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Excerpt:the officers & members & to the whole Congregation consisting of about seven hundred people, A large fragmen[t] was left for some who were not present, while the cake was passing P. P. Pratt composed the following lines When in far Distant regions As strangers we roam Far away from our Country Our friends and our home When sinking in sorrow Fresh courage we'll take As we think on our friends And remember the CAKE Elder O Hide appealed powerfully to the meeting & covenanted with the ...Dates:April 7, 1841 -
Excerpt:get the spirit of God & then he can see & many other usful remarks he made. A Hymn was then sung. Then several questions were asked 1st Can any member officer in any branch of the church say their word is law & should be obayed (No) Is it right for an A priest to be joined to a Teacher to go & visit the houses of each member when their duty is set forth in the covenants. (Yes any members that are officers from High Priest ... -
Excerpt:that John Hancock sat in at the time he signed that instrument. we saw the stature of Washington, the painting of Lafeyette & others. We had a view of the painting presented by Benjamin West to the city corporation representing the situation of Paul & Barnabas when they were set apart to the ministry this building was erected in AD 1733 we called at the mint but no business doing & we returned home had a rainy after noon August 11, 1843 ~ Friday 11th We spent ...Dates:August 11, 1843 August 12, 1843 -
Excerpt:[Written by John McEwan in 1844] Instructions delivered by Prest. Joseph Smith before the Female Relief Society of Nauvoo. Ap 28, 1842 Prest. J. Smith arose & called the attention of the meeting to the 12th Chap. 1st Corinth "Now concerning spiritual gifts" &c, said that the passage which reads "no man can say Jesus is the christ but by the Holy Ghost", should be translated, no man can Know. &c, [1 ... -
Excerpt:We took the parting hand with each other & Elder Richard took the cars for Manchester & I took coach for West Bromwich 5 miles & called upon Sister Mary Packard at Mr's Duffrell Church Tavern West Bromich she informed me that Elder Turley was in another part of the town & had commenced Baptizing sister Packard accompanied me to Brother John Robinson Gritts Green near Bromwich thes friends received me kindly ... -
Excerpt:under ground at work in the midst of fire, Brimston, Sulpher, Gas & Cole &c. the whole face of the earth & heavens air & horizon, men, women, & houses, are filled & covered with the composition of fire, cinders Gas, sut, & smooke of their miserry & labours that assended up out of their piles, firnesses, & pitts from day to day & from year to year. in fine, it is more like Hell in comparrison than any place I have as yet visited. (Uncommon) A boy by the name of ... -
Excerpt:May 22, 1843 ~ Monday [FIGURE] 22 May I have had for several days past some conversation with a number of the brethren concerning building a hous for myself & family. As I had spent most of my time in the vineyard for the last ten years & would probably spend much of my time to come in the same way I desired to have a house for my family to abide in & be comfortable in my absence several of the brethren proffer[ed] to assist me to ...Dates:May 22, 1843 May 23, 1843 -
Excerpt:November 5th 1834 Brother Lyman Wight called a vote to recommend Brother Stephen Winch ester, Heman T Hide and myself to the high council for ordination it was a full vote and at the next meeting of the high council we were recommended by Lyman Wight, Amasa Lyman Elias Higby and Zebedee Colton all high priests to the council and there was a vote taken and carried by the high council to ordain us priests. And Brother ...Dates:November 5, 1834 -
Part of Autobiography 1858 Deseret NewsExcerpt:THE DESERET NEWS. TRUTH AND LIBERTY. No. 19. FILLMORE CITY, WEDNESDAY, JULY 14, 1858. VOL VIII. [Column 1] HISTORY OF WILFORD WOODRUFF. (FROM HIS OWN PEN.) -[CONTINUED.]- March 2—We cut down a large cotton wood tree, and in two days dug out a canoe four feet wide and twelve long, put on a pair of oars and then rowed down the Arkansas river, 125 miles to Little Rock, begging our food by the way, a meal at ...Dates:March 2, 1835 March 24, 1835 March 27, 1835 April 4, 1835 June 23, 1835 June 28, 1835 July 23, 1835 November 15, 1835 February 26, 1836 May 27, 1836 May 28, 1836 May 31, 1836 June 19, 1836 June 29, 1836 July 14, 1836 July 30, 1836 July 31, 1836 August 11, 1836 August 29, 1836 September 2, 1836 September 19, 1836 September 20, 1836 October 20, 1836 October 28, 1836 November 17, 1836 November 25, 1836 November 29, 1836 December 20, 1836 January 3, 1837 January 25, 1837 January 29, 1837 January 30, 1837 February 19, 1837 March 23, 1837 April 4, 1837 April 6, 1837 -
Excerpt:March 30, 1856 ~ Sunday March 30th Sunday I attended at the Tabernacle the meeting throug the day & the prayer meeting in the evening March 31, 1856 ~ Monday to April 5, 1856 ~ Saturday March 31 to April 5th I spent this week ploughing & putting in wheat I finished putting in 14 1/2 Acres of wheat April 6, 1856 ~ Sunday April 6th 1856 Conference commenced in the Bowery [FIGURE] this morning at 10 oclok the minutes of which are published in the Deseret News of April ...