Wilford Woodruff reports on he and other Church leaders being threatened by a mob from Painesville; they attempted to demolish the Kirtland Bank.
Wilford Woodruff, Journal, January 24, 1837, The Wilford Woodruff Papers website, accessed July 9, 2024
24th Took the partingpains to assist Elder Smoot to settle his business in Kirtland which took up the major part of the day. I Met at candle light in the house of the Lord with the quorum of the seventies we had an interesting interview their was several ordained under the hands of President Silvester Smith to the third Seventy then we herd two lengthy discourses one from Elder J. E. Page and the other from Elder P. P. Pratt which was interesting in the first degree the meeting closed but litt-le before midnight. We had been threatened by a mob from Panesville to visit us that night & demolish our Bank & take our property but they did not appeare but the wrath of our enemies appears to be kindled against us this in part is the scourge that hath awated us. But may the Lord show us mercy & deliver us from the hand of our enemies for Christ sake