December 29th 1833 were neither contending nor receievi ng the faith once delivered to the Sain ts I could not discover the Church or body of Christ visible among men. I believed the Church of Christ was in the wilderness and that there had been a falling away from the pure and undefiled religion before God And I was a looking for the Church to arise and again to be esstablished upon the foundation of the ancient Apostles and Prophets Christ Jesus the Chief Corner Stone. After ...

PREFACE My parents were born and bred in the town of Farmington Hartford County Connecticut My father Aphek Woodruff was the son of Eldad Woodruff My mother Bulah Thompson was the daughter of Lot Thompson all of Farmington Cont The occupation of my father was a miller from his youth. I was born in the north part of the town of Farmington (now called Avon) Hartford County Connecticut on the 1st of March AD 1807. I was the third son of my father and ...

of the kingdom of Jehovah. Let us suppose a case. suppose the great God who dwells in heaven should reveal himself to Father Cutler here by the opening heavens and tell him I offer up a decree that whatsoever you seal on earth with your decree I will seal it in heaven, you have power then, can it be taken of? No. Then what you seal on earth by the keys of Elijah is sealed in heaven & this is the power of Elijah, & this is the difference between the ...

Methodist says you can have grace to day, fall from it to morrow, next day have grace again & so follow it, but the doctrin of the scriptures & the spirit of Elijah would show them both fals & take a road between them both for according to the scriptures if a man has receive the good word of God & tasted of the powers of the world to come if they shall fall away it is impossible to renew them again, seeing they have crucified the son of God afresh ...

DISCOURSE By Elder WILFORD WOODRUFF, Taber- nacle, Sunday, a.m, April 22, 1860. REPORTED BY J. V. LONG. I always feel much pleasure in addressing a congregation of the Saints when I am inspir- ed by the Holy Ghost, for then I can be of benefit to those who hear. I realize that, until the priesthood was res- tored to the earth, we had no way of knowing the truth in relation to the gospel of Jesus Christ. It is true there were ...

Kingdom of God that thare would be a falling away from Apostolic faith Doctrins and ordinances and that other systems would arise in its stead, and when these fals systems had arived at their fullness than would "the God of Heaven set up a Kingdom which should become an Everlasting Kingdom to whose dominion should be no end." 'Then should this gospel of the Kingdom be preached in all the world as a witness unto all Nations before the End should come" Then should the church come up out of the wilderness and ...