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July 16, 1849 ~ Monday 16th I left Mr Eldridge & sho^o^ld shouldered my travelling bag & walked and walked 7 miles to MCCorrells & waited 3 Hours for the stage to go to St Johns when it came along it was loaded down & could not take me. Here I was 42 miles from St Johns on foot & no conveyance with A Heavy travelling bag with A vast burning forest to go through I did not stop to meditate or complain of my situation but swung my carpet bag over my shoulder again & started on my journey on foot, in good spirits
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The people begin to feel more than ever that they are dealing with the spirit and power of God, and the Holy Priesthood. Yes the Latter Day Saints begin to feel that they are dealing with a spirit that can reach the hearts, know the thoughts and intents thereof, and try the souls of men. The people are called to sanctify themselves before the Lord, that we may be prepared for the work of our God.
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Excerpt:The before mentioned is an account of the most conspicuous part of my Procedings during the year of 1836 which has gone into eternity with its report as the year before it hath done & as the one following & all others must do. O time how swift & how precious thou art. How great the events that are bourn upon thy wings, esspecially in the dispensation of the fullness of times. 1836 is gone it cannot be recalled. Europe hath began to tremble at thy departure. The -
Excerpt:together. then after rising another hundred feet I entered another Intrenchment like the one below & after this another & thus Intrenchment lay above Intrenchment untill we ^I^ reached the top of the hill which was nearly flat or level & lay in a circle or round & not being more than one or two acres on the top & thus I stood upon the top of this Bacon or hill from 10 to 1500 feet in highth & while surveighing the surrounding Country I could also behold the deep Intrenchments ... -
Excerpt:to eat drink and sleep & this is all man knows about God or his exhistance, except what is given by the inspiration of the Almighty. go then to the beginning that you may understand. I ask this congregation what kind of a being is God? turn your thoughts in your hearts, & say have any of you seen or herd him or communed with him this is a question that may occupy your attention The scriptures inform us that this is eternal life to know the ownly wise God & Jesus Christ ... -
Excerpt:An Account of a Dream of the late Dr Phillip Doddridge After some conversation with Dr Clark of St Alb[an]s who had been conversing in the evening upon the nature of the seperate orgeal state & the probability that the scenes on which the soul would enter on its first leaving the body would have some resemblance to those with which it had been conversent while on earth that it might by Degrees be prepared for the more sublime happiness of the Heavenly Kingdom, this ... -
Excerpt:[FIGURE] Lines from Susan in Hebrew Lovely Jan 1st 1842 Strive then to remember me Untill life shall scease to be Sweet twill be to think on thee And know thou dost remember me. Nay; to say forget the[e] is vain Has meditation ceased to reign Continue true and often send One thought to a confiding friend Now if in the festive hall Remember me remember all And if away o'er land or sea Do I Pray remember me In Answer 1 Lovely and lasting are the thoughts of thy ... -
Excerpt:3 By the bands of Affection united in love As Saints let us live, as Saints let us prove Remembering for each other unceasing to pray Night after night and day after day 4 Evening and morning I'll think of thee Susan though Journeying on land or the Sea Yea night after night and day after day My thoughts o'er the deep to Susan will stray New York Jan 9th 1842 L.D. Barnes 1 When I bade my home farewell On Brittons shore far hence to ... -
Excerpt:alone; none but congeniel spirits there. Wilford arose (and with the spirit of a Joseph rewards his father Jacob) opened his heart [FIGURE] to his father and spoke his mind, the sentime nt was recieved. I lade my hands upon my Fathers Aphek head (and according to the authority of the Priesthood and Apostleship confered upon me by the revelations of Jesus Christ under the hands of the Twelve Apostles, President B. Young being mouth upon the cornor stone of the house of the Lord in far west in the land ... -
Excerpt:September 19, 1843 ~ Tuesday Sept 19th It is a busy day in Boston the Malitia of the country comes out. I walked out & see G. A. Smith & Br Phelps returned home & wrote in my Journal. In the afternoon I went on to the parade ground & saw the militia display, & sham fight &c it was quite a splended appearance, returned home quite weary September 20, 1843 ~ Wednesday 20th I spent most of the day in ... -
Excerpt:1866, has been noted as a period of war beetween the President Andrew Johnson, and the Congress of the United States, and the increase of Dishonesty and corruption not ownly throughout the United States but throughout the known world. It seems as though there never was a more wicked & corrupt Generation than the one which we live. The whole Earth is ripened in iniquity and prepared for the damnation of Hell. Many of both people & rulers of this Nation are seaking to destroy the Church and Kingdom ... -
Excerpt:Leigh, Gloucestershire, England. Sept 12th, 1840. Elder H. C. Kimball & G. A. Smith. Beloved Brethern, I am in the midst of the saints at the Leigh enjoying good health & spirits. & while meditating upon the scenes which have transpired with me during the last 23 days which has been spent with you on a mission in the City of London, I feel disposed to pen a few of my thoughts on paper for your perusal. Brethren this ...