I desire to drop a few words
to you although in great haste I should be glad to fill a sheet
to you if I had time. but as I have not permit me to ne
arly say that I feel vary greatful to you for all your kindness
& frendship manifest towards my family since I left home
& I hope you will continue to lend a hand of assistance unto them
& use your influence for others to do so that is when they are in afflic
tion sickness, or distress & cannot help them selves for a friend in need
is a friend in deed. & you shall all have your reward sooner or later
for all you do for my family while I am absent to make them
comfortable. for of necessity I am called abroad to do the work of the
Lord for a Season & I go & perform it willingly & that soul that will
extend the hand of charity to my family when they stand in need und[page torn]
cirumstances shall be blessed of the Lord in this world & that [page torn]
is to come. finally let us all be faithful & exercise faith in God
for his work will spedily roll on in mighty power & strength that his
Saints may be prepared for the coming of the Son of Man
That health & Strength, food, & ramant, peace, faith, & the grace
of God may rest upon you from this time & henceforth is the
prayer of your Brother in the Lord Jesus
I desire to drop a few words
to you although in great haste I should be glad to fill a sheet
to you if I had time. but as I have not permit me to ne
arly say that I feel vary greatful to you for all your kindness
& frendship manifest towards my family since I left home
& I hope you will continue to lend a hand of assistance unto them
& use your influence for others to do so that is when they are in afflic
tion sickness, or distress & cannot help them selves for a friend in need
is a friend in deed. & you shall all have your reward sooner or later
for all you do for my family while I am absent to make them
comfortable. for of necessity I am called abroad to do the work of the
Lord for a Season & I go & perform it willingly & that soul that will
extend the hand of charity to my family when they stand in need undpage torn
cirumstances shall be blessed of the Lord in this world & that page torn
is to come. finally let us all be faithful & exercise faith in God
for his work will spedily roll on in mighty power & strength that his
Saints may be prepared for the coming of the Son of Man
That health & Strength, food, & ramant, peace, faith, & the grace
of God may rest upon you from this time & henceforth is the
prayer of your Brother in the Lord Jesus
"Letters to Phebe Whittemore Carter Woodruff and the Smoots, 17 December 1839," p. 3, The Wilford Woodruff Papers, accessed May 13, 2024, https://wilfordwoodruffpapers.org/p/gJDZ