Letter from Edward Joseph Isaacson, 17 May 1889
To the most venerable
President Wilford Woodruff
Salt-Lake-City.
Dear President and Brother!
Through the grace of our Lord and Saviour Jesus the
Christ, I have, in obedience to your call, been
permitted to finish the translation of the holy
book of Mormon into the Jewish language.
How far I have succeded in making the transla-
tion a correct one, it is not for me to say, but
others familiar with the language of the Jews will
decide upon. I feel that I have been aboundantly
blessed by the holy Ghost, while engaged in perfor-
ming this glorios Work, and in my humble judge-
ment I believe and declare it to be verbally cor-
rect according to the reading in the english book,
and I know that I am justified in saying, that
it sounds even sweeter in the language of the Jews,
then in any other language with which I am familiar
and into which the book has yet been translated.
It has been a Work of love to me, and I never
set down to do it witout invoking the assistance
of the Spirit of the most high God, and today
I am happy to bear testimony that the Lord, the
God of my fathers Abraham Isaac and Jacob, has
accepted of my prayers and blessed me in my Work.
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