For you need this power to guide and direct you in this Apostleship
and inasmuch as you walk in faithfulness and humility before
God and seek and obyey the council of your Brethren you will
become a Mighty man in the Earth, and you shall stand in the
flesh to behold the great work fullfilled, and the promises of God
concerning the great last dispensation of the fullness of times.
We pray God to cloth you with his power, with the spirit and
power of the Holy Ghost and the Revelation of Jesus Christ
which Belongs to the Apostleship which is your right to claim
which is your right to claim exercise, & which is your right to
Enjoy. lift up your voice as with the sound of a trumpet
long & loud as far as you have an opportunity in you day
and declare the work of life & salvation unto the inhabitants
of the Earth. [Doctrine and Covenants 34:6] you are unordained unto this power you hold the
Isuessues of of life & death as far as the salvation or condemnation
of the world is concerned, you are called to stand in the defence
of the truth and to bear your record of the Kingdom of God
on the Earth and your Testimony will rise in judgment
against the wicked in the day of Judgments in the day when all
men will give an account of the deeds done in the body
your words shall be a savior of life unto life to those who
believe and obey, or of Death unto Death to those who
reject your testimony. Therefore we say unto you go
forth in peace & the power of God to b[e]ar a record of the words
of Chveerlasting life, And take upon you and feel in your
spirit this Apostleship, and the blessings of God will attend your
labors we seal again your Evry Blessing, and evry Key and
Endowment of the New and Everlasting Covenant
For you need this power to guide and direct you in this Apostleship
and inasmuch as you walk in faithfulness and humility before
God and seek and obey the council of your Brethren you will
become a Mighty man in the Earth, and you shall stand in the
flesh to behold the great work fullfilled, and the promises of God
concerning the great last dispensation of the fullness of times.
We pray God to cloth you with his power, with the spirit and
power of the Holy Ghost and the Revelation of Jesus Christ
which Belongs to the Apostleship which is your right to claim
which is your right to claim exercise, & which is your right to
Enjoy. lift up your voice as with the sound of a trumpet
long & loud as far as you have an opportunity in you day
and declare the work of life & salvation unto the inhabitants
of the Earth. you areordained unto this power you hold the
Issues of of life & death as far as the salvation or condemnation
of the world is concerned, you are called to stand in the defence
of the truth and to bear your record of the Kingdom of God
on the Earth and your Testimony will rise in judgment
against the wicked in the day of Judgments in the day when all
men will give an account of the deeds done in the body
your words shall be a savior of life unto life to those who
believe and obey, or of Death unto Death to those who
reject your testimony. Therefore we say unto you go
forth in peace & the power of God to bear a record of the words
of veerlasting life, And take upon you and feel in your
spirit this Apostleship, and the blessings of God will attend your
labors we seal again your Evry Blessing, and evry Key and
Endowment of the New and Everlasting Covenant
"Journal (February 1880 – December 1885)," October 27, 1880, The Wilford Woodruff Papers, accessed November 26, 2024, https://wilfordwoodruffpapers.org/p/368M