A Prayer written By Wilford Woodruff By request of
President John Taylor to be Presented at the Altar

O God Our Eternal Father, Thou who dwellest in the heavens
Thou who hast created the heavens and the Earth and all
that dwelleth therein; Thou art the God of Abraham, Isaac and
Jacob. Thou hast sustained they [thy] Prophets, Apostles, and
anointed Ones from Eternity to Eternity. Therefore
we come before thee, in confidence and in faith, as thy
saints, thine Apostles, and thy friends, to make our
wants known Unto thee, the Lord Our God. Thou
art our Eternal Father, the Father of our spirits, and
hast called us and ordained us, and commanded us
to go forth unto the inhabitants of the Earth, ^in this generation
to declare unto them the gospel of Jesus Christ the words of Life & salvation
thou has commanded us to go forth unto the Nations of the Earth^ unto the
most notible cities, towns and Cities villages of the
world reproveing them in righteousness of all their
wickedness and abominations, and warning them of the
desolation which awaiteth them if they reject the message
and testimony which thou hast sent unto them. Therefore
O Lord our God we have obeyed thay [thy] commandments
in thes things. We have gone forth through our own
Nation and the Nations of the Earth, and have declared
faithfully unto them the gospel of Jesus Christ. ^we have travelled in poverty offliction & persecution^ we have travelled
without purse or scrip and declaired thy word freely without
money and without price, and been chargeable to no man, as thou
knowest, for thou knowest all our ways. Thou hast given unto
us of thy Holy Spirit and of the Testimony of Jesus Christ, for which
we thank thee, O our Father and we have found many of thy
Sons and Daughters of the seed of Abraham who have received
Our testimony among the Nations of the Earth and have been gathered

A Prayer written By Wilford Woodruff By request of President John Taylor to be Presented at the Altar

O God Our Eternal Father, Thou who dwellest in the heavens Thou who hast created the heavens and the Earth and all that dwelleth therein; Thou art the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Thou hast sustained thy Prophets, Apostles, and anointed Ones from Eternity to Eternity. Therefore we come before thee, in confidence and in faith, as thy saints, thine Apostles, and thy friends, to make our wants known Unto thee, the Lord Our God. Thou art our Eternal Father, the Father of our spirits, and hast called us and ordained us, and commanded us to go forth unto the inhabitants of the Earth, in this generation to declare unto them the gospel of Jesus Christ the words of Life & salvation thou has commanded us to go forth unto the Nations of the Earth unto the most notible cities, towns and villages of the world reproveing them in righteousness of all their wickedness and abominations, and warning them of the desolation which awaiteth them if they reject the message and testimony which thou hast sent unto them. Therefore O Lord our God we have obeyed thy commandments in thes things. We have gone forth through our own Nation and the Nations of the Earth, and have declared faithfully unto them the gospel of Jesus Christ. we have travelled in poverty offliction & persecution we have travelled without purse or scrip and declaired thy word freely without money and without price, and been chargeable to no man, as thou knowest, for thou knowest all our ways. Thou hast given unto us of thy Holy Spirit and of the Testimony of Jesus Christ, for which we thank thee, O our Father and we have found many of thy Sons and Daughters of the seed of Abraham who have received Our testimony among the Nations of the Earth and have been gathered