[upside-down text] Well I shall have to draw my letter to a clo
good, it will all be needed if the wars and pes
give kind regards to the bretheren in the st [end of upside-down text]
a few minutes, when he must have
come to the conclusion that I was
not going to scare so without farther
ado he walked out of the ring, and I
felt that "God and one man was a big
majority." As he was leaving I heard
him say "that's true doctrin" After I had
finished one man had the glaring im-
pudence to exclaim that our doctrines
were not far enough advanced for this
enlightened age. After argueing for some
time we left them to pour forth their
venemous spleen on ea other. Father we Utah boys have no idea how densely
ignorand^t^ the world is until they get out
amongst them. We had a striking example
of their enlightenment(?) the other night it Chesterton; after meeting four men followed
us up a narrow st where we stoped and
held an argument with them on the essen-
tiality of baptism in which we whiped
them shamefuly. They then said let us all
get down on our knees and prey, we told
Well I shall have to draw my letter to a clo
good, it will all be needed if the wars and pes
give kind regards to the bretheren in the st end of upside-down text
a few minutes, when he must have
come to the conclusion that I was
not going to scare so without farther
ado he walked out of the ring, and I
felt that "God and one man was a big
majority." As he was leaving I heard
him say "that's true doctrin" After I had
finished one man had the glaring impudence to exclaim that our doctrines
were not far enough advanced for this
enlightened age. After argueing for some
time we left them to pour forth their
venemous spleen on ea other. Father we
Utah boys have no idea how densely
ignorant the world is until they get out
amongst them. We had a striking example
of their enlightenment(?) the other night it
Chesterton; after meeting four men followed
us up a narrow st where we stoped and
held an argument with them on the essentiality of baptism in which we whiped
them shamefuly. They then said let us all
get down on our knees and prey, we told
"Letter from Asahel Hart Woodruff, 13 September 1884," p. 3, The Wilford Woodruff Papers, accessed April 29, 2024, https://wilfordwoodruffpapers.org/p/7OnO