April 7th [FIGURE] I spent the day in writing my Journal, & when
the shades of evening began to appear I repaired to the house
of the LORD in company with Elders Milton Holmes,
& Joseph B MNobles for the purpose of worshiping God
we entered one of the stands within the veils & fell
upon our knees & Satan appeared also but not to
worship God but to deprive us of the privilege
Satan strove against us with great power by
tempting & otherwis he at one time drove me from
my stand while I was striving with my brethren
to enter into the visions of heaven Notwithstanding
his apparent victory good grew out of it for by going
into the outter court, I there found Elder Freeman
Nickerson an aged father in Israel who was faithful
& Prayed to God alway I solicited him to Join us in prayer
that we might gain a victory over Satan & get a blessing
at the hand of God He joyfully accepted the invitation
& we again entered the stand being four of us in number
of one accord in one place. we had great cause to be
united in heart we all had travled together about 1,000
miles in the spring of 1834 for the redemption of
Zion we at that time offered to lay down our lives
& our offering was accepted as was Abram's. We felt
considering those circumstances that we could kneel
down & unitedly get a blessing by faith through Jesus
Christ we fell upon our Knees & began to cry unto
God Satan departed, tempation hfound ano place in
our harts The power of God rested upon us & we
were baptized with the Holy Ghost & the spirit of
God was like fire fire shut up in our bones we were
immersed in the liberty of the sons of God many great
things were shown unto us the power of God & the
spirit of prophesy & revelation rested upon us I arose
& proclaimed many Glorious thing upon the heads of
my beloved brethreth that were present which were
dictated in my heart by the Holy Spirit. And I
Willford testify in the name of Jesus Christ that many
preciou[s] things were shown me concerning my brethren
by the Holy Spirit in prophecy & revelation. Our hearts
were made glad & we went our way rejoicing [FIGURE]
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