Bradford, Penobscot County, Maine

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  • Page 22

    Part of Autobiography 1865 Millennial Star

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    we safely accomplished amid the re- flection that time and tide waited for no man. April 4—Mr. Kent, the post mas- ter, showed me a letter containing two sheets of foolscap, signed by Warren Parrish and several of the Twelve, who had apostatized and been cut off from the Church. The communica- tion was full of slander and falsehoods against Joseph Smith and all that stood by him. It was sent with the intention of breaking up the work upon ...
    Dates:
    April 4, 1838 April 11, 1838 April 28, 1838 May 7, 1838 May 11, 1838

  • Page 30

    Part of Autobiography 1857-1858 Draft 1

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    nothing but powder they were harmless. The Baptist and Methodist joined the mob, ^originated got up^ and tried to stir up the people and lied about us more than proved for their benefit. Mr Douglass the methodist priest on the South Island ^when argument found him^ applyed to the ^to all the^ magistrates for a warrants against me for a lie bill for overthrowing his doctrin but ^they refused to grant them as he had no^ their was not a magistrate ...
    Dates:
    February 13, 1838 March 8, 1838 March 22, 1838 April 4, 1838 April 11, 1838 April 17, 1838 April 28, 1838 May 7, 1838 May 11, 1838

  • Page 29

    Part of Autobiography 1857-1858 Draft 2

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    with the intention of breaking up the work upon these islands, but it did not accomplish it. 11th, I was visited by Elders Townsend and Milton Holmes, who attended conferences with me upon both islands, and bore their testimony to the people, but the spirit of opposition increased to a great height. I was warned by the spirit ^of the Lord^ to leave for a season, and take a western mission; after visiting the saints from house to house, and praying with ...