next spring let evry Latter day Saint who can command
twenty or twenty five dollars each (when their business is closed)
Not tarry behind but go to the west with the Saints as farr
as it will carry you. Then if your faithful The Lord will
open a door to help you through
Wilford Woodruff
Presiden[t] of the Eastern churches
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next spring let evry Latter day Saint who can command
twenty or twenty five dollars each (when their business is closed)
Not tarry behind but go to the west with the Saints as farr
as it will carry you. Then if your faithful The Lord will
open a door to help you through
Wilford Woodruff
President of the Eastern churches
"Letter to All the Saints in the Eastern States, 28 January 1850," p. 2, The Wilford Woodruff Papers, accessed April 19, 2024, https://wilfordwoodruffpapers.org/p/BRZo