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24th I had an interview with Elder Turley I was truly
happy to see him he read a letter to me that he had received from
his wife containing many important things amoung the rest
sayes that Elders Orson Hide & John E Page were set apart
at the conference in Commerce Illinois in the United States
on the 6th Day of April 1840 to go to Palestine to visit the
Jews there &c. & will call upon us on their way. The
letter also stated that my wife Phebe W Woodruff was
at the conference. & in good health.
I preached in the evening at west Boomwich at the house of
Br Walker 4 were Baptized by Elder Turley which we
Jointly confirmed I spent the night with Mr Murrell
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I had not been in the house but a short time before two men came in full of wrath & anger & brought a blind girl & demanded me to heal heal her & work a miracle that they might have a sign to make them believe. After telling them what the character was of tho se that sought signs one of them by the name of John Hadley brought much railing accusation against me & rejected my testi mony.
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