Joseph Smith announces the need to build a temple in Nauvoo.
24th
We wrote a lengthy Lengthy letter jointly to
Elder Elias Smith. I spent a part of the day in cir
culating & posting up our hand bills which contained the
following inscriptions "He that judgeth a matter before he
heareth is not wise" The Latter Day Saints meet
for public worship at Mr J. Barrett's Academy,
57, King Square, Goswell Road—
(entrance Door in President Street) Evry Sabbath
at Three & half-Past-Six o'clock, P.M. Also, on
Tuesday and Thursday Evenings each week at Eight
o clock. LECTURES will be deliverd by Elders
WOODRUFF AND SMITH Late from—
America, who respectfully invite the citizens of
LONDON to attend. The first Principles of the
Everlasting Gospel in its fulnes—The Gathering
of Israel—The Second Coming of the Saviour—
and the restitution of all things spoken of by all
the Holy Prophets will be among the subjects
Illustrated. "The Latter Day Saints Millennial
Star," published Monthly & other publications can
be had at 52 Ironmonger Row St. Lukes.
City press Long Lane Doudney and Scrymgour.
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though I had a mission & a message to the Inhabitants of London & stood in there mids[t] ready to deliver it as soon as God opened my way yet I was as little unknown by them, as Jonah was to the citizens of Niniva while in the whales Blelly & I clearly saw & realized that notwi- thstanding this great display of talent, Power & Policy, to send missionaries to the heathen they as much need an humble messenger of God to teach them the first Principles of the Gospel of Jesus Christ as Niniva Did a Prophet to cry repen tance unto them
"He that judgeth a matter before he heareth is not wise"
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