[page covered] [w]ith our families both went into one room
[page covered] [a]bout 14 feet square. Finally Br Young obtained a
room and moved into it by himself then Orson
Pratt & family moved into the same room with
myself and family, ^A day of Gods Power^ while I was living in these cabins with in the old barracks we experienced a day of Gods
with the prophet Joseph. It was a very sickly time
and Joseph had given up his Home in Commerce to
the sick and had a tent pitched in his door yard
and was living in that himself, and the large emigration
who had been driven out of Missouri was flocking into
Commerce but had no homes to go into was lying
in the waggons in tents & on the ground and many
were sick though the expenses they were subject to
and Br Joseph had waited on the sick untill
he was worn out and nearly sick himself. But in
the morning of the he arose in the morning reflecting upon the salvation of the Saints
of God in their persecutions & affilictions and he
called upon the Lord in prayer and the power of
God rested upon him mightely and he arose up
^in the Name of^ as [did] Jesus healed all the sick around him in his day
So Joseph the prophet of God healed all around him upon
page covered with our families both went into one room
page covered about 14 feet square. Finally Br Young obtained a
room and moved into it by himself then Orson
Pratt & family moved into the same room with
myself and family A day of Gods Power while I was living in these cabins
in the old barracks we experienced a day of Gods
with the prophet Joseph. It was a very sickly time
and Joseph had given up his Home in Commerce to
the sick and had a tent pitched in his door yard
and was living in that himself, and the large emigration
who had been driven out of Missouri was flocking into
Commerce but had no homes to go into was lying
in the waggons in tents & on the ground and many
were sick though the expenses they were subject to
and Br Joseph had waited on the sick untill
he was worn out and nearly sick himself. But in
the morning of the he arose
reflecting upon the salvation of the Saints
of God in their persecutions & affilictions and he
called upon the Lord in prayer and the power of
God rested upon him mightely and
as did Jesus healed all the sick around him in his day
So Joseph the prophet of God healed all around him upon
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