April 15, 1837 ~ Saturday WILLFORD. WOODRUFFs Patriarchal Blessing Receieved April 15th 1837 At a blessing meeting held at the LORDs house in Kirtland Ohio on the 15th day of April AD. 1837. Joseph Smith sen the Patriarch of the church of latter day saints confered a blessing upon the head of Willford Woodruff son of Aphek Woodruff born in Farmington Hartford County Connt March the 1st 1807 My Beloved Brother I lay my hands ...

February 24, 1838 ~ Saturday Feb 24 We walked from Belfast to Northport and was kindly entertained at Mr Benjamin Stephens [FIGURE] I wrote two letters one to Sister Townsend & the other to Elder Milton Holmes. I preached at early candlelight in the schoolhouse at Northport upon the Book of Mormon spent the night at Mr Stephen's distance 4 miles February 25, 1838 ~ Sunday 25 Sunday preached at the schoolhouse In the forenoon Elder

& many glorious things not now to be named would be bestowed upon the saints, but all these things are better imagined than spoken by the children of Jacob President Oliver Cowder followed Hiram Smith & made but few remarks but verry appropriate, he called upon the Elders to keep within the bounds of their knowledge & to let the great myster ies of the Kingdom alone for the gentiles had not a knowledge even of the first principles of the gospel. that it was far better to preach what ...

The saints began to open their mouths & they were filled with language unto edification one a prayer another exortation some a doctrin & a psalm others a toungue, some an interpretation Prophecy was also poured out upon us & all things was done decently & in order & the night was spent gloriously by the saints much of the gifts of the gospel rested upon us. One Brother clothed with the gift of tongues laid his hands upon my head & prophesied great blessing upon me another brother possessing the

LEAVES FROM MY JOURNAL. in the book of Enoch, and are to be testified of in due time." Abraham, Isaac and Jacob were Patriarchs, and blessed their posterity. All that Jacob said and scaled upon the heads of his twelve sons has been fulfilled to the very letter, as far as time has permitted. We also have Patriarchs in our day. Father Joseph Smith, the father of the Prophet Joseph Smith, was the first ...

June 22nd 1870 ~ Wednesday B Young Jr Prayed President Young spoke 38 M[inutes] He said If I was to ask how many there are here today who was in Jackson Co I think there would be but few, or in Kirtland or far west but few I contrast the groth of this people with these days In the days of Joseph it was a hard Matter to get the people to believe in Revelation. But I told the people the day ...

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 ...

of fire remained over the Temple Block, giving light to those who remained below. When any attention was drawn back again to the mountains, I saw that the young men and middle aged had been called away upon dif- ferent missions, and the old men and women and chil- dren had to do all the farm work, and all those who were laboring to build up the city of Zion in Jackson County, had to be sustained from these valleys, with the exceptions of the remnants of the house of Jacob. The buffalo and ...

our Heavenly Father clothes them, and will he not do as much for one of his Young servants; yes verily he will clothe them with wisdom and inteligence that they will be able to confound the wise. God has said he would choose the weak things and the unlearned to bring about his works in these last days. Therefore, comfort yourself with the above sayings and many others that time would fail me to enumerate, and they are familiar to yourself, continue to be faithful and the God of Abraham, Isaac, and

spirit of God will come to pass & thus by learning the spirit of God & understanding it you may grow into the principle of revelation untill you become perfected in Christ Jesus. An Evangelist Is a patriarch even the oldest man of the Blood of Joseph or of the seed of Abram wharever the Church of Christ is esstablished in the earth there should be a patriarch for the benefit of the posterity of the Saints, as it was with