no more troubled with evil spirits while in the City of London
as soon as they administered unto us they withdrew from the room
and the light withdrew with them & darkness returned, and my other
of the saying of the patriarch Joseph Smith in my blessing have
been fulfilled in my experience, but I have said sufficient upon
the subject all the blessings that are sealed upon our heads
will be fulfilled & many more if we are faithful & live for them
In closing my testimony I wish to say that I do not think
that the Lord ever sends an Angel to the Earth to visit the
children of men unless it is necessary to deliver a dispensation
of the Gospel or to declare a message or perform ^a work^ that cannot be
done otherwise. It required an Angel of God to deliver
the gospel to Joseph Smith because it was not on the
Earth, and this was in fulfillment of the word of the
Lord through John the Revelator Rev 14 Ch 6 vers and so
in regard to the administration of Angels in all ages of
the wor[l]d it is to deliver a message and perform a work
work which cannot otherwise be accomplished
no more troubled with evil spirits while in the City of London
as soon as they administered unto us they withdrew from the room
and the light withdrew with them & darkness returned, and my other
of the saying of the patriarch Joseph Smith in my blessing have
been fulfilled in my experience, but I have said sufficient upon
the subject all the blessings that are sealed upon our heads
will be fulfilled & many more if we are faithful & live for them
In closing my testimony I wish to say that I do not think
that the Lord ever sends an Angel to the Earth to visit the
children of men unless it is necessary to deliver a dispensation
of the Gospel or to declare a message or perform a work that cannot be
done otherwise. It required an Angel of God to deliver
the gospel to Joseph Smith because it was not on the
Earth, and this was in fulfillment of the word of the
Lord through John the Revelator Rev 14 Ch 6 vers and so
in regard to the administration of Angels in all ages of
the world it is to deliver a message and perform a
work which cannot otherwise be accomplished
"Autobiography 1882 Leaves from My Journal Notes 3," p. 17, The Wilford Woodruff Papers, accessed September 1, 2024, https://wilfordwoodruffpapers.org/p/q6Br