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Part of Letter to Heber Jeddy Grant, 28 March 1887
Excerpt:WILFORD WOODRUFF HISTORIAN'S OFFICE. March 28, 1887. Elder Heber J. Grant Dear Brother: You asked me a question the last time we met ehich I was not prepared to answer at the time it was given. I have gibven the subject some thought and reflection and I now feel prepared to answer the question according to my views. You asked me if I knew any reason in case of the death of the President of the Church why the Twelve Apostles should not choose some other person to be ...Dates:March 28, 1887 -
Part of Letter to George Albert Smith, 20 February 1861
Excerpt:Great Salt Lake City Feb. 20, 1861 Copied Elder G. A. Smith Dear Brother I write to say that in company with Elder Jon Taylor I took a mission to the North last week as far as Brigham City. we had a good time much of the spirit of teaching was poured out upon us & the people seamed to have an Ear for hearing. we started on Friday preached at night at Farmington to a large congregation Exhorted to temperance &c. Sunday ...Dates:February 20, 1861 -
Part of Letter to George Albert Smith, 20 February 1861
Excerpt:Lord does not help him, the dropsay is fast gaining upon him Thursday Left Friends at Brigham City, rode 2 miles Met with 6 of the main leaders at the Welch who had apostitized Been cut off from the church at various times said there were 75 families who were disaffected some had sold out & many were thinking of leaving in the spring as an Excuse they were advocating the claimes of young Joseph Phillips who did preside in Wales was the main leader they were all hanging to his skirts. We now were at his ... -
Part of Letter to George Albert Smith, 28 May 1856
Excerpt:There has been but few fish caught in the Jordan or Cottonwoods, it is said, it is in consequence of a net at the falls of Jordan where many are caught. we hear, that the shore of the Utah Lake is like a fair there being so many people and wagons. The brethren are catching and drying the fish, so that but few have as yet gone up the Provo. Brother Maughn of E. T. City has found lead on the ridge between our ... -
Part of Letter to Joseph Fielding Smith, 27 April 1887
Excerpt:[sideways text] Rec'd May 25, 1887 Ans'd [May] 27, [1887] [end of sideways text] L.D.S Historian's Office, P. O. BOX 321, Salt Lake City, Utah, April 27, 1887 President Joseph F Smith Beloved Brother Your vary kind interesting Letter of March 31 is before me and I have read it with much interest and I was vary glad to get it for not hearing from you I did not know but I had offended you in my joaking manner about reading But as ...Dates:April 27, 1887 -
Part of Letter to Susa Young Gates, 2 May 1898
Excerpt:Salt Lake City May 2, [18]98 Sister Susa Young Gates I received your Letter of April 27, And in reply will say in answering your questions, concerning my Mother ^she^ Died with the spotted fever in Avon ^AD^ 1808 leaving 3 sons, ^I^ I the youngest, being 14 Months old so I never knew a Mother and cannot give much of an account of her, she was rather short, stocky in build, thicck got vary quie[t] said but Little, Left ...Dates:May 2, 1898 -
Part of Discourse 1892-03-06
Excerpt:President Wilford Woodruff next spoke. He gave a brief sketch of his connection with the Church from the time of his baptism in the year 1833, when he was ordained a Teacher and told of the thousands of miles he had traveled in the cause of the Gospel. Every man in Israel who bore a portion of the Priesthood should understand as far as he could the im- portance of that calling, for the exercises of the Priesthood were inseparably connected with the heavens. They were called upon in ... -
Part of Autobiography 1857 Draft 2
Excerpt:when we met, we both told our impressions, and it caused us to wonder and marvel and wonder, what the Lord wanted of us in Rhode Island; but as we had made preparations to move to the West, we let outward circumstances control us, and Jonah-like, instead of going to Rhode Island, we went to Richland, Oswego Co., New York, and there remained until the 29th day of Dec., ^29,^ 1833, before ^when^ I heard Elder Zerah Pulsiper ... -
Part of Autobiography 1857 Draft 2
Excerpt:following winter. I had a great desire to t^pr^each the Gospel, which I did not reveal to any person ^name to my brethren^, but one Sunday evening I retired into the woods alone, and called upon the Lord in earnest prayer to open my way to go and preach the Gospel to the inhabitants of the Earth; the spirit of the Lord rested upon me and bore witness unto me that my prayer was heard, and should be answered. I walked arose from my knees happy, and walked some forty rods -
Part of Autobiography 1882 Leaves from My Journal Notes 1
Excerpt:there were 32 persons presented for ordination which I was requested to ordain in company with Elder Wm Draper we ordained 7 Elders 9 priest, 11 Teachers & 5 Deacons. We spoke to the people several times during the conference. At the close of the conference we were called upon to administer to a woman who was possessed with the Devil she at times was dumb & greatly afflicted with the evil spirits that dwelt in her She believed in Jesus of Nazareth and in us as his servents, and wished ...