word of God
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Excerpt:A Saviour which is Christ the Lord" This is the Saviour born in Bethlehem of Judea. He said one cause of his ^why I^ taking this tex[t] was ^is^ that a school teacher in Great Salt Lake City asked her whole school if they would tell her whare Jesus was born born & not one of them could tell her it is true they were mostly small schollars but there was one almost a man grown & he could not tell. I think there is a neglect among this people in ...
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Excerpt:May 8, 1869 H S Eldridge spoke 16 M[inutes], W Woodruff spoke 9 B Young jr spoke 16, G Dunford spoke 15 Minutes May 9, 1869 ~ Sunday 9th we drove to Chicken Creek Nooned then drove to Nephi 40 M[iles] & stoped for the night with Brother Oakey we held a Meeting D. H. Wells spoke 35 Minutes President B Young spoke 41 Minutes [FIGURE] and said it is not proven ...
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Excerpt:July 10th 1870 are led away from God & fight against him. how many are there who is willing to sacrafice all they possess in order to follow Christ & saved in the kingdom of God. not many & but few will be saved. If Jesus or one of the an- cient Apostles was to Go to Rome, or any other City in the Christian world & tell them He was Jesus or an Apost- le they would lock up the House they would not know Jesus or receive him. do ...
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Excerpt: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 ...
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Excerpt:Sept 17, 1868 Joseph W. Young spoke 35 Minutes A O Smoot spoke 11 m[inutes] I spent the night at Sister Kimballs distance of the day 50 m[iles] September 18, 1868 ~ Friday 18 We drove to Spring ville 6 miles Held a meeting at 10 oclok W. Woodruff Prayed President Young spoke 23 Minutes, D. H. Wells spoke 37 minutes W Woodruff spoke 15 Minutes Joseph Young sen spoke 34 m[inutes] We ...
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Excerpt:Cincinnati is much of a place of business I sayw while there the Dead & wounded taken from the Flora caused by the bursting of the connecting pipes I took water at Cincinnati for Wellsville rising of 400 miles I also passed another boat that had run against a snag store her hull & sunk at Wellsville I took the stage to Kirtland 90 miles & whene I arived at Kirtland I was almost asstonished I at the alteration in the place since I was there in May 1834 for ...
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Excerpt:Father Smith recorded my Fathers blessing my own, Mrs Woodruffs Sister Sarah B Foss & her familys blessings all together in his record December 21, 1850 ~ Saturday 21st Dec I spent the day labouring with my hands diging sullar December 22, 1850 ~ Sunday 22nd Sunday I attended meeting at the Bowary and herd [FIGURE] an interesting & edifying sermon preached by President Brigham Young. His text was truth. His subject Salvation, His ...
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Excerpt:January 4, 1852 ~ Sunday Sunday Jan 4th 1852 President Young addressed the assembly & took for his subject sin & the forgiveness of sin I speak upon this subject because we are in the midst of it, it has been among all classes it has been in our houses in our families & in our hearts and although it has been a constant companion their is but few that understand the Nature of sin. Many have made them- selves miserable thinking they had sined against the Holy Ghost. others that they had ...
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Excerpt:the lawful king Patriarch or ruler and after him the Election of God continued through the loins of Shem down to Abraham but in Abrahams day according to his own writings lately taken from the tombs of ancient Thebees & translated and published by our great Prophet we find a man made goverment existing in Egypt under a race of Phariohs. This Egypt according to Phario Abrahams account was first discovered by Egyptus or Daughter of Ham who afterwards settled her sons in it & from whol whom sprang the race of Pharaioh's & ...
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Excerpt:In all these things I see not a vestage of the trumpary of modern human institutions Either of democracy whigery monarchy or Arisstocricy I see nothing in fact but religion standing forth in its own native simplicity & clad in the panoply of its own legiteimate heavenly powers giving government & Laws to Nations and appointing and Anointing majestrates kings & Judges to administer the same. But leaving for a moment the events of palestine I glance for ...