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Day in the Life

Feb 5, 1880

Journal Entry

February 05, 1880 ~ Thursday

5 I attended the fast day meeting and heard the people bear Testimony
[FIGURES] I spoke a short time I wrote a letter to Presidet John
Taylor and the Twelve Apostles I gave them an Account of
the Revelation the Lord gave unto me in the shepherds tent in the
wilderness and I sent them a copy of the same

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Taylor, John, b. 1808
1 Nov 1808 - 25 Jul 1887
1835 mentions
Apostle

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Daybook (October 24 1879 - January 31 1881)
Feb 5 1880 I attended the fast day Meeting & herd the people speak
Daybook (October 24 1879 - January 31 1881)
[FIGURES] I also Addressed them a short time. I wrote a Letter to President John Taylor and the Twelve Apostles I gave them an account of the visitation of the Lord unto me in the shepherds tent in the Wilderness and I sent them a copy of the revelation given me while in the vision of the Night

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1880
Church membership 135,000; Utah Territory 143,963; population of 38 United States 50,190,000.
January 26, 1880
Wilford receives Wilderness Revelation regarding God's defense of the patriarchal law of marriage.

Feb 5, 1880