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    Part of Discourse 1867-05-19

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    REMARKS By Elder Wilford Woodruff, delivered in the Tab- ernacle, Great Salt Lake City, May 19, 1867. [REPORTED BY DAVID W. EVANS.] I also am a missionary, and I always considered it a great honor to be one. I received a mission when I embraced this work; it has never been taken from me yet. In company with a number of the brethren I have just returned, as br. Taylor has said, from visiting our brethren in the south. We have had an excellent ...
    Dates:
    May 19, 1867

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    Part of Letter from George Quayle Cannon, 24 February 1863

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    (3) "anti-Mormon" association, which exists in that city. They have hired a hall quite close to that occupied by the Saints and are doing all in their power to break up our meetings there. A man by the name of Charles Derry, waited upon me atwo or three weeks ago to ask me, as he said, for the privilege of setting forth his principles to our congregations in our chapels throughout the country. He said he was a missionary sent over by the "New Organization of the Church" under ...

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    Part of Letter to Aphek and Azubah Hart Woodruff, 1 June 1844

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    Could not get seasoned lumber, but they can go into the house we mooved out of untill he can lay a floor in a room in the new House & then they will comfortable. I left my family well & in good spirits, my life & lot seems to be mostly in the vineyard I left Nauvoo about the first of May in company with Elder G. A. Smith one of the Twelve, to attend the Conferences. I expect to meet with Elders B Young & H. C ...

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    Part of Autobiography 1857 Draft 2

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    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 ...

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    Part of Autobiography 1857 Draft 2

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    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

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    Part of Autobiography 1857 Draft 2

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    and three young dogs, he lay stretched out upon the bare floor with his feet to a small fire, there was no door to the house, but a ragged quilt hung up in the door way; it was past 11 o'clock at night. I turned away the quilt, looked into the house, every thing was in sound sleep, I ^&^ spoke three times; no one stirred, not even a dog. I walked in and laid my hands upon the man's shoulders, and spoke to him; the moment he felt the weight of my hand, he leaped ...

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    Part of Autobiography 1857 Draft 2

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    followed by Elder Brown: during our preaching there was a hard snow storm. We arrived at Petty John Creek, in the Arkansas Territory, where Mr. Alexander Akeman resided with a large family of sons and one daughter, all of which who^m^ were settled around him, Mr Akeman, ^stet^ was a member of the church ^he^ and a part of his family, were members of the church in Jackson Co.; his wife died strong in the ...

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    Part of Autobiography 1857 Draft 2

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    On the 24th, while in the swamps, I had an attack of the Rheumatizm and could not travel fast. My companion, bro. Brown, had got in a hurry, and wished to hasten to the Mississippi, close up his mission, take boat and return to his family in Kirtland, and as I could not travel as fast as he wished, we parted; he left me sitting on a log in the mud and water; I was lame and unable to walk, without food, and ...
    Dates:
    March 24, 1836 March 27, 1836 April 4, 1836 June 23, 1836

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    Part of Autobiography 1857 Draft 2

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    remain and take charge of the Southern churches, and the Lord would bless me in so doing. June 28, Warren Parrish ordained me to the office of an Elder, we baptized some 40 persons while laboring together. July 23, Elder Parrish returned to Kirtland ^left^. I continued to traveled alone through the year, and extended my labors both in Kentucky and Tennessee. I baptized 43 persons during this season, 31 after bro. Parrish left
    Dates:
    June 28, 1836 July 23, 1836 November 15, 1836

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    Part of Autobiography 1857 Draft 2

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    were baptized should receive the Holy Ghost in 24 hours, and that Christ should come the second time before this gen- eration passed away; the whole concern was a mob mock trial, contrary to law, justice, judgment or truth. On the 29th, I went to a baptist meeting house on Thompsons creek, to ^preach^ fulfil an previous appointment; the house was crowded with people, as I rose to speak in the pulpit a baptist priest, Mr. Browning, arrived at the door on horseback, & stepped in ...