were prophets of God & that we had many prophets of God I remember the time when we were to work hard to build the Temple in Nauvoo I remembered what Broth Brigham said that if we were faithful in finishing this Temple we should have our Endowmts if we had to get them in a Tabernacle in the wilderness we ar now in a tabernacle in the wilderness & getting our blesings He said he would lead us to a place wher we ...

weeks & spend their time in fighting for the mastery instead of organizing & doing the business of the people, but the leaders of the whole Nation itself at Washington are engender[ing] the spirit of party strife, hatred disunion & war meeting in seperate parties and laying plans for the dissolving of the Union and the anhilation of the American Government. And James Gordon Bennett of the New York Herald & other Editors after Prophesying month after month that their was no danger of disolving our union ...

If the {United States send their troops here} they will have to behave themselves {If volunteers start to come here they will soon get notice not to enter this territory. If they do they must take what follows. They do not know what to do with us. They are} determined to make us conspicuous in all the world President Young asked Brother Rich if He had any thing He wished to lay before that council brother Rich then said that concer[ni]ng their debts in that place ...

12 The Lord has raised up Prophets And Apostles who have cryed aloud to this Generation with the proc- lamation of the gospel for half a centaury and warned them of the Judgments which were to come, And the inhabitants of the Earth have rejected this Testimony and shed the Blood of the Lords Anointed, and persecuted the Saints of God, And the consequence is that darkness covers the Earth, and gross darkness the people and the Lord is withholding his spirit from the inhabitants of the Earth and the Devil ...

been prophesying against. And while the senators & statesmen from the slaves states meet in convention and resolve, that if slavery is Abolished or prohibited in the District of Columbia or the Territories of New Mexico or Calafornia, that they will immediately dissolve the Union, ^&^ lay taxes upon the shipping of the free states. At the same time citizens & statesman of the free states meet in convention, And Resolve that if those things are not done that they will dissolve the Union. While these parties are growing more & ...

DISCOURSE Delivered by President Wilford Wood- ruff, at Logan (Cache Stake Con- ference), Sunday Morning, Aug. 3rd, 1890. I have a few thoughts and reflec- tions which I would like to present to the Latter-day Saints who com- pose this conference; but in order to do it, I need the help and assistance of the Spirit of God, as does every man who attempts to teach the people. The subject that I have upon my mind is, union among the Latter- day Saints. The Savior said to His ...

DISCOURSE By Elder WILFORD WOODRUFF, Taber- nacle, Sunday, a.m, April 22, 1860. REPORTED BY J. V. LONG. I always feel much pleasure in addressing a congregation of the Saints when I am inspir- ed by the Holy Ghost, for then I can be of benefit to those who hear. I realize that, until the priesthood was res- tored to the earth, we had no way of knowing the truth in relation to the gospel of Jesus Christ. It is true there were ...

probally this period may not be more than ten years distant Yet there is an awful scenes of things of war Blood & Judgment to pass over the United States Before that time yes it will make the ears of men tingle to hear the report of it the United States do not know what await them No more than the Jews did before the Destruction of Jerrusalem and they will not believe it though man Declair it unto them but they will soon both see & feel it or the Lord never spake by my mouth ...

of God was set up on the earth from the days of Adam When ever there has been a righteous man unto whom the Lord has revealed his word and given power and authority to administer in his name then has the Kingdom of God been set up and where there is a Priest of the Most High—a minister who has power and authority from Him to administer in the ordinances of the Gospel and officiate in the Priesthood there is the Kingdom of God. In consequence of rejecting the Gospel of Jesus ...