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Day in the Life

Apr 3, 1898

Journal Entry

April 03, 1898 ~ Sunday

Sunday April 3. I spent the day at home, reading, resting and caring
for myself.

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Letter from Samuel O. White Jr., 3 April 1898

Beaver City, Utah, . President Wilford Woodruff, Salt Lake City. Dear Brother, Yours of March 25 is received and noted. I accept of the call and shall be ready to start at the appointed time (July 21.) Your brother in the Gospel, Samuel O White Jr. George Munford Bishop.

Letter from John A. Gardner, 3 April 1898

Pine valley Prst Wilford Woodruff Dear Brother In answer to your call of March 25 requiring me to go as a Missionary to the Eastern States I will be on hand at the apointed time Your Brother John A Gardner Jeter Snow Bp

Letter from Joseph A. McRae, 3 April 1898

St David A. T. President Wilford Woodruff Salt Lake, Utah. Dear brother: Your favor of the 1st ins't to hand. I made answer to your first letter that I could not with the aid of the Lord, be ready to start the 1st of next January; therefore, since that time, have obligated my- self for some time, but if my way should be opened up so that I can depart for my field of labor sooner will gladly report to you. As to the field to which I have been assigned, I am in the hands of the Lord and shall try to do my duty, wherever I am placed. Your brother in the Gosple. Joseph A. McRae Attest Peter A. Lofgreen Bishop.

Discourse 1898-04-03

Utah, on Sunday afternoon, . -[At President Woodruff's request, President Cannon read the 1st Section of the Book of Doctrine and Covenants.]- I want the attention and the prayers of the Saints who have assembled upon this occasion. I have been sick and very weak in my body for a month past, and did not feel that I would be able to attend this Confer- ence till the day before it opened. I have been blessed in this respect to be with you. I desire to say some things to you, and perhaps some strange things, too. I feel disposed to say something about myself, to give you a little of the history of my life, because of what I may want to say, before I get through, to the rising generation of Israel. My re- marks may be very eccentric to any but Latter-day Saints, and to them also, I expect. I suppose when I was born the devil knew what I should be called to do; for there have been from the day I was born until the present two powers with me—one to kill me, the other to save me. I stand before you to-day pretty sound-looking, for a man ninety-one years of age. I stand before you with a body in which almost every bone has been broken, except my back and neck. I have had through my life a power after me to take my life. When I was about three years old I was pushed into a caldron of boiling water, which had just been taken off the fire. My grandmother took me out, and my skin all dropped off excepting off my head and feet. I was wrapped up for months in cotton and oil. That was the beginning of my troubles. When I was twelve years of age I was drowned; at any rate, I lay in thirty feet of water long enough to

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April 10, 1898
Wilford's Conference address on his 1877 vision of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence.

Apr 3, 1898