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Excerpt:Oct 6, 1881 God I am going to live. In the name of Jesus Christ I am going to stand in the flesh and bear my testimony of the Gospel of Christ to the Nations of the Earth That was about the way he acted from that moment he began to recover and He has lived with us since that day forty seven years His history is before you, it is before the world as far as written as far as we can obtain it. Bro Orson Pratt has lived in this Church longer than ...
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Excerpt:A synopsis of Wilford Woodruffs Travels and labors taking from his Journals by himself from 1834 to 1885 inclusive Making [FIGURE] 51 years of Labor in the Ministry as a Member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints I travelled during this Period through England, Scotland, Wales, six Islands of the sea 23 of the United States and Five territories including the Rocky Mountains Utah Idaho Arizona,
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Excerpt:2 the day had been well employed. In speaking about it Brother Geo. A. said that he had done more walking in San Fran- cisco that day than he had at New York all the time he was there. This climate is of such a na- ture that a healthy per- son can perform more labor without fatigue than he can in a warmer or colder climate. Yesterday we started out early to the Cliff House, where we had a view of the
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Excerpt:God." We had a peg driven down, and it was nearly in the middle of the Temple as it stands to-day, which Temple was built without any regard to the spot designated by President Young at the time. On the 26th we went to the top of a high point on the north of the city, which President Young named "Ensign Peak." We also visited the Hot and Warm Springs. On the 27th we drove to the West Mountains, and ...
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Excerpt:While Mr. Newton had the meeting house to himself without one solitary soul to accompany him. Even the deacons of the church were attending our meetings & enquiring into these things & & calling upon us to visit them, & the sound went abroad to other Islands of the sea with rapidity, & they came over in their ships & boats to hear for themselves. On Sunday the 3rd Sept. I preached to a Large congregation assembled together from different Islands after I closed a very wealthy, respectable Sea Captain & ...
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Part of Epistle to pioneers, citizens, and officers and members of the Sabbath schools, 24 July 1888Excerpt:To the Pioneers and Citizens, and to the Officers and Members of the Sabbath Schools: My Dear Friends: Forty-one years ago this day I passed through Emigra- tion Cañon with President' Brigham Young. He was taken sick on East Cañon Creek, and I made a bed for him in my carriage. When we came upon the bench I turned the side of the vehicle to the west so that he could obtain a fair view of the valley. President Young arose from his bed ...
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Excerpt:THE CONTRIBUTOR. JUNIUS F. WELLS, EDITOR. PUBLISHED BY THE CONTRIBUTOR COMPANY. Terms: Two Dollars a Year, in advance. SALT LAKE CITY, APRIL, 1887. EPISTLE. To the Young Men of Israel: BELOVED Brethren in the New and Everlasting Covenant: This being my birthday, I having first seen the light of day on Sunday, at ten o'clock, on the morning of the first day of March, 1807, making me eighty years of age this day, and also having the honor of being appointed by the Presidency of the Church ...
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Excerpt:TULLIDGE'S QUARTERLY MAGAZINE. [Column 1] When I arrived there I was so very lame and weary with my heavy load and fast walking that I could scarcely walk at all. I then took rail and arrived in Birmingham at 10 o'clock at night, but was exceedingly lame and weary. I spent the night with Elder James Riley, 24 Park Street. I had now fairly ended my Hereford- shire mission, and bidden a last farewell to that field of labor where the Lord had blessed me beyond ...
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Excerpt:she answered weeping "She is dead." She also said that she had not received my letters. This dream was a token of what was to come for my daughter died on the 17th of the next July while I was in England. On the 13th of December I wrote to my wife and sent her 5 dollars. On this day I again met in Conference at 7 o'clock at Elder Pratt's. John Taylor had just arrived in New York ...
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Excerpt:SYNOPSIS OF THE YEAR. Travels. I travelled in ten of the United States and crossed one half of the Atlantic Conferences. I attended seven Conferences and held thirty four meetings and was in eight councils with the First Presidency and Twelve. I recorded in this year's Journal one Discourse of the Prophet Joseph to the Twelve. Miscellaneous. I ordained three Elders and one Priest attended the baptism of a number of persons but did not baptize more than one. I administered to sixteen sick ...