June 5, 1837 ~ Monday June 5th I called in the morning at Brother Azmons & conversed with him & also Brother Thompson upon temporal as well as spiritual subjects. Neither of them manifested any hardness towards me in the morning but both appeared affected Brother Azmon said he was still seeking for light & truth & should not have left the truth or the Church of latter day saints had it not been for his temptations trials &c. But I commended him to God & was under the ...

be spoken at all times it was not known that I was old enough to go for my self till I had hired out for $36 a month and was half way to Sacketts Harbor again. I here served three months received an honerable discharge and got home with over $100. I now concluded that I was man enough to look out a better country than the one we lived in accordingly in Dec I shouldered my knapsack and traveled westward 170 miles and stoped in Henrietta 6 miles north of ...

blessing of God I leave with you which I ^as I could^ have done had we been received in the name of the Lord. We then walked to sister Calvins and Elder ^Duchers^ in Jefferson's county being a distance of 24 miles during the day. On the morrow we travelled to sacketts Harborur ^&^ visited the American Garrison which was beautiful for situation We also had an interview with brother Archibal Patten. At 10 o'clock at night we took passage on board the Oneida at Sacketts Harbour and crossed ...

I will not enter into a minute detail of the remainder of the next two months which closed the year 1837. Sufice it to say that I sailed from place to place arround to preach the Gospel and my wife Phebe sometimes accompanied me. The closing passage of my Journal for the year will show how the work progressed during that time. I wrote under date of Dec. 31st as follows: "The Spirit of God is like leaven in the midst "of these Islands of the Sea; the solemnities of eternity is "resting upon the people ...

ELDERS' JOURNAL OF THE CHURCH OF LATTER DAY SAINTS. VOL I. No. 1.]- KIRTLAND, OHIO, OCTOBER, 1837. -[Whole No. 1. North Lat, 44. Long. 69, 10. Vin- alhaven, Fox Islands, Monday, Sept. 18th, 1837. To JOSEPH SMITH Jr. AND THE CHURCH OF LATTER DAY SAINTS IN KIRTLAND GREETING: Dear Saints of God, whom we love of a truth for the truth' sake that dwelleth in you, and we pray God that it may abide with ...