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Post by BrentKoivopolo888 on Jul 4, 2022 19:23:48 GMT -6
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1860 CE
06/21--
TUESDAY
This day, Brother William W. Blair and myself left Amboy to prosecute our mission west. We took the train at twelve o'clock for La Salle. Reached La Salle at 1:00 p.m. Walked eight miles west of the city to Brother Edwin Miller's.
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Post by BrentKoivopolo888 on Jul 4, 2022 19:28:20 GMT -6
06/22--
WEDNESDAY
Walked and rode on the cars to Bureau station on Burlington Railroad. Walked eight miles and again took the cars to Chillicothe. Arrived at 4:00 p.m. Then rode with Mr. Sanders eight miles, and walked to Brother Rufus Benjamin's, three miles east of Princeville.
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Post by BrentKoivopolo888 on Jul 4, 2022 19:40:42 GMT -6
06/23--
THURSDAY
Morning.
Called on Elder Z. Brooks and had a long talk with him. He holds that it is necessary for Jesus Christ, in person, to ordain all apostles by laying on of hands; therefore, all who have attempted to act in that capacity without being thus ordained are imposters. He was a powerful and fluent reasoner, building on the Bible and Book of Mormon exclusively, rejecting the Book of Covenants, though claiming to be inspired himself. We were made to realize, in fact, that he was possessed of an evil spirit, and it accompanied us as we left him--until we fasted to be delivered from it.
We called on Brethren Phineas and Charles Bronson and families in Princeville, Peoria County, whom I had met before. They were with us in faith and received us with marked kindness, and with whom we took dinner. In the afternoon, we walked six miles west to Sister Bachellor's and daughter, Jerusha, where we stopped overnight.
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Post by BrentKoivopolo888 on Jul 11, 2022 6:19:02 GMT -6
06/24--
FRIDAY
We concluded to fast today, so we started very early this morning and walked three miles and called on a sister Drusilla, a widow, who is a very firm believer in the gospel and latter-day work. Seven miles from Princeville, we found Michael Walden and family. He has been looking for young Joseph to be the successor of his father ever since the martyrdom of the prophet in 1844, and he received us with great joy, and the Spirit rested on us in power as we told him of our hope and the promises to us, and of reorganization. In the afternoon, we walked eight miles farther to Brother Harvey Strong's, where Elder Blair stopped overnight, and I tarried overnight with Brother Joseph Wilder. They received us very kindly and were much interested in our hope; T.G. Cook was also very much interested. They all bade us Godspeed, and we left Brother Strong in tears as he wept with joy over the glad news we brought them of our work, and desired interest in our prayers for himself and family. Brother Silas Cook resides in Victoria, but was not at home.
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Post by BrentKoivopolo888 on Aug 10, 2022 1:45:56 GMT -6
06/25--
SATURDAY
We walked eleven miles to Wataga station, part of the time in the rain--so we got very wet. We reached the station at 3:00 p.m. and took the train to Oquawka on the Mississippi River. Here, we took the steamer for Burlington, fifteen miles distant, arriving at 9:15 in the evening, where we found
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