All of which persons were then ordained unto the offices assigned them under the Hands of Elders W. Woodruff G. A. Smith & Ezra Thayer Appropriate remarks were then made by Elders Woodruff & Smith by way of council & instruction to those who had been ordained, & was followed by Elder David Savage. Adjourned to Sunday 10 oclok May 19, 1844 ~ Sunday 19th Met persuant to adjournment, opened by singing, & prayer by Elder A. M. Wilsey A discourse was ...

All of the quorum present spoke Elders Young & Kimball gave instruction & we bore testimony to the truth of the word August 13, 1843 ~ Sunday 13th In the morning Elder Grant & myself walked to the Navy Yard & I preached & was followed by Elder Grant. In the afternoon we met with the saints & Elder O Pratt Preached, upon the subject of Zion from the Psalmes of David, & In the evening Elders ...

July 18, 1844 ~ Thursday 18th [FIGURE] Elders O. Hyde H. C. Kimball and O. Pratt arived in the city also President B. Young we met together had some council. I wrote a letter to the Prophet, advising the Elders who have families in Nauvoo to go immediately to them & for all the authorities of the church to assemble at Nauvoo for a council, by order of the quorum of the Twelve Wilford Woodruff Clerk B. Young President After which Elder O ...

HEALING THE SICK. passing by my door, Brother Joseph said: "Brother Wood- ruff, follow me.” These were the only words spoken by any of the company from the time they left Brother Brigham's house till we crossed the public square, and entered Brother Ford- ham's house. Brother Fordham had been dying for an hour, and we expected each minute would be his last. I felt the power of God that was overwhelming His Prophet. When we entered the house, Brother Joseph walked up to ...

Aug 19, 1868 President Young spoke 29 Minutes I spent the night with Brother Farr. I was introduced to Gen Dodge at Brother Wests. Gen Stanford came in the Evening to Brother Wests August 20, 1868 ~ Thursday 20. President Young had to stop to have an interview with Gov Stanford President of the Central Pacific Rail Road G. A. Smith Joseph F Smith A ...

stake in the wilderness. Why is it we have been driven to these vallies of the mountains is it not that we may be sheltered when the Judgments of God come on Babylon A man should not be so taken up with his farm as to Forget this work some will say I have done so much for this Church that I must now do sumthing for myself there is now many in Jackson Co who are waiting for the Saints to come there but they will not get the blessings those ...

the Nation & he was to tell of it they would shut him up in a mad house and if God was to reveal to him truth concerning the people & he was to tell of it the people would kill him this is the situation of this government the best on Earth. But let the president sware & take the name of God in vaine & curse God all its form [and] they would let him stay with them as Hail fellows well met and the Nations will be damned & go to Hell who killed ...

if their is any who was in Jackson County & other places & have helped to build up the kingdom of God in the early days we want to bless them first & if their is any man or child who went in the Battalion or in the Pioneers come forward & get your blessings before others & we will bless you if you are faithful their is no blessing in the Celestial Law or kingdom of God but what you will get I want to be sealed to ...

to me with a flying Roll from Gladden Bishop & wished to tech me I herd him awhile I then asked him if He believed Joseph Smith was a prophet of God & set up the Kingdom of God on the Earth & ordained Twelve Apostles to build up that Kingdom in all the world He said he did I then told him as I was one of those Twelve Apostles that I should be damned if I was not in a situation to Judge ...

in the heart others in the brain but whareever the seed of life was located there was the seat of life & the foundation of the soul many other remarks were made He said any man that was a prophet of God He was born a Natural Prophet it was through a linage of Prophets there fathers & mothers were Prophets & Prophetesses by birth through the seed of Abraham this was the case With Joseph Brigham & himself their Fathers were prophets. He then Chastized