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Letter from Isaac Galland, 24 July 1839
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Chillicothe
July 24th 1839
My very dear friends
After a journey of 9 days we reached this city in health and safety, No very remarkable incident occurred during our voyage excepting that we were very near being capsised on our passage from Cincin natti to Portsmouth by a tornado, which rendered the Boat unmanageable and at the moment she was completely turned upon her beam ends and about to go over, bottom upwards, she struck the shore broadside, and soon afterwards began to right up again. Our voyage was rather pleasant than otherwise. I find the public mind awfully abused in relation both to the doctrines as well as manners and morals of the latter day Saints.
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but if so, it was certainly done to shame the metaphisical follies of the mother of harlots and her dau ghters who had as well in the age in which the Baron wrote his metaphisical theology, as in the present age, ran to the most extravagant lengths of philosophising religion and obscuring every truth in the gospel, and the axioms of common sense; hence that they should have those follies to their full, like the hebrews who murmured in the wilderness for flesh, that they might <should> be So gorged with it, and <that they might> die with it between their teeth— their [p. 70]
Isaac Galland, letter, Chillocothe, OH, to JS, Sidney Rigdon, Hyrum Smith, Vinson Knight, George W. Robinson, and others, Commerce, IL, 24 July 1839; handwriting of James Mulholland; in JS Letterbook 2, pp. 70–71; JS Collection, CHL.
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