Autobiography 1883 Tullidge's Quarterly Magazine Notes 2
During the following days to the I visited
New York Brooklin Hempstead and Northwalk ^Newark Norwalk^ Ct. being at New York and
Brooklin several times in the interval.
The following is an extract of a letter written by
me to my wife on the 18th:
"I have been much blessed with the Spirit of
God since I saw you. I have felt more of the presence and power of
God with me than I expected to have enjoyed on this Eastern mission
I have felt that some one has prayed much for me of late. I wonder
if it was Phebe? I know you pray much for me. I feel its power
and prize it much. I have never felt such a desire to prove worthy
of your confidence and trust, shun every eappearance of evil keep out
of the path of all temptation and do right in all things as I have
of late
"I have had much of the spirit of secret prayer,
have poured out my soul in supplication before God with tears of joy
while the visions of my mind have been open at times to see
clearly my duty to my God, to my wife and children, to the
Saints and the world at large.
"I have also seen the awful and certain
judgements of God which like a gathering storm are ready to burst
upon the whole Gentile world, especially this nation who have
heard the sound of the Gospel rejected it with all the testimony
of the servants of God stoned and killed the Prophets become
drunk with the blood of martyrs and Saints and at last driven
the entire Church with the Priesthood and keys of Eternal life
out of their midst into the Wilderness and Mountains of Israel
By so doing they have turned the last key which seals their
condemnation which lingereth not and their damnation which
slumbereth not: therefore they cannot escape. Not only
the Holy Ghost but that portion of the Spirit of God that