Seth Palmer, Amos Fielding, Charles Shumway, and John S. Fullmer volunteered to go to Oregon and California.
Fifteen hundred copies of my "Views" out of press.
Very pleasant the past two weeks; the pleasantest February I ever saw.
President Brigham Young went to Knowlton's settlement on Bear creek, and preached.
Sunday, 25.—I preached at the temple block. Hyrum also preached.
A Prophecy of Deliverance of the Saints
Evening, I attended prayer-meeting in the assembly room, We prayed that "General Joseph Smith's Views of the Powers and Policy of the United States," might be spread far and wide, and be the means of opening the hearts of the people. I gave some important instructions, and prophesied that within five years we should be out of the power of our old enemies, whether they were apostates or of the world; and told the brethren to record it, that when it comes to pass they need not say they had forgotten the saying.
Some rain in the evening; cloudy and foggy.
Monday, 26.—At home. A cold wind from the north. Rainy, dull day.
The Case of Botswick Slander of Hyrum Smith.