true viz that if we did not build the temple & Nauvoo house it would proove the ruin of the
place that if we did not build those buildings
we might as well leave the place & that it was
as necessary to build one as the other, & many
other things were said much to the purpose
March 1st 1843 This is my Birthday I
am thirty six years of age this day time
flies & waiteth for no am [man] it is exceding cold
weather the river cloesed by ice from Nauvoo
to Montrose on the 15 of last November & it is not
open yet but teams have crossed continually
from shore to shore
[FIGURE] 10th I Wilford Woodruff testify that
about 7 oclock PM I discoverd a stream of
light in the south west quarter of the heavens
the rays of Light were in the form of a Broadsword
with the hilt downward the Blade raised pointing
from the west south west raised to an angle
of 45 degrees from the horizen & extending nearly
or within 2 or 3 degrees to the zenith of the degree
true viz that if we did not build the temple &
Nauvoo house it would proove the ruin of the
place that if we did not build those buildings
we might as well leave the place & that it was
as necessary to build one as the other,,, & many
other things were said much to the purpose
March 1st 1843 This is my birthday I
am thirty six years of age this day time
flies & waiteth for no man it is exeeding cold
weather the river cloesed by ice from Nauvoo
to Montrose on the 15 of last November & it is not
open yet but teams have crossed continually
from shore to shore
[FIGURE] 10 I Wilford Woodruff testify that
about 7 oclock PM I discoverd a stream of
light in the south west quarter of the heavens
the rays of Light were in the form of a broadsword
with the hilt downward the blade raised pointing
from the west south west raised to an angle
of 45 degrees from the horizen & extending nearly
or within 2 or 3 degrees to the zenith of the degree
"Journal (January 1, 1843 – December 31, 1844)," February 21, 1843 - March 10, 1843, The Wilford Woodruff Papers, accessed September 1, 2024, https://wilfordwoodruffpapers.org/p/RkY