21st A public meeting was held at the
Temple for the purpose of Advancing the
cause of the Nauvoo House & other matters
thousands were assembled together &
were addressed by several persons. Peter
Haws addressed the meeting & was followed
By L. Woodworth who adressed the meeting
under a figure of a pagan Prophet yet he
made many interesting & appropriate remarks
upon a variety of subjects esspecially concerning
the Nauvoo House
President Joseph Smith arose & Addressed the
meeting as a Christian Prophet & addressed for
about an hour much to our edefycation, many
remarks he made were plain & pointed some
vary applicable to Dr Foster which he afterwards
acknowledged to be true Joseph said the pagan
prophet had prophesied one thing that was
true viz that if we did not build the temple &
Nauvoo house it would proove the ruin of the
place that if we did not build those buildings
we might as well leave the place & that it was
as necessary to build one as the other, & many
other things were said much to the purpose
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[FIGURE] 10 I Wilford Woodruff testify that about 7 oclock PM I discoverd a stream of light in the south west quarter of the heavens the rays of Light were in the form of a broadsword with the hilt downward the blade raised pointing from the west south west raised to an angle of 45 degrees from the horizen & extending nearly or within 2 or 3 degrees to the zenith of the degree
