family I then returned to Farmington in the rain & spent the night at my fathers Elder Dwight Webster being present with us distance 12 m August 1, 1841 ~ Sunday August 1st Sunday I preached to a large congreg- ation of the citizens of Farmington at my Fathers House August 2, 1841 ~ Monday 2nd This was a busy day with the whole family in making cake & other preperations for the wedding of Sister ...

sold to some Spaniard who sailed for the United States when four days out at sea the Africans arose & killed the captain & crew except two who they preserved to steer the ship they were taken, of Long Island N.Y. & had their trial at Hartford, & Newhaven Ct were set free, taken to Farmington to be educated, I conversed some with Cinque the Leader of the company they make good proficiency in learning, many ...

THE DESERET NEWS. TRUTH AND LIBERTY. No. 20. FILLMORE CITY, WEDNESDAY, JULY 21, 1858. VOL VIII. [Column 1] HISTORY OF WILFORD WOODRUFF. (FROM HIS OWN PEN.) -[CONTINUED.]- MAY 31—I left my wife and friends in Kirt- land, and walked to Fairport with bro. Hale; we were joined by Milton Holmes, and took the steamer Sandusky and arrived in Buffalo June 1st, and

with his rabble, and asked many ques- tions; he said I had no right to my opinion, and no man had a right to preach the gospel unless he had a collegiate education. I told him I would admit that point, when he would tell me at what college Jesus Christ and his Apostles obtained their educa- tion: the priest and rabble then left. —12—I preached in a school house in West Avon to an attentive congre- gation; after meeting I baptized my uncle, Ozem Woodruff, his ...

I should judge from my feelings And intimations of the spirit of God that the endowment had commenced & that the Lord had commenced pouring out some special blessings upon the Saints in Nauvoo but time will determin whether this is the case. My soul has been much refreshed and edefyed of late in reading the Book of Mormon the time has come for its sayi[n]g[s] to be fulfilled October 28, 1845 ~ Tuesday 28th [FIGURES] I recieved three Nauvoo Letters to day one from ...

[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 ...

with fife and drum hollowing & yelling to stirred up by the ^a^ prysbetarian priest at the close of the meeting the priest came to me with his rabble and asked many questions, he said I had no right to my opinion, and said that no man had a right to preach the gospel unless he had a Colledge education. I told him I would admit that point when he would tell me what Colledge Jesus Christ and his Apostles had obtained their education in and received their diplomas to preach the gospel, he ^they^ ...

came ripened in iniquity, the Lord raised up humble, honest men to warn kings, rulers, and those that inhabited those cities, that the judgments of God would overtake them if they did not repent. Read the history of Thebes, of Tyre, of Sidon, of Nineveh, of Memphis, and of Babylon the great, built to defy all power but God Himself. All that the Prophets prophesied unto them came to pass to the very letter. There is not a Christian ...

Can any of these Apostles? Taken as we have been from the plow, the plane, the hammer, and the various occupations of life, can we boast we have power to do this? We cannot; we are not made of that material. The only marvel I have had all my life has been that the Lord ever chose me for anything, es- pecially as an Apostle and as President. But that is His own business; it was not mine. My name has been referred to two or three times by the Apostles with regard to my labors. I ...

In the first place, I will say that the Prophet Joseph taught us that Father Adam was the first man on the earth to whom God gave the keys of the Everlasting Priesthood. He held the keys of the Presidency, and was the first man who did hold them. Noah stood next to him. These keys were given to Noah, he being the father of all living in his day, as Adam was in his day. [Doctrine and ...