A CONFERENCE HELD. been a prominent Elder in the Church, and had labored with me as a missionary, had apostatized and been cut off from the Church. Learning that I was building up branches of the Church upon the island, he and other apostates conspired to block up my way by writing lies to the people and stirring up a spirit of mobocracy upon the islands. They succeeded in exerting a strong influence with the wicked, but I knew they could not hinder the work of ...

let a man take a good telescope at 4 oclock in a clear morning & look at the sword in the belt of orion and he can see unorganized matter enough to make a Million of Million of Million of worlds each as large as the sun. A man of wisdon & Judgment can demonstrate truth for himself independant of all authors and when he finds a thing is true believe it though all the world disbelieve it besides & when he finds a thing fals disbelieve it & renounce it thogh it be sustained by all Christondon & ...

[Deseret Weekly News, March 6, 1897, 366.] THE DESERET WEEKLY. [Column 1] PRESIDENT WOODRUFF'S BIRTHDAY. BIOGRAPHICAL. On Sunday, February 28, 1897, at 2 p. m., and on the following day, Mon- day, March 1, at 10 a.m., were exer- cises in the Tabernacle in honor of the ninetieth anniversary of the birth of Elder Wilford Woodroff, President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter- day Saints, and one of the first com- pany of Utah Pioneers that entered the valley of the ...

in evry way in order to prove ourselves the friend of God in all things & God will bless you my prayer is that God will bless this people & that they may be faithful and a friend to God. I told the Legislature that I would be proud to have the world know that I told the assembly to fast & pray untill they get the spirit of God to do their duty I would like to see the Judges upon the bench to ask God to bless them and ...

could lay up one Idea each day for a year we should have a store of knowledge that no man could exhaust in a speech of three hours in length and the wicked could not stand before you. the most learned man of the day is Burrett A Blacksmith He was a self learned & made man pay attention to this Brethn & improve you by it we now have the privilege of speaking in one of the Best Halls in the world thak God Amen Zera Pulsipher ...

and then let your Neighbors woods poolls fence & evry thing he has got alone & let all of mine alone & I will yours And in this way you will restore confidence dont trespass upon any body but do right & the blessings of God will attend you Brother Richards said owe no man any thing I owe gratitude to God & to all mankigd in a measure but in a measure or anoth[er] sens owe no man any thing but do right in all things & you ...

Farmington, Hartford, county Connecticut, in company with Aphek & Azubah Woodruff in the front room of a house built upon the bank of the farmington river which room is decorated by historical charts, Atlass, portraits, paintings, &c &c whare Aphek Woodruff & his family have spent many of his former years which have gone gone forever JULY 7th 1837 Asahel H. Woodruff. Beloved & Affectionate Brother It is under peculiar circumstances & amid peculiar feelings that I take up my pen to once more address ...

Perhaps you would like to know what I have been about since I I left New Rowley &c. At least I will venture to give you a brief acc- ount of matters & things with me. On the 8th of Aug, in company with my wife I arived at Mr Ezra Carter's My father in law in the State of Maine, and you may rest assured we met a most welcome reception amid tears of joy, and was entertained with every mark of Kindness, respect, & friendship ...

now numbered two hundred and five men, all armed and equiped as the law directs; it was delightful to see the companies, for they were all young men, except one company whom we called the Silver Grays, and who ate at my table. We were all in good spirits, and were taught the sworde exercise by brother Willam Cherry (who was a native of Ireland) an expert drill master, who had been in the British dragoon service for upwords of twenty years, and deservs much credit for his unwearied exertions ^in^ ...

spirit of God will come to pass & thus by learning the spirit of God & understanding it you may grow into the principle of revelation untill you become perfected in Christ Jesus. An Evangelist Is a patriarch even the oldest man of the Blood of Joseph or of the seed of Abram wharever the Church of Christ is esstablished in the earth there should be a patriarch for the benefit of the posterity of the Saints, as it was with