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Sep 2, 1840

Journal Entry

September 02, 1840 ~ Wednesday

2nd I arose quite Ill with my complaint spent the
day mostly to my room. Elders Kimball & Smith went
in to the city to visit the people found some that
harkend to their testimony. London is the hardest
place I ever visited for esstablishing the gospel. It
is full of evry thing but righteousness, but we do
not feel discouraged in the least we are determined
in the name of the Lord to set up the standard of truth
in this city & to seek out the honest in heart & the
meek from among men & warn all as far as in our
power that the world may be left without excuse

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Smith, George Albert
26 Jun 1817 - 1 Sep 1875
1376 mentions
Apostle, Missionary
Kimball, Heber Chase
14 Jun 1801 - 22 Jun 1868
1403 mentions
Apostle

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Autobiography 1883 Tullidge's Quarterly Magazine
On the I was quite ill. I had been unwell for several days, but now I was obliged to keep to my room; but Elders Kimball and Smith went into the city to visit the people and found some who hearkened to them favor- ably. We had by this time found that London was the hardest place for a mis- sion that we had ever undertaken, but we did not feel discouraged in the least, and were determined in the name of the Lord to set up the standard of the King- dom in that city. The following day I was still confined to my room most of the time, but on the next, Elders Kimball and Smith went to Debtford, and I took a walk into the city, called upon Brother Corner and found him in good spirits. I also called upon Mr. Panther, 17 Warf, City Road, Basin, who was a director of a Methodist chapel. I asked him for the chapel to preach in. He said he had a school house which would hold two hundred, and that I might have that on Sunday. So I gave out an appointment at Bowl Court, 137 Shordeitch. I conversed with several others who received my tes- timony, and one woman said she would be baptized.

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Sep 2, 1840