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February 19, 1837 ~ Sunday
Feb. 19th I repaired to the house of the Lord & stood in
the midst of the congregation of the saints whare I
beheld President arise in the stand
& for several hours addressed the saints in the . Joseph had been absent from on bus-
iness for the church, though not half as long as
was in the mount, & many were stir'd up in their
hearts & some were against him as the Israelites were
against Moses but when he arose in the power of
God in their midst, as Moses did anciently, they were
put to silence for the complainers saw that he
stood in the power of a Prophet, O how weak is man.
February 26, 1837 ~ Sunday
26 Sunday President again addressed the
congregation of the ^saints^ in the and
March 1, 1837 ~ Wednesday
March 1st I spent in school. This is my brin[g]ing
me to 30 thirty years of age. How fleet is time.
March 4, 1837 ~ Saturday
4 Saturday I spent in school during the day I was
called to upon son that
was sick with the plurisy. He was deaf and dumb,
he was healed of his sickness
VERA ["true" in Latin, written upside down and backwards]
AMICITIA ["friendship" in Latin]
4 Thou Scenes of life how variant, how trancient.
March 5, 1837 ~ Sunday
5 Sunday wrote a Letter to my friends in the east
March 22, 1837 ~ Wednesday
22 The last seventeen days have been principly spent
in School I have attended some interesting
meetings during the time
March 24, 1837 ~ Friday
March 24th I left school under view of spending
some time in studying History & preparing for the
endowment
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"Journal (December 29, 1833 – January 3, 1838)," p. 130, The Wilford Woodruff Papers, accessed June 10, 2023, https://www.wilfordwoodruffpapers.org/p/KYl