9th[FIGURES] I recieved two letters one from Elder Richards, one from Elder Taylor informing me
of the arival of five of the Twelve one Seventy
& they had appointed a conference in preston
on Wednesday the 15th of April & wished me
to attend. I preached at Wm Simons at Haw
Cross to a vast mass of human beings &
not a quarter of the people could not get
in to the house, & their was many of the baser
sort present, & the house was much disturbed
by the crouding of the people. the people did
not break up for several hours. many wished
to be Baptized but could not because of the
croud & mob, but some wih wishing to be baptized
notwithstanding the persecution I repared to
the pool about 12 oclock at night which was
surrounded by a desperate mob of the gentiles I
went down into the water & Baptized 5 persons
in the midst of a shower of stones flung at
me by the mob, & while they were pelting my
Body with stones One of which hit me in the
top of my head which nearly knocked me down
into the water with the man that I was Baptizing
but the Lord saved me from falling & I continued
~ Thursday
9th FIGURES I recieved two letters one from Elder
Richards, one from Elder Taylor informing me
of the arival of five of the Twelve one Seventy
& they had appointed a conference in preston
on Wednesday the 15th of April & wished me
to attend. I preached at Wm Simons at Haw
Cross to a vast mass of human beings &
not a quarter of the people could not get
in to the house. & their was many of the baser
sort present, & the house was much disturbed
by the crouding of the people. the people did
not break up for several hours. many wished
to be Baptized but could not because of the
croud & mob, but some wishing to be baptized
notwithstanding the persecution I repared to
the pool about 12 oclock at night which was
surrounded by a desperate mob of the gentiles I
went down into the water & Baptized 5 persons
in the midst of a shower of stones flung at
me by the mob. & while they were pelting my
Body with stones One of which hit me in the
top of my head which nearly knocked me down
into the water with the man that I was Baptizing
but the Lord saved me from falling & I continued
"Journal (January 1, 1840 – December 31, 1840)," April 9, 1840, The Wilford Woodruff Papers, accessed October 15, 2024, https://www.wilfordwoodruffpapers.org/p/WRQ