REMARKS By Elder W. WOODRUFF, delivered in the Tabernacle, Salt Lake City, January 1st, 1871. REPORTED BY DAVID W. EVANS. I wish you all a happy new year, and I hope that we may live to see a good many, and that we may keep the commandments of God, obey His laws and have His appro- bation and blessing upon us as a people. We have assembled here on this,—the first day of the week, and the first day of the ...

paratory work for the coming of the Mes- siah. These things are before us; we are here in these valleys of the mountains, as the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, established by the hand of God,— by revelation from heaven. This church has been established by raising up pro- phets, unto whom have been given the keys of the kingdom of God,—the keys of the holy priesthood and Apostleship of the Son of God, with power to organize the church and kingdom of God on the earth, with ...