~ Thursday
Oct 30th
I recieved 3 letters, wrote to Davis
H Clark & others 4 in all I recieved A Neighbor
& N. York Messenger speaking of the mob
in Hancock County Illinois against the Saints
said that the gentile mob had burned about
100 of the building's of the Saints. And that
the Saints had taken up arms against the
modb according to the laws & commands of
God & officers of the Lorand three or four of
the mob had been killed. And the rest wer
fleeing to Missouri & other counties of Illinois
~ Saturday
Nov 1st
I recieved three letters & wrote
2 letters. My youngest son Joseph is vary
sick And has been for two or three days past
I anointed him with consecrated oil &
laid hands upon him & rebuked his desea [disease]
& he was some better
~ Sunday
Book of Mormon o sacred treasure who knoeth the value
2nd Sunday I wilford Woodruff son of Aphek
Woodruff have read the Book of Mormon much
during the Last twelve years of my life And my
soul delighteth much in its words teaching and
Prophesyings And in its Plainness I rejoice in
the goodness and mercy of of the God of Israel
In Preserving the precious Book of Mormon &
bringing it to light in our day & generation it teaches
the honest & humble mind the great things of God
that were performed in the land of promise
now called America in Ancient days And also
the great things of God that are nigh even at the
doors concerning the resteration of the Laman-
ites to the knowledg of there linage & forefathers
when they will throw of[f] the veil of ignorance
darkness And superstition sease there customs
of Idleness filtheness wars & contentions one with
another And wake up out of there fourteen hu[n]dr[e]d
~ Thursday
Oct 30th [FIGURE] I recieved 3 letters, wrote to Davis H Clark & others 4 in all I recieved A, Neighbor & N. York Messenger speaking of the mob in Hancock County Illinois against the Saints said that the gentile mob had burned about 100 of the building's of the Saints, And that the Saints had taken up arms against the mob according to the laws & commands of God & officers of the Land three or four of the mob had been killed, And the rest wer fleeing to Missouri & other counties of Illinois
~ Saturday
Nov 1st FIGURES I recieved three letters & wrote 2 letters. My youngest son Joseph is vary sick And has been for two or three days past I anointed him with consecrated oil & laid hands upon him & rebuked his desea disease & he was some better
[FIGURE] Book of Mormon O sacred treasure who knoeth the value
~ Sunday
2nd Sunday I wilford Woodruff Son of Aphek Woodruff have read the Book of Mormon much during the Lasttwelve years of my life And my soul delighteth much in its words teaching and Prophesyings And in its Plainness I rejoice in the goodness and mercy of of the God of Israel In Preserving the precious Book of Mormon & bringing it to light in our day & generation it teaches the honest & humble mind the great things of God that were performed in the land of promise now called America in Ancient days And also the great things of God that are nigh even at the doors concerning the resteration of the Lamanites to the knowledg of there linage & forefathers when they will throw off the veil of ignorance darkness And superstition sense there customs of Idleness filtheness wars & contentions one with another And wake up out of there fourteen hundred
