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    1 Shawl 6/ 6 1 Do 9 5 1 Do 4 6 3 yards linen 2/2 6 6 20 Do Flannel 1/1 1 1 8 1 Veil 12 6 1/4 lb Silk 25/6 6 4 1 Ball Twist 3 3 1 lb of black sewing thread 4 2 pair of stockings 1/3 2 6 2 Do 1/6 3 2 Do 1/5 2 10 2 Cotton Hankerchiefs 2 1 Dress Pattern 4 7 £4 9 7 1/2 I also received a present of a dress pattern & 4 spools & 6 Balls of cotton thread ...
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    April 13, 1841 April 14, 1841
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    made in his image and talked with him, walked with him. In order to understand the dead for the consolation of those that mourn, I want you to understand God and how he comes to be God. We suppose that God was God from eternity, I will refute that Idea, or I will do away or take away the veil so you may see. It is the first principle to know that we may convers with him and that he once was man like us, and the Father was once on ...
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    thee and reveal unto thee thy duty yea and give unto the[e] many instructions. Thou shalt have the spirit of God to instruct thee in thy mission and lead thee into all truth thou shalt be filled with the spirit of God. Thine eyes shall be opened to look within the veil and behold the things of eternity. ^Yea the Lord of glory shall appear unto thee thou shalt put thy hands upon his feet and feel his wounds with thy hands that thou mayest be a special witness of his name^ Thou ...
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    PHEBE W. CARTER's PATRIARCHAL Blessing Receieved 10th NOV. AD 1836 At a blessing meeting held in the Lords house in Kirtland Ohio on the 10th day of NOV AD 1836 Joseph Smith sen the Patriarch of the Church of Latter Day Saints confered a blessing upon the head of Phebe W Carter born in Scarborough, Cumberland County, state of Main the 8th of March 1807. Sister in the name of Jesus of Nazareth and by ...
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    It is true you have been called to suffer much in the cause in which you are engaged but if Judgment bgins at the house of God, babylon will not escape and if their is a fire in a green tree a dry tree will not escape the fire, and their is no people more prepared for the shok that is coming on the earth than than the latter day Saints, for the object we have is to secure blessings beyound the veil in the first resurr- ection this ^is wh[a]t^ we are ...
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    to light, iniquity must be purged out, then the veil will be rent and the blessings of heaven will flow down they will roll down like the Mississippi River. This Society shall have power to command Queens in their midst, I now deliver it as a prophecy that before ten years shall roll round the Queens of the earth shall come & pay their respects to this Society, they shall come with their millions & shall contribute of their abundance for the relief of the poor ...
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    February 19, 1838 ~ Monday Feb 19th An uncommon blustering day the air is full of snow and roads blocked up we spent the day in visiting the people they appeared believing. We started to go to our appointment at the school house and we had to wallow about a mile through the snow drifts without a road I froze one of my ears during the time. After Preaching to the people we returned to Mr Robert Baily's and spent the night {distance} 4 m February 20, 1838 ~ Tuesday 20 Elder ...
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    February 19, 1838 February 20, 1838 February 21, 1838 February 22, 1838 February 23, 1838
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    gardeen [guardian], a Prophet, evangelist or sumthing els as your head to lead you all that are in favor of it make it manifest by raising the right hand. No hands raised. All that wants to draw away a party from the church after them let them do it if they can but they will not prosper. I now wish to speak of the organization of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints; Sidney Rigdon and Amasa Lyman were counsellors to Joseph. I ask ...
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    in trust if so look at a bishop, it is their place to attend to temporal matters they never yet have acted in their station. Elder S. Rigdon claims to be a spokesman to Joseph, vary well he is but can he now act in that office if he wants now to be a spokesman to the prophet, he must go to the other side of the veil for the Prophet is there But Elder Rigdon is here. why will Elder Rigdon be a fool. Let those ...
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    it into his teeth. Their is a secret in this; if their is not power in our Charter, and Courts, then there is not power in the State of Illinois, nor in the Congress ^or Constitution^ of the United States for the United States gave unto Illinois her constitution, & Charter & Illinois gave unto Nauvoo her Charters which have ceded unto unto us our vested rights & has no right or power to take them from us all the power their was in the ...