I feel disposed to fill this page in expressing my feelings unto you upon the great plan of Salvation, sumthing of my present expectations & an account of the work in this Land. When I take into consideration the day & generation in which we live even in this last dispensation & fullness of times, the awful calamity that awaits the gentile Nations of the present age, The Allmighty work of God that is to be accomplised before the Comeing of Christ, the esstablishing of Jerrusalem in her power, & Zion in her glory, the pruning of the vineyard once more for the last tine, & form some small view of those greater misteries & glories of the Celestial Kingdom which are not lawful to be w[ri]tten & are yet to be revealed, & having a dispensation of the gospel committed unto me in common with my Brethe which is ^to^ accomplish the great work of God which he has set has hand, ^to do^ I say when I comprehend these things I do not summon words that God has call us to make such great sacrafices in these last days, I now see the greater the sacrafice the greater the crown [FIGURE] The ancient Saints of God have been called to make great sacrifices that they might comprehend a Selestial Glory, then if we enjoy the same glory we are called to make a sacrafise also, & have we not done it, yes verily we have equal to any people that ever lived according to the tine we have been a people, or church of Christ I cannot make a greater sacrafise than the society of my wife & family ^children^ but notwithstanding this sacrifice is of of the keenest kind to my wife as well as myself yet does my Bosom friend in her heart ever for a moment wish me to scease doing the will of God, or in the least to tarnish our future & eternal glory, or to dim our crown of rejoicing in the day of the Lord- Jesus No I will not for a moment believe it. Then my Dear friend & companion still continue patient untill my return which will be as soon as is the will of God though we are seperated a few days here yet we shall reign & live together 1000 years with the children which God shall give us & also with our Lord Jesus Christ & we shall also enjoy each other society in a Celestial Kingdom to part no more

O Lord cloth thy Saints with Salvation & thine elders with the power of God Let thy special witnesses be swift to the Nations of the Earth. Let council wisdom & the fear of God rest upon them untill all thy purposes are accomplised concerning them which thou dost Deign to perform Give thy prophets wisdom means & power to esstablish Zion & her Stakes

We also spent several days in passing through the Herefordshire & Glostershire churches & taking the parting hand with them which was truly an affecting scene to see hundreds of friends or Saints which we had baptzed into the kingdom flock around us & take us by the hand & weep as though they would break their hearts, appear as though they were taking their leave of their father to see him no more, the many sensations of this kind which I have passed through since I have been in England have been peculiar, to my feelings & clearly show me the Effect that the Everlasting gospel has upon the honest in heart & the meek of the Earth.

we returned to Belfast where I preached twise to a small Congre gation ^we^ Left Befast and arived in Glosgow on the 20th of oct where we found the saints Re Joicing one having Joined on the While I was gone I went to Paisley where I found that the Lord had poured out his blessings upone the saints twenty or thirty have recieved the gift of toungs some the interpitations of toungs there has ben about 40 aded to the church in Paisley and Bridge of weir Since I left hear

It is cheering to hear of the prosperity of Nauvoo. It forcibly reminds me of the vision of Esdras in which he suddenly saw a woman in great trouble weeping with great lamentation but sud- denly there appe^a^red in her stead a great city. It will not take the Jews long to build Jerusalem at that rate. I think that the sin of laziness & indolence will not be imputed to the saints much longer for they seem to build cities with almost as much dex- terity as children build cob houses & I presume they are

Extract of W Woodruff Journal Oct 18th After bearing testiment to the Saints in London, & feeling a witness that there would be a good work in this city. We retired to rest in good season I felt well in my mind & slept untill 12 oclock at night I awoke & meditated upon the things of God untill near 3 oclock & while forming a determination to warn the people of London & overcome the powers of darkness by the assi stance of God, A personage appeared unto me which I considerd to be the prince of Darkness or the Devil. he made war with me & attempted to take my life he caught me by the throat & choaked me nearly to death he wounded me in my forehead I also wounded him in a number of places in the head As he was about to overcome me I prayed to the Father in the name of Jesus Christ for help, I then began to have power over him, the Lord sent his Angels unto me who deliverd me by wounding my enemy & driving him from me one personage dressed in white who I thought was a friend i had seen before came to me prayed with me & healed me. & I was instantly made whole & deliverd As soon as I could speak I awoke Br Smith who was also in trouble

Remember me to Father & Mother J. Smith & to the presidency how is President Rigdons health is Brother Hiram well; How does Brother Joseph do I want to hear from him, I hope the church will constantly uphold him by prayer faith, & confidence. he is a chosen vessel in the hands of God, let the Saints stand by him & his councillors & God will bless them

Dear Brothers & Sisters let us not be discouraged in the good cause of God, for the vary persecution We are receiving ownly goes to proove the reality of

We Rejoice to hear of the progress of the work in all parts of the land & I am Happy to inform you that the Lord is begining to Bless us here in London. We have Baptized 36 & many othrs at the water Doctor Copeland & an Independant Minister are among the number Baptized. Our little Room is almost getting full of Saints without the World & as the place is begining to be to strait for us we are trying to get a chapel or larger house so that we may dwell. Eldr Kimball has also organized a small Branch of 6 members in Woolwich, he Baptized 4 the first time he preached there, & the seed sown is Bringing forth fruit & they are trying to open a door in that place also, & Eldr Wm Pitt is Baptizing some at Ipswich & so if the Lord will enable us to build up a kind of a Zion in London & have some stakes around about it we shall be glad

I every day see more need of the blessings of the Ancients meekness Faith Holiness especialy knowing the time at hand when the "trial of our Faith will be more precious than fine Gold" and see more need of a knitting among the saints to hold one another up by the prayer of Faith keeping the unity of the spirit in the bond of peace I do rejoice in the mercy of my God in seeing among the honest in heart generaly principles of this kind.