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Excerpt:September 14, 1840 ~ Monday Minutes of A Conference held Sept 14, 1840 The Bran Green & Gadfield Elm Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints held at Gadfield Elm Chapel in Worcestershire on the 14th day of Sept 1840. Their being present one of the Travling high council, one High Priest, 9 Elders, 19 Priest, & 4 Teachers. The meeting was called to Order by Elder Kington when It was ...Dates:September 14, 1840 -
Excerpt:June 12, 1840 ~ Friday June 12th I walked to Dymock & had an interview with Elder Richards he had just returned from the South part of Herefordshire whare he had built up a Church of 11 members & ordained one Teacher John Castreo we preached at Br Kingtons Confirmed 2 & healed one tha was sick Elder Richards wrote a peace for the Star 12 June 13, 1840 ~ Saturday 13th I held a council with ...Dates:June 12, 1840 June 13, 1840 June 14, 1840 -
Excerpt:ARCHBISHOP PETITIONED TO STOP OUR PREACHING. The rector did not know what to make of it, so he sent two clerks of the Church of England as spies, to attend our meet- ing, and find out what we did preach. But they were both pricked in their hearts and received the word of the Lord gladly, and were baptized and confirmed members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The rector became alarmed and did not dare to send any- body else. The ministers and rectors of the ...Dates:March 21, 1840 -
Excerpt:will be several hundred Baptzed soon in this part of the vineyard there is now nearly 200 sants here & the work if but just begun to human appearance Elders Young, & Richards, & myself will continued in this part of the vineyard untill we have secured the grain which is ripe for the harvest the work is rooling [rolling] on in every part of England where the word is faithfully proclamd we have sent the Minutes of our Conferene to the Editors of the Times & Seasons ... -
Excerpt:four months in a new field which I have opend in Herefordshire, Westershire, & Glostershire & the church now in that place numbers over 600, & the work never in a more prosperous state in that place than at the present time: I had no doubt but what the churches in that place will soon No. 1000 souls. We have set all the churches in that region in Order, ◊ ^with^ Officers members presiding over them, & they are now Baptizing daily in that region, about ... -
Part of Autobiography 1858 Deseret NewsExcerpt:THE DESERET NEWS. TRUTH AND LIBERTY. No. 21. FILLMORE CITY, WEDNESDAY, JULY 28, 1858. VOL. VIII. [Column 1] HISTORY OF WILFORD WOODRUFF. (FROM HIS OWN PEN.) -[CONTINUED.]- March 8, 1839—I attended a conference at Springfield, Illinois. —13—I took my family and started for Quincy, where I arrived on the 16th. I dined with Emma Smith at Judge Cleveland's. I then went on to the ...Dates:March 8, 1839 March 13, 1839 March 16, 1839 March 17, 1839 April 8, 1839 April 26, 1839 May 2, 1839 May 3, 1839 May 15, 1839 July 22, 1839 July 25, 1839 August 8, 1839 August 21, 1839 August 24, 1839 August 28, 1839 September 2, 1839 September 10, 1839 September 12, 1839 September 19, 1839 September 21, 1839 September 27, 1839 October 4, 1839 October 7, 1839 November 1, 1839 December 13, 1839 December 19, 1839 January 11, 1840 January 13, 1840 January 18, 1840 January 21, 1840 January 29, 1840 March 1, 1840 March 3, 1840 March 6, 1840 March 22, 1840 April 9, 1840 April 22, 1840 July 17, 1840 August 18, 1840 April 20, 1841 May 20, 1841 October 6, 1841 July 28, 1858 -
Excerpt:seven days, preaching, baptizing, con- firming and counselling. Numbers were added daily to the Church. He then returned to Manchester. I spent about seven months in Herefordshire, Gloucestershire and Worcestershire. We baptized over eighteen hundred, including all of the "United Brethren" save one. We baptized over two hundred preachers of various denominations in that part of the vineyard. A synod of church ministers became so alarmed for their flocks in that part of the vineyard, ...Dates:August 18, 1840 April 20, 1841 May 20, 1841 -
Excerpt:[Deseret Weekly News, March 6, 1897, 366.] THE DESERET WEEKLY. [Column 1] PRESIDENT WOODRUFF'S BIRTHDAY. BIOGRAPHICAL. On Sunday, February 28, 1897, at 2 p. m., and on the following day, Mon- day, March 1, at 10 a.m., were exer- cises in the Tabernacle in honor of the ninetieth anniversary of the birth of Elder Wilford Woodroff, President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter- day Saints, and one of the first com- pany of Utah Pioneers that entered the valley of the ...Dates:March 1, 1807 December 30, 1833 December 31, 1833 January 13, 1835 April 26, 1839 December 7, 1844 January 4, 1845 April 7, 1847 July 24, 1847 April 9, 1850 October 14, 1850 August 29, 1877 October 10, 1880 July 25, 1887 April 7, 1889 April 7, 1889 February 28, 1897 March 1, 1897 March 6, 1897 -
Part of Autobiography 1857 Draft 1Excerpt:attend a General Conference. A vast assembly had gathered at Haw Cross to attend my meeting the house, door yard, and street was crowded and among it was a large mob a mob had gathered. I preached to the people, 5 came forward and wished to be baptized the mob surrounded the pool armed with stones. I dismissed the meeting and went away but both the congregation and mob remained on the ground till midnight and as there was no prospect of their dispersing and the candidates were anxious to be baptized, I went down into the ...Dates:March 22, 1840 April 22, 1840 August 18, 1840 March 4, 1841 April 20, 1841 May 20, 1841 October 6, 1841 February 3, 1842 -
Excerpt:farewell of London next Monday tgo diret to Bristol, whare Elder Kington has just built up a church. He then goes with me through all the churches in Worcestershire – Gloucestershire, & Herefordshire. I then go to Birmingham to the Staffordshire potteries, meet Elder Smith, go to – Manchester, held a general conference 6th April & then we are immediately [FIGURE] OPH ^off^ A company of Saints of ...