you bring these testimonies before
me, let them be presented by name
as far as the spirit shall present
them unto you,—the presidents of
the United States, the Supreme
Court, the cabinet, the Senate and
Houses of the Congress of the United
States, the governors of the States
and Territories, the Judges and
others sent unto you, and all
men and persons who have
taken any part in persecuting
you or bringing distress upon you
or your families or who have sought
your lives, or sought to hinder
you from keeping my command-
ments, or from enjoying the
rights which the constitutional
laws of the land guaranteed unto
you. And what I the Lord say
unto you, mine apostles, I also say
unto my servants the Seventies,
the high priests, the elders, the
priests, and all my servants
who are pure in heart and who
have borne testimony unto the
nations. Let them go forth and
you bring these testimonies before
me, let them be presented by name
as far as the spirit shall present
them unto you,—the presidents of
the United States, the Supreme
Court, the cabinet, the Senate and
Houses of the Congress of the United
States, the governors of the States
and Territories, the Judges and
others sent unto you, and all
men and persons who have
taken any part in persecuting
you or bringing distress upon you
or your families or who have sought
your lives, or sought to hinder
you from keeping my commandments, or from enjoying the
rights which the constitutional
laws of the land guaranteed unto
you. And what I the Lord say
unto you, mine apostles, I also say
unto my servants the Seventies,
the high priests, the elders, the
priests, and all my servants
who are pure in heart and who
have borne testimony unto the
nations. Let them go forth and
"Journal (January 1893 – April 1897)," April 18, 1897, The Wilford Woodruff Papers, accessed April 23, 2024, https://www.wilfordwoodruffpapers.org/p/V7Pz