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Day in the Life

Mar 11, 1866

Journal Entry

March 11, 1866 ~ Sunday

11. Sunday I met with my Quorum in the morning attended
meeting in the Tabernacle all day. Judge Elias Smith spok in the morning
& J. D. T. McAllister in the Afternoon I met with President B Young
D. H. Wells G Q Cannon & J F Smith for prayer in the Evening
[FIGURES] President Young said as the Lamanites are Hosstile let us Exercise
faith about them & learn what the will of the Lord is at the close of
the prayers President Young said let us send out interpeters to
them make them presents & tell them they must stop fighting
it is Better to give them five thousand dollars than to have to
fight them & kill them off for they are of the House of Israel
I preached in the Evening at the 14 ward to a full house

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Young, Brigham
1 Jun 1801 - 26 Aug 1877
3301 mentions
Apostle, Family
Wells, Daniel Hanmer
27 Oct 1814 - 24 Mar 1891
773 mentions
Apostle
Smith, Elias
6 Sep 1804 - 24 Jun 1888
182 mentions
1966 mentions
Apostle
McAllister, John Daniel Thompson
19 Feb 1827 - 21 Jan 1910
599 mentions
Missionary
Smith, Joseph Fielding
13 Nov 1838 - 19 Nov 1918
3567 mentions
Apostle

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Tabernacle, Great Salt Lake City, Great Salt Lake County, Utah Territory

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President Young said as the Lamanites are Hosstile let us Exercise faith about them & learn what the will of the Lord is at the close of the prayers President Young said let us send out interpeters to them make them presents & tell them they must stop fighting it is Better to give them five thousand dollars than to have to fight them & kill them off for they are of the House of Israel
~ Brigham Young

Mar 11, 1866