W. Woodruff spoke & felt it to be an important time to be at conf[erence], &c. we are now got to go abroad, to sep[arate]. When we met at head Quarters & drank at the head fountains of the water of life. I consider we are to improve the pres[en]t time & reason up the things as furniture in our minds. when I look at the world, see the signs of the times, we are something WOW we cant sit at our cave in the Valley. Pat C.o or elsewhere his spirit is moved out to go out into the vineyard. Our apos[tle] [h]as got to magnify his call? if he doesn't magnify his talent the blood of men will be required at [h]is [c[oming]]. I feel it to move me to remake the sac. for the last 16 yrs popular applause will not cause me to [stray], but [h]ad ra[the]r settle down in peace at home. When we realize that all creation groans & all the heavenly court lookd down upon the Earth & us that the nations [are] doomed to meet those things, their eyes [are] not open to see it, they feel something is the matter. wen men [are] called to preach salvation will there not be a great responsibility resting upon us. I realize that these refreshing times will be far between than they [have] been. We [have] to spend many years in the [ministry]d bef[ore] we can return. you may present events & say it aloud to the nations of the Earth they look upon it as foolish. the ante diluvian were interested in the preaching of one man, yet only 8 souls bel[ieve]d. they prepared an ark, & were saved, what can be the feelings of the Messiah bef[ore] the fall of the Jews. we feel it & see it & comprehend it in some degree. it opens a field for reflection—the joy wo[ul]d be very great, but we cant comprehend it. We [have] got a long time to spend. this Ch[urch] has been wandering 18 yrs driven from our houses & lands—it seems long—admitt[in]g it should be 100 yrs bef[ore] the Savr comes—it would be as quick as the raising from the d[ea]d, & I sometimes marvel the L[or]d [h]as suff[ere]d us to so short a time to prepare for so long eternity. we [have] got to live as long as our Fa[the]r, having but to spend a da[y] at [a] time we shall get there with it. it stands us to be faithful & to be subject to our Heavenly Fat[he]r so long as we live here. it is too late in the da[y] to try to back out in the things that we [are] engaged in & the moment we stop serving God who [h]as done every thing in his power we [are] undutiful chil[dren], & we injure ourselves. Where the Jews any better to sustain the trials than Christ was, but when Jerusalem fell they went down to destru[ctio]n without a ra[y] of hope to sustain them. We [have] a hope which the world [have] not, altho we [have] to wander on the prairies & in the wilderness & eat corn Dodger we shall [have] the victory while judgments [are] over the land. Where is the consolations to those who [have] driven them out, when pestilence & famine put in for their