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long as they are amight to keep me. I feel to praize God every day
of my life for this experiance
which well be of lasting bennefit
to me. I am sincerely thankful
that from my earliest recolection
I have ben taught the way of
life, and when I look on my past
life and see what some of it has
ben and remember how neare I
have ben on more than one occa-
sion, to the brink of ruin it
fairly makes me shudder, and It
seems that there must have ben
some power to prevent my rushing
headlong into the dark abyss below.
I prize my mission much and
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long as they are amight to keep
me. I feel to praize God every day
of my life for this experiance
which well be of lasting bennefit
to me. I am sincerely thankful
that from my earliest recolection
I have ben taught the way of
life, and when I look on my past
life and see what some of it has
ben and remember how neare I
have ben on more than one occasion, to the brink of ruin it
fairly makes me shudder, and It
seems that there must have ben
some power to prevent my rushing
headlong into the dark abyss below.
I prize my mission much and
"Letter from Asahel Hart Woodruff, 2 February 1885," p. 3, The Wilford Woodruff Papers, accessed January 8, 2025, https://wilfordwoodruffpapers.org/p/DPY5