6th I Wrote eighteen Letters 8 while A Priest 10 while
an Elder & receieved 10. 18 Letters
7th I ordained two Teachers & one deacon 3. Ordained
8th I expeled Seven members from the Church]] but
not While hope remained 7 Expeled
9th I held three debates or answered when Publicly opposed 3 {debates}
10th Three companies in the form of mobs gathered
together against me at one time the company
consisted of about fifty men led by a Baptist
Priest yet I suffered no harm 3. mobs
The before mentioned is the account of my procedings
of the year of 1835. which has bourn its report
to heaven of me & all other men & could it not
have bourn more Wellcome news. Ah it cannot
be recalled The Sable shades of night have
allready spake the departure of 1835 And the
Queen of the night is issueing forth her brilliant
light to wellcome the dawn of 1836 which approaches
Us in a calm to go out in a storm. O momentious
& important year which will hurl thy millions
to the tomb & shake Kingdoms & bespeak A
God in Israel. O God enable my heart &
hands to be clean for A year to come
When God speaks Who can but Prophecy.
"Journal (December 29, 1833 – January 3, 1838)," December 31, 1835, The Wilford Woodruff Papers, accessed February 2, 2023, https://wilfordwoodruffpapers.org/p/5vB