Philadelphia April 5th 1849 President Young & Council Dear Brethren As near two months have passed away since I wrote my other letters I thought I would add a little more before they go. two companies of Saints are preparing to leave the Eastern States for the west & will start in few days. Those at Boston & East & North of there rendezvous at Worcester &Mass & go with Br Haven via of Abany, Buffalo, Chicago & ...

My wife' Father Aged 76 & 3 days when He was Baptized, Mrs Woodruff rejoiced & praised the Lord that she had lived to have the privilege to wait upon her aged Fathr to the waters of Baptism. His doors were opened to the Twelve in their first Mission to Main^e^ & have been open evry since. He has always been friendly from the time He herd the work the Old Gentleman is smart & walked to the top of Bunker Hill Monument with me 222 feet high ...

I think there will be a number ofyet added to that branch of the Church. I feel thankful that I have the privilege of gathering a few grapes after the vintage has done, while in New York on Sunday & Monday last I had an interview with a gentleman by the Name of Joseph Smith was intro- duced to him by Br Holister. He is a smart intelligent business man, is believing our doctrine & wishes to go to the valley & spend his days with the Saints, for He sees a storm coming ...

of Salvation to a Nation & Generations over whose head I behold the drawn sword of an angry God suspended, which is about to fall And fill all Idomie with death, I feel to cry out Lord who is sufficient for these things, yet I feel thankful to my Heavenly Father that He has granted unto me a portion of his Holy spirit & Enabled me thus far on this jouney & Mission to bear a true & faithful testimony to the rightous & wicked as far as I have had an opprtunity, and to keep myseflf unspotted from the ...

But these things have no Effect or influence against us in the minds of any whose respect is worth having, but the public look upon them generally as a tissue of lies as they are, get up to suit the specutlating times to gull the public & get money Notwithstanding this & Miss Lewis Book are circulated through the country. I can travel from Philadelphia to Halafax through every town & city preach & visit whae I please unmolested, unbisturbed ^& undisturbed^, & are becoming quite respet ^respect-^ able, (Perhaps you will say ...

of the power of the Holy priesthood & the virtue of the prayers of the Lords anonted. shall they feel the rebuke of that God whose covenants they have broaken, & shall waste away under the Buffeting of Satan unto whom they are subject, & sorrow trouble & pain shall rest upon them day & night when they lie down & when they rise up, when they go out & when they come in, untill they shall not have power to lift up their voices in the streets & the Highways, & in the temples, Homes, sinagogues of the ...

be accepted without going to Liverpool I could do nothing with it in Boston, & the order would not be paid untill 60 days after sight & accepted, & this could not be collected at Liverpool inand forwarded to the Bluffs in time to pay debts in order to liberate them in time to go this Spring but as it was the Best I could do with it, I wrote him an immediate answer saying that if He could not manage it so as to raise the money on ...

April 10th Elder Appleby is about leaving with his company for far the west I must close my package. weI shall send you the latest papers. the News grows more & more interesting all Europe looks like rushing to war war is about to be poured out upon the Mother of Harlotts in vary deed according to the Book of Mormon & all other Books of Revelations from God And the Daughter of the Harlot will not escape Good By May God Bless you & favor Zion W. W [sideways text] To the Presidency ...