Wed. Sept. 10, 1879
Elder Rudgler Clawson called, we had been informed by summons to
appear at Court, in Dalton, Ga., as a witness in the killing of Elder Standing,
to be there Oct. 6, leave here Sept. 30; it was deemed best for him to go. As
he feels himself he should go.
Elder John M. Bernhisel called at the request of Prest. Taylor and
explained pertaining to his Manuscript copy of the New Translation of the
Bible, as taken from the Manuscript of the Prophet Joseph Smith, “Bro. Bernhisel
stated: I had great desires to see the New Translation, but did not like to ask
for it; but one evening, being at Bro. Joseph’s house about one year after his
death. Sister Emma to my surprise asked me if I would not like to see it. I
answered, yes. She handed it to me the next day, and I kept it in my custody
about three months. She told me it was not prepared for the press, as Joseph
had designed leaving some few additions and changes that were made in some of
the books. But so far as I did copy, I did so as correctly as I could do; the
markings in the Bible correspond precisely with the markings in the Prophet
Joseph’s Bible, so that all the books corrected in his Bible, so far as now know, are marked in my bible. But as I stated, the additions are not all
made in my manuscript of those books that I did not copy. (L. John Nuttall:
Diary Excerpts, comp., Ogden Kraut [Salt Lake City: Pioneer Press, 1994],
99-100)