I went to meeting. Elder Joel Deming read a sermon, his voice is low and weak, not well suited to public speaking or reading. Mr. Andrews has taken up the sword being now Major of the 36th regiment. I do not know what we are to do for a preacher. This church is too poor to sustain a pastor as he should be supported. I fear that the ways of Zion here will mourn unless the ordinances of the gospel are continued to us. God pity this church and send us a good and spiritually minded minister that we may be built up in the faith and walk in the ways of the Lord blameless.
Peggy's comments:
Julia laments the loss of Mr. Andrews as a preacher and does not hold Joel Deming in high regard. When her grandniece, Mary Frances Dawes Beach typed up Julia's journal, she did not change anything that Julia wrote, but occasionally she omitted a phrase or sentence. The description of Joel Deming's weak voice was omitted in the typescript. Mary Frances Dawes Beach was married to a minister--her descendants speculate that she did not want to include criticism of ministers!
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