in their wanderings were to be directed to the islesafar off. (Jer. XXI., 10.) They were to be directed likewise to the north and to the west, i e., north- west. And a line drawn on a map o[-] the Eastern Continent, begining a[-] Jerusalem and and extending in a north- west direction to the "ends of the earth," would strike the south coast of the North Sea, and terminate in the British Isles. The interregnum of Israel prophesied in Hosea X., 3, he considered to be the period from the deposal of Hosbea by Salmanasar, B. C. 736, to the coronation of Egbert, A. D. 828, a period of 1,564 years. The transfer of the sceptre of Judah to Israel occurred in B. C. 580, when Jeremiah Tephi, a Princess of David's time, and Prince Baruch landed in Ire- land by way of Spain. The Princess was married to Eochaid, Prince of Ulster, and King elect of Ireland. This re-established the sceptre of Judah, which passed to Scotland 530, thence to England 1603, where it still waves with majestic air. The sceptre of Judah in abeyance passed through the marriage of Tephi to Eochaid II., King of Ireland, B. C. 580; through Fergus I., his lineal de- scendant, who took it from Ireland to Scotland, and was crowned at Iona first King of the Scots, A. D. 530, through Kenneth II., crowned King of the Scots and Picts, A. D. 787, at Scone in Pictia; through James VI. of Scotland and I. of England, crowned at West- [---]nister A. D. 1603; through successive [---] descendants to Queen Victoria. ----- new page (MSSSC_2056_p011.jpg) Patriarchal Blessing By Isiac Morley On the Head of Thomas English Daniels given Payson February 16th 1856 son of James and Elizabeth Daniels Born september 29th 1825 in Manchester England Brother Thomas I place my hands upon thy head to bless the and I ratify the seal of a father upon thy head. thou shalt be blessed under this seal and receive many blessings pertaining to the new and everlasting covenant and priesthood thou art numbered with the sons of Abraham a Lawfull heir to the Blessings of the Promised seed the Lord has blessed the with the Love of fidelity and honesty of heart it will be thy priveledge to bear the keys of salvation to thy Fathers household. and many will embrace the new and everlasting covenant through thy instumentality for thou art liveing in the dispensation of the fullness of times when the Lord will gather in one his promised seed from the four quarters of the [-]arth if thou art prudent in thy walk and conversation many will be given the as se[--]s of thy ministry where[-]y. thou [---] be called the faithfull of the Lord thou wilt experience an opposite in thy Labours for the spirit of antichrist will be arrayed against the yet they shall fear in consequence of thy words and be confounded by the words that will flow from thy L[---] thou art blessed as a decendent of Joseph. through the loins of Ephraim thou shalt be blessed in the holy ordinances and receive the fullness of thy washings and thy annointings for upon the [---] thy posterity after the will the Keys of the Priesthood he extended thou shalt rejoice in the morning of the first Resurection and receive thy Inheritence in Zion I ratify this seal in the name of Jesus to rest upon the from this time forth even so amen and amen. Abigal I. Morley, clerk ----- new page (MSSSC_2056_p012.jpg) A Patriarchal Blessing By John Young in Paryson Feb. 19, 1856 upon the head of Jane Ann Daniels Born feb. 16 1834 in Bethany county New York Daughter of Anson and Maria Sheffield (father assisted) Sister Jane we now lay our hands upon your head to bless you and seal upon your head the blessings of the everlasting gospel and inasmuch as you are en- titled to them being a Daughter of Abraham through the loins of Ephraim and entitled to all the blessings of the new and everlasting covenant thou hast embraced the truth and thy heart is before thy heav- enly Father therefore the blessings are thine which we seal upon thy head in the name of Jesus and ask our father to ratify them in heaven and we pray that thou mayest be sealed up to the day of redem- ption and we say that inasmuch as thou wilt be faithfull to the council given by thy fileleaders and thou shalt Live to a blessing and an honour to thy fathers house and thy heart shall be filled with wisdom and thy mouth with knowledge and under- standing from the heavens I pray that the angel of mercy and light may be roundabout the from this time forth untill you dwell with the righteous and are through with your pilgrimage here I say be faithfull and seek to do good and the blessings of the earth and of the heavens are yours and you shall rejoice for the Lord has had his eye upon you from the earliest part of your life and you are a chosen therefore be humble and you shall see good days upon the earth and if you desire it you can live to see good days with the people of God and I pray that the spirit may rest upon you that you may see visions and dream dreams and have your heart comforted in all times of distress and you shall not be forsaken for if you do not forsake the Lord he will not forsake you but if you will obey the holy commandments I seal you up to eternal live and pray that you may overcome throug the blood ----- new page (MSSSC_2056_p013.jpg) of the lamb and come up in the morning of the first resurection and dwell with all the saints of god I seal all those blessings upon you dear sister and say be faithfull and keep yourself humble untill you pass through the great mist of darkness all all which blessings I seal upon your head in the name of Jesus Christ even so amen P. N. Long Reporter Gentle Annie Thou wilt come no more gentle annie like a dew thy spirit did depart thou has gone alas like the many that has bloomed in the sumer of my heart Chorus Shall we never more behold the never hear thy winning voice again when the spring time comes gentle annie and the wild flowers are scattered oer the plain We have loved and roamed amid the flowers when they downy cheeks wre in there bloom now I stand alone amid the flowers as they mingle their fragrence oer thy tomb Chorus The hours grow sad while I ponder near the silent spot where thou art laid and my heart bows down while I wander by the strams and meadows where weve strayed Chorus Thomas C. Daniels ----- new page (MSSSC_2056_p014.jpg) Patriarchal Blessing By Isiac Morley on the head of Thomas Edward Daniels son of T C and J A Daniel Born September 24th 1856 Payson Bro Thomas I lay my hands on your head in the name of the Lord and I seal your fathers blessings on you with his affections and bless the with all the attributes of Love fidelity and virtue and I bless the in the days of thy infancy with Intelectual faculties of mind and strength of body and of mind and I seal the blessing of life and length of Days thou art an Ephraimite an heir to the keys of the holy Preisthood I bless the by promise with the keys of the holy annointing thou will be honored as a swift messenger to the nations of the earth to hold the keys of the Apostleship to administer the principles of life and salvation to thy man thou wilt be honored and numbered with the hundred and forty four thousand who will stand on mount zion and I bless this Child with the gift of discernment that it may never be decayed by the hand of an enemy he will be numbered with the sons of Zion in avengeing the Blood of the Prophets and I seal it up by virtue of the Presthood to an endless Posterity and eternal Lives in the name of Jesus amen Given in Payson Februray 17th 1859 Thomas C Daniels senior writer ----- new page (MSSSC_2056_p015.jpg) Hymn We thank the oh God for a prophet to Guide us in these latter day we thank the for sending the Gospel to lighten our minds with its rays we thank for every blessing bestowed by thy Bounteous we feel it a pleasure to serve the and Love to to obey they command When dark clouds of trouble hang over us and threaten our peace to destroy there is hope smiling brightly before us and we know that redemption is nigh we doubt not the Lord nor his goodness for weve proved him in days that are past the wicked who fight against zion will surely be smitten at Last Well sing of his goodness and mercy well praise him by day and by night rejoice in his glorious gospel and bask in its life giving light thus on to eternal perfection the honest and faithfull will go while they who reject this glad message shall never such happiness know Payson city December 8th 1879 The weather is cloudy and raining to Day, Family all well thank the Lord Charles Wrights Wife our School Teacher Died last Friday Morning of Child Bed fever also Bro Judds Baby about the same time. Pres Hayes says Poligamy must be put down in Utah. Reccomends Congress to take away the temples of the People of Utah and make the Law more Binding against it perhaps God will hold a controversy with this Nation and if he Does where will they appear Echo answers where ----- new page (MSSSC_2056_p016.jpg) Hymn Page 165 Do what is right the day dawn is breaking hailing a future of freedom and light Angels above us are silent notes takeing of every action do what is right Chorus Do what is right let the consequences follow battle for freedom in spirit and might and with stout hearts look ye forth till tomorrow God will protect you do what is right Do what is right the shackles are falling chains of the Bondsman no longer [---] are lightened by hope soon theyll cease to be galling truth goeth onward do what is right Chorus Do what is right be faithfull and fearless onward press onward the goal is in sight eyes that are wet now ere long will be fearless blessings await you in doing whats right ----- new page (MSSSC_2056_p017.jpg) Journal Continued Court martial sitting at Springville on the Delinquency of the men attending drill last fall it is best to fullfill all the requirement when they are made upon us then we are approved of the Lord then we can claim his blessing all the day long I have been writeing to Wm Halme at Bear lake to day my Sister Maryann is now [-]iving here she has lost all her children by her first husband but three Girls. she had had 5 my Bro Joseph Lost 2 children Last year at one time so you see the destroyer has been in our midst my also died in January 1865 at the age of 73 I believe she died in the full faith of a glorious resurection my Little Boy Willie Died august 27th 1865 the son of my second wife Annie March 6th 1867 to day finished writing a letter to sister Pheobe bro L W Hancock preached last night on the comeing of the Saviour said that the Prophet Joseph Smith said the sign of his second comeing the Sun will be darkened the brightness of it of it will be taken away and be as a comet the astronomers of the Earth will see it and the Saints will tell them that is the sign of his Second comeing the Saviour They will laughh at the Saints for believing so. but after a little he will come and take vengence on the wicked oh Lord help me to endure faithfull to the end of my probation on earth that I may be worthy of the crowns laid up for the saints in thy kingdom and that my Sons and daughters may Live to become shineing lights in thy kingdom help me Father to teach them the ways of life and salvation I feel humble before the Lord and I ask him to bless me and my family that we may increase in numbers and in good works on the earth ----- new page (MSSSC_2056_p018.jpg) Oh my Father bless me in my Labours this present season that the increase may be given me in my Labours in the Field in the Garden and the Orchard for I have found out that the Lord gives the Increase both in doors and out read in the Book of Mormon about Nephi being carried up in the mountain was edified in so doing my Daughter Alice was taken sick sunday last administered to her the Lord heard our prayers in her behalf her mother assisted Payson City March 13th 1867 the weather is very cold last night was bleived to be the coldest night we have had this winter there is a party this evening for the benefit of L W Hancock we had a very good seventies meeting last evening bro Bolton preached said some were receiving there second annointings in Salt Lake City the North tribes would soon come to receive there blessings through Ephraim may I live and receive these blessings in the house of the Lord said that. Brigham said in Dec 57 that if the people would do right in 12 years they would Dictate who should be Pres of the United States the spring is very backward my family are all well thank the Lord [-]visited down to Bro Stevens this morning converseing on the signs of the times Block meetings in Bro Whiteheads ward this evening the Indians are in our midst peaceable we wish to keep them so the council is to feed them General Pace with a company of 60 men is out for Sanpete to look after the Indians President Young preached here on Wednesday last April 24th he was pleased with his reception spoke of the receptions in this place in times past a circular to the telegraph line owners was read to day stateing that they would have to pay the operaters at there different places for the present or the offices be removed . . . . . . ----- new page (MSSSC_2056_p019.jpg) Sunday May 26th 1867 cloudy & cold rained last night & this forenoon H G Boyle called from Payson on a mission to Virginia State this ward pays the operator of the Telegraph 200 Dollars per year I spoke in the hall this morning of the necessity of Oneness among the Saints the Season is very late returned from Nephi last evening been after wheat got 5 Bushells expected to get 25. the Pacific Railroad is coming at the rate of 2 miles per Day. it is not built 300 miles this side of Omaha. the word of wisdom is being taught and practised we enjoy good health by so doing my son thomas is helping me put in the crop Jane & James are going to school I put in 3 acres of Broom corn 5 acres of wheat [-] 1/3 acre of sugar cane I ask the Lord to bless the crops that we have put in the earth and give the increase I told Bishop Fairbanks to send for the Juvenile for my children my Orchard looks well strawberrys in full Bloom Sunday August 4th 1867 attenden meeting to day OSimonson boys stealing Fruit parents should know where there Boys are in the evening I have been short of breadstuffs of late the harvest will soon be in thank the Lord the Indians have been troublesome of late in the south the crops are late but look well the Boys have returned from Sanpete Bro James & family was up here last week visiting all well Boys have stole some of my fruit been working ploughing & hoeing Broom corn 2 weeks past haying & harvesting commence this week Grass Good this year H. G Boyle has gone on mission to Southern States Pres Kimballs son Brigham Willard Died on his way home from a mission to Europe on the plains at pole creek a Man Named Hudson Killed one named Tisley in the City last week Got in a Quarelling over a Log chain the Railroad has advanced this season 150 miles to this time) Pres Young says to make our own clothing and take good care of our own children and Keep the commandments of God ----- new page (MSSSC_2056_p020.jpg) the people of Provo have built a very fine meeting house will be dedicated on the 24th this month our school house is comenced in 3d Ward my wife Annie gave birth to a fine Daughter March 22d my Jane gave birth to sone in July <1st> the <1867> Mormon boys have found a Gold mine on sweet watters very rich our meeting house has not gone up any this year we have been blessed with plenty of watter this season the City have laid out 2 tier of Lots on the south & east of the city of Payson the New tabernacle in the city will be ready for conference Wednesday August 7th 1867 the weather is very warm wheat harvest has commenced the election for State Officers took place on monday unanimous vote comence haying to- morrow I have been fixing up my hay rack & tools the Indians get worse on the plains the missionaries begining to arive home. Brigham Junior made quite a sensation on his arrival in New York from Liverpool many Ladies visited his wife thinking she was a slave because she was married to a man in Poligamy was much suprised when they found she enjoyed as much Liberty as other women the Notorious thief The Potter was shot at Coalville in trying to make his escape from prison the Payson choir are ivited to the city with other choirs at the conference Pres Young says for the Boys to study the Law Mathematics Astronomy Physics & anatomy Mary Mcclelen Amelia Well Soperonia Curtis are studying telegraphy makeing good Procrefs GW Hancock is covoring in his New Mill the Grasshoppers are very thick in the city eating the vegetation up the Boys are stealing apples of nights Family out visiting this afternoon. James & Thos went off this morning rabbit hunting this & did not return till near Noon without breakfast James was sick & tired when he got home had to go to bed Payson City October 20th 1867 I attended meeting this morning Bros Milner and Mcdonald from Provo preached on Education ----- new page (MSSSC_2056_p021.jpg) Bro William Hulme & Sister Pheobe are here visiting from bear Lake there is a call from on Payson for teams to haul 51 Loads of Rock for the Temple visited Salt Lake city at conference Pres Young said in the name of the Lord keep the word of wisdom and educate your children introduce in the schools the Book of Mormon Doc & covenants Bible &cc church works pay up your emigration Debts you young men and weomen get married dont wait till your are rich my daughter Annie Mary has been very sick but is getting well the Merchants of San Francisco are talking of puting a Line of Steamers on the colorado River the New Tabernacle was not finished but meetings were held in it Bro Amasa Lyman was dropped from the Quo of the 12 Bro Joseph F Smith placed instead mother Sheffield believes in young Josephism my family are well thank the Lord I will try and get ready for my mission when it comes the Lord helping I do thank him for his kindness to me & family and I pray that he will hear my prayers in the behalf of my family and give me wisdom to provide for them in righteousness I have been takeing care of my corn & Buckwheat & Peaches this Last week. March 6th 1868 to day I attended the school examination Bro Coombs teacher which was very creditable my daughter Jane led in Grammar the spring is opening the snow is gone the winter wheat looks well I am out of wheat and but little flour I have fitted up a room for a prayer circle last evening the Bishop and council dedicated it the highh Priests & seventies will meet there wheat is scarce people are affraid of the Grasshoppers but the Lord can turn them away my little Daughter Annie Mary died in January of Lung fever and hooping cough Gold mines are breaking out close to us my family are well at present thank the Lord H Ballad Daughter Died last saturday [--] (Sunday March 8th 1868) held prayer circle in my upper room this morning J B Fairbank O Simons D Stark & myself in attendance my family is well thank the Lord Bro Savage preached this morning on the Blessings enjoyed by the ----- new page (MSSSC_2056_p022.jpg) the saints of Latter days the weather is very stormy at a meeting held by Land owners of Payson they concluded not to fence the field this year & take the benefit of the stray hound Lau Oh my father bless me thy servent with wisdom and knowledge and power in the priesthood the Congressmen are still Quarelling over Impeachment of the President there was a Large fire in New York City last week the prophecys are comein to pass perilous times are among the Nations earthquakes & famine war and pestilence are going forth at noon Day mens hearts are failing them for for fear the conditions of this people is very good although there is a scarscity of breadstuff there was a good deal of fall wheat sown last fall the destroyer has been in our midst and taken may of our Children away but still the hand of the Lord has been over this peoplefor good, may of the Boys are going to the mines and the Sweet water we have a good Sunday School Established here taught by Bro G M Coombs the Prayer Circle of the seventies meet this afternoon the Bishop wishes the people to fence the field and save trouble and the Lord will help them in there crops and all they set there hands to do the wind is blowing from this north many of the Brethern have been recuvering there second endowments and more will receive at last as [--] [--] there will be a school of the Prophets established at Provo. Payson Sunday April 19th 1968 I attended meetin- this morning Bro O Simons preached on the scarseity of breadstuff took exceptions to some of the remarks of bro B F Stewart Bro A O Smoot & C Sheets preached last night on the union that was needed the words of wisdom & the speculation of the merchents Brother James Daniels and wife stayed with us last night Bishop Fairbanks called on the Brethern to assist the emigration there was Nine teamsters & 1 guard from Payson the school of the Prophets meet once a week at Provo the Grasshoppers are hatching out and eating some wheat ----- new page (MSSSC_2056_p023.jpg) we have the promise that if we do right and assist the emigration the Lord will turn away the destroyers from our midst Pres Young is about to take a contract of Gradeing on the railway or the co wishes to hire men one of my horses died this last week leaves me without a team Bro Geo Hancock the merchent is heavily in debt Bro Douglas attends the Circle many of the Brethren are short of Bread the crops look well Pres Young says our zeal sometimes in administering goes beyond our Knowledge the weather is fine at present the frost killed some of our fruit lately the trees Look well my family are well at present thank the Lord several of the Brethren from Provo have received there second washings and anointings the people feel willing to assist all they can in the emigration the Lord is blessing the people with the spirit of willingness and we believe he will turn away the destroyers. this last week I have been cleaning of the willows on my Land in the hard scrabble field the Light which we behold from day to day is given from the presence of God the Lord says the spirit and the body is the soul of man the ressurection of the dead is the redemption of the soul oh Lord hear the prayer of my heart grant me the fullness of my washings and annointings and sealings I ask it in the name of Jesus thy son bless the Bishop of this ward with the spirit of his calling as a father in Israel bless thy church and people help me to be of the chosen ones amen Bless my wifes and children Jane thinks her Lot is hard Lord bless her inspire her that she may see her true position Sunday June 2d 1868 I attended meeting to day Bro Lant preached on the practical duties of the saints Bishop called on all hands to work on the streets on saturdays for a few weeks and fix our roads I have been called to attend the school of the Prophets at Provo for which I am thankfull for the priveledge ----- new page (MSSSC_2056_p024.jpg) I pray in the name of Jesus that I may be of the chosen ones that shall be chosen because are faithfull this last week there has been trouble with my wifes Jane & Annie caused by Anne's takeing wool that did not belong to her and then deny it I have not got all my crop in yet Pres Young has taken a contract of building railroad from the head of echo Cañnon. to Salt Lake Valley I worked on the roads yesterday in accordence with the Bishops call I have not got a team yet one of my horses died a few weeks ago Pres Young says the Priesthod will dictate in all temporal affairs as well as spiritual we must prepare for the Kingdom to be given to the saints ere long and the comeing of our Lord & Saviour the world is in a dreadfull state mens hearts failing them for fear Looking for the things that are comeing upon the earth truly it is a day for the saints to keep the commandments of God Bro Kimball says the pen[-]y given to one that came in at the 11th hour is just Bounty money all will be rewarded according to there works dove on the earth went to the school of Prophets Last monday rode down with Bro Simons crops generally Look well Payson City June 28th 1868 I attended meeting this morning Bro E Gardner & C Marsh preached on the present Life & preparing for the future Bishop called for tithing & choir to go to pond town Letter read from H Y Boyle stateing the prosperity of his mission in North – Carolina Pres Heber chase Kimball Died in Salt Lake city June 22d 1868 after a short sickness 10 Days he fell assleep in Christ haveing been faithfull to the end peace to his ashes Annie is weaveing at G Potters she is very much unsettled in her mind Jane is doing the best she can whith what she has to do with Lord Bless her ----- new page (MSSSC_2056_p025.jpg) may she continue faithfull to the end theres a Programe out for the 4th the Lord is blessing his people the Locusts have Left in part few with us yet crops Look well congress talks of establishing a Land office in Utah Bro Joseph had one of his horses Drowned while going throug Provo Kanyon ran of the Dugway in the water the Instructers at the school of the Prophets are what is needed in every Life Be humble Prayerfull Patient to the end then we shall be blessed I have been wattering corn this las week not come up very good I am just about of flour oh Lord help me to be faithfull to the end that I may receive that crown of Glory Laid up for the faithfull Payson August 10th 1868 I attended meeting this morning subjects spoke upon home manufactue & cooperative firms wheat harvest comenced in earnest good crops in Payson the emigration is comeing in the Land Office Bill for Utah passed is now a Law the railroad is progressing finely the Grasshoppers have gone done great Damage in the city the Lord stayed them thanks to his holy name Payson City September 6 1868 Sister percinday Curtis is deranged through sickness prayed for her on thursday Last in the circle the rails are nearly to Green river Bishop Fairbanks is comeing out against our merchents tradeing with the Gentiles the Feeling to destroy the saints is on the increase the Party in Power haveing pledged themselves to this end our emigration teams from payson have returned all well I have raised a wheat crop of 140 Bushells this season thank the Lord my Family are all well Annie is away from home weaveing she feels Dissatisfied to stay at home cant agree with Jane. ----- new page (MSSSC_2056_p026.jpg) this Last week I have been hauling hay and pulling weeds Attending fast meeting school of Prophets & teachers Quorum Pres Smoot said we must Quit sustaining our enemies or be cut of from the church. the day of redemp- tion is near help me to be faithfull of Lord the foreign missionaries are returning home Payson City, October 25th 1868 sunday morning the Bishop A Smoot & Johnson were preaching in the school of the Prophets yesterday on Zions copperative society wishing the People to take share in the same the october conference was a great one all who will trade with the Gentiles in our midst will be cut of from the church the Devil as mad at moves being made by the church my Family are all well my B[--]on corn has proved a failure on account of the early frost the Potatoe crop is good molasses poor This movement now on foot will bring about the order of Enoch hasten the day oh Lord and the Building up of the centre stake of Zion the highway is being rapidly thrown up many of our Brethren are working thereon I have Lost one span of horses this Last summer died I have another span now but not all paid for yet the Lord has blessed me th[---] he h[--] chastised me yet will I praise the Lord for his goodness to me my son Thos E is gone to the city with tithing potatoes Payson City January 28th 1869 Family all well thank the Lord I have been out to work on the railroad did very well my team stood the trip very well my brother Joseph was with me Annie my second wife is staying at spanish fork this month past yesterday we had a sunday school dance we have good meetings now people turn out enmasse we have started a cooperative Store here. ----- new page (MSSSC_2056_p027.jpg) I have been makeing Brooms and settleing my tithing to day came out forty five dollars ahead thank the Lord Chauncey Milliard of York State shot a man by the name of Sweat over the Utah Lake 6 or 8 weeks ago he is now under sentence of Death at Provo City to be shot to morrow the 29th I am busy recording the [---] minutes we have good times at our school of the Prophets here the Lord is opening the eyes of the People to see Zion they are comeing up hither to see for themselves the railway is down to the mouth of Echo Kanyon many of our brethren are working of the road the Lord is blessing the People with a little means to help build the kingdom. we held Payson City February 4th 1869 we held fast meeting to day Bishop preaching many children were blessed and some confirmed the spirit of the Lord reigned in the meeting good instructions were given the people felt to rejoice President Young says that the Office of the resurected beings will be to tell the Living who to be baptised for the moral men of the world will enjoy a [--]oy they little think of all will not receive the gospel now if were not for the bilief we have in the ressurection we would not officiate for the dead this week Bro Daniel Mott has lost two of his Children we feel to mourn with him but the Lords will be done the Bill that Mr. Asley of Ohio introduced before the Congress of the Nation for the dismemberment of Utah will be disposed of in a day or two the school of the Prophets noted that him and his bill go to hell my wife Annie is staying at Spanish fork City because she can't have her own way the probability is that there will be a heavey call for missionaries to go beyond the Colorado River this Season there is quite a revival among the people in attending meetings I have been to work digging graves for Motts children this two days past and choreing about home the weather is moderating a little the Pacific railroad Co are running a switch around the tunnell in the Weber Kanyon ----- new page (MSSSC_2056_p028.jpg) Payson City Feb 21st 1869 I attended meeting yesterday Bros. Kelsey and Chiles from Springville preached setting forth the need of reform in manners and the presidents instructions for the Sisters to educate and become capable of doing business in the Stores and let the Brethren go to more profitable work Bro Thomas Jackson said in a discourse delivered here a short time ago that there would be men come in our midst that would have power to call fire down from heaven and deceive the very elect if it were Possabele but the Lord says for the elects sake the time will be cut short this last week I have been around home writeing some for the seventies and doing the chores my wife Annie is down at Springville visiting she is dissatisfied to stay at home because she cant have her own way Bro Charles Brewerton lost his Wife last week through Child Birth Bishop Fairbanks is unwell the old council were reelected nearly all that had not been called away from home we have not got our money yet from the Railway Company Mr U S Grant and company intend paying a visit to Salt Lake City this spring Bro Cannon thinks of renting them his new house which is not yet quite finished the weather is very cold I think the seasons are begining to change for they in the South complain of having the coldest Winter they ever knew while we in the North have had one of the most favourable the work of God is rolling on among the Nations rapidly gaining influence every Day the Papers begin to acknowledge the Supremacy of the Mormon Government the Railway trains in the Black Hills are snowed in but many men are engaged in diging the trains out of the snow we have to divide our Sunday School on account of the Rooms being to small to hold them I have been appoin- ted to take charge of the other portion of the school my Children are all going to School that are big enough we hold a singing School every monday evening in the tithing hall oh Lord bless the cause of Zion on the Earth bless me and my family all the day long increase me in the Earth and my Posterity be Numerous and be mighty men and women in the earth this is the desire of my heart oh Lord God that I may live to serve and help to build up thy Kingdom ----- new page (MSSSC_2056_p029.jpg) on the earth I ask it in the name of Jesus even so amen Payson City April 21st 1869 The weather is very cold and snowy the wheat looks well Apricots damaged some Peach trees jus bursting for bloom President B Young passed here on Monday morning on his way south several of the twelve accompanied him he goes as far south as Saint George maybe farther Cooperation is on the increase in the Mercantile buisness over eighty cooperative Stores were in operation doing a good buisness the order of Enock is talked of & likely to be be adopted before many years rolls around my wife Jane gave birth to a fine Daughter March 22d 1869 I went to work on the spring creek Ditch yesterday my crop is in except sugar cane & corn & beans my Children attend school four of them two of them attend Coombs and 2 Sister Tenney they are Learning there Books very well Douglas is doing the tradeing for the Cooperative Store here the people are dissatisfied with the workings of it but the thing will work well after a Little the HP Railroad is nearly completed all the call has been made for Money to be raised to help the imigration from the States this year the weather has been very favourable of Late for the crops I have been appoinded City Sexton for Payson many of the Elders are comeing home this year Payson City, May 24th 1869 The rain is comeing down beautifuly the crops look well the Land is just comeing into market we have sent for a Brass band the railroad read down the Weber is in a bad condition down the weber the talk is they will find a new route around the weber My family are all well thank the Lord money is scarse, Payson City September 12th 1869 we have had compay to day Sister Potter & here mother was here there is a great deal of sickness here at present the measles have been very bad ----- new page (MSSSC_2056_p030.jpg) yesterday there was two Children buried yesterday my own have been sick Thomas is down with the measles now the babies are well thank the Lord the Brethren are comeing in to attend the prayer circle the crops are very good. I raised this year over three hundred Bushells of wheat the corn I had one acre which the grasshoppers damaged and the cattle finished the railway co have concluded to pay their indebtedness in irion and rolling stock for the Utah Central railway the weather is fine Payson City September 17th, 1869 the weather is very warm the crops have come in good wheat is low in price 75 cts per Bushell quite a co of saints have come from the southern States Bro H G Boyle has been called to go again to the States my family are well thank the Lord they have had the measles are getting well thank the Lord my team has gone to the city baly has been the worst with the sore eyes and teething Annie had her baby blest last fast day. the Lord is blessing the people with good crops the weather is dry and worm good deal of sickness in the place may of the People from the States are visiting Salt Lake City the Lord is opening the way for the Saints to gather home Payson City October 14th 1869 up in the Circle Room the following was sugested by the Spirit of God Pres Young said it was one of the greatest Blessings the Lord can bestow on his children to tabernacle in the flesh on this earth I have just returned from a drill of the Militia of Utah County and also from the general conference the instructions were rich and varied mostly on the temporal building up of the Kingdom of God there was about 200 missionaries called on missions myself with the ballence to go to the Eastern States many are enquiring after the truth the Lord is going to leave them without excuse ----- new page (MSSSC_2056_p031.jpg) I pray the Lord to give me the spirit of my mission I feel that the Lord is willing to bless me on this mission I pray that the way may be opned and that I may do much good & be an instrumental of usefullness in the hands of the Lord this is the desire of my heart and I ask that it may come about that the Angels of God may accompany me and prepare the way before me that I may have power to overcome that I may be pure and virtous haveing filled my mission with honour bringing many sheaves with me this is my desire I ask it in the name of Jesus [-] amen & amen and that my family may be preserved Payson City November 7th 1869 the weather is warm and pleasant for the season of the year Pres Young returned from his trip through Sanpete on Friday last Harrison Godbe & Kelsey promi nent men in Salt Lake City have Appostatised many sympathisers the missionaries from Payson start on the fifteenth of november my family are all well thank the Lord on Friday I attended military meeting at Provo G A Smith said the enemies of Zion were gnashing there teeth for the Blood of the saints called on Utah County for 1000 men to appear at Camp Wasatch next fall armed and equiped for a weeks campaign said we must be prepared to defend zion made other good remarks I have not yet got money for my trip to the east there was a military school held in the hall last evening the Brethren are comeing in for the prayer circle read from Isiah about the Building up of Zion Payson Sunday Nov 14th 1869 start for the east in the morning on my mission Bro Josep Daniels gave me two Dollars this morning Charles gave me two dollars a Frenchman staying at Josephs house gave me 1 dollars Nov 14 attended meeting at the tithing hall Bro Duzenbery spoke on his mission to the States the diference of traveling formerly & now spoke of the spirit of McCornach[-] among the people in the States for wey & now ----- new page (MSSSC_2056_p032.jpg) Bishop Fairbanks made his farewell speech Bro Joseph gave me 2 Dols Charles Durniler gave me gave me 2 Dols M Bot gave me 1 Dol Bro Stevens gave me 3 Dols attended meeting in the evening WC Mcclelen took the presidency of the 70s Engberg appointed clerk prote[--] Nov 15th 1869 Left home at 10 oclock storming all day very cold got to Provo at four PM on account of the storm staid all night at Bro James was kindly received had my Likeness taken for the first time Nov 16th teams left me but overtook them on the Bench travelled pleasantly all day stoped at Milo Andrus 15 miles from Salt Lake cty read taylors reply to Colfax Bishop Divided money gave me 35 Dols slept in the Barn on the morning of 17th started early Salt Lake City Nov 18th, 1869 arrived in the City at 11 AM yesterday went to Pres Youngs Office and registered our names for Omaha bought an coat for 19 Dols stayed over night at Sister Alices had a very pleasant conversation she told me about her visions and dreams to day went and got our tickets for the east visited bro Barlows and took Dinner Monday Nov 22d ran from Rawlins station to Cheyenne in about 12 hours last night we had no water to drink our Engine ran of the track detained us about 2 hours crossed Platte Bridge a scaley affair saw some Antelope grazeing the country. here is Level with hills in the distance rideing at the rate of 20 miles an hour riding in the car with Bros Stewert Loveless and others Bro Brizee came in and read a paper acknowledging the kindness of the conductor on the Laramie portion of the road stopped at Laramie hitched two Engines on the train had to wait for the express to pass the weather very cold to day quite sleepy on account of sitting up read in the Key to theology that the holy spirit by the priesthood of good Salt Lake City Nov 18, 1869 went to Pres Youngs Office registered our names for to go east with the missionaries bought an overcoat for 19 Dols stopped at Sister Weirrel she told me about her visions on to day went and bought my ticket for New York visited Bro Barla[-]s Wyom we arrived at Uintah Station on 20th in time for the three o clock train ran up to Echoe by dark by morning we were out to green river on the evening of the 22d was at Cheyenne on our way down passed some Antelope had a pleasant ride but got very tired haveing no place to Lay down on our arrival at Omaha we staid at St Charles hotel staid over night ----- new page (MSSSC_2056_p033.jpg) had a good nights rest started on the afternoon of the 28 the Brethren left for the east yesterday the People here think of nothing but how to make money we felt to weep at our parting from each other we felt confi- dent that the Lord will bless our labors took train for chichago at 5 o clock travelled all night did not feel well took cold last night got of at the Burlington Junction and took train for Quincy where we arrived at 8 o clock in the evening went to the Adams house felt that I was in a strange Land but the Lord can comfort those who put their trust in him felt to pray oh Lord bless me on this mission and my family in the val- ley paid one Dol for Breakfast went to Pinkhams house he received us kindly told us we could stay at his house till we could do better visited Sister Hubbard & staid over night Bro Fairbanks got measured for teeth attended meeting through the day took dinner at Pinkhams had a conversation with Col Ben Mr Pinkhams told us that there was in that town one hundred houses of ill fame Columbus Nov 30 arrived at the house of Henry Fairbanks at noon to day received us kindly did not know his Brother John we left Quincy at 8:30 and came to cootsburg from that place to here we walked Mr H Fairbanks feels as if he did not want to gather with the saints the light within him has become dark how great is that Darkness his wife is afraid of Poligamy We Left sister hubards at 4.30 this morning to be in time for the train Wednesday Dec 1st 1869 had a good night rest washed ourselves changed our clothes first time since we left home felt better visited the village thursday Dec 2d had a Long talk with Henery Fairbanks he told us the reasons he had for leaving the church that was that he thought Pres B Young was the cause of many of the invaders in the valley to day is cold and stormy we start at 3 in the morning Chicago sang some of the songs of Zion to the family this evening Friday Dec. 3d, 1869 started at 3 AM from Fairbanks got to the station by 5 for the train but it was the mail & did not stop had to wait till 9 AM the morning was very cold the train ran by like the wind the train at 9 oclock stoped arrived at the Junction of Chicago & Rock Island road at 3 PM waited till 12.30 for the train for the ----- new page (MSSSC_2056_p034.jpg) Arrived at Chicago at 8 in the morning visited the town throug the day saw wickedness stalking abroad took the train at 4.45 for the east: saw many fine buildings on the way imense throngs of People was led to exclaim why can not the people see the gospel and be saved come out of her oh ye my people and partake not of her plages Dec 5th arrived at Pittsburg at 12 visited the city for 3 hours staid at Saint James hotel for the night paid 125 each for supper and lodings this town is Black with smoke streets narrow & dirty Dec 6th started for N York 5.30 this morning felt to pray the Lord to bless us while a way strangers away from home the views through the Aleghaneys was grand We arrived at the city of Newark on Wednesday Dec 8th at 8 AM we then went to a directory and found where Mr Doremus a coal merchant on acquaintence of Bro Fairbanks staid over night then went to Meads Basin & visited the two Mr Fairbanks Th elder Fairbanks insulted us as soon as we arrived and scarsely asked us in the the house while in Newark visited many of the public places visited around the Neighborhood for while at the house of a Mr Ryerson the spirit of the Lord came upon me and I could have prophesied that the prayers of the saints were ascending in our behalf on the 13 of Dec we wrote our journals wrote to my Sisters conversd with 2 Methodist preachers in the evening they fought Poligamy see'd it was false we bore testimony that it was true we then started to visit the relations of Bro Fairbanks on Pomf[--] plains saw an aged couple that had Lived in wedlock for 60 years read from the Bible visited several families on the plains was well received throughout on sunday Dec. 18th attended Methodist church some of the members wished to hear us preach in the evening we went but objections being made we did not preach man by the name of D Rivesmith makeing the principle objection received word from home all well thank the Lord ----- new page (MSSSC_2056_p035.jpg) Payson City May 1st I arrived home to day from my mission to the states my Family all well thank the Lord [---] in debt 70 Dollars to get home the Lord has blessed me greatly on my mission September 22d 1872 my Family part of them has gone to hear a Doctor Brenen Lecture [--] on Family all Payson City October 31st 1872 today, I have been puting up picket fence got some corn meal home from the mill family well thank the Lord on sunday wrote to Mr Wilson Wheeler in Va and all the saints in that quarter. the order for our drill has been countermanded I got home from my 2d mission first at May Cust seventy Dols in debt for my passage home and one hundred for my former one I raised a good crop this year the Lord has blessed our Labours Bishop Tanner is presideing here now he was ordained over a year ago. the school of the prophets are stopped on account of the leakey members. The Lord raised my Daughter Medera from the Dead she is now well thank the Lord my Son Thomas went after a coal mine. but did not find it in santaquin Cannon Payson City Nov 19th 1872 last night attended the Philsmatheon meeting some of the exercises were good others were not the ward meetings are very poorley attended the spirit of the Gospel appears to be dying out in some of the folk I am now engaged in makeing Brooms Pres Young. is talking of commenceing a city after the order of lench ----- new page (MSSSC_2056_p036.jpg) Payson, Nov 20, 1872 to day wrote a letter to Bro J B Fairbanks in England I received one from him some time ago which In wish copied in my journal was out visiting as a teacher last night with Chas Brewerton. the weather is getting warmer my wif Annie is staying in the city this winter she is not content to stay at home my children are attending school now. I am engaged makeing brooms at present our meetings are poorly attended. the house has no stove in it at present preperations are making to warm it for meetings my health is good and spirits allso the Lord is assisting me to provide for my family the opened so I procured school Books for my Children I hope my Children will give theirs a better chance then they have had But I have done the best I could with them. My Education has been very limited for I have been on the move all the time. but thank the Lord I have done the best I could with my children Payson City. December 18th 1872 I have just returned from Sanpete county where I have been with Bro Erickzons surveying party laying out a railroad through salt creek Kanyon. I found my family all well for which I feel truly thankfull my wife Annie is in Salt Lake this winter working arround from place to place rebellion has led her away from home. I have been makeing brooms since I come home my children are attending school at the rock school house. Pres Young passed through here on his way south Colonel Thomas L Kane was in company with him going to spend the winter at at Saint George. have not yet heard if congress has admitted Bro G Q Cannon. while I was in Sanpete I preached to the school children and the parents ----- new page (MSSSC_2056_p037.jpg) Payson City Dec 26th 1872 to day is wet and cloudy in Chicago on the 23d of this month they have had the coldest weather ever known in that region many of the Railways are stopped on that account in Europe of thlate there have been the worst storms ever known whole cities entirely submerged there were many of our mormon boys were drunk disturbing the peace of the city. went to a Party in the Tithing hall. my Bro Joseph and family and Moroni Manwell <& family> were here to suppen Pres. B Young and party arrived safely in Saint George on monday the 23d ist all well. The City council of Payson are considering the propriety of licenceing a Liquor salloon, our city is being run by the roughs the city Fathers are doing nothing towards carrying out the ordinences even our co op stores are breaking them in selling whiskey to the boys. the health of the city is good Pres Grant says he is going to introduce a law before congress for the suppression of the mormon Institution fires are becomeing quite frequent in salt Lake City the work of malicious men there are 20 whiskey shops run in salt Lake city without a licence in opposition to the city ordinences ----- new page (MSSSC_2056_p038.jpg) Payson City January 5 <187[-]> Gold coin $150.000 Silvar coin $750.000 MORA MOSS Capitalist A Revelation on Celestial Marriage given in Nauvoo July 12th 18.43 Verily thus with the Lord unto you my servant Joseph that inasmuch as you have enquired of my hand to know and understand wherein I the Lord justified my servants Abraham Isaac and Jacob as allso moves David and Solomon my servants as touching the principle and doctrine of there haveing many wifes and concubines. Behold and lo I am the Lord thy God and will answer the as touching this matter therefore prepare thy heart to receive and obey the instructions which I am about to give unto you for all those who have this law re- vealed unto them must obey the same for behold I reveal unto you a new and everlasting covenant and if ye abide not that covenant then are ye damnd for no one can reject this covenant and be permitted to enter into my glory, for all who will have a blessing at my hands shall abide the law which was appointed for that blessing and the conditions thereof as was insti- tuted for the fullness of my glory and he that receiveth a fullness thereof must and shall abid the law or he shall be damnd saith the Lord God verily I say unto you that the conditions of this law are these. All covents contracts bonds obligations oaths vows performances connections associations or expectations that are not made entered into and sealed by the holy spirit of promise of him who is annointed both as well for time and ----- new page (MSSSC_2056_p039.jpg) Revelation continued all eternity, and that to most holy by revelation and commandment throug the medium of mine annointed whom I have appointed on earth to hold the power (And I have appointed unto my servent Joseph to hold this power in the last days, and there is never but one on the earth at a time on whom this power and theis keys of this priesthood are are conferred)are of no efficacy virture or force in and after the resurection from the dead, for all contracts that are not made unto this end have an end when men are dead Behold my house is a house of order saith the Lord God and not a house of confusion Will I accept of an offering saith the Lord, not made in my name, or will I receive at your hands that which I have not appointed, and will I appoint unto you except it be by law even as I and my father ordained unto you before the world was. I am the Lord thy God and give unto you this commandment, that no man shall come unto the Father but by me, or by my word which is my law saith the Lord, and every thing that is in the world, wether it be ordained of man by thrones or principalities or powers or things of name whatsoever they may be. that are not by me or by my hand shall be thrown down and shall not remain after men are dead I neither in nor after the resurection saith the Lord your God for whatsoever things remaineth are by me, and whatsoever things are not by me shall be shaken and destroyed Therefore if an man marry him a wife in the world and he marry her not by me nor by word, and he covenet with her so long as he is in the world, and she with him, their covenent there covenent and marriage is not of force when they are dead and, when they are out of the world therefore they are not bound by any law when they are out of the world. Therefore when they are out of the world they neither marry nor are given in marriage but are appointed Angels in heaven ----- new page (MSSSC_2056_p040.jpg) Revelation Contin which Angels are ministering servants to minister for those who are worthy of a far more and an eexceeding weight of Glory. for these Angels did not abide my law therefore they cannot be enlarged but remain seperately and singly without exhaltation in their saved condition to all eternity and from henceforth are not Gods but are angels of God for ever and ever And again verily I say unto you if a man marry a wife and make a covenents with her for time and all eternity if that covenent is not by me or by my word which is my law and is not sealed by the holy spirit of promise, through him whom I have annointed and appointed unto this power then it is not valid neither of force when they are out of the world because they are not joined by me saith the Lord neither by my word when they are out of the world it cannot be received there, because the angels and the God, are appointed there by whom they cannot pass they cannot therefore inherit my glory for my house is a house of order saith the Lord God . . And again verily I say unto you if a man marry a wifee by my word which is my law and by the new and everlasting covenent and it is sealed unto them by the holy spirit of promise by him who is annointed unto whom I have appointed this power and the Keys of this priesthood and it shall be said unto them ye shall come forth in the first resurection and if it be after the first resurection in the next resurection, and shall inherit thrones prisa- palities and powers dominions all heights and depths-then shall it be written in the Lambs book. that he shall commit no murder whereby he shed inocent bblood. and if ye abide in my covenent and commit no murder whereby to shed inocent blood continued on Page 80 ----- new page (MSSSC_2056_p041.jpg) Payson City, August 20th 1870 the weather through the the season has been the dryest and warmest we ever had in the east the people complain terribly about the drouth war has broke out between Prussia and France Prussia won one big battle on the wesenburg last sunday Doctor Newman deliverd a discourse against Poligamy in the New tabernacle Salt Lake city the grasshoppers have been bad this season but the crops are comeing in good we are haveing a nice shower at present at the time we left Quincy to come to Utah we had to cross the river at Quincy the ferry man Mat Gill charged us nine dollars for feriage we had not the money so he took a fine young cow for the nine Dolars and we come on this piece of history ought to be put in the first part my crop of fruit books well the wheat allso and corn my family are well thank the Lord I do believe the Lord hears my prayers for I allways remember them before him I am oweing Bro Douglas 100 Dols for my passage home from the states which i wish to pay as soon as I can the Lord being my helper the spirit of Appostasy is prevailing to some extent among the People my prayer is oh Father preserve thy faithful saints from the power of theire enemies Sunday Morning August 28th 1870 Weather fine family all well thank the Lord have been thrashing this last week and gathering Apples Prussia is beating France in the war Napoleon very sick the Nations in great excitement over the war the Lord has a controversy with them the Lord has blessed my crops this year thanks to his holy name the world is denying the Saviour and are fast turning Infidel president Young says they will either believee as the saints do or turn Infidel oh father Bless Zion Payson City Utah September 11th 1870 Pres B Young passed throug this city this Last week on his way to the Kanab Country I have been cutting Broom corn this last week & am getting ready for to make brooms to take to the city the Elders from Provo were preaching military in the school yesterday some fine specimens of grapes on exhibition the Emperor of the French surendered his sword to the Prussian King on Saturday week allso to Armies of Acmahon ----- new page (MSSSC_2056_p042.jpg) and Bazaine the Prussians are now pushing on to Paris the french say they will fight to the Last the french have declared a republic and called upon the United States to assist them in maintaining a republic and drive the Prussians from the soil one of the eastern Papers speaking of the disscussion between Prolt & Newman says the mormons have been makeing Buskin gloves but the Appostle Pratt handled Dr Newman without them many of the papers say that Bro Pratt was to much for the Doctor it is reported that Gov Shaffer has said he would assume command of the militia if they came out this fall the wheat crop is harves cane & corn will be good if we can have 3 week more of good. weather my family are all well thank the Lord I bought a stove for Annie this last week the weather is fine fruit is ripening. Payson City October 2d 1870 to day attended meeting at the tithing house Bro H W Barnett spoke on the faith of the ancients & the dealings of the Lord with Isreal showing how the Lord fought the battles of Isreal there was a raid, made by the soldiers on Provo on Friday 22d september they broke down the Doors of several houses smashed, in the windows & tried to fire the meeting house abused several of the Brethren the Governer has Issued orders for biding any training this fall and calling for all the US arms to be deliverd to the commander at camp Douglas the weather still contin warm this last week I visited Salt Lake city for the purpose of selling brooms I sold them for 4 Dols per Day the Lord Blessed me in the disposal of them he heard my prayers for which I thank him Satan is working hard to overthrow the priesthood of God on the earth. but the Lord has allways fought the battles of the saints and he says he will when we keep his commandments oh my father I thank the for the health that I enjoy in my family and I pray that thy blessings may still continue with me & mine Bless the cause of Zion and hasten the day of her redemption that she may be free from the rule of wicked men & her rulers emenate from her own midst amen ----- new page (MSSSC_2056_p043.jpg) Sunday Morning October 9th 1870 Fine weather still continues atmosphere very smoky from fires burning around, conference still continues today the instruction are for a temporal union building factories &cc Pres Young has preached twice my wife Jane is attending conference family all well, thank the Lord. have been gathering corn this past week help me to be faithfull father to the end the war in europe is still going on our meeting house is to the square on 2 sides a great freshet in Virginia and yellow fever in New York Black Domito in Spain thus we see the Judgments of God going forth in the earth china and Japan have declared against all foreigners Lord, bless thy people Isreal and favour the cause of Zion may the day soon come when thy Kingdom shall be established on the earth no more to be thrown down for ever amen Sunday Evening October 16th 1870 circle room attended meeting this morning heard the report from the conference which was to cooperate in building farming Darrying and all Kinds of trades. Pres Young said we will commence the temple and continue it till finished if the Lord will told the Gentiles to say what they pleased but to keep their hands of him or he would send them to hill accross. Lots the people said amen many of the gentils were present England is prepareing for war the Prussians have won another Battle at Orleans in france the french defences around Paris are formidable the war is growing fiercer. Payson Circle Room October 5th 1870 this last week the Militia was called to drill at or near battle creek where we spent four days in drilling and going & comeing the spirit of the Lord was with us and assisted us in the drill out of 90 men in the company that I command only 24 were present governor Shaffen Died the same day we arrived on the camp ground he stated a few days before he died that we should not drill as Long as he held the Office of Governer ----- new page (MSSSC_2056_p044.jpg) thus we see the hand of the Lord made manifest for the benefit of his Saints my prayer to god is that he will bless Isreal and frustrate our enemies & make their wrath praise the God of Isreal they are now trying to take away every right from the saints the Law case in Salt Lake city relative to the Lignon Licence of Englebretch has been decided by a packed Jury against the city Damages 59,000 Dols the city will appeal to the Supreme court there is an Armistice beetween france & Prussia for 20 days while the elections take place for a republican form of Government Father bless my family bless me to provide for them in righteousness and pay my debts bless the Labours of my hands both temporal and spiritual help me to keep all thy commandments give me wisdom in all things amen and amen Sunday Dec 4th 1870 snowed last night Bishop Sheets preached today at the tithing hall on Domestic econemy father Mcalder spoke a short time on the Dixie mission said my name was called at their last conference for to move down there my family are Well thank the Lord my wife Annie has been very rebellious of late because she can't have things her own way oh father help me to overcome the flesh and the Devil and be true to thy Kingdom & priesthood bless me thy servant amen in all my Labours temporal or spiritual Friday evening December 23d 18,70 the weather is very cold the health of the people are is good my family are well to day settled my tithing read of the Death of Bro Levi Stewart's wife & 4 children from the explosion of a can of Kerosine oil in the Kanab country visited my sister Maryann this foremoon the name of the Brother of Jared spoken of in the Book of Mormon was Mahonri Moriancomer Pres Young is down to Saint George this winter the church is building a fort in the Kanab county that will cost 75,000 Dollars, congress is trying to pal a railroad bill from the Colorado River to Salt Lake the cooperative store here is makeing a ----- new page (MSSSC_2056_p045.jpg) dividend of fifty per cent per annum Bro Harrison Pearce <& son)> passed through here on his way to the Southern states on a visit to his mother in the state of Missippi attended meeting last evening heard Bro Coombs on the Book of Mormon in the year 1820 the Father & Son appeared to Joseph Smith aterwords the Angel Moroni and other Prophets January 5th 1871 this last week I have been helping on the water ditch for the dairy company at Payson. the ditch is 2½ miles in length the war in France still goes on slaying each other by thousands the settlement on the Muday in Dixie is in the State of Nevada so our settlements are being removed from their last week a person named Payson January 7th attended school of Prophets the word came in the school to day that they wanted no more tithing paid at present the spirit of Appostasy is rife among the People meetings very poorly attended allmost in a lukewarm state last night the Boys threw a rock against my Door nearly breaking it & very frightening my family cause bad city regulations to Day have been making Brooms January 16th 1871 the weather the past week has been very cold the Commissioner of Revenue at Washington has decided that tithing is not taxable there is a company of Men formed in Salt Lake City for to build a Railroad to this City yesterday a person named Brown was killed at Provo about 2 weeks ago for seduceing a girl ----- new page (MSSSC_2056_p046.jpg) Payson January 21st 18.71 Last I Saw the ship Zion ploughing her way through the land throwing the Dirt and rocks to the right & left surely the Power of God was moveing her throug the earth she was drawing a train with her when I awoke I felt to shout halleyujah praise the Lord for the Kingdom of God is rooling on read from the Book of Covenents about conscration & that he that wont take his sword against his Neighbour must flee to Zion for saftey the french lost another battle last week and 20000 prisoners taken by the Prussians England is prepareing for war the Judgments of God are going forth among the Nations of the Earth there was a severe storm in Illinois last week two feet of snow fell many of the telegraph poles Blown down there is a good deal of talk about the railroad comeing down here this summer the tithing is stopped for the present we will soon have the order of Enoch established in our midst my family are well thank the Lord Payson February 8th 18.71 Pres B Young will pass through here tomorrow if alls well he & company started from St George on thursday last week they stayed at round valley last week night H G Boyle has been called to go on a mission to the southern States he wishes me to accompany my him which is uncertain yet may be that Pres Young will tell him about it the weather is fine my family are well thank the Lord we held a meeting last evening at Thos Wimmer house the spirit of God was poured out when was in council and instruction all felt to rejoice in the Gospel oh father bless me with the spirit of my mission and calling here on the earth many people are visiting Zion as the Prophets said ----- new page (MSSSC_2056_p047.jpg) February 16th 18.7.1 have been called to go on a mission to the east expect to start in the morning have not got money enough to take us down to our fields of Labours we have to put our trust in the Lord and call upon his name oh father bless my family in my abscence preserve theire Lives and prosper them in all there Labours Sister Maryann and her three Daughters Alice Sarah and Lizzy are here visiting. 18.72 May first I have just returned from my mission haveing been absent about 14 months I can truly say the Lord has been with me in very deed by his holy spirit leading me all the day long and giveing me success in my labours and returning me in safety to my family he raised up friends to me all the way his mercifull kindness endureth for ever in my starting I dedicated my family unto the Lord and he did preserve ther lives and took care of them better then I could the Account of my travells is in my small Journal or Diary Payson City December 31, 1872 The following appears in the history of Joseph Smith Jun Feb 12th 1834 But to return to the subject of the order in ancient days councils were conducted with such strict propriety that no one was allowed to whisker be weary or leave the room or get uneasy in the least until the voice of the Lord by revelation or the voice of the council by the spirit was obtained which has not been observed in this church to the present it was understood in ancient days that if one man could stay in council another could ----- new page (MSSSC_2056_p048.jpg) Payson City Jan 21, 1873 At home today, reading the scriptures and attending to my domestic affairs the weather is fine but a little mudy received a letter yes- terday from Wm Hulme in Bear Lake he ma- rried my youngest sister Pheobe. I wrote an answer last evening. The telegraphic reports from the east give an account of unprecedented cold weather and storms. the horse disease is a- gain rageing in a new form yesterday I sent for the New York sun a weekly paper published in New York City. I have made up all the Broom corn that I had I have sent east for more onn going to buy & see if it will pay to ship Broom corn I believe it will but am not certain, we had a Choir Party last friday which was a great success my family are all well thank the Lord) Freeman J. Tanner is very sick, have been makeing Brooms this last week & attending my domestic affairs spoke to the saints on sunday eve one the necessity of having the riseing generation in the way of Life & salvation Payson City January 28th 18.72 At home to day weather very cold clear over head yesterday Bro Jack Richardson was visiting with me allso Bro Nelson Hollingshead paid me a visit said that there was to be a mission sent into Arizona to make a settlement near the San Francisco Mountain this comeing spring wrote a letter for Bro Richardson to Va. family all well. thank the Lord no mail for two days past, the epizoatick is among the horses & the road have been allmost impassable Pres B. Young's health was not so good. as comman the last report from the South. Pres Grant says that Poligamy must be put down.. Pres B Young asked the question if the Elders were ready to take theire Rifle in one hand & Trowel in the other and go and build up Zion for the space of 15 years and not mourn about there ----- new page (MSSSC_2056_p049.jpg) Revelation Contin Page It shall be done unto them in all things whatsoever my servant hath put upon in time and in all eternity and shall be of force when they are out of the world, and they shall pass by the angels and the Gods which are set there to there exal- tation and glory in all things as hath been sealed upon their heads, which glory shall be a fullness and a continuation of the seeds forever and ever Then shall they be gods because they have no end, therefore they shall be from everlasting to everlasting because they continue then shall they be above all because all things are subject unto them Then shall they be gods because they have all power and the angels are subject unto them Veryly I say unto you except ye abide my law ye cannot attain to this glory for strait is the gate and narrow is the way that leadeth unto the exaltation and continuation of the lives and few there be that find it, because ye recieve me not in the world neither do ye know me But if ye receive me in the world then shall ye know me and shall receive your exaltation That where I am ye shall be allso, this is eternal lives to know the only wise and true God and Jesus Christ whom he has sent I am he receive ye therefore my law Broad is the gate and wide is the way that leadeth to the death and many there are that go in thereat because they rec- eive me not neither do they abide in my law Verily verily I say unto you if a man marry a wife according to my word and they are sealed by the holy spirit of promise according to my appointment and he or she shall commit any sin or transgression of the new and everlasting covenant whatever and all maner of Blasphmy ----- new page (MSSSC_2056_p050.jpg) Revelation Con and, if they commit no murder wherein they shed inocent blood.. yet they shall come forth in the first in the first resurection and enter into there exaltation, but they shall be destroyed in the flesh, and shall be delivered unto the buffettings of satan unto the day of redemption saith the Lord God The blasphemy against the holy Ghost which shall not be forgiven in the world nor out of the world is in that ye commit murder wherin ye shed inocent blood and assent unto my death after ye have received my new and everlasting covenant saith the Lord God, and he that abideth not this law can in no wise enter into my glory, but shall be damed saith the Lord I am the Lord thy God and will give unto the law of my holy priesthood as was orda ined by me and my Father before the world was. Abraham received all things whatsoever & by revelation and commanment by my word saith the Lord's and hath entered into his exaltation and sitteth upon his throne ,Abraham received promises concerning his seed and of the fruit of his loins – from whose loins ye are viz my servants Joseph— which were to continue with in the world and out of the world. And as touching Abra- ham and his seed out of the world, they should continue both in the world and out of the world should they continue as inumerable as the stars or if ye were to count the sand upon the sea shore ye could not number them this promise is yours allso because ye are of Abraham and the promise was made unto Abraham and by this land are the continuation of the works of my Father wherein he Glorifyeth himself ----- new page (MSSSC_2056_p051.jpg) Revelation Con. Go ye therefore and do the works of Abraham enter ye into my law and ye shall be saved but if ye enter not into my law ye cannot receive the promises of my Father which he made unto Abraham God commanded Abraham and Sarah gave Hagar to Abraham to wife and why did she do it. because this was the law and from Hagar sprang many people this way therefore fullfilling among many other things the Promises. was Abraham therefore under condemnation Verily I say unto you nay For I the Lord commaned it Abraham was commanded to offer his son Isiac Nevertheless it is written thou shalt not Kill. Abraham however did not refuse and it was accounted unto him for righteousness. Abraham received Concubines and they bare him Chi- ldren and it was accounted unto him for righteousness. because they were given unto him and he abode in my law as Isiac allso and Jacob did none other thing then that which they were commanded.. and because they did none other things then that which they were comm- anded they have entered into there exaltation. according to the promises and sit upon thrones; and are not Angels but are Gods. David allso received many wives and concubines as Solomon and Moses my servent as allso many others of my servents from the begining of creation untill this time and in nothing did they sin save in those things they received not of me Davids wives and concubines were given unto him of me by the hand of Nathan my servent and other of ----- new page (MSSSC_2056_p052.jpg) Revelation Con the Prophets who had the Keys of this Power and in none of these things did he sin save in the case of Uriah and his wife & therefore he hath fallen from his exaltation and received his portion And he shall not inherit them out of the world for I gave them unto another saith the Lord I am the Lord thy God and I gave unto the my servent Joseph an appointment and restore all things Ask what ye will and it shall be done or given unto you according to my word; And as ye have asked concerning Adultry Verily Verily I say unto you if a man receive a wife in the new and everlasting covenent & if she be with another man and I have not appointed unto her by the holy annointing she hath committed adultery and shall be destroyed if she be not in the new and everlasting convenent and she be with another man & she be with another man she has committed adultery. And if her husband be with another man and he was under a vow he hath broken his vow & hath committed adultery & if she hath not committed adultery but is innocent & hath not broken her vow & she knoweth it & I reveal it unto you my servent Joseph. then shall you have power by the power of my holy priesthood to take her & give her unto him that hath not committed adultery but hath been faithfull & shall be mad ruler over many things for I have conferred upon you the Keys & power of the Priesthood wherein I rest on all things & make known unto you all things in due time And verily I say unto you that whatsoever you seal upon earth shall ----- new page (MSSSC_2056_p053.jpg) Revelation Con be sealed in heaven & whatsoever you bind on earth in my name & by my word saith the it shall be eternally bound, in the heavens & whosoever sins you remit on earth shall be eternally remitted in the heavens & whosoever sins you retain on earth shall be retained in heaven And again verily I say whomsoever you bless I will bless & whomsoever you curse I will curse saith the Lord for I the Lord am thy God And again verily I say unto you my servant Joseph that whatsoever you give on earth & to whomsoever you give any one on earth by my word & according to my word law it shall be visited with blessings and not curseings & with my power s saith the Lord and shall be without condemnation on earth & in heaven for I am the Lord thy God & will be with the even unto the end of the world & through all eternity for verily I seal upon you your exal- tation & prepare a throne for you in the Kingdom of my Father! with Abraham your Father behold I have seen your sacrifices in obedience to that which I have told you go therefore & I make a way for your escape as I accepted the offering of Abraham of his son Isiac Verily I say unto you a commandment I give unto mine handmaid Ema Smith your wife whom I have given unto you that she stay herself & partake not of the which I commanded you to offer unto her for I did it saith the Lord to prove you all as I did Abraham & that I might require an offering at your hand by covenent & sacrifice and let mine handmaid Ema Smith ----- new page (MSSSC_2056_p054.jpg) Revelation con I receive all those that have been unto my servent Joseph & who are virtuous & pure before me & those who are not pure & said they were pure shall be destroyed saith the Lord God for I am the Lord thy God & ye shall obey my voice & I give unto my servent Joseph Smith & I give that he shall be made ruler over many things for he hath been faithful over a few things & from henceforth I will strengthen his And I command mine hand maid Emma Smith to abide and cleave unto my servent Joseph Smith and to none else But if she will not abide this commadment she shall be destroyed saith the Lord for I am am the Lord thy God & will destroy her if she abide not in my law but if she will not abide this commandment then shall my servant Joseph do all things for her even as he hath said & I will bless him & multiply him & give unto him an hundred fold of Fathers & Mothers Bros & Sisters houses & Lands wives & Children & crowns of eternal lifes in the eternal worlds & again verily I say unto you let mine handmaid forg- ive my servent Joseph his Trespasses & then shall she be forgiven her Trespa- sess wherein she hath trespassed again- st me & I the Lord thy God will bless her & make her heart to rejoice. And again I say let not my servent Joseph put his property out of his hands lest an enemy come and destroy him for satan seeketh to destroy him for I am the Lord thy God & he is my servent. And behold & lo I am with him ----- new page (MSSSC_2056_p055.jpg) Payson City January 1st 1873 At home today reading from the history of Joseph Smith and writeing to my sister Pheobe in Bear Lake and in meditation on the life of Joseph Smith and the manifestations of the Lord to the Brethern at the Kirtland Temple the Lord is surely mindful of his Children attended a meeting of the Teachers at the vestry last evening the subject of liceia ing a salloon for the sale of whisky was before the council twenty two voted in favour and seven against it I voted against it snow lays on the ground six inches deep weather warm the Asso- ciation played Loves sacrifice and hit him he has no friends . . . . . . . . . our family have a reunion tomorrow at my sisters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Remarks of Pres Brigham Young Tabernacle Salt Lake City Sunday August 29th 1852 . . Now Brethren the calling of an Appostle is to build up the Kingdom of God in all the world it is the Appostle that holds they Keys of this power and nobody else if an Appostle magnifys his calling (he is the word of the Lord to this People all the time) or else he does not magnify his calling. If he magnifys his calling his words are the words of eternal life and salvation just as much as so as any written revelation in the Bible Book of mormon or Doc & covenents January 3d 1873 snow on the ground cold weather had a good time at sister Maryanns last night to days at home reading from history of Joseph Smith ----- new page (MSSSC_2056_p056.jpg) Revelation continued as I was with Abraham thy Father even unto his exaltation & glory now as touching the law of the priesthood there are many things pertaining thereto verily if a man be called of my Father as was Aran by mine own voice and the voice of him that sent me And I have endowed him with the keys of this priesthood & power if he do anything in my name and according to my law & by my word, he will not commit sin and I will justify him Let no one therefore set on my servent Joseph for I will justify him for he shall do the sacrifice which I require at his hands for his transgressions saith the Lord your God And again as pertaining to the law of the pri- esthood, if any man espouse a virgin and des- ire to espouse another and the first give her consent and if he espouse the second and they are virgins and have vowed to no other man them is he justified, he cannot commit adultery for they are given uto him . for he cannot commit adultry with that that belongtheth unto him & to none else and if have he have ten virgins given unto him by this law. he cannot commit adultry for they belong unto him and they are given unto him, therefore is he justified but if one or either of the ten virgins after she is espoused shall be with another man, she has committed adultry, and shall be destroyed for they are given unto him to multiply and replenish the earth according to my commandments & to fu- llfill the promise which was given by my Father before the foundation of the world and for their exaltation in the eternal worlds that they may hear the souls of men for herein is the work of Father continued, that he may be glorified And again verily verily I say unto you if any man have a wife who holds the Keys of this power and he teaches unto the law of my priesthood as pertaining to these things then shall she believe & administer and administer unto him or she shall be destroyed saith the Lord your God ----- new page (MSSSC_2056_p057.jpg) Revelation continued for I will destroy her, for I will magnify my name upon all those who receive and abide in my law Therefore it shall be lawfull in me if she receive not this law, for him to receive all things whatsoever I the Lord his God will give unto him because she did not believe and administer unto him according to my word, and she then becomes the transgressor and he is exempt from the law of Sarah, who administered unto Abraham according to the law, when I commanded Abra- ham to take Hagar to wife. And now as per taining to this law verily verily I say unto you I will reveal more unto you hereafter therefore let this suffice for the present. Behold I am Alpha and Omega. Amen. Payson City Jan. 28th. 18.72 – we have four schools and two large Sunday schools in the place which are well attended the furnace for the New meeting house will be here to day: in a few days we expect to have the meeting House warmed up we have not met there this winter yet. The people are attending meetings better of late, Wednesday, January 29th, 18.73 to day at home wintering up the journal of my travells in the eastern states attended meeting of teachers Quorum last evening subject nomination of members for the next city council O Simmons was nom inated for mayor. J. S. Page James Finlayson & H G Bayle for AAldermen for Councillors W. S. Mcclellen. J. P. Wimmer T H Wilson. Barry Wride. & W. S. Tanner for councillors tickets was issued at the same time for a social party on Friday evening at Union Hall. The weather is very cold yet visited Sister Patten this morning & administered to her child who had the scarlettina family all well thank God Grandfather Sheffield called in to see me the mail has stopped the road is blocked with snow at Point of mountian no mail for three Day ----- new page (MSSSC_2056_p058.jpg) Travells Mill a Ca[--] December 20th 1869 To day at Mr Nathan Fairbanks was pleased to hear from home wrote to Bro Lant visited My Meads & took Dinner with him read in a New York paper of congresses Doing on the Poligamy bill on Thursday Dec. 23d visited Mr Henry Hamilton at a place called the Notele was kindly receiv returned to our home at Mr Fairbanks on the 25th called upon Dr. Vanwinkle on our return Sunday Dec 26th, 1869 received 2 letters from home my wif Jane wrote the family all well Bro Finlayson had been appointed sexta[-] and taken away the papers and Books. Dec 27th to day we started for Glens fall in York state Mr. Nathan Fairbanks took us to the railway station Tuesday Dec. 29 left Mr. Brooks Fairbanks at Bloomfield and took the cars for New York rained hard all evening went to My Ryersons in New York city was wet through they received us kindly I visited the saints in Brooklyn staid a Bro Elkingtons on North 7th street, we heard that Bro Thomas Jackson was in Brooklyn after a while he came in had a good time together in the evening attended a priest- hood meeting. Bishop R Burton was there allso had a time of rejoiceing together Dec 30th returned to New York and visited arround the city started this evening for Glens falls travelled all Night arrived at Mrs Pikes Bro Fairbanks sister on the eve of Jan 31st was kindly received she has two Daughters old maids they are all opposed to the gospel and think we are deluded & foolish. Tuesday January 4th, 1870 to day visited the limestone Quincy on the hudson river in the evening visited by a Mr Knight a spiritualist he explained to us his views on spiritualism. Wednesday Jan 5 to visited sandy hill saw one of the cannons taken in the revolutionary war visited the house of a Mr Henery Thoas & bore a testimony of the gospel to him allso visited the graveyard where some of Bro Fairbanks relatives were buried could not find there graves about this time Mr C L Harrison & W S Godhe started a paper against the church a Ogden Friday Jan. 7th, 1870 Wrote home sent my Photograph reading the rest of day ----- new page (MSSSC_2056_p059.jpg) Travels in Jersy in 1870 Sunday January 9th snowed all Day. fire last night a small house bunded allso a bank Robbery the thieves took twenty five thousand dollars no clue to the Robbers suspicion rested on us for a little while untill they got on the track of the thieves Monday January 10th to Day started for New York arrived in N York city at 4 PM went to Brooklyn staid at Bro Inkertans on the 11th visited at Sister Hawkins Bro Jackson accompanied us we preached Plurality Wednesday Jan 12th to day visited the central Park with several of the Bretheren returned to Brooklyn & attended meeting in the evening Jan 13th to day started for Bergen New Jersy visited Mr George Rice who is 89 years old. he has lived with his pres- ent wife for 70 70 years. Saturday Jan 15 two months to day since I left home visited arround in Bergen the RR Tunnel which is one & half miles long Jan 18th, 18,70 arrived at Mr N Fairbanks which we call our home for the present received sever- al letters from home heard that Mr Stevens & My sister had parted we councilled her to go home again Jane wrote that she attended to family prayer and felt to enjoy herself very well Payson City Utah Territory February 3d. 18:73.d At home to day writeing up my journal and attending to my domestic affairs weather cool and wind blowing from the south family all well. reports from the east of severe cold weather such as was never known. The Indian Prophets has been visited by the great Spirit and told him that the Lord was going to shake Terribly the Earth and he would let him Knows when the time would be so that the good Indians could get away from the wicked ones. for Lord is going to destroy the wicked & that they were once a white & Delightsome People but the Lord cursed them with a skin of redness through the wickedness of there Fathers the Indians are praying the Lord to take the curse of them & show them ----- new page (MSSSC_2056_p060.jpg) show them how to build cities like the white race they have great confidence in their Prophet and The Lord is truly working a work among them he has said they shoulld Blosson as a rose & become a white & Delightsome people Payson City February 12th 1873 At home snow six inches deep on the levell weather fine birds are singing sun is shining brightly received a letters from William Hulme from Bear Lake Idaho they report the family all well we held meeting in our New meeting house on last Sunday the meetings were well attended I was called upon to adress them in the evening wich I did on the subject of the riseing x generation the Lord assisted me by his holy spirit and gave me much freedom of speech the audience gave good attention The Telegraph says that there is bills before Congress in reference to Utah. wich takes away all the Power of the Probate Courts and allso the Legislature giveing it to the U S Judges and U S Marshalls * and allso giveing them the controll of the Territorial Treasury if the bill passes we may expect an increase of taxation a Later dispatch says that Pres Grant has ordered all the troops from the south on the Plains in close contiguity to Utah. several of our sisters are sick in the word the Lord is pouring out his holy Spirit upon the saints and withdrawing it from the world they are growing more wicked every day the poor are being oppressed by the rulers of the Land allmost beyond endurance. even here in Zion the Poor are oppr- essed by those proffessing to be saints how long oh Lord will these things be. The Spirit answers but a little while and the oppessor shall cease administered to my Bro Joseph the other day and the Lord healed him thanks to his holy [-]name amen ----- new page (MSSSC_2056_p061.jpg) The Following Letter was received by myself and Bro H G Boyle while on a mission in the state of Tennessee From Pres B Young Salt Lake City Utah Territory March 21st. 18.72 Elders Henery G Boyle and Thomas C Daniels Shady Grove Hickman Co Tennessee Dear Brethren your joint letter to me of January 24th after a lengthy detention in the blockade was received and its contents were perused with great pleasure. It is a constant source of gratification to hear from the Elders abroad and to learn of theire labours in the great Vineyard. We can well appreciate your feelings with regard to the hardness of the hearts of the People and the bitter opposition of the enemies of the truth but we have this consolation allways before us that the work is onward and the greater the opposition the faster it grows. And the very means sought to overthrow us generally turns direct to our advantage. In all of those things the faithfull Latter day saints see the hand of the allmighty and for his great goodness we feel in our hearts to bless and praise Him Doubtless you have heard or read through the press of the country. account more or less garbled of affairs as they have transpired here It may not be uninteresting to read a brief sketch of the extrordinary occurences in Utah this year. We returned from our trip to southern Utah on the 26th Dec not only in time for my trial on the day fixed by the court but soon enough to enter court one week before that time to answer to a charge of murder the writ of which had not been served and to ask for bail The Judge refused to take bail allthoug Mr Bates the U S District Attorney strongly urged him to and it was expected some regard would have been paid to the fact of my ----- new page (MSSSC_2056_p062.jpg) voluntary appearence in court but the Judge saw proper to refuse and stated that as there was no U S Jail in the Territory and as it was at the option of the military office commanding the post to receive or refuse prisoners and as he understood the defendent was the owner of several houses he said he would consign him to the custody of the U S Marshall in any one of these houses he might select The result of this decision is that I am held a prisoner in my own house allthough partly from the kindness and good sense of the deputy marshall Captain Evans and partly from his instructions. the burden imposed upon me is not very hard to bear while at the same time Judge McKean has added another laurel to his judicial crown which he wears with most unenviable notoriety The jury case were postponed till the march term pending the settlement wether or not the U S will pay the expenses of these prosecutions The 9th of January has been fixed by the inexorable Judge as the day for my trial allthough my attorneys had asked for a continuence untill the march term and our return to this city from St George was necessarily made in very severe weather in the most inclement season of the year It soon transpired however that it was not my appearence that was wanted but my disa- pearence and as the Judge failed to have me disappear the court at the inttence of the prosecuteing attorney without any further application on my part granted a continuence untill the 2d monday in march. The 11th march came and Judge McKean and District Att Bates were both in Washington Gov Woods had appointed Judge Strickland to take the place of McKean during his abscence Stricklan further postponed all criminal cases for the present and now the legal muss is culminateing ----- new page (MSSSC_2056_p063.jpg) in headquarters at Washington where it was doubtless planned. The issue is not yet developed and the strugle may be compared to a Dog fight one Dog is up one day and the other the next but we expect ours to come up on the top first best before many days and the other dog dead our local forces armed with the state constitution are allso carrying the war into the enemys camp and these agitations at Washington draw the fire away from Utah. I never have wavered in my faith and feelings that Judge McKeans illegal mudleing would end in a fizle and I still firmly believe it We are put to some anoyence and a great deal of expense by these persecutions but if we learn the lesson of patience and prove to our heavenly Father that we are firm in our integrity our labours will not have been thrown away. for in the words of the favourite Hymn for thy wrong thou shalt have double in thy makers favour blest all thy conflicts end in an eternal rest With regard to Bro Richardson & family we are disposed under your sugestions to assist them through the P E Fund as you will have to commicate with Bro W C Staines who we expect will again superintend the emigration buisness you can mention this family to him and tell him we wish this family emigrated If he should not have sufficient means on hand and you can borrow it from parties comeing with you here we will assist them in return when they get here as we are very short of means and there are many who need assistence we would like you to collect all you can and we will advance the rest. Bro Staines adress is 8 Battery place or Post office Box 3.9.5.7 N York City You are at liberty to return home if you feel like it and may you be blessed so to do and preserved so to do is the wish of your Brother in the gospel Brigham Young ----- new page (MSSSC_2056_p064.jpg) Payson City Februrary 21st 18:73 At home to day weather cold one foot of snow on the level some little sickness in the place at the ward Teachers meeting on tuesday eve the subject of building school houses was taken in consideration the quorum was divided on the size of the houses. three are needed There are more bills before congress for the adjustment of affairs in Utah. received a letter on the 19th from Virginia one Wesley Payne wishes to come here wants to know which is the cheapest way to come his wife belongs to the Church. I stayed at his house some when I was down there. I think there will be a few families come from there this spring. The comeing of our Lord Jesus Christ is near at hand the signs that he foretold are takeing place every day abroad in the world the powers of darkness are being exerted against the kingdom of God mens hearts are failing them for fear looking for the things that are comeing upon the earth. And I say in my heart oh Lord bless Isreal and purify her. give me the spirit of my mission and calling and help me to make my election sure which I ask in the name of Jesus. Bro Fairbanks writes from London that he is going on a visit to the Isle of wight &cc Pres Grant has sent a special message to congress asking for Legislation for Utah so that the Judges can have the law in their own hands Payson City Februrary 27th 1873 working arround home today weather moderateng a little snow 6 inches on the levell night before last Pres B Young & party from St George staid here and preached said that we must not build up Babylon any more at all but let the kingdom of God be upermost called a vote for all to raise there hands that were for Zion a large part of the People voted the other speakers were ----- new page (MSSSC_2056_p065.jpg) of the of the same mind they said that we let our Children run loose without teaching them the gospel the Lord would hold us accountable for the same spoke as though we would be called on to go into the order of Enoch congress have done not- hing as yet for Utah I attended a Brass Band Party last evening went of well. The Union Pacific RR is blockaded with snow & nearly all the other RR in the country. Pres Young went on yesterday to Provo. My family are well thank the Lord for it, the Bishop of Payson was told to cut of all the dry twigs that the Branch might grow and prosper oh Father give me power to direct my family in the truth and the way of life that they may not stray in by and forbidden paths. our prospects for water are good oh Lord bless thy saints deliver them from there enemies I ask in the Name of Jesus amen Payson March 5th 1873 at home today family all well Bro Neilson and Sister Bills were buried to day services held in the new meeting House a large concourse of people turned out to the funeral Elder J M Coombes & M G Boyle were the speakers on the occasion. I heard today that David Smith the youngest son of the Prophet Joseph was in Salt Lake City and had been baptised it needs confirmation the weather is moderateng a little snow going of slowly. The Lord blessed me this day with a Load of wood I asked the Lord to open the way so that I could get 2 Dols for to pay for my hay land and to day the money came to me . . . . . have not heard from Congress since last week.. I say in heart. oh Lord. bless Zion & all her interests at home and abroad frustrate her enemies and mine I ask it in the name of thy son Jesus Christ amen ----- new page (MSSSC_2056_p066.jpg) Payson March 17th 18.73 to day wrote to the Deseret News giveing the local News of Payson family all well thank the Lord weather fine have not began plowing yet ground too wet yesterday attended meeting in new meeting house Bro Savage spoke on on the signs of the times and of the judgments of God that had and would be poured out upon the nations warned the people to prepare for the comeing of the Son of Man which is near have working around home last week makeing a side walk & Ditch called upon to visit Bro Phelps family this evening to settle a difficulty between him & wife Payson April 12th. 18.73 attending meeting today Bro Coombs gave a synopsis of the instructions at conference the spirit of the Lord is moveing upon the Priesthood to have the people become one in earthly things which order will soon be established Lord hasten the day when the wicked shall cease to rule on this land of Zion when thy son Jesus shall reign on the earth Payson April 29th 18.73 Iit is now over a since my last writeing I have busy with my farming our crop of fruit is very promiseing the small grain is allso good we are now haveing a snow storm wet was meeded much for our garden & fields my family are all well as for as I know there has been several Deaths in the place of late. At home today with my Family thank God my heavenly Father for therin oh do thoue guide me by thy spirit day & night bless me with wisdom to direct my Temporal affairs I do thank the oh God for thy blessings in my family ----- new page (MSSSC_2056_p067.jpg) thou didst cause me to pass through the furnace of trial but thou didst not forsake me allthough they of mine own house sought my destruction yet thou didst deliver me Thou (oh) God do I thank for my deliverence.. yea they who had ought to have been my Brethren were blinded by sophistry yet thou wilts reward them as they deserve Oh Father bless me and mine pass the destroyer by in the name of Jesus amen ———————————— Payson May 5th 18.73 at home to day working arround home the boys are plowghing yesterday atte- ended meeting Elder Bayle preached on first principles. This last week John Amos & family came on from Va where I was labouring when on my mission they appear to be satisfied the weather is fine our Orchard is in full bloom oh how beautifull they do look the Lord surely has blessed the elements & turned the destroyer by my family are well thank the Lord. The U S troops have been whipped by the Modoc Indians Payson City May 13th 1873 at home. raining to day madock Indians left Lava beds whereabouts unknown Chief Justice Chase dead on the 7th ist fighting between blacks & whites in Lou- sianna accounts of Capt Halls Arctic expedition a failure the captian died Oct. 71 family well thank the Lord grain looks well Fruit trees in full blossom beautiful indeed air fragrant ----- new page (MSSSC_2056_p068.jpg) Payson City May 19th 18,73 to day at home all well thank the Lord it is raining hard we are haveing some of the most beautifull showers of rain this last week which is very uncomon in this country our crops look fine Bro D Stark preached to us yesterday on the signs of the times. we are prepareing to have our Land divided up by the county surveyor so that we can get our deeds the following is a Prophecy (10.41) delivered by Mother Shipton in the year A house of glass shall come to pass In England but alas War will follow with the work In the land of Pagan and Turk ........ And state and state in fierce strife Will seek each others life But when the North shall divide the <(south> An eagle shall build in the Lions mouth . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. Carriages without horses shall go And accidents fill the world with woe Primrose hill in London shall be And in its centre a bishops see Around the world thoughts shall fly In the twinkling of an eye Water shall yet more wonders do Now strange shall yet be true The world upside down shall be And gold found at the root of a tree Throug hills man shall ride And no horse or ass walk by his side Under water men shall walk Shall ride shall sleep shall talk In the air men shall be seen In white and black and green ----- new page (MSSSC_2056_p069.jpg) Payson May 23d at home today family well thank the Lord cloudy and raining weather cool uncomon for this time of year. Bro James was here this morning finished puting in crop yesterday at Salem city Ester Reed died yesterday at Salem. crops look well. water very high in the states... last week sent papers to Va to my friend Wheeler he wishes to gather to Utah but has not means Sister Pensy Dickinson died about three months ago it is my wish in accordence with her desire to have her sealed unto me ass soon as possible. The fruit trees are loaded with bloom. Annie my wife is still in the city The Arizona missionaries are still passing through here. no new cases of small pox at salem. The Arctic company have returned part of them . Capt Hall is dead the co wintered on an ice field & suffered much. Payson City May 31st 18.73 pleasent to day several of the people have gone to meeting at Provo Pres B Young and several of the twelve are to be there. hard frost last night small grain looks well this last week I have been surveying and working on the farm weather very cold of late spring very late this week speaker Blaine visited Salt Lake city this last week with several members of congress were in company the freedom of salt Lake city was given to them . I have 8 acres of Broom corn in Payson June 6th 18,73 .8. A. M Weather very fine and worn crops looking well at the 2 days meeting held at Provo last saturday and sunday I was called as a home missionary to travell in Utah Co and other co when Possible went to west mountain H on Tuesday ffor a load of posts for fence ----- new page (MSSSC_2056_p070.jpg) Payson City July 6th 18,73 Attended meeting conducted the singing Bro H W Barnett spoke on the dealings of the Lord with ancient Isreal and his dealings with them to day spoke for about two hours on the above subject. yesterday I was at Spanish Fork had a good meeting several of the Bishops from the north end of the county was in attendence the subjects were Tithing Home manufacture beautifying & building up Zion my wife Jane is well as can be expected the Children are all well thank the Lord our Sunday schools are prospering finely. the weather is fine & very warm crops are looking well. Our bishop J S Tanner says that every one must pay his tithing before they can get their endowments sealings or baptisms for their dead. The report from the Indians are that they want the mormons to come and settle with them & show them how to farm heavenly messengers have been visiting them telling them of the Book of mormon and they must quit murdering stealing and swearing and many other things that he told them another Book to come forth shortly. thus we see that the Lord is working by his holy spirit among the Lamanites and the word of the Lord must be fullfilled about them being the battle ax of the Lord and become a white and delightsome people they shall assist in the building up the Temple of the Lord . . . . . . the last two weeks have been assisting in the surveying of the Farming Land in this township my health has been good for the exceptions of a slight cold. Grandma Sheffield has come to visit us she has Aunt Mary's Baby with her who died about two months ago oh Father help me to keep thy commandments and be faithfull to the end give me power in the Priesthood and influence with thy saints allways haveing a teachable spirit Bless me the holy ordinences & increase me in the Earth allso my Children oh preserve ----- new page (MSSSC_2056_p071.jpg) Monday, May 29, 1871 Today, Bro Boyle <& self> left Paynes house and walked to Big Lick station. the company came in, in the evening some of the folks had been sick on the way, staid at the trout house on 30th took train at 4.30 for Norfolk where we arrived at 6 P.M. on the steamer for Baltimore where we arrived on the morning of May 31st at 9. staid at the Farber house till morning the company left in the evening visited in Baltimore till evening then started back to Va had a good nights rest on the steamer came very near missing the train in the morning September 21st 18,71 to day held a meeting on the bank of Beaver dam creek in Bedford co Va I baptised the following named persons Robert Ridgeway Pency W Dickinson Sarah Francis Payne Laura Ann Crouch Sarah Ridgeway Rhoda Perdue in the <(evening)> visited at Mr Wilson Wheelers Them in the truth that the Priesthood may contained in them, and they never falter which I ask in the name of Jesus Christ amen, [---] wrote two letters for Bro Edward Stevens (to England and Salt Lake City) I had a dream about Mother Daniel last night but could not get it clearly oh Lord give me to understand the Language of the holy spirit more perfectly bless me in my Labours through this week both in the house and out in the field help me to provide for the wants of my family. The Cholera is in Nashville and the adjacent country our Brethren are just returning from Spanish Fork city where they have been holding conference to day & yesterday oh Lord bless Zion & frustrate her enemies and may their reign soon cease and the reign of they son Jesus begin which I ask in the name[-] amen & amen ----- new page (MSSSC_2056_p072.jpg) Payson City July 21st 18,73 weather very warm. the last week I have been working in the Kanyon getting Lumber for the fence and finishing the house I was at goshen yesterday on a missionary tour. today at home putting up fence and fixing for makeing cider family all well thank the Lord the fruit crop is comeing in good grain harvest has commenced. many fires takeing place in the east the destroyer is abroad in the earth Cholera has allso made its appearence in seve- ral places. wrote a letter and sent a paper to Col. Hooper in Virginia to day Payson August 11th 18,73 the reason for not writeing since July 21st was because I had no ink and have been harvesting (my family are all well thank the Lord) the weather has been very warm Utah County is now called upon to build the Utah southern R R through this county the stock is mostly taken I have been out surveying this week. Bro Z Coltrin preached to us last sunday said we did not live up to our duties as saints of god the love of the people for the Gospel is growing cold they are after the dollars so keen that many of them forget there God The case of Thos Taylor was up in our teachers Quo for homesteading Land without consent of occupents, case laid over I dreamed last night that I saw a lake of clear water & a person with whom I am acquainted go in and fall & apparently drown) ----- new page (MSSSC_2056_p073.jpg) Payson City, August 17th, 18.73 At home to day have been surveying and drawing barley & wheat together this last week. Sometime in June last at a conference held at Provo myself with four others were called as home missionaries to labour in this <&> adjoining counties or throug the Territory if circumstances permitted weather very warm Payson Sunday 1 PM August 30th 1873 I attended meeting to day C D Evans & Grace Wood of Springville preached on the plan of life and salvation showing the importence of the Priesthood and our magnifying the same the Brethren are working on the Utah Southern R R I have been surveying and working on the farm this last week mad some cider June is troubled with the womb disease the Lord is blessing us in our family for which I feel very thankfull my son Thomas went to the R R to work fruit is plentifull thank the Lord have not thrashed yet weather wet of late. Payson City Septembr.. 21th 1873 At home today attended meeting allso sunday school very few at meeting sunday school well attended by Children very few teachers present my son Thomas C been of Loafing instead of attending sunday school our Bishop is absent so we have no Father for the ward at present the spirit of luke warmness increases in our midst there is a movey crisis in the east many of the Leading Banks are shuting up attended circle meeting this mor ning ten present family tolerably well thak the Lord. oh give me power oh Lord, to overcome the world the flesh and the Devil I received a letter from my lwife Anna she is staying at Corrimel ----- new page (MSSSC_2056_p074.jpg) she says her little Amy is a great comfort to her she is old enough to take care of herself that is Anna is she will be home in the spring wants her home ready for by that time (received two letters from Virginia this last week Harper & Crouch) Payson Nov 14th 18.73 to day attended to baptiseing Mary Elizabeth Richardson the rest of the time delivering & writeing tax noties ine the evening ward meeting in the rock school house had a good time the spirit of the Lord was with us my wif Jane is getting arround from her confinement babey well thank the Lord Payson January 1st 18,74 I attend meeting to day, at the new meeting house had a good time This morning I baptised Heber Taylor my wife Jane is visiting at her Mothers house to day the first time she has been out for two months since her confine my family are well for which I thank the Lord Congress has four Bills before it to supress Poligamy got up by the following named persons Freelinghaven, Logan, McKee & Wilson Payson January 6th 18,74 At home to day writeing to Virginia and reading from Journal & Bible allso wrote history. conversed with Jane on our Patriarchal Blessings. Speaking of the great Blessings bestowed upon our own Family for he has truly been mindfull of us all the day long and I feel to say in my heart continue thy mercies oh Lord to me was out teaching last evening with Bro Lant ----- new page (MSSSC_2056_p075.jpg) Payson City April the 22 731 Dear Cousin I recieved your [---] and [---] letter once Jane has just been out to sister Pattersons over the street for the first time she has walked out to any of the neighbours for three months my wife Anna came in town last sunday from salt Lake City. I did not expect till spring as she wrote me that she would not be here till then I had bought a house and lot at Pond town and have rented the place till April she now wants the place so we have further events, children are attending school Payson January 8th 1874 attended seventes meeting last evening at the meeting house in vestry few present wife better this morning weather continues cold subject up at seventies meetng the relationship between Adam & Jesus Christ not decided G Hancock presideing.. Payson City Februrary 20th 18,74 At home to day weather cold but fine great deal of snow fallen in the mountains Last evening atteded singing school in the vestry it was well attended a few days ago wrote to sister Alice Weinel in Salt Lake City. A small bird is makeing its appearance in our midst which appears to be working on worms that eat the Apples The spirit of the Lord tells me that the coming of the Lord is at the Doors all things bear testimony to the same my Family are all well thank the Lord yesterday Bro Stevens was visiting with me was converseing on the plan of the redemption of worldls ----- new page (MSSSC_2056_p076.jpg) A Patriarchal Blessing on the head of Thomas E Daniels Son of James E Daniels and Elizabeth Salthouse Born in Manchester England September 29th 1829 By Elder Levi W Hancock Bro Thomas by virtue of the Priestt- hood of the son of God and the authority of a Patriarchul I bless you and confirm all former blessings upon you And whatsoever the Lord shall give at this time that all may be sealed upon the That thou wilt be able to look upon the same and contemplat upon the things therein Thy heart shall be filled with Joy from the Allmighty for thou art of the true blood of Isreal without mixture Thy heart was filled with joy when thou didst hear the sound of the gospel and thoy didst did receive it with joy Thy Forefathers have prayed for the and have been answered through the prayer of faith to the joy of there hearts and the answer was that there Posterity should be remembered for ever Thy Saviour hath given us to understand that such are built upon the rock while those on a sandy foundation are trembling for fear they will fall The Lord is pleased with the Integrity of thy heart and the vissions of thy mind shall be opened that thou shalt see with thy eyes through the spirit that will be upon the many things that will give the great joy all things are well between the and thy God because thou hast never denied him thou shalt be preserved in the hour of temptation which comes upon all the world to try them Thy spirit naturally inclines to comfort those who mourn thou wilt awake many to a lively sense of what is right and thou shalt increase in wisdom and understanding ----- new page (MSSSC_2056_p077.jpg) so thou wilt be able to portray to the minds of The People reason and truth as it exist with God. Thou shalt live upon the earth till thy hair is white as <*> wool and the spirit of the Ancient of days shall rest upon the and through the and be like fire shut up in thy bones so that every nerve and fibtie through thy systems shall feel the good effects of the same Thou art of the full blood of Ephraim and nothing will fail the of this blessing which I seal upon thy head Thy offspring shall bless the to the latest ages because of the honest works thou hast done in thy Days of probation I now seal the blessing of Eternal lifes upon thy head in the name of Jesus Christ amen Father Sheffield clerk in the above (*Now it is Black as coal) ----- new page (MSSSC_2056_p078.jpg) A Patriarchal Blessing upon the head of Jane Ann Daniels Daughter of Anson Sheffield and Marice Mott born town of Bethany Co of Genessee state of New York Februray 16th 18,34 by Elder Levi W Hancock (T E Daniels clerk) Sister Jane by virtue of the priesthood of the son of God and according to the and accordg to the dictates of the spirit of the holy one I now bless you with a patriarchal blessing which is after the order of the priesthood of God I bless you as one of the Daughters of Isreal that you may look upon the same hereafter and contemplate upon the promises that shall be given the at time Joy thy consolatio[-] allthough thy body is now weak and needs strengthening yet thy life is precious in the sight of the Allmighty And thou shalt be strengthened in accordence with thy faith and the desire of thy heart untill thou shalt feel the quickening power and influence of the spirit of God Thou art through the loins of Joseph and much of the blood of Ephraim runs in thy veins the promptings of the spirit of the Allmighty will awake the serious reflections of things thou hast not yet discovered the vissions of thy mind shall be opened because of thy faith in the house of God Allthough thou hast trials in days that are past yet thou shall see many days of pleasure For thou hast brought forth a noble offspring which will grow up arround the fair and beautifull And thou shalt take great great pleasure in beholding the spirit which they will possess For they will rise up and bless the in thy decline of life let thy heart be comforted and thy faith fail not For thou shalt ----- new page (MSSSC_2056_p079.jpg) Discover in thy life the handworkings of the Allmighty and thy faith shall increase lift up thy heart in solemn prayer to the Allmighty and these blessings shall be fullfilled And thy heart shall be filled with love to all Gods creation Thou shalt have power over the destroyer The Lord is well pleased with the and will multiply blessings upon the thou shalt be prepared at the comeing of Christ to meet him with Joy These blessings are for the with the Blessings of eternal life which I now seal upon thy head, for thy name is written in the Lamb's book of life And he has given his Angels charge concerning the that you may overcome and have right to the tree of life. in the paradise of God amen & amen Thomas E Daniels senior clerk Payson July 20th 18.79 This piece of Journal fills this Book I have no other at present to write in but the Lord will open the way so I can get another Book to keep my Journal in I thank him he has helped me to write what I have the weather is very warm & Dry my crop of corn in Pond Town field is Burning for want of water many of the towns south of here suffering the same way the harvest has begun the yellow fever has again appeared in the southern states People are fleeing before it ----- new page (MSSSC_2056_p080.jpg) A Patriarchal Blessing by Elder Levi W Hancock upon the head of Louisa Jane Daniels Born in Payson October 7th 1858 Daughter of Thomas E Daniels and Jane Ann Sheffield (T E Daniels Clerk) Sister Jane with my hands upon thy head and according to the order of God and the Inspiration of the holy spirit I now bless you with a patriarchal blessing as I shall be directed by the holy spirit Thou art young and in the bloom of life and many good things will be expected from the It is needfull that thou shalt give hear to the instructions of thy Parents thy heart is naturaly tender and easy to be entreated thou art capable of receiving much instruction so that thou mayst be come qualified in the house of Isreal to stand among the refined ones of thy sex and give instruction to many arround the and many will look up to the for instruction if thou wilt give thy mind from henceforward to learning those principles that are right in the sight of heaven and thy mind naturally inclines to receive the same The Lord intends to make an instrument of the to be operated upon by his holy spirit untill thou shalt have understanding which shall be above many others of thy sex Then wilt thou after these qualifications take much pleasure in prompting others to behold the beauty and excellency that there is in the order of God that he has established on earth for the salvation of man Then will thy heart exclaim glory and honour to God the Father who hath sent his son Jesus Christ to die for the sins of the world Thou wilt contemplate the suffering of the son of GGod and it will do ----- new page (MSSSC_2056_p081.jpg) Thy Payson heart good, to honour him for thou hast much of the blood of Ephriam in the And thou shalt have a companion that will be suitable for the who shall comfort thy heart in thy days of trial And thou shalt live till thou art satisfied with life and thou shalt behold in the winding up scene of this generation and shall go to the centre stake of Zion with thy companion I repeat it there will be much expected of the so therefore pray much that thy faith shall not fail And the Lord will work mysteriously with the in thy favour Thou shalt overcome all the powers of the Destroyer whenever he shall seek to mar thy peace these blessings I seal upon the and seal the up to eternal life and thou mayest be changed at the comeing of Christ so thou wilt not taste of death these Blessings I have sealed upon the in the name of Jesus Christ amen & amen I am at the old House in Payson, Thomas E Dunich se[--] clerk ----- new page (MSSSC_2056_p082.jpg) Payson February 14th 18,74 At home today all well thank the Lord Jane is improveing in health she is sitting up sowing baby is sleeping Thomas & Jane are attending the high school this last week got up a Petition to the Legislature asking them for an Appropriation for the Pond town Road Telegrams from the east report the Indians riseing and leaveing there reservations and killing some of troops, cause, nothing to eat, wrote to Pres B Young last week asking if robe strings should be tied over or under the Apron Allso the manner of Adressing Deity on the Alter Governer Wood vetoes about half the bills the Legislature passes The enemy is on the alert to do michief to the Saints of God. The order of Enock is about to be entered into down to St George Oh Lord hasten the Day when thy saints shall be free from there enemies when the righteous shall reign, and the wicked cease to rule when we shall be one temporally as well as spiritually Our cooperative stores and herd are a complete monopoly they oppress the people instead of helping them I pray that the time will soon come when a change for the better will come will take place. O my Father hasten the day when thy people no longer be oppressed by their Brethren or those who profess to be, Congress have passed no bills as yet at this session in aid of Utah, oh Lord bless me in providing for the needs of my family amen &cc Payson City, Feb, 24th, 18,74 At home to day visiting with my family all well thank the Lord yesterday Bro L W Hancock visited with me had a good time was converseing on the comeing of the Saviour and other kindred topicks exchanged many Ideas...weather very cold at present went to Bro Stevens this mornig he was not at home my Bro Josephs children are visiting with mine to day they have had the whooping cough this winter very hard are nearly well now ----- new page (MSSSC_2056_p083.jpg) Payson March 2d, 18,74 Today I received the following letter from Pres Brigham Young in answer to a letter written to him about two weeks ago asking if the Bands should be tied over or under the Apron And the proper manner of Addressing Deity on the Altar as will be seen in former history. St George Feb 21st 1874 Thomas E Daniels Dear Bro Your letter of Feb 12th is received I am very thankfull to hear that your Sunday school is prospering and that you meet together in prayer I should tie the girdle and then put on the Apron, and let the bow of the girdle hang outside of the string of the Apron In prayer adress the Deity in any language that the spirit dictates provided allways that the spirit of the Prophets is subject to the Prophets and the Language used is carricturized by a proper reverence and due respect for the character of the holy Father to whom we adress our petitions in the name of Jesus Christ avoiding a too frequent repetition of the name of the supreme being See Doc & Cov See 3d Par 1 Does it ever occur to your circle while praying that it would be in accordence with your profession to be one in all the buisness relations of life as well as in the faith of the Gospel which we have received that our works of unity should prove our faith in accordance with the revelations in the Book of Cov concerning Enock and others God bless you all and inspire you all to do right is our prayer Brigham Young ----- new page (MSSSC_2056_p084.jpg) Payson April [--]t At home to day writeing and reading to my family yesterday Pres B Young passed through here on his way to salt Lake city several of the Elders from the city came out to meet him to day <20th> is stormy and wet it is now clearing up The United order of Enoch is being introduced in the settlements we expect to have it here after the 7th of May conference my Daughter Louisa is better she has gone to school to day I am just out of hay. I have got all my small grain in and Peas I thank the Lord for the health of my Family for food to eat & raiment to wear. The prospects for small grain & fruit are very good many Prophecies are appearing about destructions in the east famine & pestilence & cc Payson May 31st 18,74 At home to day attended Circle meeting this morning Elder John Taylor was present with us showed us the manner of prayer for two three four & five said we should be partic ular on these points Said when he first heard of the United Order he wished the Lord would come out as formerly with Joseph and give a regular built revelation. But upon thinking the matter over he was glad the Lord had withheld the revelation for it would have been life or death to the saints. The United order has been established here withe the following officers J J Farmer Pres J B Fairbanks Pres W C Mcclelen Y Curtis W S Tanner W A Huish Directors we have had some meetings and appointed foremen over the farming departments the above order is being introduced in all the settlements two thirds of our place are against it, the prospect for crops are good. I have in seven acres of brown corn [-] I received a letter from Bro Hulme and Sister Pheobe ----- new page (MSSSC_2056_p085.jpg) they report haveing lost there baby which makes three children they have lost since liveing at Bear lake they wanted if they had not better move back I told them if they could sell out to advantige to come. Bro Stevens at the city getting his eyes Doctored. Bro. G L Cannon is at Washington they are trying to take away his seat from him because he is a Poligamist they decided that he was entitled to his seat. Family all well thank the Lord the temple at St George Progressing finely. Sunday June 21st 18,74 Attended Circle meeting this morning full attendence three new members present had a good time the spirit of the Lord was with us my Bro Joseph was prayed for he has been affected with Neuroligic Shien Crandall of Springville preached this morning to a very attentive congregation on the order of Enoch Bro Joseph is better now the Poland Sholatrin Bill Passed the house of Representatives by a vote of 159 to 55. has not passed the senate that we have heard of the Childrens' Musical Jubilee held at Provo on the 15th was a complete success my Bro James was the Leader of the Choruses about five thousand Children participated in the Jubilee. The weather is very warm crops of small grain look well corn is backward the apples are very light crop. the United Order is at a standstill here the Pres and Board of Directors are divided on the working of the order. some of them are in for a dividend others for the council of Brigham others some other way. But it will all work out right yet for the Lord will come to our assistence yet and these that are in the way will have to stand aside. Family all well thank the Lord ----- new page (MSSSC_2056_p086.jpg) Payson July 16th 18,74 At home to day this last week I have been plowing corn and working arround home GQ Cannon arrived from Congress last week weather very warm family well makeing some Brooms to day I have heard that .Anna my 2d Wife has had a Boy which if it is so is a Bastard. Oh, Lord, I refer the case the unto the and ask that thou wilt judge beetween us, she has allways been a rebellious wife Receved a Letter from Wm Hulme they are well and have concluded to stay at Bloomington Bear Lake the United Order are orgaiseing as cooperatives company at present on account of the Laws of the Territory The Lord says we can carry out the true Order when we return to Zion I wish to have this testimony to bear to the nations that I have seen the face of my Reedeemer Oh Lord help me to obtain it even the fullness of my endowment as I have been promised them Bro F. M. Barlow's Daughters are staying with us till the 24th Payson July 24th 18,74 At home to day reading & writing up my Journal two of our Children have gone to Jubilee at Salt Lake city last evening administered to Sister McKnights with Bro Lund many of the children have gone to city no celebr- ation here to day harvesting Just commenced crops good Grasshoppers in Minnesota destroying crops to Chicago is again Burned partly down Loss 5000 many RR Decidents & fires Indians on the Ypa[-] [-]atto My Family are all well Annie my 2d wife is trying to have me furnish her a cow she has a heifer ----- new page (MSSSC_2056_p087.jpg) weather very warm this summer The Lord, says we must be one and equal in earthly things or we cannot be equal in heavenly things hasten the day when the righteous shall rule and the people cease to mourn. Payson City October 7th 18,74 At home to day my Sister Pheobe left here to day for Bear lake where she lives she came on a visit to see her relatives in Payson she has lost three Children since her removal to that place feels bad on that account her spirits were revived before she left the Lord will bless her and she shall prosper from this time forward by keeping the commandments of God. My Family are all well except Baby who is a little unwell but is mending thank the Lord. Several of the Elders are called to go to the states & some to St George to work on the Temple Payson October 25th 18,74 At home to day attended meeting this morning Bro Rust & Wride spoke last Sunday Octo 18 my Bro Joseph lost his only Son 12 months old his name was William Alma Daniels Bro D Lant and myself ordained him an Elder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints the morning of his death he died a few minutes afterward my Babe has been sick but is nearly well thank the Lord for he healed her I have been makeing Brooms for two or three weeks past the Lord has blessed me in selling them I am allso assisting my Bro James in collecting taxes for this end of Utah co weather very dry Fires rageing all over the states many cities threatened the St George missionaries started on Thursday last The Grand Jury of Salt Lake have found a Indictment against several of the twelve and leading men on false charges..... the Lord, is giveing me dreams and visions.. my health is good. I feel that a change among this people is at hand the Lord needs to endow his Elders with more power which I belevie they will have before long the Devil is very busy The day of oneness in Temporal things is at hand ----- new page (MSSSC_2056_p088.jpg) Thank the Lord for it Payson City Nov 6th 18,74 at home to day makeing Brooms family all well missionaries started on saturday last Bishop Misser started North this morning preached to us last evening George Hancock lost his twin Baby yesterday, Work has comenced on the extension of the Utah southern RR Payson Nov 15th 18,74 Attended meeting to day C D Evans spoke on the sacrament and kindred [---] the Utah Southern RR is comeing through our Farming field Bro J.P. Wimmer fell from his Barn Broke bothe his arms. Makeing Brooms last week Family well thank the Lord APayson City January 10th 1875 On New Years Day I invited all my relatives allso my Wifes to visit at my House together with Bro Zeledee Coltrin we Feasted together conversed sang and Danced the Lord truly gave us his spirit Bro Coltrin Blessed us all in the Name of the Lord my Family are well thank the Lord two days meeting at Springville Yesterday & to day The health of Pres Young is improveing Congress is quarelling over the occupying of Louisianna by U S Soldiers ----- new page (MSSSC_2056_p089.jpg) Diagram of the Kingdom of God [drawing of diagonal hatched lines] The above is a diagram of the Kingdom of God ,as shown by Revelation to the Prophet Joseph last night attended teachers Quo meeting subject the comeing election of city Councilors another meeting to night Mayor O Simons said he would Fight the ticket in mass Meeting went to Provo this week to sell Brooms. The Utah Southern Railroad is now runing to Payson Payson February 8th 18,75 Attended meeting to day several of the elders from Provo in attendence meetings well attended Bro P.P.Pratt took Dinner with me allso Moroni, P this last week. I have been makeing Brooms last Sunday eve I preached in our meeting house on the subject of oneness the Sunday before I preached at Salem on the same subject Irion mines are being Developed in the vicinity of Payson the R.R is pushing for the mines Rapidly To Morrow is our Election Day for city officers there is an opposition ticket got up with ex Mayor Simons at the head ----- new page (MSSSC_2056_p090.jpg) My Family are all well thank the Lord for it for he is good to all those that do right it appears to me that his mercy endureth forever He has blessed me with health & strength and has opened up ways that I knew not of he has helped me to pay my Debts for which I thank him sincerely. Oh help me to be faithfull that my Children may carry out the work that I have begun & never cease till all is accomplished that the Lord designs for you to do The Baptisms for our Dead must be attended to seek to attend to this in preference to getting money when the temples are Done praise the Lord oh my soul February 12th 18,75 At home reading Book of Cov attended some other buisness arround home Page 2,57 Book of Cov says that certain ones shall enter the United Order with a bond and covenent that cannot be broken unless Judgment shall follow Imediately Pres B Young is on the way to Salt Lake the Temple at St George is progressing Rapidly my health is Improveing to day the Railway trains run regulaly every Day The spirit of the Lord lets me to be patient the United Order will be established in due time. the Lord is prepareing the Hearts of the People for these things Our election resulted in the Election of J J Page for Mayor O Simons ran opposition got, 43 Notes the People have lost confidance in him .A O Smoot preached here last sunday have made a few Brooms this week ----- new page (MSSSC_2056_p091.jpg) Payson January 20th 18,75 A Patriarchal Blessing on the Head of Thomas English. Daniels born in Manchester England September 21st 18,29 Son of James C Daniels & Elizabeth Salthouse. (by Zebedee. Coltrin) Bro. Thomas in the name of the Lord Jesus I lay my hands upon your head and confer on you a Fathers and a Patriarchal Blessing Thou art of the seed of Joseph through the lineage of Ephraim. and I seal upon the the blessings of a Father. thou shalt live long upon the Earth .And if it shall be thy desire the blessings of the Lord shall be upon the all the Days of thy life. The Organs of thy mind shall expand till thou shalt come in possession of all that Inteligence which will secure unto you eternal life. And the Angels of the Lord will administer unto you the things pertaining to eternal salvation. And thy faith shall be increased untill thou hast accomplished all the desires of thy Heart. You shall behold the vissions of Heaven. The Lord has chosen you from the Foundation of the Earth to be a Minister of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, Thy Posterity shall become numerous upon the Earth and thy Sons and Daughters shall rise up and call you blessed. For thou shalt yet receive many endowments in the Temples of the Lord and great shall be thy reward in Heaven Thou shalt accomp- lish all the work the Lord has designed for the to do. I seal upon you all these Blessings by the power and Authority of the Patriarchal Priesthood in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ amen ----- new page (MSSSC_2056_p092.jpg) Payson Feb 28th 18,75 Attended meeting & Sunday school Bro Charles Nuller preached a very interesting discourse on duties of Teachers Priests & Deacons showed that we must not hire a man to clean & warm the House of God but the Deacon must attend to this duty Bro Atenal resigned his position as superin- tendant of the Sunday School. on the Bishop's reccomendatin my Family are well thank the Lord had a very good prayer circle meeting this morning The Lords hand had been manifest in healing the sick in accordance with our prayer wrote to Supt F Little to get a car on the RR to go to conference to see how much & cc Payson City March 14th 18,75 Attended meeting to day Elders M Tanner & George Rust spoke the latter just returned from a mission East the Bible class of the Sunday school was well attended Met in circle meeting this morning the spirit of God met with us My Wife Anna has called for a bill she has taken a notion to marry again the bill is now in town but she has not signed it yet but she has gone to the city of Salt Lake possibly to get married. I know not I have thought curious that I have been led in a way that I knew not of the trials I have had in my family unlike many others This much I know (I did not) enter into celestial marriage for the lust of the flesh my heart and intentions were pure on entering this principle Bro. Parley P Pratt staid at my house this past week I have had dreams and vissions of late about travelling on sea and land I have desired in my heart of late that they way might be opened whereby I might know of or hear from my Dead Freinds and Relatives that I may be ----- new page (MSSSC_2056_p093.jpg) Able to go forth and do a work for them The Patriarchs through the Inspiration of the Holy spirit have promised me the Desires of my Heart. To obtain the knowledge of my Ancestry is the Prominent desire of my Heart Judge McKean sentenced Pres B Young to one Days Imprisonment in the Penetentiary this last week cause for asking a New trial on divorce case of Ann Eliza. Family all well thank the Lord we have not commenced Plouighing yet the weather continues cold May 6th 18.75 It is Fast day today the weather is cloudy and wind from south west the Trees are all in Blossom the prospect for Fruit is excelent a spirit of oneness is gaining ground prospect for crops are very good over west they have had killing Frosts allso in the East The prospect in some parts of America are for Famine I dreamest the other Night that I was sailing on the ocean ploughing through the waves the scene was Grand and Godlike My Family are well thank the Lord. Thomas is still at his Uncle Joseph's working for his Board attended meeting sunday week at Dedication of Spanish Fork meeting house have been making Brooms this week so far Bro Boyle has gone on his mission to the States south have not heard from him yet ----- new page (MSSSC_2056_p096.jpg) Payson November 9th 1873 Mr H. W. Burnett your Territorial and County Taxes for 1873 are now delinquent and must be settled forthwith to save further costs. amount tax 1.60 costs 25 total $1.85 James E Daniels Collector Utah County per T E D. Deputy Patriarchal Blessing of James A Daniels son of T,E & Daniels & Jane A Sheffield Born March 22d 1872 by Z Cottrin Bro James in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Authority of the Holy Priest- hood, I lay my hands on you and seal a Fathers Blessing and a Patriarchal Blessing Thou art of the seed of Abraham and of the Tribe of Joseph through the lineage of Ephraim That you may live long when the Earth and that you may receive the Holy Priesthood and become the Lords annointed And if thou wilt keep the commandments of God thou shalt become mighty on the Earth; And thou shalt live on the Earth and pass through all the ordeals of the Temples and shall be on the Earth when the Ancie of Days shall set For thou art one of the Elect of God chosen of the Lord before the Foundations of the Earth to become a king and a Priest unto God Thou shalt administer in the holy Jerusalem and in Zion Allthough thou art Young Thy Posterity shall be Numerous on the Earth and shall Dwell in the Holy city And shall there administer in holy things and none of thy Brothers shall excel the For thou shalt partake with thy Father and Mother ----- new page (MSSSC_2056_p097.jpg) of all the blessings bequeathed to them Thou shalt become an Heir of God and a Joint heir with Jesus Christ For thou wilt seek after knowledge and will attain to all the Principalities and powers in the Kingdom of God Wives shall be given unto the and thou shalt learn to rule untill thou wilt know how to rule a kingdom that shall be given unto the When men shall persecute the and seek to destroy thy life the Angels of God will deliver the And inasmuch as thou wilt give thy Heart to the Lord and seek to know his holy will thy mind shall begin to expand from this very hour and great shall be thy reward in the Kingdom of Heaven And now Bro James I seal upon you all these blessings and you unto Eternal Lives by the Power and authority of the Patriarchal Priesthood in the name of Jesus Christ amen & amen. ----- new page (MSSSC_2056_p098.jpg) Branon on the moor 1 Its of a fearless irishman a story I will tell tell His name was William branon and in irland he did dwell It was on the Calvert mountains he commenced the Where many a welthy gentleman before him shook withe fear. Chorus Branon on the moor branon on the moor Bold and undaunted stood young branon on the moor. 2 Its a brace of loaded pistols he carried withe him each day Hee never robbed a poor man upon the queens highway For what he taken from the rich like Aupen and black less He always did devide it withe the widow in distress Chorus 3 One day he robbed an irishmen by the name Julia br[---] Then traveled on to gather till the day began to dawn Then Julian found his money gown likewise his watch and Hee at once encountered branon and robbed him back again Chorus . . . . . . 4 Its willes found the packsman as good a man as he He took him on the highway companion for to bee Then Julian theren a way his pack without any more delay And he proved a faithful comrad un till the dying day Chorus 5 One day upon the highway as willia he sat down He met the mayor carhill a mild out side of town The mayor new his features and I think young man sand That your name is Willia Brown you must come along Chorus 6 Its willies she being to town provisions for to by And when she saw her Willia she began to weep and cry I wish youd hand me a ten pense and as these words he spoke She handed him a blunder buss from under her cloak Chorus Thomas Its with this loded blunder buss the truth I will will He made the mayor tremble and he robbed him of his gold One hundred pounds wase offered her his apprehension. there And withe his hors and sadle to the mountains did pre Chorus Chorus Thomas E Dunn ----- new page (MSSSC_2056_p099.jpg) Its willia being mounted upon the mountains high With cavalry and infanty to take him they did try He laughed at them with scorn and at length did say It was a false harted young woman did badly me betray Chorus Its was in the county of tipperary the place was called on down Where bremon and his comrad was made to suffer so They lay among the briers grew thick upon the fields. And each recieved nine wounds before that they would yeald Chorus Pgsr Its they were taken prisoners in irons they were found Conveyed to Clonmerls jail where strong walls did them surround The jury found them guilty and the Judge made this reply In robbing on quneers highway you are condened to dye Chorus Farwell to you my loving wife and you my children three And you my aged father how my shed a tear for me And you my tender mother whus grey locks t[---] and [--]ied It would have ben better William Branan It wase there wilia branan in you cradle should have died Writen by Thomas E Daniels Jr 1873 March ----- new page (MSSSC_2056_p100.jpg) Sparking Sunday Night 1ls Siting in the corner. on a Sunday eve With a tapor finor. Resting on your sleev Star light are casting On Your face the relig Bless me aint it pleasant sparking Sunday 2d How your heart is thumping aganst your sundry How wickedly its working on this garst day of rest Hours Slem but minets Its they take there fl[---] Bless me heart it pleasent Sparking Sunday night 3d Pa nd Ma eve sleeping on those peaceful Dree many of the things the falls in meeting love you one another the monster resits Bars me dont wee dont Sparking Sunday nigh 4d One arm with gental presure fingers around you squees here dimpled hand here forming She freely slaps your face But more in love Oh thunder hand it pleasant Sparking Sunday 5d About three o clock in the morning Hewill begin to sey I think it is becoming The cheerful early dey ----- new page (MSSSC_2056_p101.jpg) [Column 1] THE EVENING NEWS. GEORGE Q. CANNON, EDITOR AND PUBLISHER. Saturday, January 11, 1873. DISCOURSE By Elder JOHN TAYLOR, Delivered in the 13th Ward Assembly Rooms, Salt Lake City, Sunday Afternoon, Jan. 5, 1873. REPORTED BY DAVID W. EVANS. I TAKE pleasure in meeting with the Saints. I like to break bread with them in commemoration of the broken body of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, and also to partake of the cup in remembrance of his shed blood. And then to reflect upon the associations connected therewith. Our re- lationship to God through our Lord Jesus Christ; our relationship to each other as members of the body of Christ, and our hopes concerning the future; the second appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ, when, we are given to understand, he will gird himself and wait upon us, and we shall eat bread and drink wine with him in his Father's kingdom. I like to reflect upon all these and a thousand other things con- nected with the salvation, happiness and exaltation of the Saints of God in this world, and in the world to come. We have one day set apart in seven for the worship of God, and I think it a very great mercy we have, for we can thus draw aside from the world, its cares, per- plexities and anxieties, and, as rational, intelligent, immortal beings, reflect upon something pertaining to the future. We are very much engaged, generally, in re- lation to things of time and sense. Our hearts, feelings and affections seem to be drawn out in this direction, and these are the only things which a great many peo- ple have in view. Jesus, in speaking to his disciples, tells them not to take any thought about what they shall eat or drink, or wherewithal they shall be clothed, for said he, after all these things the Gentiles seek. We, of course, must take this as being specifically addressed to his disciples under the circumstances in which they were then placed; the principle involved in his words, is nevertheless true. Says he, "Consider the lilies of the field, they toil not, neither do they spin, and yet Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these." Again, says he, reflect upon the fowls of the air, they do not sow, nor reap, nor gather into barns, yet your Heavenly Father takes care of them, and will he not also take care of you, O ye of little faith? There is something beautiful in reflecting upon many of these subjects, and some- thing, very frequently, that is quite in harmony with our feelings when they are in accord with the Spirit of truth and the light of revelation. We feel, then, that we live in God, and as the Scriptures say, that in him we move and have our being. If we have life, or health, or possessions; if we have children, and friends and homes, if we have the light of truth, the blessings of the everlasting gospel, the revelations of God, the holy priesthood, with all its blessings and government and rule, all these and every true enjoyment that we possess come from God [-] [Column 2] the old Assyrian empires, or examine the history of the Kings of Babylon and Nine- veh, and the mightiest among them have passed away after a brief exercise of power; no matter how extensive their possessions were. Read their history in the Bible and, although some affect to despise that book, it is the best history we have, and contains a hundred times more information in rela- tion to those old nations than you can find anywhere else. When the Medes and Per- sians dispossessed the Assyrians, they had just the same ideas as the Assyrians had— they wanted to extend their territory, and they did it, but what did it amount to? Not very much when we speak of it as immor- tal beings; when we speak of it as mortal beings, as butterflies that flutter around for a short time, and then die, it might be a sort of transient, passing glory, like a sun- beam when the sun shines from behind a cloud—it appears very brilliant, but it soon passes away. So it was with their glory, and where is it now? Why you can scarce- ly find where their mightiest cities stood. People think they can, but there is nothing definite about it, and their glory, pomp and majesty have no more existence now than their cities. They had a correct principle planted in their bosoms, but it was perver- ted and corrupted, and they sought by fraud, strategy, war, robbery and plunder to possess themselves of dominion, empire and authority, and when they got through, they had to lie down among the silent dead; and could neither move a hand, stir an arm, move a leg nor open an eye, but had to be devoured by worms. That is the history also of the Grecian and Roman kingdoms. It was said of Al- exander that after he had conquered the world he sat down and wept because there was nothing more for him to subdue, and I have heard it said frequently, in regard to individuals, that they wanted everything in their own grasp; and if they had had a world, it would not have been big enough, they would have wanted a little piece out- side to make a garden patch. We see man here striving anxiously for the possession of lands, houses and so forth. That is all right enough, but it wants to be corrected. I will refer you to some Scripture about Abraham. We read that God took him upon a certain hill, and told him to lift up his eyes eastward, westward, northward and southward, and said to him, "To thee and to thy seed after thee will I give this land." Here was a promise made by God. Of course Abraham ought to have felt in- terested in it. But was it pertaining to this world only? No, certainly not. I mean was the promise confined to Abra- ham's lifetime? No, certainly not. Then what had it reference to? These are ques- tions that demand our serious attention and consideration. We find also that there was a promise made to Joseph, that he should possess a land, rich and fruitful, abounding in the precious things of the earth, and the precious things of the mountains, and of the everlasting hills; that should abound in corn, wine and oil, and the rich blessings of life, and that he should become a multi- tude of nations in the midst of the earth. These blessings were spoken by men who were just, as it were, tottering on the brink of the grave, by Moses and Jacob, for in- stance, who put their hands on the heads of their descendants and blessed them pre- vious to their departure. How was it in regard to the promise made to Abraham? Did he really possess that which was prom- ised him? Certainly not. Yet God prom- ised. Then why did not Abraham possess that which was promised? Because it was not necessary at that time. Stephen, in talking about it, I suppose about eighteen hundred years after, says that "God prom- ised these things to Abraham, but never- theless he gave him none inheritance in it, no not so much as to set his foot on;" but, says he, he will give it to him and his seed. That is, they shall by and by inherit. This was the idea and feeling they had in rela- tion to this matter. They did not consider the world at that time in a perfect state,and men who understand themselves do not consider it in a perfect state to-day. Abra- ham and his seed had that land given to them and they will possess it, redeemed and renewed, when it will be worth having. Well,then, how is it? A good deal as it was with the rich man that Jesus spoke of in his day. He had gathered around him a great quantity of property, and said he, "Soul, sit down and be at rest, do not trou- ble thyself any more, take thine ease, eat, drink and be merry, for thou hast much [Column 3] not dance. Yes, we should enjo[-] any way we can. Some people [-] music. Why music prevails in [-] vons, and among the birds! God [-] ed them with it. There is nothi[-] pleasing and delightful than it [-] into the woods or among the bush[-] in the morning and listen to the [-] and rich melody of the birds, a[-] strictly in accordance with the sym[-] of our nature. We have no idea [-] excellence of the music we shall [-] heaven. It may be said of that, a[-] the Apostles has said in relation t[-] thing else— "Eye hath not seen, [-] heard, neither hath it entered i[-] heart of man to conceive of those [-] which are prepared for those who l[-] fear God." We have no idea of [-] cellency, beauty, harmony and sy[-] of the music in the heavens. Our object is to get and cleave to[-] thing that is good, and to reject ever[-] that is bad. One reason why religio[-] ple in the world are opposed to m[-] theatres is because of the corrupti[-] is mixed up with them. Wicked a[-] rupt men associate themselves wit[-] things, and degrade them; but is th[-] reason that the Saints should not enj[-] gifts of God? Is that a correct prin[-] Certainly not. It is for them to g[-] everything that is good, and calcul[-] promote the happiness of the human[-] ily. I remember the time very well[-] many of you do, when we used to[-] mence our theatrical amusements he[-] prayer. We do not do so much of i[-] This practice is put to one [-]ide. I su[-] one was right and the other is rig[-] merely speak of these things. All ou[-] should be sanctified to God. You [-] that we are in the habit of having [-] occasionally. I will give you my [-] about some of them. I have attende[-] or two lately, and I think we are ru[-] rather wild, and that we do not act as [-] like gentlemen and ladies as we sh[-] nor quite as much like Saints as we o[-] to do. I think there is a great deal o[-] pudence and pertness, a great amo[-] interfering with other people's rig[-] these places, and I think that we nee[-] recting, that is, in our ward. I do not[-] how it is here in yours. Perhaps y[-] better here. I am speaking of thing[-] see them. I think we ought to e[-] every thing of this kind to its proper[-] dard. We ought not to intrude up[-] take advantage of anybody, even in an[-] ments. When this is not observed [-] tell you what it leads to: it leads to a [-] ration in society, inducing men and [-] men who desire to be polite, refined [-] courteous, to keep out of the compan[-] those who do not take this course, [-] produces, if you please, something li[-] aristocracy, which is very repugna[-] the wishes of good feeling men and [-] men. But they have either to do this o[-] be run over in many instances. I speak of these things for your infor[-] tion. I do not know that you need [-] information of this kind here. I supp[-] I ought to have delivered this lectur[-] our ward. In all our amusements [-] should see that things are conducted rig[-] and we should never forget to act the p[-] of ladies and gentlemen, and we should[-] away with frowardness and impuden[-] and treat everybody with kindness, cou[-] esy and respect. I speak of [-]ese thin[-] because they strike my attention. L[-] perhaps I have said enough on this su[-] ject. We are here—a number of Saints. We[-] you have outsiders among you. That[-] none of our business, they are not us. [-] am now talking to Saints. We have co[-] here to fear God and keep his comman[-] ments. I do not expect to frame my rel[-] gion, ideas or amusements to suit the fee[-] ings of any man under the heavens. [-] want to get my inspiration from God, an[-] be led by him, and I want to honor him i[-] all my acts. I do not care what this, tha[-] or the other man does. Know ye not tha[-] God has called us from the world t[-] plant among us: the principles of eterna[-] truth, to teach us correct principles and t[-] show us how to conduct ourselves toward.[-] one another, and towards all men? T[-] show us also how to enjoy life, what course to pursue to elevate ourselves in the world and to bring up others to our standard? W[-] should never descend to others. That [-] my feelings, but I have seen some [-] Go o[-] ----- new page (MSSSC_2056_p102.jpg) Editor Gazette Dear sir I thought I would pen a few lines for your paper now I consider it a good institution first Now you must Know, that I attended the theatre the other evening and I really did think the class of play was low but I got allong very well with that Mr Bettss Price was good allso wiss Hardys Penny Mrs Whistin s cathleen was very well. .But owing to the curtains being down so much of the time I allmost lost the run of the play and then some of the parts not being up I did get the ground work of them play The Dance beetween the plays was not to my likeing at all although it pleased the children much. But Mr Editor shall we cultivate a taste in our community for such for such a low grade of dancing some may call it an Jig but a true Irishman would scorn some of those obscene motions made by the PontisNow I love to see a good play and wish to cultivate a taste in my Children for the advancement of the fine Arts. But I find that we need a cooperation in this matter and when our children attend the theatres let the Play be such that they will be taught good morals [newspaper upside down at the bottom of the page with text] [first column] CHRISTMAS GOODS! IN GREAT VARIETY. [second columns] KEEP ON HAND the largest and Most Complete Stock of WAGON TIMBER AND IRON IN THE TERRITORY. JUST RECEIVED Two Car Loads Neff Wagons, ----- new page (MSSSC_2056_p103.jpg) [Column 1] perfect gift. He organized our [-] they exist in all their perfection, symme- try and beauty. He, as the poet has ex- pressed it. "Makes the grass the hills adorn, And clothes the smiling fields with corn. The beasts with food his hands supply, And the young ravens when they cry." He is merciful and kind and benevolent towards all his creatures, and it is well for us to reflect upon these things sometimes, for we thus realize our dependence upon the Almighty. In speaking of the affairs of this wo[-] it is often asked by many—"Wh[---] we not attend to them?" [--]ng up should. Do we not [---] we not talk Zion? Of cours[-] and orchards, and of building [-] in such a position that we habitation [---]es can enjoy the blessings of Of course we do. God has given us [-]he land and all the necessary elements for [-]his purpose, and he has given us intelli- gence to use them. But the great [-] has had in view is, that whilst we use the intelligence that he gives us for the accom- plishment of the various objects that are desirable for our well being and happi- ness, we should not forget him who is the source of all our blessings, whether pertaining to the present or the future. Mankind everywhere and in all ages have universally manifested a desire to obtain the things of this world—gold, silver, houses, lands, possessions. &c. This desire is inherent in man; it was planted in our bosoms by the Almighty, and is as correct as any other principle if we can only un- derstand it, control it, and rightly appre- ciate the possessions and blessings we en- joy. The earth was made for our possession. The lands, waters, mountains, valleys, the trees, the minerals, vegetation of all kinds, plants, shrubs and flowers— all these things were made for the use of man, and it is for us to appropriate them to their proper use, to estimate them at their proper value, and as rational, intelligent, immortal beings, to comprehend the object of the creation of these things, as well as the object of our creation, and why and how, and under what circumstances we [-] enjoy them, and how long we can re- [-] possession of them. In examining the human mind you will find many correct feelings and instincts planted there, if men would be governed by them. I do not know but it is this the prophet has re- ference to when he says, "There is a spirit in man, and the inspiration of the Al- mighty giveth it understanding." An- other Scripture says that "God has given to every man a portion of his Spirit to profit withal;" but then, many men do not profit by it; and although they have this light or intuition within themselves, they are not governed by it. There is a party of re- ligionists in the world, called Quakers, so strongly impregnated with this idea that they think that this inward monitor is suf- ficient to guide men in all their acts in life. There are certain political principles (I am referring to the freedom of the human mind,) that are very pertinent on this point. When the framers of the Declara- tion of Independence assembled on this continent, far away from other nations and peoples, in reflecting upon governments and man, the very first thing that they struck upon was this— "We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are cre- ated equal, and they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, among which are life, liberty and the pur- suit of happiness." Almost simultaneous- ly with them, or I believe a very little after, I will not be positive as to the date, a num- ber of gentlemen got together in Paris, France, to lay the foundation of a govern- ment, which they thought would be a gov- ernment of the people, and they expressed themselves in almost similar words to those which were expressed here. And you will find, in examin- ing the history of the world, that whenever mankind have been oppressed or bound down, there has generally been a re- action, a continual striving among the people to liberate themselves from their bondage, to gain freedom and the exercise of those inalienable rights of which I have spoken. One great principle which has existed among men from the beginning of creation until now, is a desire, planted within them by the Almighty, to possess property— lands, houses, farms, &c., and in a national capacity, to possess territory, to increase their boundaries, and to extend their rule and dominion. As I said before, this prin- ciple is correct, only it wants controlling according to the revelations of God. Our time on the earth is very short and transitory. No matter what we acquire it amounts to but very little, and we soon leave it. There is no great statesman, war- rior, king, emperior or general, who has acquired extensive territory, but who has had to leave it soon. This is the universal history of mankind. You may go back to [Column 2] Would he have [---] Perhaps his children and wife, perhaps not, just as it happened; there was no depend- ence then any more than now about such things. All that the rich man knew was that his soul would depart, and that his body would be placed in the ground to feed the worms. These things ought to lead us to reflection. As I said before, the princi- ple or desire to acquire the goods of [---] world is in itself good, but [---] per- verted by man [---] Gentiles and "Mormons" [---] for nothing but what the [---] and drink, and wherewithal [---] be clothed, they are both fools, they do not know at what time their souls will be required of them. If man were to live up to the privileges with which he is surrounded; if he follow- ed the light of revelation and sought for and became acquainted with God, and cor- rect principles in relation to the future, he would not want to lay up so much the treasures of the earth as the treasures of eternal life. But you are now talking[-] spiritual things [---] [---] temporal things, and I will go back, and examine some men who have lived here on the earth, Job, for instance. He said, "I know that my Redeemer liv- eth, and that he shall stand in the latter day upon the earth, and that I shall see him; and though worms feed on my body, yet in my flesh I shall see God." Job, when he was resurrected, expected to stand upon and to inherit the earth in the latter days, when the earth should be redeemed. Another prophet, speaking of the same things, says, "I shall stand in my lot in the end of the days." He also expected an in- heritance upon the earth. And then, the ancient apostles, in talking about these things, said that the Saints should live and reign on the earth after the resurrection, when the earth should have become puri- fied. Hence it is very natural for a feeling of this kind to be planted in the bosoms of men, that is, an attachment to the earth, for it is man's eternal inheritance, but that feeling must be sanctified. Who is it that will possess the earth? Is it those ancient monarchs who fought, con- quered, subdued and slew their thousands, waded through seas of blood to gain empire? No, not at all. Is it the man, who, by fraud, deception, trickery, dishonesty and chica- nery, took advantage of those around him, and so amassed large wealth and possess- ions? Verily no. Who will, then? Let Jesus speak. Says he, "Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth." They are the ones who will rejoice before God in the possession of the blessings of earth, and not the kings and other charac- ters to whom I have referred. One of the prophets saw the end of these kings and rulers, and he says, "They were gathered together, as prisoners are gathered togeth- er, into a pit, and they were shut up for many days, and after many days they will be visited." They will have some chance of salvation and of an exaltation, but they have to remain in prison for many days, like the antediluvians had, before Jesus went to preach to the spirits in prison, who were sometimes disobedient in the days of Noah. We have a great many principles innate in our natures that are correct, but they want sanctifying. God said to man, "Be fruitful and multiply, and replenish the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea, the fowls of the air, and the creeping things that creep on the face of the earth." Well, he has planted, in accordance with this, a natural desire in woman towards man, and in man towards woman, and a feeling of affection, regard and sympathy exists between the sexes. We bring it into the world with us, but that, like everything else, has to be sancti- fied. An unlawful gratification of these feelings and sympathies is wrong in the sight of God, and leads down to death, while a proper exercise of our functions leads to life, happiness and exaltation in this world and the world to come. And so it is in regard to a thousand other things. We like enjoyment here. That is right. God designs that we should enjoy our- selves. I do not believe in a religion that makes people gloomy, melancholy, mis- erable and ascetic. I would not want to spend my life in a nunnery, if I were a woman, or in a monastery if I were a man; and I would not think it very exalting to be a hermit, and to live by myself in a poor miserable way. I should not think there was anything great or good associat- ed with that, while everything around, the trees, birds, flowers and green fields, were so pleasing, the insects and bees buzzing and fluttering, the lambs frolicking and playing. While everything else enjoyed life, why should not we? But we want to do it correctly and not pervert any of these principles that God has planted in the human family. Why, there are some people who think that the fiddle, for in- stance, is an instrument of the devil and it is quite wrong to use it. I do not think so, I think it is a splendid thing to dance by. But some folks think that we should [Column 3] descending [---] and corrupt. I do not believe [-] or in the lasciviousness and disho[-] are practiced by many who call the[-] honorable men, I want nothing to d[-] with them, and I say, "My soul, enter no[-] thou into their secrets; and mine honor with them [---] thou united." We have come here for the purpose of el[-] evating ourselves, and of elevating th[-] people that we are among. We have com[-] here to build up Zion, to be taught of th[-] Lord, to establish righteousness, and t[-] prepare a people for his coming. What i[-] there in the world that we do not know[-] We knew their religion, philosophy an[-] morality before we came here. We can[-] here in order that we might prepare a pe[-] ple for the time when the bursting heave[-] shall reveal the Son of God, when [-] shall feel his power and [---] when all people [---] honor, powe[-] say "[---] and dominion be ascrib[--] to him that sits on the throne and the La[-] forever." We came here to introdu[--] principles in regard to our religion, mora[-] social status, the covenants that we ma[--] with God, and all things pertaining to t[-] world and the world to come. And [-] cause of this, heavy responsibilities [-] volve upon upon us as parents, eld[-] in Israel, bishops, presidents, priests, seventies, and in every office [-] priesthood and all the various avocation life, that we may be able to say, finally, have fought the good fight, I have finis[-] my course, I have kept the faith, I h[-] done that which is right, I have been [-] of integrity, virtue, holiness and pu[-] and hence is laid up for me a crow[-] righteousness, which the Lord, the Ri[---] eous Judge, shall give unto me, and unto me only, but to all those who the appearing of our Lord and Savior J[---] Christ." These are some things w[-] after, the attainment of which ought t[-] the object of our existence. Well, but is it not right for us to lands? Certainly, we have come her[-] the purpose of building up a Zion, an[-] ought to use all diligence for its ac[-] plishment. You Saints possess fac[-] here that people never possessed b[-] Do you realize this? Perhaps t[-] stretched a little. I expect that in [-] of Enoch they had a splendid time they lived in a very happy mann[--] we are living in the dispensation fullness of times, when God is gat[-] all things together in one, and brought us from different nations, tries, climes and peoples. What to [-] make fools of ourselves? Is cur ob[-] live as the wicked do—to be "co[-] boasters, proud, blasphemers, dis[-] to parents, heady, highminded, d[-] of those who are good, to have a[-] godliness without the power?" came here that we might learn t[-] the Almighty, and prepare our[-] our posterity for thrones, prin[-] powers and dominions in the [-] kingdom of our God. We talk so[-] about Zion, that has got to be bu[-] Jackson County; also about a Ne[-] salem that has to be built and pre[-] meet a Jerusalem that shall desce[-] the heavens. How do our lives tions compare with these things? hearts, feelings and affections dr[-] after them, or are we forgetful minds swallowed up with the a time and sense? Are we prep[-] children for this time, and sp[-] influence around us wherever w[-] people in the paths of life and to God? Or are we taking course—come day, go day, ju[-] pens? I think we ought to w[-] be alive, and endeavor to pu[-] that will secure the smile and of the Almighty. Every on[-] fathers, mothers and elders ought to cultivate the Holy G[-] hearts, and let it burn there [-] fire. We ought to draw near [-] receive from him light an[-] telligence. We ought [-] wisdom to manage our they may grow up in the Well, we are doing this, more o[-] well indeed, in many respects, a[-] pects very poorly. I feel led [-] things, and what I am led to r[-] about. We ought to be prepari[-] tread in our footsteps, if th[-] they may be honorable membe[-] when we get through in this the other, we may leave be[-] full of integrity, and who w[-] mandments of God. We o[-] children meekness and hum[-] tue and the fear of God, th[-] those principles to their about many of these furbe[-] can dance round dances very great importance. N[-] are in the tip-top of fas[-] feathers and ribbons are spirit, heart and feelings r[-] drawn out to God. Let the[-] house, and let the sacre[-] altar. Seek to implant i[-] youth principles that will be calcul[-] ----- new page (MSSSC_2056_p104.jpg) Names of the Owners of Ballard in 1867 David Sant 5 Jas. Crook Sen 10 George Rust 10 Wm W Rust 25 Father [-]abbot 5 Geo Montague 10 Everet Richmond 5 Joseph Tanner SOA Cohen 5 Philo Johnson 15 Charles Wightman 10 Amara Potter 7 Walter Huish 10 John Lovell 10 Rone Manwell 15 Cris Dixon 10 Wm Greenbatch 3 Allison Hill 10 Issac Hancock 1 3/8 Sol Hancock 2 Elijah Hancock 2 2/8 James Mcclelan 10 James Manwell 10 J Murray 5 A H Patterson 5 Jas Robinson 5 Widow Reed 9 4/8 E K Roberts 5 Richard Ross 5 Jackson Stewart 10 Free Tanner 4 5/8 D D Tanner 8 5/8 Wm. Whitehead 9 2/8 Chas Wright 5 ----- new page (MSSSC_2056_p105.jpg) Expenses of the Field for 1867 To G Curtis fixing gates 150 " Do for servies viewing fence 300 To JF Bellows fixing Gates 200 " Do services viewing fence 300 " Do finding owners of fen[-]e 300 To George Curtis finding owners 300 To T C Daniels for viewing fence 300 " " for finding owners 300 July " finding owners 300 <2450> Material furnished By Geo Curtis 40 Slabs 3 poles 11.00 to makeing out <& keeping> accounts By T Daniel 10.00 21.00 To Hyrum Elmer for herding 5 Months 15 Days 357 50 To Joseph Curtis for watching for Gab the east 7 50 Credit by F C Tanner on Driveing 118 50 Credit to Hyrum Elmer by Driveing Stock to owner 20.50 138.50 Nov 7th 1867 yet [---] to Hyrum Elmer to George [---] helping to put up [---] 3.00 to J [-] Bello[-]s For repairing g[-]tes 3.00 to T E Daniels for hunting <& hauling)> Materi[-]l 5 00 Mater[--]l furnished by Geo Curtis 3.00 for finding of hard scrable fence owners T Daniels 3 00 17 00 24 50 21.00 7 50 Chro[-] back from Last year 28 00 Tanner 57 00 Total expenses for 67 455 50 168.50 Ballence to be raised S Land 317,00 400 50 455,50 Bill No 1 241 46 Bill No 2 75 92 Bill No 3 180 87½ ----- new page (MSSSC_2056_p106.jpg) Farming Fiel[-] Fence Commenceing at the South <(east Corner> Acres to the acre Rods No 1 William Wightman 10½ 5 42 2 William Wignal 10 5¼ 50 3 Nephi Loveless 3 4½ 13½ 4 W G Mc Mullen 5 4½ 22½ 5 James Pace 35¾ 54 6 Isrea[-] Colkins 16 22¾ 7 John Chalice ½ ¾ 8 John Young 5 7¼ 9 O Simons 10 14¼ 10 Samuell Mott 5 8 11 John Loveless 25 35 12 John Gordon 6½ 10½ 13 David Ellsworth 14 23½ 14 Eph Ellsworth 5 8½ 15 John Spencer 15 24½ 16 Philo Johnson 3½ 5 17 Sh[-]d Richardson 10 14¼ 18 Breede Searle 10 14¼ 19 B F Stewart 17 23 20 Oldsman Hatch C Wright 2 3 21 C Burr 2 3 22 H Bo[-] 7 9 23 Lucien Elmer 5½ 7 24 John Manwell 8 10½ 25 John Maxwell ½ 1 26 Jisiac Hancock ½ 1 West Line begining at South West Corner No 1 A Butterfield 5 7½ 2 C Lapworth 21 32½ 3 Jas Kerr 26 65 4 Phillip Ballad 36 72 5 O Simons 10 17½ 6 D S Colvin 12¾ 16 7 Amasa Potter 10 13¼ 8 J B Fairbanks 20 26 9 L Morrill 5 6½ 10 P Windward 10 14 388 ----- new page (MSSSC_2056_p107.jpg) Acres Rods 11 L Seargent 9 13½ 12 C Brewerton 5 12½ 13 J H Moore 25 28 14 Joseph Loveless 7 10 North Line of fence 1 Chas Hancock 40 68 2 Thos C Daniels 28 22 Thence North 1 T E Daniel 8½ 2 A Sheffield 15 16 <10 feet> 3 Jos Tanner 15 16 6 4 Hiram Elmer 11¾ 12 12 5 Alex Davis 5 5 7½ 6 John Vance 5 5 7½ 7 Lucien Jacobs 5 5 7½ 8 O Simons 5 15 6 North Line 1 O Simons 50 41 3 2 Jas Mcclelen 30 32 12 3 Wm Ballad 11¼ 12 4 4 Daniels Stark 40 43 10 5 E Gardner 9 9 13½ 6 Russell 14 15 4½ 7 Wm West 3 3 4½ 8 H Neba[--]r 60 65 7½ East Line 1 W Wightman Ballree 8 2 H G Boyle 3 9 3 James Jones 11 30¼ 4 Wm Heaton 7 21 5 Wm Shay 5¾ 18½ 6 J M Call 5 10 7 Rd Snider 7½ 30 8 Jos Curtis Mrs Reed 8 32 9 Jos Daniels David L [---] 5 16 ¼ 10 John Pearce J Bingham 4 14 11 Wm Reed 5 8¾ 454 ----- new page (MSSSC_2056_p108.jpg) 12 David Fairbanks H[--]tch & 10 17¼ 13 W L Pace L[-] Kerr 8½ 17 14 Wm Reed Jos Cutler 16 28 30 15 Geo Patten 33 11 58 16 L O A Calvin 33 36 17 Rob Collet 10 13¼ 18 W C Mcclelen 15 26¾ 19 George Curtis 22½ 40¾ 20 John Betts Bellows 12¼ 13½ 21 Jerry Brigham 12 13½ Re[-]ved on Magazine A H Pa[-]terson 2.25 B Hancock 225 R Chandler 180 laboring [The following is written upside down at bottom of page] Thomas E Daniels ----- new page (MSSSC_2056_p109.jpg) Payson, Utah County. U.T. September 19, 1876: A Patriarchal Blessing by C. W. Hyde upon the head of Thomas E. Daniels son of Eliz.th Salthouse and James E. Daniels born in Manchester England, September 29th 1829. Thomas, I place my hands upon thy head to seal upon this a patriarchal blessing, for the eye of the Father has been upon thee from everlasting. Ere long thou wilt be called to proclaim this gospel from land to land, from sea to sea. No weapon that is found against thee shall prosper. Forasmuch as you look for wisdom ask of God and he will reveal all things for thy comfort, and great knowledge shall be given to thee. Thou shalt see the rolling forth of this kingdom when kings shall shut their mouths when empires shall tremble before the mighty God of Jacob, when the sea shall move again to where it was in the beginning, and thou shalt bring many to Zion with songs of great joy. Thou art of Joseph, a lawful heir to the fulness of the priesthood, and a right to wives and a great kingdom upon this earth. Thou shalt see the downfall of many nations. Thy household shall be a house of peace. Thou shalt sit in Council with all the holy prophets and with the general assembly of the FirstBorn. Thou shalt do a great work for the living and the dead until you are satisfied and be a Savior upon /M Zion, These blessings I seal upon thy head with eternal lives with all thy fathers household forever and ever Amen. ----- new page (MSSSC_2056_p110.jpg) [The following is written sideways on page] Patriarchal Blessing of Thos. E. Daniels Recorded in Book H. Page 141. ----- new page (MSSSC_2056_p111.jpg) [Entirety of page is crossed out] D Mitchells Account Jan 6 8 to 2 Brooms 275 " 1 Broom 75 Jan <65> 25 1 Broom 100 Moroni Manwells Account to 1 Broom 125 to [---] 125 1 Broom 125 to [---]t y[---] &c 100 David Lunts Account for 1867 to Field herding 6.00 to use of team 2.00 to Brooms 3.00 To Robinsons Account to 1 Broom 125 to 1 Broom per Mr Wilson 125 Mrs Betsy Gardners School Bill for settlement Feb 7 1868 over Paid 50 April 4 1 Large Broom Double sowed 150 [---] 1 Large Broom 150 Sep [-] half Bus wheat 125 C Burrs Account 1868 Feb 18 to 6 Brooms 750 ----- new page (MSSSC_2056_p112.jpg) 1868 J M Coombs Account to 3 Brooms 450 to 2 pounds of Pork 50 " flour [---] 126 Sept 1 to 2½ B[---] [---]t 625 to Rolls 187½ Jan 27 to 2 Brooms 225 to eat 50 [---] to [---] 125 April G Pickering 1 Broom 125 Charles B Wightman's Account Octo 31 to [--]e Broom 150 Jan[--]y 11 1869 to 2 Brooms 250 Jan 27 to schooling singing 2[--] due [---] 1 Broom 1.00 May 18 to 1 Quarter singing school 2[--] Octo 31 George Curtis 1 Broom 150 [---] 1868 George Curtis 1 Broom 150 to one term of singing School 200 ----- new page (MSSSC_2056_p113.jpg) Payson C[-]ty August 17 1874 Levi O A Colvi[-]s Account Due to Calvi[-] on settlement in January 1869 18.00 15th to one Broom 1 25 remain[-] on the School Bill 1 00 1869 for the school ending midle of May 1869 2 00 Sept paid 7 Bushells of wheat 7 00 October 1870 to one Bushells of Apples 2 00 May 15 the Black C[-]w to Bull Do 21 the Stray Cow & Bull Brough Down to broom 75 cts Dec 14 to 1 Bushell of Apples 2.00 Mr Benjiman F Stewarts Account due on settlement Feb [--]th to B F Stewart 5 85 Feb [--] to two Brooms 2 25 March 18.69 to hauling Load of posts 2 00 Commence Work Sept 15th 1869 James Wiznals Account Sep to T[-] half Bushell of Wheat 50 Sept to half Bushell Wheat 50 Octo to Store pay 20 " to 1 Bushell Wheat 1 00 Octo to [-]ish[--]l feed on parade ground 2 00 October [-]8 to [-]½ Bushells Wheat at Hancock 2 50 October 22 to [-]½ Bushell wheat 50 Octo 26 to 1 pair of Boats 5 00 ----- new page (MSSSC_2056_p114.jpg) William Ballads Account [---]e on Letterman to Bal 800 Nov 2d 1869 2 Cro[-]ms 1.50 [---]es re[---]ed John Tanner 5.65 Henry W[---] 135 John Chub[-]e 100 7.50 Nov 10th On settlement Due mill co. 62.42½ Pattern Account for 18¼ Jas Worke[-] one last day 37½ to pasture 111 weeks to hay 87 1/2 Hauling Hay 2 Days 150 July 1[-] to 2 Brooms 80 cts Todds Account for f[---]g H[---] 500 Wh 150 to Brooms 80 to cash 250 July 1st to J B Fairbanks 2 Brooms 80 ----- new page (MSSSC_2056_p115.jpg) Cider Account for 18.74 made cider for self 30 Bs 44 Gals for H Box 8 10 G B Montague 12 21 " Jos Tanner 12 12 " Wm Stable 7½ 7½ For O Simmons 18 18 Bushells at Santaquin for different ones 60 60 Do 13.9½ 26½ Bushells Redington Gab 1.15 [---] 50 Gals Do 82 Bus Account with George Nelsen [--] Dr to 1 Broom 45 26 to 12 yds factory at 16 2 00 to 4 " factory at 18 72 to 12 Bushells wheat at 1 12 00 to store order $8 00 23.17 2.8 yet Due 2.87 County tax of G Nels[--] 2.90 to Broom April 11th 0.45 May 6 to vinegar 30 cts $26.52 <30> ----- new page (MSSSC_2056_p116.jpg) Zachariah Taylors School Account to 1 Bus Apples 1.00 to 1 Broom 45 to Store Order 3.00 to Factory 11¼ yds. 2.00 to 1 Broom 40 to 1 [-]o 40 " 1 Dollar [-] Bleache[-] 1.00 to Jeans 5 yds 3.75 to cash 1.25 11.95 22 [-]ard to cash 300 425 1630 Walter Hunsh to Brooms $4 H W Barnett to 1 Gal Vinegar 60 cts Heber Taylor Aug 20 to cider 25 " to cider 25 " to cider 50.31 To Samuell Marsh to " cider 1 Gal 50 " ½ Gal 25 " cider 5 Gal 2.50 " cider 1 Gal Feb 27 " 1 Gal 60 Jan cider 1 Gal 60 ----- new page (MSSSC_2056_p117.jpg) [Majority of page is crossed out] Denmar[-]k <1875> [Calculations appear at top of page] James Finlaysen[-] Account to 5 Dollar Order 500 to taxes 9 Dollar 85 985 to Brooms 6 at Provo 200 to store order 6 Dols. 600 28.20 22.85 yet Due 5.35 Feb. 24th to 1 Dozen Brooms 400 J Finlaysens Acc. for 1875 Oct 18 to Merchandise 5.50 to cider makers 70 Do 1 pair of shoes 300 Do to expense tax 140 Nov 26 to Cash 75 cts total 12 40 John Redington Received of T E Daniels in 1875 1 Keg of cider 4½ Gals $2 25 [---] 17 1 Broom 40 Nov. 5 per Wignal 100 100 per A Cowen 1 00 " D Fillmore 1 00 to 33 yds Jeans at 75 Currell 2.25 2.25 to 1 Broom to Jos Curtis 40 Alm[---]k Wm Clayson to Cider 40 cts " " 40 cts " " 40 cts " " 50 ct " " 40 " 1½ Gals 75 420 " ½ 25 Jan 17 " 1 Gal 50 Feb 28 " 1 Gal 60 ----- new page (MSSSC_2056_p118.jpg) Wheat Raised in 1874 One Hundred Bushells 100 Bus Barley 50 Do paid J Finleyson school tax 5 Bus to store 2 Do for thrashing & help 15 Do Tithing 14 Do Account With Moroni Manwell commenceing April 12th 1875 Days works with Team By O Manwell IIII 18 Octo. to Merchandise 10 30 Nov 16 Merchandise Jeans & Yarn 850 Nov 23 to Water[---] 2 25 Nov 26 paid Joseph Daniels 28.85 Days work with Team By T E Danels Comenceing April 12 1875 For puting in Wheat & Barley Team work on wheat 4 acres 5 Days Do " on Barley 2 " 3 Days For seed Barley & wheat $10 do Cash Account of O Manwell 17 April to $1 00 May 2 to 1 Hundred of Hay 75 April 25 to 1 Hundred of hay 75 Aug 20 to 2 Gallons cider 100 O Manwells to one Brom 40 October 14 to Merchandise $10.30 " 30 " 2 Broom ----- new page (MSSSC_2056_p119.jpg) Comencing of Record of T E Daniels Cash Account of T E Daniels April 17th to $1 00 E Reeds Account Dols Cts to cider carried to Almaneck 25 Jan 18 2[-] Brooms & cider cider 30.1.20 cider 25 80 60 " " 25 Joseph Daniels, Account Due to him <8>$ 28.85 <19.40 9.5[-]> Nov 26 paid $7.00 1 Dozen Brooms 400 Broom 40 cts. Ploughing Sowing &c. <$> 6.00 Book 2 00 George Pattens Account for 18.75 Barley Fork 1 50 to cider 1 Gal 50 to ma[---]ng cider 1 40 to Ballence on Team 1 75 to Help by thrashing 1 50 7.15 to Makeing cider 1½ Bus [-]30 to 1 Gallon of cider 50 [--]5 7 15 G [-] Hancock to cider by [---] 25 cts " " " 50 Nov 22 " " " 25 Dec 25 to wire 25 March 24 to 6 Brooms 2.00 ----- new page (MSSSC_2056_p120.jpg) Cider Makeing For. 18.75 George Patten to 7 Bushell 1.40 George W Hancock to 10th 2.10 W Wignal to 3½ 72 James Knights " 1½ 30 David Lunt 5 100 Jas Finlayser 3½ 70 Thos Wilson 1½ 30 James Manwell 5½ 1.10 Martin Box 1½ 30 W Wignal 4[-] [-]2 Geo Patten 1½ 30 A Potter 4½ 90 J Calkins 7 140 Joseph S Tanner 11 2.20 Charles Pepper 31½ 5.20 Robert Collet 3½ 70 Tithing 3½ 70 William Wightman 7½ 1.50 Daniel Fillmore 6½ 130 Robert Smith 5 100 David Sant 4½ 90 G W Hancock 4½ 90 S O A Coldin 10 2,00 Wm Wignal 2 40 D Fillmore 4 80 A Cowen 6 1.20 handles Joseph Curtis 6 1.20 Received W Wignal 4 80 583 125 James Finlaysons Acc Brought credits $12 40 to 4 Bus Wheat 4 00 to store order 4 00 to 6 Brooms 2 00 carrier over to Almanak [Calculations are written in upper right corner] ----- new page (MSSSC_2056_p121.jpg) Sunday April 18th 1875 Attended meeting to day allso circle meeting prayed for Bro Dixon who was better since we last met prayed for him last sunday prayed for the Lamanites that they may come to a Knowledge of the truth The three Nephite have been visiting them telling them to come to this People and be baptised the spirit of the Lord is working among them And we hear that the work of the Lord is allso begun among the Tribes of the North Oh Lord hasten the Day when they shall come to Ephraim and be made partakers of the Blessings of the Heavens my Wife Jane is getting better thank the Lord Bro O Manwell and myself have commenced work puting in Broom corn intending to cooperate in raiseing and makeing up the corn and we ask the Blessings of the Lord on our labours in the name of Jesus Christ amen. Lamanites comeing to the Church by thousands calls for Elders among the Lamanites frequent The work of the Father surely commenced Payson May 23d 1875 Went on a mission to Day to Benjiman Bro Done accompanied me Preached on the first principles of the Gospel and Organised the Sunday school by appointing Bro Richard Yates Superintendent Bro H R Barnett preached on the first principles of the Gospel, at, Payson. Several gentiles were present family well thank the Lord on Friday last we had a beautifull shower of rain sent us of the Lord. Missionaries reports from the states and Europe are favourable many are investigateing by Des News we learn that the whole tribe of Nevada Indians are going to Utah to join the Mormon Church messengers have been to them ----- new page (MSSSC_2056_p122.jpg) Anna told them to go to the Mormons and they would tell them what to do and baptise them Our crop prospects are very good Grasshoppers are Devastateing parts of the western states. I dreamed this last week of being in England. Oh Lord bless me in my family affairs & cause that I may be helped of the to provide for them cause that the rebellious members thereof may not be allowed to sin any further. Give me power in the Priesthood and Influence with, thy saints that I may live to do good in the Establish ment of thy Kingdom on Earth. Bless my Children with these same blessings and all thy Saints in the name of Jesus Christ I ask it amen Payson May 29th 1875 Attended meeting this morning Bro G Snell spoke on econimy reccomending all to practice it & not run in debt I say so to to all my Posterity live within your means never mind if they do point at You if the clothse you wear are decent and are paid for tell that Fools Laught Bro Geo. Rust spoke on principles of the Gospel Telegram received to Day says Pres. G. A Smith is very low wants the Prayers of saints This past week I have been working in my Fields pulling weeds &cc. . . . . . . . . . . . . .. prayed for Bro Smith in circle Room to Day ----- new page (MSSSC_2056_p123.jpg) Payson June 6th 18,78 At home to day Bro Joseph took Dinner with me allso his Wife Melinda allso Geo Johnson and wife the health of Geo A Smith is improveing much I attended circle meeting this morning Bro Coombs is Organiseing a circle at Spanish Fork to day The Indians Red cloud & Spotted tail refused to sign away there Lands in the Black hills at present. The health of my Family is good for which I feel very thankfull the weather is getting warm heavey frost last week The Shoshone Chief Alma who was Baptised about a week ago in Salt Lake City on comeing out of the water Prophecied that the Indians would come in to baptised by Thousands shortly that we the mormons would have to baptise from Morning till Night The Sunday school Jubilee at American Fork last tuesday was a success This past week I been working in my Field mostly made Brooms one day Our Orchards look well prospect of a fine crop of fruit. Oh Lord rebuke the Destroyer for the sake of thy saints & bless the Earth and the Crops of thy saints Allso our Emigration that the fare or passage may be reduced so that all may come that really wish to this season Large forest fires continue in the states Grasshoppers allso in several states crops very late Payson June 24th 18,75 At home today Plowed corn this forenoon very warm & Dry crops looking well Apple crop good so far worms just commenced to work Family all well thank the Lord some sickness arround People all Busy with their crops Pres B Young gone south G A Smith & others they laying off the spot for another Temple in Sanpete Co my son Thomas gone to Cache Valley, ----- new page (MSSSC_2056_p124.jpg) August 15th 18,75 At home to day Family well thank the Lord with the exceptions of Baby my wheat and Hay crop has come in very good Bishop Tanner and several others have been Baptised at Provo yesterday August September 5th 18,75 At home to day spoke on the United Order & rebaptism in the New meeting House to day Pres Geo A Smith Died last Tuesday morning Augst 31st August 31 he is to be buried to Day a special Train is being run on the Utah Southern R.R. Family all well thank the Lord Bro Charles Brewerton got Badly Hurt about ten days ago in the Kanyon he is now recovering through the Prayer of faith The Following is I have been assisting to build an Font for the rebaptisms this last week The Following is the ceremony of rebaptism Bro John Jones Having been commissioned of Jesus Christ I rebaptise you for the remission of your sins and the renewal of your covenants Asking God the Eternal Father to help you to remember and to keep the covenents You have this day made and this I do in the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost amen wrote a Letter to Virginia to day to J H Payne ----- new page (MSSSC_2056_p125.jpg) 12 Thomas E Daniels Payson City One school was very [---] yesterday and the boys was very Bad [---] times and had to stay in at night Thomas E Daniels Payson City Wheat Corn rye oats Barley Sep 1869 3010 000 50 000 Payson Feb 15th 1876 Our Arizona missionaries started last thursday well fitted out in good Spirits the Teams are rolling past every Day now weather first frost nearly out of ground Family all well thank the Lord received a Letter from William Tulme to day he wants Dried Aplles have been makeing Brooms this week visited Goshen last week had a good time The Angel of the Lord came to me the other Night laid his hands on my head & Blessed me great Blessing & powder conference on me ----- new page (MSSSC_2056_p126.jpg) Payson March 22d 1876 At home to day Family all well thank the Lord my Daughter Jane is now teaching School my Children are attending Gold mines are opening out in the Black hills may are going we are getting rid of a great deal of rough society are leaveing us measles are very prevalent at present in Payson we have a Young Mens Association in Organised he[-]re the Lesser Priesthood is being organised in all the wards the weather has been very wet all this month very little grain put in yet land very wet My Son Thomas has printed a small Paper called Payson Enterprise size about 8 by 10 inches the Gospel is spreading in this Nation few obeying it have not yet heard from Arizona Miss since they left Kanab /accept of my thanks for thy kindness oh Lord Payson March 29, 18,76 At home to day snowing weather very unsetled put in grain yesterday ground in good order I asked the Lord to bless the seed my Children are getting better of the measles thank the Lord for the same My God his good to me he has heard my prayers repeatedly of late that I may allways have thy favour oh Lord held a Priesthood meeting in Rock School house last evening a few set apart for the Priesthood Bro George Patten lost three Children by Disease the past week. ----- new page (MSSSC_2056_p127.jpg) Payson April 11th 1876 Snowed yesterday about one Foot on the ground hay all gone cattle suffering weather very cold for this time of year Conference just closed Brigham has called on the 70s for 2 men from each Quorum to labour on the Temple at Salt Lake untill finished this is cheering news to the saints for now I believe the Temple will move upward Bless every one that lends an helping hand to that Temple my Sister Alice has been very sick this winter but is better now thank the Lord, My Daughter Jane is Teaching School with Tolerable success Family has got well of measles my Sons Thomas and James was in attendence at conference enjoyed themselves well On Thursday last the Arsneal at Salt Lake city Blew up haveing caught fire by Boys shooting in the Door which did great Damage to the city many Buildings wrecked & windows Broke people knocked Down all over the city about forty Tons of Powder exploded four lives lost several wounded many though the day of Judgment had come Payson April 14th 1876 At home to day weather fine commenced work people have got back from conference The Quorums of seventis and other Quos are called upon to furnish 2 men from each Quo of 70 men to labour on the Temple and pay them for there labour the Lord has blessed me with sufficient help this present season The Lord has heard my prayers in many cases of sickness of late and has healed them Angels have visited me in vission this spring & I ask a continuence of his Favours to me Bless me in provideng for my Family in my crops orchards gardens fields &cc ----- new page (MSSSC_2056_p128.jpg) Sunday April 30th 1876 At home to day wrote a letter to Molly Nickols of Tenessee her Father refused to let her be Baptised spoke on the Building of Temples this morning people listened attentively my eldest children have gone to spanish Fork to day to see young Zebe Coltrin of on his mission wife Jane a little unwell to day Family well thank the Lord he is withdrawing his holy spirit from this Nation corruption is being made manifest in high places Political excitement runs High we had a beautifull rain last Night thank the Lord for it I attended two days meeting of Priesthood at Provo the past Friday and Saturday the instructions were to take hold and build the Salt Lake Temple For the Lord would come to it the dead were ankiously waiting for there baptisms educate our children in all the arts & sciences and the Gospel allso Bishops were told if they could find 6 men unite and start the United order get responsible men for Teachers have them renew there covenents organise for Building Temple came home last night with Bro Whitehead June 15th 1876 At home to day have been out in the Field to work hoeing corn & potatoes my three Younges Boys with me Thomas has gone to the Kanyon with Mormon Selmon to chop Barn timber wife Jane feeling a little unwell to day I have purchased a reapeing machine to assist me in the harvest I ask the Blessing of the Lord in the harvest field on men & machine & Teams Pres Young has gone to St George to hurry up the Temple weather very warm crops looking well thank the Lord for the prospect made a few Brooms this week the Lord has blessed me with dreams & Vissions of late great excitement in the Political world about the comeing Election for President the Lord has a hand in the government of the Nations oh Lord fovour thy Zion turn & overturn in this Nation till the Righteous shall rule oh let us not have ----- new page (MSSSC_2056_p129.jpg) Have another wicked President of the U. S. but cause that such a one may not sit in the chair of state Favour thy Zion right soon Bless thine Elders with power from on high that they may may go with power ere long and seal up the testimony Bind up the law & seal up the testimony &cc, Bless the Brethren that are working on the Temple.. Payson June 29th 1876 At home working in the corn my Boys assisting me weather very warm crops looking well Family all well thank the Lord had a good time in circl last sunday allso at meeting Aron Johnson of springville preached the Lord is Blessing me with his holy spirit and with wisdom and means for which I thank him my wife Jane is getting along well Payson July 31st 1876 At home to day weather very warm harvesting commenced in earnest my Wife Jane gave birth to a fine large Boy at half past eight last Night weighing about twelve pounds she was very quick in her delivery is doing very well thank the Lord for it he has heard my prayers and I feel very gratefull for it the hand of the Lord has been manifest with the Elders and in the Nations opening up the way for the Gospel Bros Boyle and Walsen have just returned from there missions enjoying the spirit of there missions our SSchool Jubilee was a success with the exceptions of the storm the spirit of the Lord is working among the Indians Pres Youngs health is rather poor...a large compeny of saints came home with the Elders the crops are comeing in very good the Blessing of the Lord is surely over this People the Lord has blessed this far in the harvest ----- new page (MSSSC_2056_p130.jpg) Field and with the machine and the Boys the Lamanites are holding the US Troops at bay give them the spirit of there missions that they may do the work thou hast Assigned them oh Lord give them power over there Enemies Bless thy Zion and all Interests hasten the Day when we shall be one in temporal as in Spiritual affairs Payson September 4th 18,76 At home to day had a good meeting Bros Bayle & Walser spoke on the duties of saints attended Sunday School my Wife Jane is doing well her health is improveing Baby well but cross hade got my harvest home thank the Lord Family all well thank him again which I do Mormon has left got dissattisfied at Thomas the Lord has blessed me with his holy spirit have been working getting my harvest in the last month Payson October 1st 1876 Bro George Teasdale preached on his mission to the Southern States gave some of his experiences showing the hand of the Lord in there travels Bro Dunbar followed him on home productions Bro Teasdel delivered a very interesting discourse to the Children this afternoon the last week I have been getting my Broom corn home weather warm & Dry Family well thank the Lord the work of the Lord is steadily gaining ground the Elders are being called for in many parts of the states the Lord is helping me and I ask him to hear my prayers Bless my children that they may never depart from the Truth amen & amen ----- new page (MSSSC_2056_p131.jpg) Payson Nov 8th 1876 Since writeing my last I have been takeing care of my crops my Broom corn got Damaged by the rain six missionaries are called from Payson Bro Boyle Brewerton Whime Winsencroft Wightmon Douglas Pace we are now gaining means to fit them out with the Lord has blessed us greatly in our crops this year and in my family the missionaries start on the 18 Yesterday was Election day for Pres of US Telegraph says Tilden is elected Payson Dec 28th 1876 At home to day snowing ever since Christmas day Thomas married Miss Anna E Hickman on Christmas day received a letter from Wm. Hulme on Tuesday he states that his mind is unsettled ever since his Boy died his mind is wandering I told him to resort to prayer and read the Book of Mormon the Presidential Question is still unsettled may ways are proposed but none settled on yet many Fires are takeing place in the states the missionaries are doing a good work have been makeing Brooms of late Family all well thank the Lord the weather is cold the Temple at St George is nearly done Payson January 8th 18,77 At home to day writeing doin chores reading &cc Bro Philo Dible told me about his being shot in Jackson co and about his being healed and rose rode several miles the next day in Preaching yesterday he made the following Prophecy There will be more transpire this year then in three years past unlooked for events and so on in ration to the Savior comes Elders will ere long be sent to take charge of the different States my Son Thomas started to St George last Wednesday to get sealed &cc ----- new page (MSSSC_2056_p132.jpg) Payson Feb 2d 18,77 At home to day visited Ea Simons this morning his child died was much affected had a curious dream last Night Bro James has the Rheumtic received a letter from C Brewerton today all well the election question in the States not yet settlect Family all well thank the Lord Jane is teaching school doing very well my Financial condition is very low at the present time my Family are in want of but we put our trust in God Payson Feb 20 18,77 I took my cattle of on the range to day as my hay is nearly gone there are two of my Children sick with scarlet fever but they are doing well thank the Lord the weather is warmer if it continues we will put in grain in a week or so Payson March 30th 18,77 At home to day my Daughter Mary E Daniels died of Pleuro Pneumonia after a very Brief Illness on sunday the 25. inst our Family took it hard much sickness arround at present Pres Hayes is Inaugerated on March 4th inst we have all our small grain in my Daughter Jane has gone to St George to marry M N Selmar expect them this week Family all well thank the Lord they have returned My Son Thomas Marred Anna Hickman in the St George Temple in January last they are all feeling well my wife Jane had an attack of Sick last Night. ----- new page (MSSSC_2056_p133.jpg) Payson April 15th 18,77 At home today attended meeting Bros Haymore & Harper preached on their missions from which they have just returned they report haveing enjoyed themselves well during the past year Family all well weather stormy at present have dug a well the past week on the Spanish Fork Bench several missionaries have been called to Arizona at the conference at st George sick ness is abateng somewhat the ring are holding meetings at Salt Lake city trying to procure special Legislation from Congress ----- new page (MSSSC_2056_p134.jpg) Payson May 18th 18,77 At home to day snow storm this morning cold weather for time of year crop all in but one acre of corn wheat looking well thank the Lord fruit Trees set full of Fruit grant they may mature and not be destroyed by the destroyer I am Embarrassed at the present time and kno not how to meet my Note on the first of June I trust the Lord will make a way for my escape Family all well thank the Lord ----- new page (MSSSC_2056_p135.jpg) Payson August 7th 18.77 The weather is very warm my harvest just done am at home today going to farm over Bench to day to water corn Family all well thank the Lord our health is good crops allso look very promising the hand of the Lord has been over us Went to Goshen last sunday preached on Sunday school Buisness enjoyed the spirit of the Lord was much pleased with my trip my Daughter Jane has gone to Housekeeping the. Allso my Son Thomas Father bless them Now they are begining the Journey of life in earnest may thy spirit attend us in power in the discharge of our several Duties... Payson August 19th 18,77 At home to day attended meeting Bro Jenkins from Goshen & Bishop Price spoke on the Duties of the saints I allso attended Sunday school the Brethren spoke I have now to record a painfull history even that of the Death of my youngest Son Robert Alma Daniels aged one year 17 days he was taken away very sudden he died of the Cholera Morbus he suffered severely for about 9 hours was sick about 24 hours alltogether During the day he was burried I took up the Testament and read from the 13 Chap of Hebrew speaking about chastieing his sons &cc my Family are all well otherwise I feel that we must Acknowledge the hand of God in all things and I do in this and ask that it may work for my good. Father give me grace according to my day oh bring me through conquoror Bless my Family in the Name of Jesus amen ----- new page (MSSSC_2056_p136.jpg) Payson September 9th, 18,77 At home to day Pres Brigham Young Died August 29th 18,77 was buried last Sunday as numerous concourse of People attended his Funeral I allso attended followed him to his last resting place Bro Coombs gave an account of his funeral to day We start our Free Schools to morrow in five different wards This is the first district in the county to grade the schools. We have warm dry weather Family all well thank the Lord we feel the Loss of our Little ones deeply oh Bless my Family oh Father hear my prayers Payson October 7th 1877 At home to day attended meeting in meeting house subject why the sick are not allways heal showed that many had faith in Doctors have been colle- cting some school tax the past week and made some Brooms warm Dry weather continues the wars in Europe continue in very ferocious manner the Prophets are being fullfilled to the letter The first General Assembly met yesterday in the New Tabernacle salt Lake city when all the Authorities were voted for since the days of Joseph Payson Nov 19th 1877 At home all well thank the Lord the health of the People is better sister Dixon was buried yesterday have been preaching at Santaquin yesterday and Spring Lake in the evening had a good time my Brother James was with me the twelve Appostles are makeng great reforms ----- new page (MSSSC_2056_p137.jpg) Payson Dec 26 18,77 The weather is snowy to day had a very good time yesterday my relatives on the Sheffield side was visiting with me all passed of Quites the winter has been very mild of late congress men are trying to make special Legislation for Utah they dont want the mormons to vote or hold office our Free schools are working very well, they are well attended I feel & Do ask the Lord to Bless our schools grant we may have means to cary them on with have been makeing some Brooms latelly December January, 21 1878 The weather is remarkibly fine if it continues we shall put in grain ere long. attended meeting at Benjiman yesterday There was an Organisation of the District effected B F Stewart was appointed Presideing Priest Edward Stocks Pres of Teacher Quo held two meetings enjoyed much of the Holy Spirit attended meeting in the Rock school House last evening Elder Jacob Walsen Lectured on the Fullfillment of Prophecy gave an Able Lecture Our school meeting takes place one week from to Day Governer Emery reccomends a general School Law in favour of Free Schools by taxation The People receive the message favourably Our Family are all well thank the Lord we learn a little Daily The Hand of the Lord has blessed us through the past year greatly although we have had great trials still his hand has been over us for good I do ask for a continuation of his mercies through this year that we may be blessed on the Holy Ordinances as we have been promised in the Name of Jesus Christ I ask these Blessings amen and allso in our Familys and Flocks & Herds Fields and Orchards in our Schools and Houses and our Bodies & Spirits amen & amen ----- new page (MSSSC_2056_p138.jpg) Payson March 10th 1878 At home to day attended meeting & SSchool Bro Paxman of American Fork here visiting & teaching last Night I had a vision a Personage appeared to me which filled my heart to overflowing clasping me in his Arms calling me his Dear Friend Who the person was I know not but the Impression came to me after that it was my Lord but my heart was filled with joy Thank the Lord for the vission One week ago to Day I in company with Bros Boyle & Gale Administered to Sister Jacob Walsen who was afflicted with Womb Disease allmost Despairing of Life The Lord Jesus Christ heard our prayers and she has been getting better ever since thanks to the Lord for healing her My Family all well thank the Lord Payson March 26th 18,78 Raining hard all Night most of the small grain in would have finished my plowing for small grain to Day if it had not rained Family all well thank the Lord War is still expected in Europe the Nations are makeing great preperations sickness has abeated some of late Apricot trees are in Blossom weather has been very fine during the month Payson June 6th 1878 Attended to Baptiseing at the Font this morning about 15 were Baptised and about as may Children Blessed in the meeting House Father Page was visiting with me to to Day he Prophecyied good things on me and Family took Dinner with us gave us good instru ction Family all well thank the Lord my Daughter Jane is gone to Thistle Valley on Her Mission ----- new page (MSSSC_2056_p139.jpg) Payson July 31st 1878 At home this afternoon Hoed corn this morning the harvest is now ripe a great deal of it cut my Family are all well Thank the Lord God weather is very warm my Daughter Jane has been on a visit but now gone back to Thistle Valley Iness is growing fine All the Faithfull shall be taken up in a Cloud to meet the Lord at his comeing since I last wrote I have been busy working in my corn & Potatoes and wheat our Holadays passed of quietly the Lord is Blessing our crops Some weeks ago the Spirit of the Lord told me to take up a Peice of Land near to Payson I have since done so it is Dry Land but the Lord can water it from the heavens Payson August 23d 1878 The weather is wet to Day have been reading Book of Cov received a Letter my Daughter Jane she says she could not stand it withe her man Selman so she Left him on Tuesday last Grandpa Sheffield Fell from a Load of Hay he was Killed in a few minutes we buried him on Wednesday Aug 21 the High Priests Quo turned out to the Funeral Bro Lanage & Coltrin preached the Funeral sermon many of the citizens turned out Payson October 13th 1878 Attended meeting & circle had the conference News Rehearsed which was that we must be one Temporally & spiritually amen to that my Daughter Jane has Left Selmon could not stand his ill Treatment Bishop James and council Investigated the affair once said they could not council her to Live with Selmon ----- new page (MSSSC_2056_p140.jpg) Payson Dec 2d 1878 Family all well thank the Lord have staid at home very closely of late have just Finished makeing up my Broom corn had a vey good Meetings yesterday on Friday last at 6 PM Elder Orson Hyde Breathed his last at Spring City Sanpete Co. Our Family emigra[-] to this countey with him in 18,42 he was was returning at time from his mission to Palestine My Bro James has taken anothe Wife the Widow of the late Bishop Miller we have raised good crops this year as a general thing Ferney Hatton is now staying with us with her three children she has been very sick is now fast Recovering the Lord has heard our Prayers thanks to his Name continue thy Blessings oh Father My Daughter Jane who married M V Selmon has had a Divorce from him cause ill treatment we hold a Sunday School Union Meeting this evening. Payson Dec 12th 18,78 The weather is getting cold I have been Drawing manure to Day onto my Sand Lot Bro Marion Lymon Preached on Tuesday Night he told us that each one of us must have the oil in our Lamps we can not Borrow of our Neighbours we must have the Knowledge for ourselves. the Bible is not sufficient for us we need Revelation for our Daily guide Our Sunday School meeting was a great Success the house was Full Last week a man by the Name of Powell of Salem was killed by a Bear near Mount Nebo the Bear tore his eyes out he lived 18 Hours after the occurence my Family are well thank the Lord he has Blessed me this saeaso greatly in crops and other ways ----- new page (MSSSC_2056_p141.jpg) The Gentile Weomen of Salt Lake City Are getting up a crusade against Poligamy and the Mormon Weomen are getting up meetings in Favour of Poligamy the subje[-] will likely be brought before Congress this winter I received a Letter from C H Church of Tennessee from my old missionary Field of Labour many are enquireing after the truth allso asking me to send him money that he lent me but his Bro Holladay has the my Note I have wrote to Holladay asking how he came by the Note I am willing to pay the Note once have not got the answer yet Payson City Jan 13th 18789 I've just been to administer to Bro Rudolph Sutter a Swis man who is afflicted with a Rose cancer he is now bed fast fast he feels resigned to his fate the Lords will The Supreme Court of the U S has decided against George Reynolds who was on trial for haveing married two Wives The U S troop are starveing the Indians on the Reservations down east of this place The Lord says after the Gentiles have rejected the fullness of the Gospel that he would turn to the House of Isreal and the remnents should go through among the Gentiles and tear down and tread them under Foot and should be among them like a Lion among sheep The time is surely not far distent when the Lord will fullfill this Prophecy Oh my Father and God how long wilt thou suffer thine Isreal to be driven and killed as they to Day Hear Oh Hear our Prayers and free thy People from there Yoke in the Name of Jesus Christ I ask these favours and Blessings amen & amen ----- new page (MSSSC_2056_p142.jpg) Payson January 27th 1879 Went out this morning Administered to Br Rudolph Sutter who is afflicted with a cancer called into my Sisters Mrs Stevens took a walk down in the field then visited Bro Oylers Family whose Wife is sick with Rheumati[-] fever snowing very hard this afternoon have been reading from Jospehus Family all well thank the Lord Payson City February 7th 18.79. At home to my Stepdaughter Annie has been sick with sore throat my Family are all well thank the[-] Lord there is some excitement about our city Election which comes at next Monday the ticket is gotten up by the Priesthood of this Ward there is some sickness in the place the Black Plagu is comeing arround in Russia whole Towns are Depopulated and they are Burning the cities to stop the Plague the weather is very cold 6 or 7 inches Snow on the Ground Payson Feb 18th 1879 At home to day administered to Sister Wirsencrof[-] this morning she is very low but I think She is mending the Spirit of the Lord was manifest through the Elders in administering to her the Weather is moderateing finely Breede Searle Died last week one of the first settlers of Payson Pres A O Smoot has been vey sick Payson March 30, 1879 Attended circle meeting was administered to for the lameness of my Back I was taken one week ago last Friday evening very severe but the Lord has made nearly well. I am mending fast the weather is very Dry and warm some are getting alarmed over the Dry weather have had no Rain this month of any amount the Fruit trees are Blooming out in full Congress is still in session Quarelling over the money Appropriation ----- new page (MSSSC_2056_p143.jpg) The Democrats have just come in Power they have the Majority in Both Houses now they begin to talk of the of the Admission of Utah as a State what it may lead to we do not know it appears to be thrown out as a feeler The Poet said true that God moves in a Mysterious way his wonders to perform My Family are all well thank the Lord to Day the Promise was again renewed me of long life and the Desires of my Heart The prospect for Fruit is very Good and tolerable for Grain In God we trust for all these things open the way oh Lord for the setting up of thy Kingdom help me to fill my mission & make sure my calling and Election bless me in my Family with wisdom knowledge Power in the Priesthood &cc send us rain oh Lord even the Former and latter rain that our crops may not wither and die Payson City April 14th 1879 At home to Day has been raining nearly all morning wet the ground fully two inches the ground was needing it very much the Lord has heard our prayers and is giveing us rain thanks to his holy name continue thy mercies oh Father our Apricots are mostly killed with the Frost Elisha Knights one of our Neighbours sons Died last night of Rheumatick Fever we Ordained him an Elder just previous to his Death a few minutes the tithing paid by the Church for the last year is over four hundred & ninety three thousand Dollars Many Elders were called at the late conference ----- new page (MSSSC_2056_p144.jpg) Bengen on the Rhine A soldier of the legon ley dying in Algiers There was lack of w[--] womans missing there was Dearth of womans tears But a comrad stood beside hime whilse his life blood ebbed away Bengen On the Rhine Composed By thomas E Daniels Jr Payson Utah June 5 75 Mr T. E. Dainels Jr No/ T Misionnars Aunt from A Comt Annn Tom Daniels Jr, Payson July 5th 1879 The weather continues dry many of the crops are drying up we had a very good celebration yesterday the People all felt well no accidents that we know of my Family are all well thank the Lord. Congress has not yet Adjouned the extra Session Quarelling over Appropriation The Heirs of Brigham Young are sueing the Church for nearly a million Dollars of Property that there Father held at the time of his Death for the church the Laweys are making a big thing out of it there only a few of the Heirs that are in favour of the suit our Hay harvest has commenced I have ----- new page (MSSSC_2056_p145.jpg) but one crop of Lucerne Payson Sept 28th 1879 At home this afternoon administered to Sister Judd this noon who is very low with child bed fever Bro Judd had just got home my family are all well thank the Lord for it for it is a blessing my crops are very good this year considering the Drouth I have lost 7 acres Broom corn because of no water Bro DS Colvins cattle and O Simons calves have destroyed most of my third crop of Lucerne Bro Lant preached this morning on the need of paying tithing the Lord has heard my prayers in many times past Payson Nov 14th 1879 The weather today is stormy snowing the past season has been a very dry one I lost all my crops in the Pond town field had a tolerable crop on my Bottom Land my family are all well attending School most of them we can now get coal at Springville for 5.50 per ton Father Page has been visiting me and promiseing me great Blessings I should be greatly blessed temporally and spiritually and that shortly visited my Sister M A Stevens last Night ----- new page (MSSSC_2056_p146.jpg) Alices Blessing Payson Nov 22d 18,75 A Patriarchal Blessing on the Head of Alice Marice Daniels Born in Payson December 21st 1862 Daughter of Thomas E & Jane A Daniels by Zebedee Coltrin Thos C Daniels clerk Sisten, Alice in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ I lay my hands on your head and seal on you a Patriarchal Blessing For thou art a Daughter of Abraham and of the House of Joseph and of the lineage of Ephraim I seal on thy head a Fathers Blessing for thou art a lawfull heir to all the Blessings of the new and everlasting , And inasmuch as thou wilt be faithfull before the Lord thou shalt attain to all the powers and Blesing of eternal lifes for thou wast called and chosen of the from before the Foundations of the world To come forth in the last Days to assist in Bringing forth a righteous branch to the house of the Lord And the spirit of the Lord shall rest upon you and shall behold the visions of the heaven And thou shalt be able to Prophecy in the midst of the Daughters of Zion For thou art a chosen vessell unto the Lord And the Inspration of the Lord shall rest upon the And the Angels of God shall administer to the and shall teach you the principles of eternal life And thou shalt be number with the Daughters of Zion for great wisdom shall be given And many shall seek to the to know things pertaining to the kingdom of God For thou shalt become a Prophetess in the midst of the Daughters of Zion And none shall excel the for the wisdom of the Heavens shall be granted to the ----- new page (MSSSC_2056_p147.jpg) For thy faith shall be great before the Lord for thou shalt receive all the Blessings that shall given in the House of the Lord. And thou shalt have a right to all the ordinences That will be given in the Temple of the Lord and shall assist in the washings & annointings of the Daughters of Zion In all the Temples that shall be built prior to the comeing of the son of God And thine eyes shall behold the Lord when he shall come to his Temple And thou shalt have faith to heal the sick and shall dwell in the sanctuary of the Lord and be numbered with the Queens of Heavens And you shall have a knowledge of all the principles & shall receive the powers of Eternal lifes And thou shalt have many Sons and Daughters for thou shalt become the Lords anointed and shall live on the Earth Untill the Lord shall come to his Temple And thou shalt receive an everlasting Inheir itence in the House of thy Fathers and shall remain on the Earth if thou shalt desire it with all thy heart untill the Ancient of Days shall sit And unto thy Generations there shall be no end For thy Posterity shall become Kings and Queens in the House of the Lord Now sisters I seal all these Blessings upon the and the up to Eternal lives Thrones Dominions Powers Exhaltations and eternal lives in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ amen & amen ----- new page (MSSSC_2056_p148.jpg) Where there is a will theres a way This world is a chfreult riddle For how may people you see With faces as long as a wfidle That aughto look shining with glee I am sure in this wide world there is plenty of good things enough for us all But still there is not one out of twenty But think that his share is to small chorous Them what is there of ......... Some grumble be cause there not married And can not pecure a good wife While others they wished they had taryed And long for a bachelor life To me it seems quite bewildering Some grumble it must be in frink be cause they have to many children And others because they have none Chorus — — — — ————— Dad you ever hear tell of the spder that tryed up the wall hard to clime If not just take this for a yardainee you will find It will surve you in time 7 times he tryed hard to be mountins But every time he stuck fast And then he tryed heard with out a game with And of cource he succeeded at last Chorus ———— Do you think by setting and sying you will ever obtain all you wahnt want Its cowards alone that are crying And foolishey saying I want, Its only by working and striving And laboring up the steep hill That you ever will ever be thriving, Which you can if your only the wall ----- new page (MSSSC_2056_p149.jpg) A Patriarchal Blessing On the Head of Jane A Daniels Daughter of Anson Sheffield and Maria Mott born Feb 16th 18,34 in Gennessee co state of N York by Zebedee Coltrin Sister Jane in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ I lay my Hands on your Head an confer a Patriarchal blessing Thou art of the tribe of Ephraim and I seal on you a Fathers blessing You shall receive all the Blessings in common with your Husband For thou art a Daughter of Abraham and thou hast arrived to all the Blessings pertaining to the new and everlasting covenent The Lord will Inspire your Heart to seek after him till thou shalt attain to all the knowledge pertaining to eternal life The Angels of God shall administer to you the words of eternal life you will rejoice with the Holy one of Isreal thy Posterity will be numerous on the Earth and many of them will be No with the One Hundred and forty four thousand who have never bowed the knee to Bael Thy Days shall be prolonged upon the Earth Thy health shall be given unto the until thou shalt become hearty and strong For the Lord has remembered thy prayers and will reveal unto you his will that he would have you to do And great shall be your reward on Earth for you shall be numbered with the Daughters of Zion And if you will listen to the voice of your Husband you shall behold the Heavens open And when the Lord shall come in the clouds of Heaven you shall be ready to meet him For no knowledge shall be kept from the that will secure you eternal Life and Exaltation Therefore ----- new page (MSSSC_2056_p150.jpg) I seal upon you all these powers and Blessings and you unto eternal Lives by the Power and Authority of the Patriarchal Priesthood in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ amen Payson Sunday March 21st 18,75 Attended meeting to day Bros Savage and Lant preached on first principles of the Gospel tried our New organ in the meeting House to Day Bro Grant of American Fork Played upon it sang tune, creation first Hym The Morning Breaks shadows fleee staid at home this Afternoon my Wife Jane attended Sunday school on Friday last visited the Day Schools in company with Bros Reed & Worsencroft Judge McKean was removed from the Chief Justiceship on the 16th inst a Mr Lowe is appointed in his stead removed on account of Partial ruleings Payson City Utah Ter March 28th 1875 At home to day snowing strong North wind yesterday heard from St George missionaries they report times good had fine weather all winter Temple walls finished to the square 2 weeks ago Friday they are now putting on the Roof roads have been very bad could not haul Timbers to do any good expect to have the Roof on in may A Tribe of Shebit Indians came in and was Baptised the fore part of this month at St Geroge over one Hundred was baptised in one Day We have a New Organ in our meeting house Family all well thank the Lord Allmighty Bro Charles Church writes from Tennessee that has married and is well cannot come out here this summer wants me to pay his Tithing Bro James Pace from Washington called to see me the other day had a friendly conversation sealed in the name of the Lord amen ----- new page (MSSSC_2056_p151.jpg) Roll of Deceased William Ephraim Died August 27th 1865 Annie Mary Died January 224d 1868 Vicena Sheffield sealed Februaray 23d 1871 Mary Elizabeth Daniels Died March 25 18,77 Robert Alma Daniels Died August 17th 18,77 Alice Maria. Daniels Died May 2d 1880 Brain fever Payson City Utah April 6th 18,75 At home to day snowing weather cold conversing with Moroni Manwell on the subject of uniteing in our labours through the summer my wife Jane was sick yesterday is better to day all well thank the Lord many of the Payson People have gone and are going to Conference Payson April 11th 18,75 Sunday at home my Wife Jane sick attended meeting this morning prayed for the building up of the Temple and the Kingdom Confernce closes to Night H G Boyle called to go to the states for two years on a mission preaching The Gospel Pres B Young opposes the Free school system The preaching to day was on the instructions given at conference this last week have been arround home weather has been very unsettled Bro Wm Hulme visited me from Bear Lake reports all well Bishop Tanner arrived home from conference to Day many missionaries called on Foreign missions ----- new page (MSSSC_2056_p152.jpg) Family Names & Record Thomas English Daniels Born September 30th 182[-] Jane Ann Daniels Born February 16th 1834 Annie Daniels Born in Sweden February 17th 1831 Thomas Edward Daniels Born September 24 1865 Louisa Jane Daniels Born October 7th 1858 James Anson Daniels Born March 21st 1861 Alice Maria Daniels Born December 21st 1862 William Ephraim Daniels Born March 22d 1865 Orson Aretus Daniel Born May 31st 1865 Annie Mary Daniels Born March 22d 1867 John Joseph Daniels Born July 1st 1867 Medora Daniels Born March 22d, 1869 Amy Daniels Born August 28 July , 18,69 Lucia Daniels born October 16th 18[--]71 Mary Elizabeth Daniels Born October 17 1873 [---] Robert Alma Daniels July 30 187[-] Lucia Daniels Baptised December 4th 1879 Grand Children Tressa Ann Daniels Born August 20, 1877 Thomas William Ephraim Died August 21 1865 Laprele Casinet Daniels Born October 2d 1878 Alice Mildred Daniels August 21st 1880 Lenora Daniels April 14 1882 Louis Edna Daniels October 1st 1884 Iness Born April 7th 1878 Baptised June 3d 1886 by Thomas E Daniels Confirmed by J L Townsend ----- new page (MSSSC_2056_p153.jpg) Biography & History A History of Thomas English Daniels I was born in the Town of Manchester Lancashire England in the year One thousand eight- hundred and twenty nine my father was a Methodist preacher he was born in the city of London in my Childhood I was put to work on account of our poverty instead of going to school my Father Died when I was about nine years of are shortly after this we obeyed the Gospel my sister Alice emigrated in the year 40 we came out about one year afterwards we Landed in New Orleans late in the fall Elder Orson Hyde was the president of the ship we came in we Landed at Saint Louis and stayed there throughe the winter which was very severe in the Spring we moved up to Quincy and there we stayed a short time till we moved to Nauvoo we stayed in Nauvoo till the expulsion we was intended to come out west at the time but we happened to Loose our cattle so we could not go at that time so we moved down to Quincy and stayed there one year and then came to Pisgoh where we stayed three years Farming we then moved on to the Valley and settled in Utah Valley in the City of Payson Bro George A Smith that any person moveing to Payson would never be sorry he spoke this in the old Bowey salt Lake City when they were calling for familys to move to Payson I have realised the above to be true to the Letter the first president we had here was James Pace after a year or two he was called to go to England on a mission & Elias Gardner allso Bro James Meclelen then took the Presidency during Bro Meclelen Presidency Benjiman Cross was called to be Bishop of Payson the first Bishop of Payson ----- new page (MSSSC_2056_p154.jpg) after a few years he Died then C B Hancock was put in Bishop he continued in office 3 or 4 years but he squandered the tithing so he was removed then the Presidency sent F W Young he continued about two years and was then dismissed for the same reason that Hancock was his Brother Joseph W Young was sent he did well was beloved by the People he was called on a mission then J B Fairbanks who is still our Bishop and is doing well he is Loved by the People one year ago my Mother Died in January 1865 while we we was Liveing at Pisgah my Sister Elizabeth Died aged about 10 years I can Look back and see that the Hand of Lord has been over our family my Father was a Methodis Preacher he never heard the mormons he Died in England several years before we emigrated up to the present time we have been favoured of the Lord and I pray that his blessings may continue with us at the present time the government at Washington are trying to persecute the Saints but all things are working for good <15 March> to day we had a mass meeting takeing in consideration the fenceing the field and surveyeing the city and farming and hay fields which was agreed to unonimously the Indians are geting troublesome my Brother Joseph started to the City this morning it has been storming all Day this Last weeke I was called on the Grand Jury we sat three Days yesterday I preached at Pond town with Bro Whitehead Bro Stevens went with Bro Joseph to the city the Lord is kind. to his people the spring is opnening up finely Bro Lant comenced herding to day the cattle have not come home from tintick yet the snow is so deep that the cattle can not get over the divide Col Mcclelen & staff have gone on a military excursion to goshen te right up things there. ----- new page (MSSSC_2056_p155.jpg) Feb 25 1860 I attended meeting to day Bro Robert Williams preached on first principles of the Gospel exhorted the young Men to prepare for the Labour that would devolve on them of carrying on the work of God the Hall was full the Dramatic Association played Andy Blake & Rendevous last evening to a full House a call for 20 cords of wood forom the seventies Last this evening the teachers Quorum were discussing the course of Gustavus Simons in Labouring among the sick which was universally condend the Quorum were allso in favour of Robert Wimer haveing ten acres for a Nursery in the city plot Annie Left some 8 weeks ago Last night she paid a short visit for the first time mother Sheffield and her Brother had a Quarell wherein he Laid voilent hands on her for which he was fined 30 Dollars my Brothe Joseph was hauling a Load of flour to the city last week for G. W. Hancock on the way down his horse took Lame and in takeing the shoe of to see what was the matter the horse reared up and fell over backward and killed himself to day 26th made some brooms father Matt visiting with us talking of his children quarelling last week we have been without milk in our family most all winter family all well at present Pres Jos Smith said when you take a mams priesthood away from him you virtually cut him of from the church the Lord has been truly mindfull of me and my family for which I thank him sincerely administered to sister Kelly last evening sheis on the mend lastest news from the east congress is quarelling among themselves over the negroe one year ago I set out near one hundred trees they are doing well my son Thomas and Daughter Jane are going to Bro Coombss School they are Progressing nicely it is now about eight years since I kept my Journal the world is in awful comotion for the last 4 years theres has been ar terrible war in the States between the north and the south the continues cold snow is deep the winter has been very severe the government talk of fu visiting and puting down Polygamy them and the Lord for it I think the Lord can protect his saints Bro Simons returned from Dixie last evening I have not seen as yet to talk with him ----- new page (MSSSC_2056_p156.jpg) March 6th 1866 Last Night administered with Bishop Fairham to Sister Kelly was makeing Brooms yesterday I expect to finish the Brooms to Day Bishop Fairba[-] says it is a wonder how the People Live and do so well as they do with all the calls that is made upon them I was out this morning viewing my orchard which Looks well the City council have rejected the Petition of Robert Wimer for 10 acres of Land within the City Limits for a nursery my family are still without milk the council are talking of haveing the City resurveyed the Pacific Railroad is being made at the rate of 1 mile per Day which we expect will come close by here some of these Days Bro Simons gave an interesting account of his mission to the cotton country he felt well in the work of God had a very interesting meeting at the teachers Quo in the evening I must stop writeing and go to work Bishop Fairbanks is unwell Elder Hyde passed on his way home to Sanpete last evening the weather is getting warmer I have sowed my wheat 5 acres there is still disatisfaction with congress & the President a man named Brassfield was shot Dead last week in the City for warrying another man's wife Archey Sh[-] there is a great deal of excitement about it in Salt Lake city March 1st 1867 the leadeing topick of the times is the anexation of Utah to Nevada to help them out of there debts. congress is still to work on the reconstruction of the SSouth putting them Under military Government they are going to try to put Polygamy down March 3d 1867 went to meeting this morning Bros D Stark & Heaton preached on the need of sunday schools & a library being established in this place the he State telegraph is in successfull operation John Stark is operator here my family are well though rather short of milk and butter we had a severe storm for the last 36 Hours not many people at meeting to day the last week have been out to Salt Creek makeing Brooms for Bro Baxter Pass over to Journal Continued ----- new page (MSSSC_2056_p157.jpg) The stone Jacob mad[-] [-]is pillow at Luz is now in Westminister Abbey. In Ireland it is known as the Stone of Destiny, or Lia Fail, in England as the Coronation Stone. It was brought to Ireland by Jeremiah in B. C. 500, and at his suggestion used by Eochaib as a cromlech in connection with his coro- nation. In A. D. 536 it was taken by Fergus I. to Scotland. All the succeed- ing sovereigns of Scotland for 798 years were crowned on it. It was taken from the Scotch by the English in 1328, and p[-]aced in Westminster Abbey, and from that time, 544 years, all the Queens and Kings of England have been crowned on it. "And the remnant of Jacob shall be among the Gentiles as a lion." (Mic. v., 8.) "He hath, as it were, the strength of an unicorn." (Num. xxiii., 22.) No nation ever fought so many battles or won so many victories as England, the mistress of the seas. "Thou art my battle-axe and weapon of war; for with thee will I break in pieces the nations, and with them will I destroy the king- doms." Whatever people be Israel their for- eign commerce must be extensive. They "go down to the sea in ships and do business in great waters." "I will set his hand in the sea and his right hand in the rivers." The ship- ping of England is an approximation to that of the whole world beside. When England "renewed her strength in the isles" she is represented as say- ing from the overflowing population, "The place is too straight for me. Give place to me that I may dwell." Wherever the Anglo-Saxon, immi- grates he extirpates the aboriginies. We read in the Scriptures, "His horns are like the horns of unicorns; with them he shall push the people together to the ends of the earth." England has always lent money and not borrowed. "The Lord thy God blesseth thee, as He promised thee; and thou shalt lend unto many nations, but thou shalt not borrow." The philanthropy of the Anglo- Saxons justifies their prophetic charac- ter. The Anglo-Saxons are addicted to drunkenness to a proverb, which Isaiah foresaw: "Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim; the priest and the people have erred through strong drink." After the reading of the essay a vote of thanks to Mr. Williams was passed. The Rev. Andrew McKeown read a paper by Prof. Rawlinson combatting the theory of any connection between our ancestors and the Israelites. His remarks on the triviality of the evi- dence of such connection were not com- plimentary to those who took that side of the argument. The paper began with the statement that puzzling ques- tions had constantly turned up, which had occupied the attention of able men to very little purpose. One of these is the authorship of the Letters of Junius, and another, interpolated Brother Mc- Keown, was "Who struck Billy Patter- son?" At the close of this reading the Rev. Mark Trafton rose and said that Brother Williams had conclusively proved that if [---] ribes were ever [---] went [---] ----- new page (MSSSC_2056_p158.jpg) [Column 1] DISCOURSE DELIVERED BY ELDER ORSON PRATT AT THE Twentieth Ward Meeting House, on Sunday Afternoon, Decem- ber 3rd, 1876. REPORTED BY GEO. F. GIBBS. THE following passages of scrip- ture were read—The 24th chapter of Isaiah, from the 1st to the 6th verses, and from the 17th to the 23rd verses; the 6th chapter of Reve- lations, from the 12th to the 17th verses; the 34th chapter of Isaiah, from the 1st to the 4th verses; and the 13th chapter of Isaiah, from the 6th to the 13th verses. Elder Pratt then said — I have read these passages, not with the idea of selecting from them any one passage, but more particularly to impress upon the congregation the fact that something must take place which never has been ful- filled. Since the day that Isaiah lived and prophesied among the people, you will admit, with me, that ther[-] never has been a universal destruc[-] tion of all the wicked and the transgressors from off the face of the earth. There have been scores of millions of sinners upon the earth since the utterance of this prophecy to the present time, but the whole- sale destruction spoken of has never taken place. You will all admit with me also that the signs which are to appear in the heavens, about the time of this universal destruction of the wicked, have not yet taken place. We are told not only that the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, but the stars shall refuse their shining. If only the sun were to be darkened, the heathen nations, that could not account for it, might say it had reference to some great eclipse, such as occured in different ages; but when they find that all the stars of heaven withold their light and there is not even so much as a glimmer of light, and the sun too becomes as black as sackcloth, they cannot impute it to an eclipse, for an eclipse would not destroy the light of the stars that are scattered over the concave of heaven. We are also told, in connection with this, that the earth is to be affected as well as the heavenly bodies; it is to roll to and fro like a drunken man, the mountains are to be broken down, and the whole earth is to be dissolved. No such thing has ever taken place since the day this prophecy was uttered; it is therefore yet to be fulfilled. Again Isaiah in the 40th chapter has said that "every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low: and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain: and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together." Such an event as that has never occurred, for we have many moun- tains in all parts of the earth, and the valleys are not yet exalted, neither are the rough places made [Column 2] TUESDAY FEBRUAR[-] smooth. We are told that not only are the mountains to be broken down, and the valleys exalted, and the rough places made smooth, but the earth itself is to be dissolved. This agrees with the prophicies of the Psalmist David. He was per- mitted to see the great day of the coming of the Lord, and has described it in many of his psalms; among other things which he says shall take place, is that the hills should melt like wax at the pres- ence of the Lord. They of course will fall down by the force of gravi- ty, and fill up the valleys; such an event has never taken place since the day the prophecy was uttered. We are told also in another place by the prophet Isaiah, how that the servants of God in those notable days should call upon the name of the Lord, saying, "Oh that thou wouldst rend the heavens, that thou wouldst come down, that the mountains might flow down at thy presence. As when the melting fire burneth, the fire causeth the waters to boil, to make thy name known to thine adversaries, that the nations might tremble at thy presence," which prayer shall be answered. Another thing is spoken of, be- sides all these changes that I have named. There will be a great re- moval of certain portions of the earth. "The earth is moved ex- ceedingly," as contained in the 19th verse of the 24th chapter of Isaiah, and in the following verse, still referring to the changes that this earth is to undergo, it reads, "And shall be removed like a cottage." We are still further told in the same chapter that "the Lord maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down," etc; that is, many portions of the earth which now lie buried will be thrown to the surface, and many portions which now are the upper crust of the earth will be turned under. The earth is now divided into continents and islands. We may ask, are these to change their loca- tion? The answer is, yes. The apostle and revelator John, in the 6th chapter of Revelations, tells us that he saw, in vision, after the opening of the sixth seal, among other remarkable things, that "every mountain and island were moved out of their places." Such islands as Great Britain will change their location, as well as those of the Pacific Ocean and all others in like manner; and I have no doubt there will be a vast change between the location of continents and the location of the great oceans and seas at that time. The earth will doubtless be rolled back to the position it formerly occupied. We read that there is to be a restitution of all things spoken of by the mouth of all the holy prophets. If the earth is to be restored to its former condition, as it once existed soon after the creation, then, so far as continents and oceans are con- cerned, there will be a restitution of those portions of the globe, as well as many things not mentioned [Column 3] in prophecy. These passages which I have read occurred to my mind principally after I came to this house. I had nothing particular to present to the congregation, nothing studied or prepared. I prefer to depend upon the spirit of the Lord to direct me when engaged in preaching the gospel, and my mind seems to be directed to the great events that are to transpire in the overthrow and destruction of the wicked nations— the great events to transpire in which the sun will become black as sackcloth, and every star withold its light and cast themselves down as the falling of figs from the fig- tree, all of which will be very re- markable in their nature. The prophet Joel says, "And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions:" "And I will show wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke. The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and terrible day of the Lord come," etc. Do you suppose, my brethren, that the Lord would have inspired such men as the Psalmist David, the prophets Isaiah, Joel, John the Revelator, as well as many others, to speak of events of this description, which were to take place in the latter times, if no such thing would transpire? No, certainly not. These things too are so frequently alluded to that'we cannot have any dubiety upon our minds in regard to the design of the Lord. I have no doubt a great many changes have taken place upon our globe since that great change wrought upon it at the time of the creation. There certainly was a great change wrought upon it then, for we are told that when the Lord organized the earth it was enveloped in a great ocean of water, there being no dry land in sight. But the Lord, by his power and word, or, in other words, by his power and word, or, in other words, by his immutable laws, caused that the waters should be gathered together into one place, and hence the dry land appeared. I do not suppose that this change was effected in the twinkling of an eye; I believe the Lord has certain established laws by which he acomplishes his wonderful works pertaining to all his creations. How long this submerged earth had an existence before the Lord commanded the great deep, that enveloped the whole solid surface of the same, to be removed, is not for me to say; no one can tell how many years, or tho[----]nds of years, or how many millions of years, this earth may have existed in the form of partial or imperfect organizations before this great event happened, of which Moses gives an account. The periods mentioned in the history, as recorded in the 1st chap- ter of Genesis, are represented as begin- ning with the evening and ending with the morning. Seven such periods are men- tioned. How long these periods, called days, were, I cannot tell; it is very evident they were not governed by the rotation o[-] the earth on its axis, because the sun did not give light during the first three days or periods. It was on the fourth day that the Lord caused the light of the sun to shine upon this little speck of creation. But there were three days prior to that, when the sun did not shine upon the earth. What then was to distinguish between the light and darkness we of course can- not say. There was an eternity of past duration, before the period, called "the first day." The materials we, as Latter- day Saints, believe existed from all eternity, the materials had no beginning; they were not created. There is one particular to which I wish to call your attention. The ocean seems to have been gathered by itself, when the dry land appeared, and whether or not there were any islands at that period of our globe's history, we are not informed. [---] might inquire. What has 'occasioned two great continents and two great oceans intervening between them, and how are we to account for the appearances of islands and seas as they now exist? These are the results of other changes since the days of the organization of this earth, as pro- claimed by Moses. The flood, no doubt, produced some changes on the surface of our globe, but still I do not believe, for a moment, that it could have produced the changes we now see. So far as the loca- tion of the different islands and continents is concerned, we descend to a period since the flood. In the days of Peleg, we are [Column 4] told, the earth was divided. This is a very short historical notice of a very mar- velous event. If we had the whole account of this occurrence precisely as it transpired, it would certainly be extremely wonderful. Supposing that the one great ante-delu- vian continent, which must have existed prior to that time, were to be divided by several thousand miles of water, would not that be a most wonderful event? It may be enquired, what natural laws could have performed such an event? I do not pretend to say that any regular, uni- form laws exist by which it was accom- plished; but there are laws, perhaps, that finite man does not comprehend and fully understand, which might occasion the division of the earth. The Lord has un- der his control all the laws of nature, whether uniform or not. It is just as easy for the Lord to cause water to stand up as perpendicular walls, instanced in the case of the children of Israel crossing the Red Sea, as it is to cause these waters to settle to their common level. What causes water to find its level? It is the power of God and nothing else. We give it the name of gravitation; but the power of gravitation is nothing more nor less than the power God exercises upon the ele- ments, producing uniform laws. Has the Lord no other laws in opera- tion but the law of gravity? Yes, he can cause the law of gravity to be in subjec- tion to other laws. For instance, a cer- tain man was cutting down wood with the prophet Elisha when his axe fell into deep water, to all appearance lost; and the man was somewhat exercised about it, because the axe was borrowed. The prophet, understanding the nature of certain laws higher than that of gravita- tion, exercised the power of the priesthood with which he was endowed, commanding the iron to swim, and it did so. Again, on another occasion, the prophet Elisha, knowing that he must succeed the prophet Eljah in the ministry, and that Eljah was about to be translated and taken to heaven, asked of him a certain favor before he ascended, namely, that a double portion of his (Eljah,) spirit might rest upon him. Eljah said in response, "Thou hast asked a hard thing: neverthe- less, if thou seest me, when I am taken from thee, it shall be so unto thee; but if not, it shall not be so." It pleased the Lord to grant unto Elisha his desire, for he beheld the prophet ascend to heaven in a chariot of fire, drawn by horses hav- ing the appearance of fire. He then took the mantle of Elijah, that fell from him, and with it he smote the waters of the Jordan, saying, "Where is the Lord God of Elijah?" And they parted hither and thither, and Elisha went over on dry ground. Here, then, we preceive a power greater than gravitation. As we have already observed, when the children of Israel had passed over the Red Sea, the waters were thrown up like walls on either side of them; the Lord caused the same waters to flow down upon their enemies, totally destroying them. Again, while Israel was journeying in the wilderness we are informnd that they came to the river Jordan, and that as the priests who bore the ark of the Covenant touched the water with the soles of their feet, the waters rose up in a heap, and all Israel passed over on dry ground. From these simple testimonies we have shown that God controls the laws of na- ture. Again, the fact of the prophet Elijah being taken up to heaven, records another instance of the laws of gravitation being overcome by a more powerful one. Again, the ascension of Jesus, after he had commissioned his disciples to preach the gospel to all the world, was another instance of the law of gravitation being overcome by the power of God. Then [--] no person suppose that all the great events that will hereafter transpire upon the sur- face of land and sea, have got to take place by reason of some slow progressive changes, occupying hundreds of thous- ands and perhaps millions of years, ac- cording to the ideas of modern geologists. Can they show the way the Lord can gov- ern and control these things, bringing about events, in the course of a very short time, that perhaps would take millions of years to accomplish by the mere progress- ive changes, such as are recognized by ge- ologists? How easy it would be for that same power to be made manifest, in com- manding the great ocean to leave its pres- ent bed and to gather together in the polar regions in our globe. One may ask, What would hold them there? They now occu- [Column 5] py the common level surface as near the centre of gravity as they can, and sustain the centrifugal force exercised by the ro- tation of the earth on its axis. If they should be rolled back, whence they came, if a great equatorial continent, in one con- tinuous belt, encircled the globe, and the two polar regions were covered with oceans, what would hold them in their position ? It might be done without in- fringing particularly on the laws of gravi- tation. How easy it would be for the Lord to compress the polar regions of our globe, and cause the equatorial regions to rise higher, so as to balance the polar waters, and retain them in the arctic and antarctic regions. It may be objected, that should such a condition exist, even though we should admit the power of God in thus dividing the waters, and giving us an equatorial continent, yet this would not protect the inhabitants of the equator from the burn- ing heat of the sun, and it would be utter- ly impossible for the inhabitants of the earth to inhabit the equatorial region, if this should be the case. How easy it would be for the Lord to alter the posi- tion of the earth's axis, giving it a greater inclination to the plane of the ecliptic, so that the two tropics should extend thirty- five or forty degrees north and south of the equator. What effect would this have? It would have the effect of giving greater heat to the poles, and also of giving less heat to the equator. The earth will be shaped into the form best adapted to the occupation of a higher order of beings. Now, children of mor- tality occupy this globe. In some por- tions of the earth we suffer extremes of heat and cold. The Laplander has guard- ed against this in his snow house, while the people of the torrid regions have to guard against intense heat. And there is much suffering by the inhabitants of the earth, in their present state of mortality, from the extremes of heat and cold. But in relation to the great event I have named, I have no doubt but what every motion and arrangement that the Lord will cause to take place upon the surface of our [---]be will have a tendency to prepare it [---]e habitation of beings of a higher [---] of intelligence than those who now occupy it. In testimony of this, we will refer you to some few passages of scrip- ture. The inhabitants of the heavens, who now reside in the presence of God the Father and his son Jesus Christ, do not always expect to reside there; they have anticipations as well as we. And they expect to receive another place or lo- cation than where they now reside. Have you not read that peculiar passage con- tained in the 5th chapter of the Revela- tions, in relation to the inhabitants of heaven? The Revelator John heard them sing a new and beautiful song, about the unsealing of a certain book—"Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation; And hast made us unto our God kings and priests: and we shall reign on the earth," etc. What! the inhabitants of heaven com- ing to reign on this earth? Yes. Some of you may say, "I should not think that heavenly people would want to leave the presence of God and the Lamb, where all is peace and happiness, where there is no sin to mar the peace of that blessed abode. I should not suppose that they could anti- cipate joy in coming back to this earth." But the earth is to undergo a change in which it will be sanctified and made glori- ous when the sinners are destroyed. When the Lord performs what I have read to you, namely, that the inhabitants of the earth are to be burned up, and few men left; and all the armies of the wicked slaughtered. And when the prediction of Isaiah is fulfilled that the slain will be from one end of the earth to the other, and the earth changed in its position, and a beautiful climate introduced, and all the dry ground made habitable, and the rough places made smooth, the valleys raised, and the mountains levelled down, I think they will then delight to come here. Because this is their old home, where they once lived. "Thou hast re- deemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation; And hast made us unto our God kings and priests: and we shall reign on the earth." How will they reign? Will they come here as spiritual personages without bodies of flesh and bones? No. There will be a ----- new page (MSSSC_2056_p159.jpg) [Column 1] But so great has been the curse that God decreed that it should suffer death like unto man; it cannot escape it, the change must come, the final change, which is equivalent to death itself. The prophet Isaiah speaks of the earth dying: "And they that dwell therein shall die in like manner." As it shall die, so shall all who dwell upon it. When shall it see death? Not until after the Millennium, after the reign of righteousness for the space of one thousand years; after, too, "the little sea- son," during which period of time Satan will be loosed out of his prison. It will continue in its temporal state with a por- tion of the curse upon its face, until the devil shall gather together his armies at the end of the thousand years, when he will marshal them, bringing them up on the breadth of the earth, and compassing the camp of the saints and the beloved city. Then the Lord will make the final change; then the last trump will sound, which will bring forth all the sleeping na- tions; they will come forth with immortal bodies no more to be subject to temporal death. They will come forth from their [-]eeping tombs, and the sea will give up the dead which is in it. The graves of the wicked will be opened, and they will come forth; and a great white throne will ap- pear, as recorded in the 20th chap. of Revelations, and the personage who sits on it is described. Jesus comes then in his glory and power, in a manner far greater than has ever been manifested on this earth before; so great wili be the glory of him who sits upon the throne, that from before his face the earth and the heaven will flee away, and no place shall be found for them. Will not that be a greater change than casting down the mountains, etc., which is to take place at the beginning of the Millennium? The earth is to be burnt by fire, returning to its original elements. It does not say there shall be no place found for the elements, but there shall be no place found for the organized world. Like ourselves, the organization of the mortal body will cease, it will be finally dissolved and the elements of which it is composed will be scattered in space; but that same God that controls the laws by which it ex- ists now will in due time, and when he sees proper, speak to these elements, and by his Almighty power they will again come together, and be formed into a new earth, as is clearly portrayed in the 21st chap. of St. John's Revelations. The apostle not only saw the heaven and the earth pass away, but he saw"a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away." How do you suppose this new earth will be made? Do you suppose the Lord will go away into the immensity of space, and gather together new materials and command them to be organized? No, he will take the same materials, the elements which will have been dissolved by fire, and he will command them again to be reor- ganized, adapting the resurrected creation to the condition of the inhabitants that will occupy it. It will then be far more glori- our than it will appear, during the thou- sand years of rest; it will then be reorgan- ized by Almighty God in the most perfect form, so that it shall be capable of eternal and everlasting endurance, no more to be dissolved, no more to suffer from the action of the elements one upon the other, as has been the ease with this earth, during its temporal existence. But it will continue to all eternity, and who are to inhabit it? The saints who have before lived upon it, during the seven thousand years of its temporal existence. Have we any account to sustain us in this? Yes, for after John saw the new heaven and new earth, the next thing he tells us of is the population of the new earth. "And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a great voice out of heaven, saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God. And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes, and there shall be no more death, neither sor- row, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain, for the former things are pass- ed away." The earth then will be made new, im- mortal, eternal in its nature; and holy beings that John saw come down in this holy city will be its inhabitants. No more death, no more sorrow, etc.; in other [Column 2] BOOK BINDING AND PAPER RULING In all its Branches, at the Deseret News Bookbindery. OFFICE.—Corner South & East Temple St. words, this earth, this creation, will be- come a heaven. The heavens that exist now are innumerable to man. God has from all eternity been organizing, redeem- ing and perfecting creations in the immen- sity of space; all of which, when they are sanctified by celestial law, and made new and eternal, become the abode of the faithful former inhabitants, who also be- come immortal, through and by celes- tial law. They are the mansions referred to by the Saviour—"In my Father's house are many mansions." In other words, we may say, In our Father's dominions are many mansions. They are not like man- sions built by men, they are worlds of greater and lesser magnitude. The first grade are exalted, celestial bodies, from which celestial light will radiate through the immensity of space. We are anxiously praying to dwell in the presence of God the Father, when we depart this life. Where will it be? He will dwell with man upon the earth. Will this confine him to this earth? No, not any more than the kings of the earth are confined to their palaces, or the city in which they may dwell. They have the right to visit the different portions of their dominions and even any parts of the earth. So will God our Eternal Father, when he selects this earth as a habitation, make it as one of his dwelling places, but he will have power to go from one celestial world to another, to visit the myriads of crea- tions, as may seem to him good. In thus referring to the changes that the earth must undergo we might ask, Are we living now so as to be prepared for all the dispensations of God's providence? Are we prepared to receive our inheritance up- on this earth, when it shall be made eter- nal? If we keep the celestial law which God shall give to us; or in other words, if we are born first of the water by baptism, and then of the spirit by the baptism of fire and the Holy Ghost, and if we con- tinue to walk in this spirit in newness of life, being new creatures before the Lord our God, and becoming sanctified by the celestial law, even the law of the Gospel, we will then be prepared to inherit this creation, when it shall be made new, and sanctified, and become immortal. If we are not thus prepared, where shall we go? God is the author of many crea- tions besides those that are celestial. He will prepare a creation just adapted to the condition of such people—those who are not sanctified by the Gospel in all its ful- ness, and who do not endure faithful to the end, will find themselves located upon one of the lower creations, where the glory of God will not be made manifest to the same extent. There they will be governed by laws adapted to their inferior capacity and to the condition which they will have plunged themselves in. They will not only suffer after this life, but will fail to receive glory and power and exaltation in the pre- sence of God the Eternal Father; they will fail to receive an everlasting inheritance upon this earth, in its glorified and immor- tal state. Therefore how careful the Lat- ter-day Saints should be in order to merit the association of the happy throng whom John heard singing that new song. We desire our inheritance on this earth as well as they. If they could rejoice in anticipa- tion of receiving an inheritance on the earth, how much more can we who know comparatively nothing of the joys of hea- ven, when our globe will be glorified, a fit habitation for immortal, glorified beings. Let us keep the commandments of the Most High; let us so order our lives that we can have a claim upon the Father, looking forward to that period of time when these mortal bodies, which must slumber in the dust, will come forth from the grave, fashioned after the likeness of his most glorious body, to inherit the same glory with him. Amen. ----- new page (MSSSC_2056_p160.jpg) [Column 1] find the strata of rock set up almost perpendicular; that was not the way they were first formed. You will also find there as elsewhere, strata dipping at a greater [--] less angle into the earth. The [--]use of all this has been the terrible con- [--]sions that our globe has undergone, and [--]e especially at the time of the cruci- fixion. "And it came to pass that when the thunderings, and the lightnings, and the storm, and the tempest, and the quakings of the earth did cease—for behold they did last for about the space of three hours; and it was said by some that the time was greater; nevertheless, all these great and terrible things were done in about the space of three hours; and then behold there was darkness upon the face of the land." I might go on reading, if it were necessa ry, in regard to the weeping, wailing and mourning of the people during these three days of intense darkness—no sun, moon, nor stars were to be seen, and the vapor was so great that the inhabitants of the land could feel it, the same as the darkness was felt in the land of Egypt. It was not, of course, the darkness that was felt, but the vapor that was so thick. There is one [-]hing, however, to which I wish to call your special attention, before I make any further remarks in regard to the date that is here given. When this darkness dis- persed, it is said to have been morning You will find it on page 454. "And it came to pass that thus did the three days pass away; and it was in the morning, and the darkness dispersed from off the face of the land, and the earth did cease to tremble, and the rocks did cease to rend." You might say that this was not three days and three nights, for Jesus was cruci- fied, and died on the cross at 3 o'clock in [-]he afternoon at Jerusalem, and conse quently for it to have been just three days [-]nd three nights, you might suppose that the darkness must have dispersed in the afternoon. But this book tells us that when the three days and three nights of darkness had passed away it was morning Now why this discrepancy—for it seems to be one—between the Bible and the Book of Mormon? Can you account for it and tell why it should have been morning in America? The reason is be- cause of the difference in longitude. The writer of the account in the Book of Mor- mon resided in the north western portion of South America. Now you take a map o[-] the world, and see the difference in longi- tude between the place where Jesus was crucified, and that where the writer of the Book of Mormon lived, and you will find that it is about seven and a half hours Now you subtract seven and a half hours from 3 o'clock in the afternoon, and wha[-] time would it be when the three hours of quaking and the destruction of cities ex pired or when the darkness commenced? Would it not be in the morning? Take away seven and a half hours longitude from 3 o'clock—the time that Jesus expired —and would it not be half past seven o'clock in the morning with the inhabit- ants of this land, while it was afternoon with the inhabitants in Jerusalem? I presume that Joseph Smith, being an unlearned man, never saw this to the day of his death; that is, he never understood it. I never heard him, or any learned man refer to it until after his death; but reading it over myself, I saw, at first, there was an apparent discrepancy between this book and the New Testament; one placing it in the morning, and the other in the after- noon. When thinking of this seeming discrepancy the difference in longitude occurred to my mind, and that is just what it should be to account for the difference in time given in the two books; and this though not direct, is incidental, proof that the man who translated this book was in- spired of God. I do not think that Joseph Smith, to the day of his death, knew that a difference in time at different places on the earth, was caused by their difference of longitude. We will now go back to the date, at the commencement of the extract I have been reading—"in the thirty and fourth year, in the first month, and on the fourth day of the month"—that would make him thirty- three years, three days and part of another day old, at the time of his crucifixion, ac- cording to the account given in the Book of Mormon. But this does not decide his age exactly, unless we can learn what kind of years the Nephites reckoned. Did they reckon their years as the English and Americans do? No, I presume not. How can we learn the length of their years? I do not know of any better method than going back to the early Spanish historians who lived cotemporary with Columbus, the discoverer of America. When they pene- [-]rated into Mexico and conquered that [Column 2] country, they found that the Mexicans were partially civilized, so that they had many records, although their mode of keeping them was very different from those of other nations. The Mexican cal- endar gave their views and ideas with re gard to the length of the year, and their mode of reckoning them. This was about the close of the fifteenth century, for Co lumbus discovered America in 1492. Soon afterwards these Spanish historians became extensively acquainted with Mexican literature, their form of writing, and the half civilization that existed among them. I have in my possession nine large vol- umes, got up soon after the Book of Mor- mon was translated, by Lord Kingsbo- rough, on Mexican antiquities. The nine volumes will probably weigh over two hundred pounds. Five of them contain nothing but plates of antiquities; the other four contain translations, in English, Span- ish and French, of the declarations of historians concerning Mexican literature and their knowledge concerning the length of the year. They reckoned 365 days to the year, but did not add what is termed the intercalary day every four years, to make what we call leap year. They did this only once in fifty-two years, and then they added thirteen days, which made one day for every four years. This shows that they had a very go[-]d idea of the length of the year. When Jesus was crucified, at the age of about thirty-three years, if the Nephites reckoned according to the Mexican portion of the Israelites, they had not added the eight days that we would add for leap year, consequently this would shorten their years, and instead of being thirty-three years, three days and part of the fourth day, it would bring it, according to our reckon- ing, eight days less than the Book of Mor- mon date, or thirty-two years, three-hun- dred and sixty days and fifteen hours This then, it is highly probable, must have been the real period that existed between the birth and the crucifixion of our Savior. Now, we have a clue in the New Testa- ment to the time of his crucifixion, but not of his birth; that is, we know that he was crucified on Friday, for all of the Evangel- ists testify that Saturday was the Jewish Sabbath, and that on Friday Jesus was hung on the cross, and according to the testimony of the learned that was on the 6th of April, consequently by going back from the crucifixion 32 years, 360 days and 15 hours, making allowance for the longi- tude, it gives Thursday for his birthday. Again, making allowance for the errors of Dionysius the monk, adding four years or nearly so to the vulgar or incorrect era, it would make the organization of this church take place precisely, to the very day, 1800 years from the day that he was lifted up on the cross. This is something very marvelous in my mind. Joseph Smith did not choose the 6th of April upon which to organize this church: he received a commandment from God, which is contained in the Book of Doctrine and Covenants, setting apart that day as the one upon which the church should be organized. Why did he set up his kingdom precisely 1800 years from the day on which he was lifted up on the cross? I do not know why. The Lord has his own set time to bring to pass his great purposes. If Joseph Smith had been learned in chronology and in the writings of the world; if he had been a middle-aged or an old man of experience, or a man who had access to libraries,instead of a farmer's boy, then we might have supposed that perhaps he had studied chronology, sought out the true era, found out how to distin- guish between the true and the vulgar, and then found out the true date of the birth of Christ and his crucifixion, and got it all arranged together nicely and harmonious- ly, and then have pretended that he had had a revelation to orga[-]ize the church precisely 1800 years from that great event. This is what we should have to concede if we wanted to make out the work an imposi- [-]ion; but the very fact that God commanded that boy to organize the church on that day, ought to be regarded as strong collat[-] eral evidence of the divine authenticity [-] the Book of Mormon. Perhaps I have said all that is needful [-] this matter. If I were to celebrate Ch[-] mas, or the birthday of Christ, I shoul[-] back a little less than thirty-three y[-] from his crucifixion, and it would bring[-] to Thursday, the 11th day of April, as [-] first day of the first year of the true Chri[-] tian era; and reckoning on thirty-tw[-] years, 360 days and fifteen hours from tha[-] it would bring it to the crucifixion, and bring it on Friday also. In saying that "it was the thirty-fourth year, first month and fourth day of the month" on which the great storm and earthquakes took place, there is another thing to be noted—that it must have taken place on Friday, according to the Nephite [Column 3] reckoning in order to bring his crucifixion on Friday. If Tuesday was the first day of the 34th year, the second day would be Wednesday, the third Thursday, and Fri- day would have been the fourth day of the month, just as the Book of Mormon says, bringing it correct according to the reckon- ing of the days of the week. There is another thing that, perhaps, a great many of the Latter-day Saints and many of the world have not reflected upon; [---] that the beginning of our present New Year is incorrect, reckoning the years from the birth of Christ, for the first day of January was not the day of his birth. We call it the first day of the year, but it has no reference to the day of Christ's birth. The first day of the year of the true Chris- t[-]an era should be the day of the Savior's birth—the 11th day of April. About 122 years ago we did not have the first day of January for New Year. At that time, or thereabouts, everybody in America and England reckoned New Year's Day on the 25th of March. That had been the first day of the year for many generations. How came it to be changed to the first day of January? In 1751 the Parliament of Great Britain passed a law that the year should be moved backwards from the 25th day of March to the 1st day of January, making the year 1751 some eighty-four days shorter than all other years had been. Why did they do this? In order to place New Year in connection with a certain event in astronomy. Those who are ac- quainted with the earth going round the sun, know that the path in which it moves is not a circle but an ellipse, or elongated circle. You make a wire into the form of [-] circle and then pull it out, and that is the [-]orm of an ellipse. The sun is situated in [-]e of the foci of this ellipse, and is nearer [-]o the earth on the 1st day of January or [-]he 31st day of December, by about three millions of miles, than it is on the 1st day [-]f July. The object of placing the year [-]ack was to have the year begin when the [-]arth was in its perihelion in going around [-]he sun. This was not the only alteration [-]hat has been made, but this accounts for [-]e phrases "new style" and "old style," [-]ith which you occasionally meet in his- [-]rical documents, the former having re- [-]rence to the new mode of reckoning; the [-]ter to the old mode. [-]I have said that this was not the only [-]ange made in time. In the year 1752— [-]en the second day of September had ar- [-]ed, in order to bring the year to corres- [-]d with the seasons, it was found neces- [-]y to set the time forward so that the 3rd [-] of September should be called the 14th, [-]ven days being dropped out of the cal- [-]dar. This was also established by par- [-]mentary law; and in this way the seas [-]s have been brought to correspond, in [-]me measure, with the length of the year. [-]l these things should be taken into con- [-]deration in our dates; and when we read [-]e saying in the Book of Covenants that the Lord organized his church in the year of our Lord 1830, in the fourth month, and on the sixth day of the month, the Lord made his language to correspond with our [-]resent mode of reckoning, that is, he [-]opted the reckoning of the English, es- [-]ished by parliamentary law. Instead [-]ckoning the year to begin on the 25th [-]arch, he says, "It being in the year a[-] [-]r Lord 1830, the fourth month, tha[-] the sixth day of the month We[-] the church was organized." this [-] not on this account to take our [-] [-]e real date, but it is adapted to made [-] [-]ent mode of reckoning. I ahve they s[-] [-]e remarks, that no persons, if chronol[-] [-]d feel disposed to search into this ma[-] might be misled in relation to New Yo[-] Begin so near Christmas and to dwell o[-] I have deemed it appropriate enlighteni[-] his subject, for the purpose of p[-]esent, so[-] the minds of all who may be gard to it. [-] as I [---] formation in re- Now if I [-] [-]e not already occup[---] much time, l[-] [-]esire to dwell a little upon the subject of [-]e chronology of our world. We have no da[-] [-]s on which we can depend as to the period[-]or history of our globe from the creatio[-] down to the present time. Chronologists di[-] [-]er in regard to the histo- ry and age of the[-]world. Some make the age of the world fr[-]m the creation to the coming of Christ, to be four thousand years. Archbishop Usher has introduced this chronology into King James' Bible; and in that you will find all the dates adap- ted to that particular reckoning; and according to his reckoning you will find that Christ came in the year of the world 4004. Is this to be depended upon? Not at all. Many chronologists equally as learned, and who have made deeper researches than he has on this subject, differ with him ma- [-]rially. There are many who place the [-]rth of Christ at 5500 [---] from the crea ----- new page (MSSSC_2056_p161.jpg) [Column 1] tion; others place it at 5490, others at 5508 or 9 years. There are about two hundred chronologists who all differ in regard to this matter. Many Jewish chronologists make it over six thousand years from the crea- tion till the birth of Christ, so that you see when we attempt to take up the subject on the learning of the world, we are in the midst of confusion—no person knows any- thing about it. It is not really necessary that we should know, but we have some little light on this subject. We know that it was not six thousand years from the creation to the birth of Christ. How do we know this? God has told us in new revelation that this earth is destined to continue its temporal existence for seven thousand years, and that at the commencement of the seventh thousand, he will cause seven angels to sound their trumpets. In other words, we may call it the Millennium, for the meaning of the word millennium is a thousand years. Six thousand years must pass away from the creation down till the time that Jesus comes in the clouds of heaven, and he will not come exactly at the expiration of six thousand years. When the Prophet Joseph asked the Lord what was meant by the sounding of the seven trumpets, he was told, "That as God made the world in six days, and on the seventh day he finished his work and sanctified it, and also formed man out of the dust of the earth; even so in the be- ginning of the seventh thousand years, will the Lord God sanctify the ea[-]th, and complete the salvation of man, and judge all things and shall redeem all things, ex cept that which he hath not put into his power when he shall have sealed all things unto the end of all things, and the sound ing of the trumpets of the seven angels is the preparing and finishing of his work, in the beginning of the seventh thousand years; to prepare the way before the time of his coming." This quotation will be found in the Pearl of Great Price, p. 34. Neither of these trumps have sounded yet, but they shortly will; and this gives us a lit- tle clue to the period and age of our world. We know that six thousand years have not yet elapsed since the creation, but we know that they have very nearly expired. We know that God set up and estab[-]ished this kingdom 1800 years from the date of his crucifixion, preparatory to his coming in the clouds of heaven to receive the king- dom that he sets up here on the earth, and to rule and reign over all people, nations and tongues that are spared alive. Perhaps this is sufficient on the history and chrono- logy of the world; but for the benefit of the Saints, and it will not hurt the strangers, although they do not believe in our revel- ations, I will refer to some further evidence and testimony on this subject. In the new translation which Joseph Smith was commanded to make of the Old and New Testament, we find that some of the dates given in King James's transla- tion of events before the flood are incor- rect, but they are corrected in the new translation. For instance, the age of Enoch, as given in King James's Bible, is incorrect. The new translation gives a lengthy prophecy which was deliv- ered to him before the flood, and this pro- phecy relates to generations in the future as well as to things that were past. Enoch, in his vision, saw the great work that he was destined to perform on the earth, in preaching the gospel among the nations, and gathering out a people and building up a city called Zion. He saw that in pro- cess of time the people of Zion would be- come sanctified before the Lord, that the Lord would come and dwell in their midst and that by and by, after the city had existed 365 years,it with all its people, would be taken up to heaven. And all the days of Zion in the days of Enoch, says the new translation, was 365 years, making Enoch 420 years old when he and his people were translated, which is older than the age given him in the uninspired translation. In this new translation we have also a much greater history of the creation of the world than is given in the uninspired translation made by the forty-seven men employed by King James. In that book we have a very short history of that great event; but the inspired translation shows that the periods of time called days, in which the several portions of the work of creation were performed, were not by any means of such limited duration as the days we speak of, but from what is re- vealed in the Book of Abraham, they were probably periods of one thousand years each. God might have been for the space of a thousand years in organizing a cer- tain portion of this creation, and that was called the evening and the morning of the first day, according to the Lord's reckon- ing, one day being with him as a thou- sand years and a thousand years as one day. By and by another day's work was [Column 2] performed, which I do not suppose [-] day of twenty-four hours, but an in[-] nite period of time, called the second day --the evening and the morning of the second day. By and by the third day's work was done, and then there was the evening and the morning of the third day. Three thousand years probably, passed away in the performance of these three days' work. In the fourth day the Lord permitted the sun and moon to shine to give light to the earth. What regulated the evening and the morning the first three days we do not know, for neither sun nor moon were permitted to shine until the fourth day. I have no doubt the lord has a variety of methods of producing light? The new translation gives us some information on this subject, for there we read that, "I the Lord created darkness on the face of the "great deep." In King James' translation it says darkness was on the face of the great deep, and I, the Lord, said Let there be light, and there was light. Now how did the Lord create this darkness? He has a power, the same as he had in causing darkness three days and nights over this American land. But before that darkness was created what produced light? It must have been light here on this earth, and probably was so thousands of years before the Lord created darkness; and then he had the means of producing darkness, and afterwards of clearing it away, and then called it morning. But how long that morning had existed we do not know, unless we appeal to the Book of Abraham, translated by Joseph Smith from Egyptian papyrus. That tells us in plainness that the way the Lord and the celestial host reckoned time, was by the revolutions of a certain great central body called Kolob, which had one revolution on its axis in a thousand of our years, and that was one day with the Lord, and when the Lord said to Adam, "in the day thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die," the Book of Abraham says it was not yet given unto man the true reckoning of time, and that it was reckoned after the Lord's time that is one thou- sand years with us was a day with him, and that Adam, if he partook of the forbidden fruit, was to die before that day of a thousand years should expire. Hence when we go back to the history of the creation, we find that the Lord was not in such a great hurry as many suppose, but that he took indefinite periods of long duration to con- struct this world, and to gather together the ele- ments by the laws of gravitation to lay the foundation and form the nucleus thereof, an[-] when he saw that all things were ready and pro- [-]rly prepared, he then placed the man in the [-]arden of Eden to rule over all animals, fish [-]d fowls, and to have dominion over the whole [-]e of the earth. There is another very curious thing revealed in [-]seph Smith's translation, and one that ex- plains some mysterious passages in the first and second chapter of Genesis. [-]n the first chapter of Genesis in King James's translation we read that on the fifth day the Lord made the whales, the fish and the fowls of the air. On the sixth day he made the animals, beasts and creeping things, and last of all he made man, male and female. Now read along in King James's trans- lation to the seventh day, and we are told that there was not a man to till the ground, ye he had made them male and female on the sixth day. Now, where were they made? They were made in heaven first. All the children of men, male and female, all the spirits of beasts, fowls, fish and creeping things were made spiritually in heaven before they were placed temporally here on the earth, and the spiritual creation dif- fers from the temporal creation. The new translation says that man was the very first flesh made here on the earth, whereas, according to the account in King James's translation, the [---] of beasts, fowls and fish was made on the fifth day, before man was made. But in the great temporal work of placing man on the earth, he was the first flesh formed and placed here among all the works of God. He had made the spirits of fish, fowls and bea[-]t, but none of them were permitted to come to the earth in their flesh[-]y tabernacles until man, the g[-]eat masterpiece, was placed here then they were brought before him, for him to give names to them. [-]n the work of creation the first is last and the last first. God made the spiritual part of this creation during these six days work that we read of; then he commenced the temporal work on the seventh day. He planted the garden on the seventh day; he placed man in that garden on the seventh day ; formed the beasts and brought them before the man on the seventh day, all this being the temporal work, the first being spiritual. Not so in the last of his work— the great work that is to come. When the seventh millennium shall arrive the Lord will redeem man and bring him forth from the grave, and he will begin to redeem this creation not making it entirely immortal and spiritua[-], like a sea of glass. It will exist for a thousand years in a temporal condition, as it was before the Fall. This will be the first of his temporal work in the last days. By and by when the mil- lennium has passed, and the earth passes away and die and its elements are melted with fervent heat, and there is no place found for it as an organ[-]zed body, he will again speak and there will be another creation—a creation of this earth out of the old materia[-]s; in other words a resurrection of the earth, a literal resurrection. That will be the last of his work. In the morn- ing of creation spiritual first, and lastly tem- poral. But in the ending temporal first in the redemption, and lastly spiritual, which will be the perfection or ending of [-]his work. There are a great many things that God has revealed to us as Latter-day Saints, and it would be well for us, for our e[-]ders and for all, to search these revelations, to prepare their mind ----- new page (MSSSC_2056_p162.jpg) [Column 1] THE EVENING NEWS. GEORGE Q CANNON, E[-]IT[-]R AN[-] PUBLISHER. Saturday. January 4 1873. TH[-] CHR[-]STMAS AND NEW Y[-]AR. A DISCOURSE By Elder ORSON PRATT, Delivered in the 13th Ward Assem[-]ly Rooms, Salt Lake City, Sunday Afternoon, Dec. 29, 1872. REPORTED BY DAVID W. EVANS. WE are, this afternoon, commemorating according to our usual custom, one of the most important events that has ever tran- spired in our world, and one which most concerns the whole human family, namely the death and sufferings of the Lord Jesus Christ for the redemption of the human family. No other event can be compared wi[-]h this in its importance, and in its bear ings upon the human family. Everything else is but of a secondary consideration, when compared with the atonement that has been wrought out in behalf of man by the great Redeemer, y[-]t, strange to say there are those in the Christian world, so c[-]lled, who profess to believe in Christian- ity and yet deny the efficicacy of the aton- ing blood that was shed by our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. More especially has this been the case for a few years past. I suppose there are many thousands who deny this now, where there were but few at the time of the rise of this church. This has arisen, probably, from the multiplica- tion of spiritual influences, which now prevail to a very great extent in the Chris- tian world—influences that are evil, rev elations, false visions, spirit rappings and ediums. Almost without exception these false spirits have taught those who have listened to them, that there is no efficacy in the Atonement. There is no subject more fully developed and made manifest to the children of men in modern revelation than that of the atonement. Much is said in relation to other doctrines, all of which have a bear- ing on the atonement, that lying at the foundation of the wh[--]e. If the evil one can prevail over the human family so as to get them to deny this fundamental doc- trine, he knows that they are safe, so far as serving him and failing of their salvation are concerned. If they can only be wrought upon and deluded so as to disbe lieve in the doctrine of the atonement, it does not matter to Satan what else they may believe. It is not my intention, how- ever, this afternoon, unless so led by the Spirit of the Lord, to dwell much on this subject. It is one that has been so thorough- ly taught to the Latter-day Saints, that I esteem it almost unnecessary to repeat that with which they are so familiar. By par- taking of the ordinance of the Lord's Sup per every Sabbath day, we commemorate that great event. If we do not preach so much about it by word of mouth we cer- tainly fulfi[--] the commandment which God [---]g us to [---]ber unto [---]hed [Column 2] when we speak [---] depravity, it has reference to certain conditions. Man is not totally depraved now, and the reason is, there has been an atonement; but do away that, as many do, and total deprvity would reign, and men would live and die totally degraded beings. All the light that has come into the world, and that lights every man that comes into the world, has come by reason of the atonement. It is an event that all Christian societies commemor- atemore or less, or at least they did in former times. They are getting more lax now since the devil and his angels have given so mny revelations against the atonement. The Roman Catholics, about 532 years after Christ, s[-]t apart a day called Christ mas, which they no doubt believed at that time was the day of the birth of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. The reason why they set apart Christmas and have kept up its commemoration from that day until the present time, was becasue a cer[-]ain monk, a member of their church, named Dionysius commenced a calculation to ascertain, if possible, the period of time fromt he birth of Christ to the time the cal- culation was made; and from all the infor- mation that he could glean he set it down at 532 years. They had not printed works in those days as we have now; they had not access to the abundance of historical and chronological information th[-]n that we have; but from all the infromation that Dionysius could glean, and making a cal- culation thereon, he came to the above re- sult. He also made a calculation in regard to the day on which he supposed the Savior to have been born, and that was set down as a day to be celebrated by the Roman Catholics church. They have certain or dinances in regard to that day, which you may see observed in their church in this city. People, prior to this time, did not date their documents from the birth of Christ. If they were writing a letter they did not say, in the year of our Lord 520, in the year of our Lord 416, and so on; this was never done until the cal[-]ulation of ionysius was made, then it was adopted by the Roman Catholics and by all nations among whom they had power and influ ence By and by other chronologists made calculations as to the time of Christ's birth, and from the information they could gather together, they discovered that Dionysius had made a mistake, and that Christ was born about one year before the time set by him. But by this time there were great numbers of important State and other doc uments and p[-]pers in existence, all dated according to the incorect calculation of this Romish monk. How to remedy this the people did not know, for it would not do to alter all these dates. Another set of chronologists made calcu lations and they discovered that Dionysius had made a mistake of two years in regard to the time of the Savior's birth. Four others, very learned men, sought diligent ly, and from the information they obtained they found that Jesus was born three years before the time publishe by Dionysius. Five others made it four years; some few made it five years before, and some seven years before the time specified by this Romish monk. All modern chronologists who have taken up the subject agree that Dionysius was incorrect at least several years. But did the people alter the dates of their documents and manuscr[-]pts when his er[-]or was fully made manifest? Not at all; they ahve continued that old, er roneous reckoning down to this present year. But they have attached the name of vulgar era to it, in order to indicate that it is inc[-]rrect. Vulgar era! I think the name is inappropriate, for there are thousands of people at the present day, including the youth of our land, and perhaps many who have had a collegiate education, who never knew or inquired into the meaning of vulgar era, or why the term was introduc ed. Its real meaning, is incorrect era or date. For instance we write a letter t[-] day, and we call it the 29[-]h day of Decem- ber, 1872. This is according to the vulgar era or erroneous date, or the reckoning of Dionysius; but this is not the true date The probability is independent of the Bible or Book of Mormon, from the great mass of testimony that has been accumulated for generations past, that Je[-]us was born nearly four years prior to the commence- ment of this vulgar era, so that our pres ent year, 1872, should be 1876. You will find a full account of these matters in the writings of th elearned, in encyclopedias, and in various works touching upon chronology, so that you have no need to take my testimony alone on this subject, for you have access to our library here in this city, and you can examine works on chronology and see that I am correct. There may be those here who would like me to cite some works on this subject, I will cite one that I read while I was in England, a Bible dictionary, by a very