and goodness, promised to raise a man for your deliverance, from the bondage that you
have brought on yourselves through transgression. Will you continue to try to stop the ful-
filment of the above promise? That would raise or lift you up out of the mass of corruption,
that has made itself manifest in the Church in this generation. If you have any portion
of the spirit of God abiding in you, then you will understand, and see the necessity of re-
ceiveing the things I have written unto you, for these things are true and faithful, and will
stand forever. But if you do not receive these things and continue to hinder and stop the
work I have described to you, if this will be your course of action against the Lord,
you shall be mooved out of the way by Him. Yea and all the bitter and stifnecked ones
in the Church will if they do not repent be moved out of the way, even all the high, proud,
and exalted branches that produce nothing but wild grapes, they have drawn to them-
selves the substance and strength of the more humble vines in the vineyard of the Lord.
The Lord's time is at hand and nothing can remain to hinder Him. I ask you as
I would a father, to turn away from all that is evil, while there is a way open for
you. I desire in the name of Jesus Christ that this letter will be consecrated by the Almighty
for the salvation of many souls.
and goodness, promised to raise a man for your deliverance, from the bondage that you
have brought on yourselves through transgression. Will you continue to try to stop the fulfillment of the above promise? That would raise or lift you up out of the mass of corruption,
that has made itself manifest in the Church in this generation. If you have any portion
of the spirit of God abiding in you, then you will understand, and see the necessity of receiving the things I have written unto you, for these things are true and faithful, and will
stand forever. But if you do not receive these things and continue to hinder and stop the
work I have described to you, if this will be your course of action against the Lord,
you shall be mooved out of the way by Him. Yea and all the bitter and stifnecked ones
in the Church will if they do not repent be moved out of the way, even all the high, proud,
and exalted branches that produce nothing but wild grapes, they have drawn to themselves the substance and strength of the more humble vines in the vineyard of the Lord.
The Lord's time is at hand and nothing can remain to hinder Him. I ask you as
I would a father, to turn away from all that is evil, while there is a way open for
you. I desire in the name of Jesus Christ that this letter will be consecrated by the Almighty
for the salvation of many souls.
"Letter from David Morgan Williams, 1 February 1888," p. 7, The Wilford Woodruff Papers, accessed May 5, 2024, https://www.wilfordwoodruffpapers.org/p/qY1y