Discourse 1879-04-21
No. 16, Vol. XLI. Monday, . Price One Penny.
EPISTLE OF ELDER WILFORD WOODRUFF,
ONE OF THE TWELVE APOSTLES.
To the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and to all the world, Greeting:
I feel desirous to once more, while
in the flesh, by the word of God and
testimony of Jesus Christ, bear my
testimony unto you, as the Church
and kingdom of God, established on
the earth by the God of heaven in this
last dispensation and fullness of times.
I also wish to bear my testimony to
all nations under heaven, emperors,
kings, presidents, statesmen, govern-
ors, judges, all rulers, and the ruled
who dwell upon the face of the whole
earth. My testimony is this unto all
men and nations, that you live in the
day and hour of the judgments of God
Almighty. You live in the day and
generation when the God of Israel
has set his hand to perform his work,
his strange work in the latter days.
You live in the age in which God will
bring to pass the fulfillment of that
word of prophecy and prediction which
has been spoken by all the prophets
since the world began, which stands
recorded in the sacred books of divine
truth, and the fulfillment of these
revelations will involve the destiny of
the whole world, Jew and Gentile,
rich and poor, high and low, saint
and sinner, Babylon and Zion. There-
fore prepare yourselves, O ye inhabi-
tants of the earth, for the hour of
God's judgment is at the door. As it
was in the days of Noah and of Lot,
so shall it be in the day of the coming
of the Son of Man.
I address myself just to the Saints
of God, who have entered into cove-
nant with the Lord, and been ordained
unto the holy priesthood: If you are
living your religion, and enjoy the
spirit of inspiration, which is your
duty, you know as God lives that
Joseph Smith was a prophet of God,
that he received the administration of
angels, that he brought forth the
Book of Mormon, and translated it
by the power of God. You know he
received the fullness of the everlast-
ing Gospel, and the holy priesthood
and apostleship, and the keys thereof,
and that he organized the Church of
Christ, "the only true and living
Church upon the face of the whole
earth," with its gifts and graces, with
which the Lord is "well pleased." [Doctrine and Covenants 1:30]
