Elder B. Young arose & said, he wished to make a few general remarks concerning the subject of our faith we hear the Elders represent the feelings of the Brethren concerning the gathering. The spirit of the Lord Jesus Christ is a gathering spirit & the its tendency is to gather the virtuous & good the honest & meek of the earth, & in fine the saints of God. The time has come when the Lord is determin to fullfill his purpose. Had we lived in the days ...

March 26, 1837 ~ Sunday March 26th Sunday communed with the saints in the fore part of the day. In the latter part, Elder W. Parrish Preached the funeral sermon of Sister Pratt the wife of Elder P. P. Pratt one of the twelve who died March 25th 1837 March 27, 1837 ~ Monday March 27th I signed $50 fifty Dollars for the building of the house of the Lord in Zion the subscription list was in the hands of ...

Jan and I arose the spirit of God rested upon me I declared the word of God to the people in great plainness my words were at times mixed with the report of musketry that were echoing outside of of the house. I was plain in declairing to the people the judgments of God I shook my garments in the presens of the people & informed them that I was clear of their Blood. I asked if any wished to receieve the gospel & two arose to Be Baptized we closed the meeting after the evening had borne its report ...

SIGNS IN THE LAST DAYS On the 9th of Aug 1840 their was a sign in the Moon the people at Great Marlvern Hills in Herefordshire Eng took a view of it through their glasses, the appearance of the moon was as if it were painted red & while looking at it one part of it fell in peices & the appearan ce of a soldier was seen in the moon with a white feath- er in his Cap the Number that was on his Cap ^was^ vary plain ...

costly merchantdize wharewith thou art adorn ed even as the Capital of great Babylon. I am ready to ask myself what am I & my Brethren here for, & as the spirit answers to warn thee of thine abominations & to exhort the[e] to repent of thy wickedness & prepare for the day of thy visit ation thy mourning thy calamity & thy wo. I am ready to cry out Lord who is sufficient for these things. O Mighty God of Jacob cloth us with thy power. Let the power of the Priesthood ...

May 23, 1836 ~ Monday May 23rd Travled to Br Crawley's from thence to Br Tittles with Elder Boydstun 10 miles May 24, 1836 ~ Tuesday 24 Spent the day visiting the Saints [of] the Cyprus branch of the Church the procedings of the day were as follows Travled to Mr Joseph Ash & found the family shaken in their faith three of which were members of the Church they were shaken by the conduct of Br John Jackson who ...

No former age or generation of the world has had the same things revealed. But the Lord says if you build that house in that time you shall be blessed, if not you shall be rejected as a Church with your dead saith the Lord, so if that house is not built, then in vain is all our cares, faith & works our meetings & hopes are veign. But if few do their duty they will get the Blessing, & we are determined to do our duty & ...

ATTEMPTS MADE TO DISTURB MY MEETINGS. society of Mrs. Woodruff, my companion. I had been declar- ing the word of the Lord through the islands many days, the Spirit of God was working among the people, prejudice was giving way, and the power of God was manifest by signs fol- lowing those who believed. I spent this New Year's Day visiting the Saints and their neighbors, and met a congregation at Captain Chas. Brown’s, where I spoke to them for a while, and at the ...

August 1832 a continuance of the foreerding subject I have hastily noticed in the foregoing pages some of the leading circumstances of my life, up to the time of my entering the ranks of the Servants of God. In looking it over I find many imperfections but as it was written some time since and in great haste I shall let it remain for the present and continue my narrative begginning where I left off When I entered the ranks of Gods people and first commenced the Christians warfare I had but faint ideas of the narrowness ...

of the Methodist church and a priest. The timber is pine, fir, spruce, hem- lock and birch, also gooseberries, raspberries, whortleberries and upland cranberries; bushes and timber grow out of the crevices of the rocks. There is a great amount and variety of fish in the waters around these Islands, viz.: whale, black fish, shark, ground shark, pilot fish, horse mackerel, sturgeon, salmon, halibut, cod, pollock, tomcod, hake, haddock, mackerel, shad, bass, alewives, herring, pohagen, dolphin, whiting, frost fish, flounders, smelt, skate, shrimp, shad, cusk, blue backs ...