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Church History Library of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Collection Name Wilford Woodruff journals and papers, 1828-1898
Collection Description Wilford Woodruff journal, 1847 January-1853 December
Collection Number MS 1352
Collection Page 430-431
Source Link The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Introduction Wilford Woodruff's handwritten summary of events in 1839, 1840, and 1841 including miraculous healing during the malaria outbreak in July 1839.
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People

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Count
Joseph Smith (Jr.)
23 Dec 1805 - 27 Jun 1844
2373 mentions
Brigham Young
1 Jun 1801 - 29 Aug 1877
3446 mentions
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the Time has come when the Earth
~ Wilford Woodruff
the Elders should improve their time in treasuring up knowlyge & counsel for you will want it when you go the Nations of the Earth dont spend your time in playing cards dice chess or in any such foolish way but improve the time to the best advantage & seek to conquer yourselves & preside over yourselves & bring all your passions in subject to the law of Christ
~ Wilford Woodruff
I wish to exhort the 70th & Elders to keep a Journal & History of their lives for the record & history of this church & kingdom will be wanted in a future day their has been no dispensation on Earth the procedings of which will be more interesting then the one in which we live.
~ Wilford Woodruff

all ye Elders of Israel write your History & the dealings of God with you in all the world for your own benefit & that of your posterity, for the benefit of the House of Israel, for the benefit of Jew & Gentile for the benefit of futur generations, & in fine for the benefit of these celestial beings from others planets who may see fit to visit us either in time or Eternity & wish to visit our libraries & peruse the History of the inhabitants of the Earth esspecially the Saints in the last dispensation & fulness of times then write & do not neglect it
~ Wilford Woodruff