Aside from any particular editorial method, as many have said, I have found the AH Cannon diaries simply amazing. I also look forward to his father’s diaries, which some have said are even better.

“Attended the 17th Ward Fast meeting at 10 a.m. and heard some good testimonies borne. Bro. J.C. Sandberg told about his daughter who had been sick. She was nigh unto death, and while they were expecting her death she gave a scream and then asked her father to drive the three bad men away from her bedside. He came to her and seemed to see three persons standing by her bed. He prayed for her and she was relieved. She asked to be taken to the door that she might watch them leave the yard. After they had left the yard Bro. Sandberg’s ministering spirit, which has been with him on many trying occasions, came and told him to boil some water and stir salt in it till it was sufficiently strong to float an egg. He should then wash his child all over with this water and she would recover. He did as told and the result was as promised.”