long since hown down their mighty hosts, & yet ye do not bestir yourselves people of Jehovah what hinders, nothing but your own supineness. "People of Jehovah raise yourselves from your thousand years slumber! Rally round leaders; have really the will. a moses will not be wanting. The rights of nations will never grow old, take possession of the land of your fath ers, build a third time the Temple on Zion greater & more magnificent than ever. Trust in the Lord who has led you safely through the vale of misery ...

February 19, 1837 ~ Sunday Feb. 19th I repaired to the house of the Lord & stood in the midst of the congregation of the saints whare I beheld President JOSEPH SMITH Jr arise in the stand & for several hours addressed the saints in the power of God. Joseph had been absent from Kirtland on bus- iness for the church, though not half as long as Moses was in the mount, & many were stir'd up in their hearts & some were against him as ...

was going to dissect a body he would not begin at the limbs but cut the head of[f] first. So the Adversary has laid a plan to cut off the head of the Church with the intention of scattering & destroying the whole body. It was so in the days of Jesus Christ the enemies sought to kill him that the body might be destroyed, which was also the case in the days of Elijah, Daniel, & many of the ancients. I once herd a man say who was opposed to ...

Reflections From Adam man decended & prospered & blessed untill he polluted the earth by sin & wickedness to that degree that God destroyed the whole world by a flood except 8 souls & they went forth & again peopled the earth & was always blessed when they kept the Commandments of God & was cursed when they broke them. God blessed Abram & made Covenants with him & his seed. Though Israel was in slavery as it were under Pharrio yet when they ...

June 29, 1836 ~ Wednesday June 29th Preached at Mr McKinzie's held a dabate with a Baptist Priest after meeting & selling a Book of Mormon to McKinzies we Rode to Mr David Criders [in] Gibson Co Ten 7 m[iles] June 30, 1836 ~ Thursday 30. Spent the day at Mr Criders I {and Brothers Smoot and Clapp went to the woods to pray the power of God stay on us ...

LEAVES FROM MY JOURNAL. under the hands of Father Joseph Smith, the Patriarch, two days later. I felt impressed by the Spirit of God to take a mission to the Fox Islands, situated east of the Maine shore, a country I knew nothing about. I made my feelings known to the Apostles, and they advised me to go. Feeling that it was my duty to go upon this mission, I did not tarry at home one year after having married ...

LEAVES FROM MY JOURNAL. ing day we continued our journey. We pitched our tents at night and had prayers night and morning. The Prophet told us every day what we should do. We were nearly all young men, gathered from all parts of the country, and strangers to each other; but we got acquainted very soon, and had a happy time together. It was a great school for us to be led by a Prophet of God thousand miles, through cities, towns, villages, and through the wilderness. When persons stood by to count ...

THE DESERET NEWS. TRUTH AND LIBERTY. No. 19. FILLMORE CITY, WEDNESDAY, JULY 14, 1858. VOL VIII. [Column 1] HISTORY OF WILFORD WOODRUFF. (FROM HIS OWN PEN.) -[CONTINUED.]- March 2—We cut down a large cotton wood tree, and in two days dug out a canoe four feet wide and twelve long, put on a pair of oars and then rowed down the Arkansas river, 125 miles to Little Rock, begging our food by the way, a meal ...

June 23rd 1870 improve untill the last Moment Expecting to burn Every thing up Except what we took south with us & I wanted to burn as much as I could, but when we returned from Provo I Believed we were on our return to Jackson Co, & I shall still believe it untill I learn to the contrary. Those who follow Brigham Young will be much richer than those who do not we should feel that all we have is on the Altar to build ...

January 1, 1872 ~ Monday Jan 1, 1872 It is snowing most of the day I called upon President G. A. Smith in the morning had some conversation with him I then called upon President Young & spent Near an hour with him I Bid him a happy New Year after conversing a short time with him I took John Henry Smith & went to the City Hall & visited Hosea Stout, Brother Blythe, B ...