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| Collection Name | Historian's Office histories of the Twelve, 1856-1858, 1861 |
| Collection Description | Lyman Wight, letter, Mountain Valley [Texas] to Wilford Woodruff, 1857 August 24 |
| Collection Number | CR 100 93 |
| Collection Page | 1-18 |
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I yet live and am bold to say that of the doctrine of Joseph Smith the Angel of the seventh dispensation there is not a firmer believer ^or defender^ on the face of the earth and hold every ordination given me as sacred as I did the day they ware given
I know of nothing of an earthly nature that would pleace me any better than to spend six or twelve month with my beloved Br Wilford Woodruff in preparing my life and journal together with many geographical skectches for the press, be assured those days and hours you speak of have been held as sacred by me as they could be by you, and I can heartily wish to spend an eternity together with that increasing friendship ^that^ then existed. And as to my ^belief^ in Mormonism I have never wavered one hair
I should have said up ^to^ this period of my life I had never imbraced any particu- lar tenit of doctrine; my ^wife^ had been a presbyterian and I frequently attended meetings with her and had my three first children sprinkled but never believed in any of the religious creeds of the day in consequence of their not carrying out the whole doctrine of the Apostles ever believing that it took as much to save a man in one age of the world as an other.
On the 4th of June 1831, a conference was held at Kirtland ^Ohio^ represented by all the above named branches; Joseph Smih our modern Prophet presided; and here I again saw the visible manifestations of the power of God as plain as could have been on the day of pentecost, and here for the first time I saw the Melchisidec priesthood introduced into the church of Jesus Christ as anciently; whereunto I was ordained under the hands of Joseph Smith, and I then ordainded Joseph and Sidney and sixteen others such as he chose unto the same priesthood. The spirit of God was made manifest to the heeling of the sick, cast^ing^ out devils, speaking in unknown tongues, discerning of spirits, and prophesying
