[upside-down text] se. Am glad to heare that the wheat crop was
tilence continues which no doubt they will.
are and all enquiring friends. Love from your son Asahel. [end of upside-down text]
as well as the rich. At Ecles a few
nights ago we were holding a meeting
when bro Allen finished speaking the
crowd—which had ben warming up
at the rate of about one degree pr
minute—was just about at boiling
point; they said I must not occupy
over 30 minutes, but as they were not
running the meeting I determined to
speak as long as the Spirit prompted
me to, however at the expiration of
half an hour the one big burly fellow
with a club in his hand and an exager-
ated hat on his head who had boiled
over the rim of the rabble pot enterd the
ring in which I was standing and walk
up to my side, thinking perhaps that his
very appearance would strike terror to
my heart and cause me to flee but I
did not feel the least bit like running
on the contrary I felt quite at home so
I just turned the battery on him and
shouted into his ear, he stood it for
se. Am glad to heare that the wheat crop was
tilence continues which no doubt they will.
are and all enquiring friends. Love from your son
Asahel. end of upside-down text
as well as the rich. At Ecles a few
nights ago we were holding a meeting
when bro Allen finished speaking the
crowd—which had ben warming up
at the rate of about one degree pr
minute—was just about at boiling
point; they said I must not occupy
over 30 minutes, but as they were not
running the meeting I determined to
speak as long as the Spirit prompted
me to, however at the expiration of
half an hour one big burly fellow
with a club in his hand and an exagerated hat on his head who had boiled
over the rim of the rabble pot enterd the
ring in which I was standing and walk
up to my side, thinking perhaps that his
very appearance would strike terror to
my heart and cause me to flee but I
did not feel the least bit like running
on the contrary I felt quite at home so
I just turned the battery on him and
shouted into his ear, he stood it for
"Letter from Asahel Hart Woodruff, 13 September 1884," p. 2, The Wilford Woodruff Papers, accessed April 24, 2024, https://wilfordwoodruffpapers.org/p/Xn7o