Elder W. Woodruff said ever since he was a little boy, he never could think there was anybody on the earth that loved the Lord, unless there was a Head and body of the Church, which is so beautifully exprest by the Apostle Paul. He had observed a greadt many cripples in his life, some lacking one limb and some another— but he never say ^saw^ any without a Head—so with the Christian world, having no Head, are without life, just as much as a natural body, without a Head one—He was not at all surprised at the persecution we are receividng, he was astonished that we did not have more, but God will bring us off victorious—Since we had openly come out with the principle of Polygamy, God had thrown a shield around us, and protected us—