several times about 20 rods from the ship, we are drawing near the banks of Newfoundland. Sunday May 3, 1841 ~ Monday 3rd Clouday we have a calm but sail abut 3 nots an hour, in the evening a good wind N.E sail 12 nots an hour May 4, 1841 ~ Tuesday 4th A clear serene Mays morning the most plesent we have had on the voyage the water almost perfectly smooth a calm hardly air enough to move a sail the captain sounded ...

are not willing to bear the scoffs of the world any longer unnessarily had we told openly & talked openly of the things of God that have & will come to pass our blood would have been shed we should not have been here this day. But we hid ourselves up in secret, there we talked wept, & prayed & the Angels Administered unto us & the spirit of God was with us & the heavens opened unto us, but we should now have been in our grave had we ...

made in his image and talked with him, walked with him. In order to understand the dead for the consolation of those that mourn, I want you to understand God and how he comes to be God. We suppose that God was God from eternity, I will refute that Idea, or I will do away or take away the veil so you may see. It is the first principle to know that we may convers with him and that he once was man like us, and the Father was once on ...

Sister Album sent us ^[FIGURE]^ two loaves of bread and a lump of Butter. -[Elder Kimball & myself]- bought each of our wives A Muslin DeLain Dress I also boug- ht one of the same kind for Sister Eunice Woodruff all three of the Dresses or the pattern was exactly alik we {paid} 5 {sterling apiece [half] the summer dress} Also bought a foot rool rule a pair of nut cracks & twesers of Mrs Algood. We walked to ...

May 21, 1839 ~ Tuesday May 21st I spent this day vary pleasently I rode out on a land excursion in viewing the territory for several miles in the the regions around Montrose our company consisted of seven persons viz the first Presidency Joseph, Sidney, & Hiram three of the Twelve Brigham George & Willford one of the seventy Br Bates Nobles & also Brother Elias Higby making the eight person Brother Nobles ...

through a number of the streets & called at M. Seymour Rotunda Place No. 7 Waterloo road to spend the day & night. After Dining I atten ded meeting at St Pauls Church & also St Thomas'es Church both of the Church of England. It was singular to hear these Rectors & Curits preach against the form of Godliness without the power of it, while at the same [time] their is no people perhaps more formal than themselves. I also Attended meeting ...

came from Leeds & He came over from America with Elders Straten & Davis we were truly glad to once more meet, together though on a foreighn shore. We attended a prayr meeting in the evening. I herd the testimony of many of the saints & I occupied some time in teaching them. We spent the night at Br Child's in Wellington Street in company with Elders Sheets & Ure distance of the ...

of about 7000 inhabitants & a branch of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints of 37 members. We called upon Elder Thomas Cordingly & his family who had the care of Elder Barnes through his sickness & death, they Pointed out the house & room to me whare he was sick spent his last hours, passed through his last sickness afflictions & Death. After getting some refreshment we walked to the Church yard & I gazed upon the silent grave ...

I bowed my knees upon this sacred grave & plucked some pebbles in memory of his worth. I thought of his [FIGURE] Lover, his Mother, his Father, his kindred & the saints for they all loved him, & would have thought it a privilege blessing to have been permitted to have droped a silent tear upon his lonely bed. O Lorenzo thou has fallen, in thy youth as it were A marter for the truth, in a foreign land ...

alone; none but congeniel spirits there. Wilford arose (and with the spirit of a Joseph rewards his father Jacob) opened his heart [FIGURE] to his father and spoke his mind, the sentime nt was recieved. I lade my hands upon my Fathers Aphek head (and according to the authority of the Priesthood and Apostleship confered upon me by the revelations of Jesus Christ under the hands of the Twelve Apostles, President B. Young being mouth upon the cornor stone of the house of the Lord in far west in the ...