[FIGURES] I walked in company with Mrs Woodruff to the thoroughfare & assisted her in going on board
the mail boat bound for Camden that she might there take the steem boat Bangor to Portland
she went on board the mailboat at 8 oclock AM. in company with Sisters Whitley & Pease & Brother Ebenezer Ames with some other company I here parted with Phebe & retired from the abodes of
men & commended her to God. O Lord preserve her from harm, accident, & danger, & give her health
and peace I pray may she return in safety to her friends. After I saw the vessel with her canvass
spread bear my companion a way oe'r the billows of the deep I returned alone to Brother Ames
meditating upon a Pilgraim's life. I had an interview with Brother Rogers he informed me he was
about to return to his family & church in New Rowley I walked with him a mile on his way as he
was going to take boat to leave the Island we knelt down by the way side & commended each other
unto God & took the parting hand. O who knows the feelings of men that are called to testify against
the wickedness of the people & stand in defence of the word of God & bear perils together of
many kinds & the worst of all such as come from fals brethrer or those that make shipwreck
of faith such as Warren Parrish & John Boyington & others that have done me much evil
by sending letters from Kirtland to these Islands protesting against & condemning the faith
once delivered to the saints which we advocate & which they once strongly advocated themselves
but the Lord reward them. I returned to Br Ames distance 6 miles
19 I walked to Mr John Smiths & crossed to the neck on the South Island in a boat after loosing my way &
wandering a while I took a road & walked to Br Charles Browns frome thence to Br Sullers & attended a
Meeting Br Holmes Preached I followed him I returned to Br Browns & spent the night distance 13 miles
I walked to the top of the granite rock whare Elder Hale & myself have visited freequently. I again bowed
down & probably for the last time upon this place & offered up my prayers unto the Lord
~ Friday
20 I met in council with the church & Elders I taught the church plainly & warned them to flee to Zion I spent
the night with Br Thomas Ary 2 miles
~ Tuesday
April 17th
FIGURES I walked in company with Mrs Woodruff to the thoroughfare & assisted her in going on board
the mail boat bound for Camden that she might there take the steem boat Bangor to Portland
she went on board the mailboat at 8 oclock AM. in company with Sisters Whitley & Pease & Brother
Ebenezer Ames with some other company I here parted with Phebe & retired from the abodes of
men & commended her to God. O Lord preserve her from harm, accident, & danger, & give her health
and peace I pray may she return in safety to her friends. After I saw the vessel with her canvass
spread bear my companion a way oe'r the billows of the deep I returned alone to Brother Ames
meditating upon a Pilgraim's life. I had an interview with Brother Rogers he informed me he was
about to return to his family & church in New Rowley I walked with him a mile on his way as he
was going to take boat to leave the Island we knelt down by the way side & commended each other
unto God & took the parting hand. O who knows the feelings of men that are called to testify against
the wickedness of the people & stand in defence of the word of God & bear perils together of
many kinds & the worst of all such as come from fals brethrer or those that make shipwreck
of faith such as Warren Parrish & John Boyington & others that have done me much evil
by sending letters from Kirtland to these Islands protesting against & condemning the faith
once delivered to the saints which we advocate & which they once strongly advocated themselves
but the Lord reward them. I returned to Br Ames distance 6 miles
19 I walked to Mr John Smiths & crossed to the neck on the South Island in a boat after loosing my way &
wandering a while I took a road & walked to Br Charles Browns frome thence to Br Sullers & attended a
Meeting Br Holmes Preached I followed him I returned to Br Browns & spent the night distance 13 miles
I walked to the top of the granite rock whare Elder Hale & myself have visited freequently. I again bowed
down & probably for the last time upon this place & offered up my prayers unto the Lord
~ Friday
20 I met in council with the church & Elders I taught the church plainly & warned them to flee to Zion I spent
the night with Br Thomas Ary 2 miles
"Journal (January 1, 1838 – December 31, 1839)," April 17, 1838 - April 20, 1838, The Wilford Woodruff Papers, accessed September 22, 2023, https://wilfordwoodruffpapers.org/p/39n
