Ledbury He[refordshir]e March 31 st 1840 Dr Brothr Richards I received your letters last evening also one from Elder Cordon I have but about 10 minutes to write to you at this time, & while writing to you at this time I have several conversing to me so I have to write & answer questions at the same time, so if I make a blunder excuse it. Dear Brothr I have much I want to say to you. I have just written to Elder Turley & ...

Eldr G. A. Smith I discoved a page from your pen in Brothr Amison letter & I thought I would Answer it I was glad to hear that Eldr Snow had got over the Measels & able to preach once more & that the work is moveing on in Wolverhapmpton & Birmingham. I recei[v]ed a lettr from my wife a few days since & what was my surprise to find it dated in the city of New York her ...

I dined with her state coachman, his wife made me a present for Mrs Woodruff. 12th I wrote a few lines to Phebe Br Kimballs letter. 16th I received an interesting letter from sister Eunice Woodruff. Phebe requests me to get my portrait taken. I have complyed with her request & taken my first sitting Dec 23rd by an Italian Artist of the first class By the name of Fillippo Pistrucci I formed an acquaintance with him by means of Mr

166 GENERAL CONFERENCE. GENERAL CONFERENCE. SUNDAY MORNING. Millennial Star No. 11. April, 1845. Vol. V. This annual and most interesting meeting was held on the 6th of April, in the Hall of Science, Manchester. The day being favourable, a very large as- sembly congregated from the neighbouring branches, who, together with the nume- rous delegates from different parts of the country, filled the commodious hall, and presented a very pleasing appearance. The meeting being called to order at half-past ten o'clock by elder Milton Holmes, it was ...

Merthyr Tydfil Jany. 2nd, 1846. My Dear Bro. Woodruff, Judging by yr former cau^r^se of devotedness to, and wellwishes for the best interests of the Welsh Saints, ^nation^ methinks t'wil be interesting to hear of their present prosperity & future prospects; this interesting topic has merited a place in the bosom of the Prophets & Apostles of this dispensation to some extend, it was our favorite theme in the Western climes; and now, those glorious anticipations which we fondly cherished for many a sweet hour while pacing the Deck, at the still hours of ^the^ midnight watch ...

Chapter 6. My journey to Herefordshire. Interviewed with John Benbow. The word of the Lord fulfilled to me. The greatest gathering into the Church known among the Gentiles since the organization of the Church in this despensation On the 3rd of March 1840 in fulfillment of the word of the Lord to me I took coach & rode to Wolverham- pton 26 miles & spent the night on the morning of the 4 I again took coach & rode through Dudley

TULLIDGE'S QUARTERLY MAGAZINE. [Column 1] I was called upon to visit the child. I found it in great distress, writhing in its mother's arms. We laid hands upon it and cast the devil out of it, and the evil spirits had no power over the house- hold afterwards. This was done by the power of God, and not of man. We laid hands upon twenty in Manchester who were sick, and they were mostly healed. On the 21st, I arrived ...

TULLIDGE'S QUARTERLY MAGAZINE. [Column 1] Academy, at which there were about fifty present. Brother Kimball preached. An Independent minister invited me home to take tea with him. I accepted his invitation, had an interesting time and preached the Gospel to him and he received my testimony and offered me his chapel, which would hold 800. He said he thought he would be baptized and would try and get his society to do the same. We met again in the evening and had more at our meeting than ever before ...

part of the town and had commenced baptizing in that place. She accompanied me to brother John Robinson's Gritts Green near Bromwich when I learned that Elder Turley had gone to Birmingham. I wrote to him to return and see me I had not been in the house but a short time before two men came in full of wrath and brought a little blind girl and demanded of me to heal her and work a miracle that they might have a sign. After ...

After preaching the niext night to a large congregation many wished to be baptised but could not on account of the mob but some wished to be baptised notwithstanding the persecution At about twelve o'clock at night I went to the pond to baptise. It was surrounded by a desperate mob and I baptised five persons in the midst of a shower of stones one of which hit me in the head and ^which nearly^ knocked me down with the man whom I was baptised [baptizing] The next day I baptised 3 and I rode to