The Lord is performing a marvelous ^work^ indeed in this generation & although I sometimes mourn to look upon the a [page torn] earth & see the darkness error & pollution that covers this generation & the destruction that awaits them yet I again rejoice to see the Church of Christ travling out of the wilderness leaning upon her beloved Yea it gives me Joy to know that the little stone cut out of the mountain that hath began to roll forth in these last days will fill the whole earth & the Saints will possess the kingdom

I know of a truth that the Lord is giving to his Church yea to the Church of Latter Day Saints the gifts blessings & grace that the Ancients possesed yea he hath esstablished in his Church in these last days Prophets Apostles Evangel[i]st[s] pastors, Teachers &c. & the signs follow the believers as they did anciently

the first Elders of the Church were commanded of God by revelation to assemble & tarry at Kirtland Ohio untill they were endowed with Power from on high (as the ancient) were on the day of Pentecost their was five hundred Elders (or about that number present besides a multitude of other Saints at the time of the endowment their blessings that they receieved were great & probably as much so as on the day of Pentecost cons dering the number Present the holy ghost sat upon them as cloven tongues & they had much of the spirit of prophesy revelations of angels visions &ce God hath chosen 12 Apostles by revelation to bear his name to the nations of the earth as did the ancients