Church Conference is held in the Nauvoo Temple; pulpits are complete and windows installed.
Oct 30th
I recieved 3 letters, wrote to Davis
H Clark & others 4 in all I recieved A Neighbor
& N. York Messenger speaking of the mob
in Hancock County Illinois against the Saints
said that the gentile mob had burned about
100 of the building's of the Saints. And that
the Saints had taken up arms against the
modb according to the laws & commands of
God & officers of the Lorand three or four of
the mob had been killed. And the rest wer
fleeing to Missouri & other counties of Illinois
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November 2, 1845 ~ Sunday 2nd Sunday I wilford Woodruff Son of Aphek Woodruff have read the Book of Mormon much during the Last â—Štwelve years of my life And my soul delighteth much in its words teaching and Prophesyings And in its Plainness I rejoice in the goodness and mercy of of the God of Israel In Preserving the precious Book of Mormon & bringing it to light in our day & generation it teaches the honest & humble mind the great things of God that were performed in the land of promise now called America in Ancient days And also the great things of God that are nigh even at the doors concerning the resteration of the Laman- ites to the knowledg of there linage & forefathers when they will throw of[f] the veil of ignorance darkness And superstition sense there customs of Idleness filtheness wars & contentions one with another And wake up out of there fourteen hudrd [hundred]
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