aunt Hannah was at your house give my respects to them & to all enquiring
friends I was sorry to hear of Aunt Hannah's Ill health I am in hopes she will
again be restored in body & mind. You will notice in the papers I sent you
that the work of the Lord has commenced in England & I learn from late
letters that it is progressing with speed. I view an important day at hand
even the day of the gathering of Israel & bloody wars & other judgments
upon the gentiles The Lord is about to take peace from the earth & there
hath already a lying spirit gone forth among men to stir them up to
anger one against another The signs in the heavens & Earth all indi-
cate the near approach of the Son of God greater darkness never covered
Egypt than now covers the professed Christian world they neither believe
in nor are looking for the timr & literal fulfillment of the word of God con-
sequently it will over take them as a thief in the night. Had we the tongue of Angels
& the zeal of Apostles, possessing the intelligence of heaven, with our hearts expanding
wide as eternity, & our bosoms burning with the love of God & commissioned
to bear as glad tidings as was ever [borne] by Michael the Ark Angel. It would
be as much impossible to fill our mission & deliver our message in a manner to
be recieved & approbated by the majority of this generation, as it was for ST Paul
while at Ephesus declairing glad tidings of a Crusified & risen redeemer, while his
voice was lost amid the day of the Ephesians that great is the goddess Diana. [Acts 19:23-41] I have
a great anxiety for the spiritual well fare of my relatives & that they may be prepared
for the unparalled judgments, & august events that are rolling upon the heads
of this generation. I wished to be remembered to Sister Eunice I suppose she
is either teaching or attending school. I learn that Brother Asahel & Mr Smith
have dissolved pardonsip [partnership] & that Asahel attends to his Book business alone
I have had some interesting & satisfactory letters from Asahel during the past
winter I am in hopes his mind will yet incline to the things of God. I want
an interest in all of your prayers I remember you all before a throne of Grace
May the peace of God abide with you all & lead you into all truth for Christ Sake

Aphek & Azubath Woodruff From your Son
Willford Woodruff

aunt Hannah was at your house give my respects to them & to all enquiring friends I was sorry to hear of Aunt Hannah's Ill health I am in hopes she will again be restored in body & mind. You will notice in the papers I sent you that the work of the Lord has commenced in England & I learn from late letters that it is progressing with speed. I view an important day at hand even the day of the gathering of Israel & bloody wars & other judgments upon the gentiles The Lord is about to take peace from the earth & there hath already a lying spirit gone forth among men to stir them up to anger one against another The signs in the heavens & Earth all indicate the near approach of the Son of God greater darkness never covered Egypt than now covers the professed Christian world they neither believe in nor are looking for the timr & literal fulfillment of the word of God consequently it will over take them as a thief in the night. Had we the tongue of Angels & the zeal of Apostles, possessing the intelligence of heaven, with our hearts expanding wide as eternity, & our bosoms burning with the love of God & commissioned to bear as glad tidings as was ever borne by Michael the Ark Angel. It would be as much impossible to fill our mission & deliver our message in a manner to be recieved & approbated by the majority of this generation, as it was for ST Paul while at Ephesus declairing glad tidings of a Crusified & risen redeemer, while his voice was lost amid the day of the Ephesians that great is the goddess Diana. I have a great anxiety for the spiritual well fare of my relatives & that they may be prepared for the unparalled judgments, & august events that are rolling upon the heads of this generation. I wished to be remembered to Sister Eunice I suppose she is either teaching or attending school. I learn that Brother Asahel & Mr Smith have dissolved partnership & that Asahel attends to his Book business alone I have had some interesting & satisfactory letters from Asahel during the past winter I am in hopes his mind will yet incline to the things of God. I want an interest in all of your prayers I remember you all before a throne of Grace May the peace of God abide with you all & lead you into all truth for Christ Sake

Aphek & Azubath Woodruff From your Son Willford Woodruff