the hands of President Joseph Young we then assisted President Young in washing our Brethren the Elders much of the spirit of God rested upon us I washed & perfumed the bodies of a number of my Brethren & the interview closed after after expressing our feelings to each other. We again met together in the quorum of the sev enties at the upper part of the Lords house at early candle light to receieve our anointing. The quorums of the Deacons, Teachers, & Priest occupied one apartment the Elders another ...

LEAVES FROM MY JOURNAL. her spirit revived, and I drove a short distance to a tavern, and got her into a room and worked over her and her babe all night, and prayed to the Lord to preserve her life. In the morning the circumstances were such that I was under the necessity of removing my wife from the inn, as there was so much noise and confusion at the place that she could not endure it. I carried her out to her bed in the wagon ...

July 25, 1845 ~ Friday JULY 25th 1845 Friday Joseph Woodruffs Blessing recieved under the Hands of his Father Wilford Woodruff of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles And while in the Arms of his Mother Phebe W. Woodruff on the eights day of his age July 25th 1845 he being born Friday morning 30 minutes past 7 oclok on the eighteenth day of July AD 1845 in Liverpool England while his Parents were on a mission from their ...

October 30, 1845 ~ Thursday Oct 30th [FIGURE] I recieved 3 letters, wrote to Davis H Clark & others 4 in all I recieved A, Neighbor & N. York Messenger speaking of the mob in Hancock County Illinois against the Saints said that the gentile mob had burned about 100 of the building's of the Saints, And that the Saints had taken up arms against the modb according to the laws & commands of God & officers of the Land three or four of ...

TULLIDGE'S QUARTERLY MAGAZINE. [Column 1] The roads finally became so bad and the cold so severe that Nathaniel Thomas and James Townsend concluded to stop for the winter. We parted with them on the 21st of November, near New Portage, Ohio. On the 23rd of November my wife, Phoebe, was attacked with a severe head- ache, which terminated in brain fever. She grew more and more distressed daily as we continued our journey. It was a ...

She manifested great confidence in the cause she had embraced and also exhorted us to confidence in God and to keep his commandments. To appearence she was dying but as on the day before she again revived I prayed with her and laid hands upon her and commended unto our Father in Heaven. She slept some during the night. Two days after Phebe was still very feeble and low and I returned to Eaton to get some necessaries for her. I also felt the power of the Destroyer resting ...