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Wilford Woodruff, the fourth president of the LDS Church, details many of his experiences in this short memoir designed to give the youth of the Church instruction and encouragement. President Woodruff shares his experiences of embracing the gospel and joining the church, his adventures as a part of Zion's Camp with Joseph Smith and other church leaders, his callings and miracles that occurred during his many missions around the US and to England and Canada, as well as giving specific instructions to anyone interested in coming to live by the Spirit of God.
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(From Connecticut, where Wilford Woodruff was born in 1807...)
From Connecticut, where Wilford Woodruff was born in 1807, to San Francisco, where he was befriended by the cosmopolitan Bohemian Club before dying in 1898, Woodruff’s life was unpredictable. The same man who consulted scientific texts for the cultivation of fruit trees for his personal garden was equally known for his apocalyptic vision on a Navajo mesa in Arizona in 1880. The man who balanced his ledger with penny-accuracy modeled buckskin temple robes to friends on his birthday and accepted from Brigham Young, as a birthday gift, one of Young’s daughters as a wife. Woodruff became president of the Mormon church while hiding from federal marshals. Convinced that non-Mormons, or “gentiles,” would be smitten by the calamities promised in the Bible, he bided his time in exile until Mormonism prevailed. However, as the Parousia was delayed, he eventually decided to compromise with the United States. To complement the exhaustive ten-volume Wilford Woodruff diary series and index published by Signature Books as a limited edition, Susan Staker has condensed the highlights of Woodruff’s revealing personal narrative into one readable volume, along with prefatory information, annotation, and appendices. From Connecticut, where Wilford Woodruff was born in 1807, to San Francisco, where he was befriended by the cosmopolitan Bohemian Club before dying in 1898, Woodruff’s life was unpredictable.
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Wilford Woodruff Connecticut was born on 1 March 1807 in Farmington, now Avon, Hartford County, Connecticut, United States. He was the son of Aphek and Beulah Thompson Woodruff.
His mother died in 1808, and he and his two brothers were brought up by their stepmother.
Wilford Woodruff had little schooling, and as he grew to manhood he combined farming with learning the trade of miller from his father.
Wilford Woodruff ordained a teacher on 2 January 1834, at Richland. Then he moved to Kirtland, Ohio in April 1834. He participated in the Camp of Israel expedition to Missouri in 1834. On 5 November 1834 Wilford ordained a priest.
During 1834-1836 he served a mission to Arkansas, Tennessee, and Kentucky. Then Woodruff was appointed a member of the Seventy on 31 May 1836. He was a stockholder in the Kirtland Safety Society. During 1837-1838 he served missions to New England and the Fox Islands off the coast of Maine.
On 26 April 1839 Wilford ordained member of Quorum of the Twelve by Brigham Young at Far West, Caldwell County, Missouri.
From 1839 to 1841 he served a mission to Great Britain. After, he was appointed assistant chaplain in Nauvoo Legion on 3 July 1841. Wilford was a member of the city council from 1841-1843, in Nauvoo, Hancock Co., Illinois.
Wilford Woodruff served a mission to the eastern United States to raise funds for building Nauvoo temple in 1843. He was admitted to the Council of Fifty on 13 March 1844.
He served a mission to the eastern United States to campaign for JS as a candidate for the United States president in 1844.
Wilford Woodruff presided over British mission from August 1844 - April 1846.
Wilford was a member of Brigham Young pioneer company that journeyed to Salt Lake Valley in 1847. From 1848-1850 he served a mission to the eastern United States.
On 7 April 1856, he was appointed an assistant church historian. Wilford Woodruff served as a president of the temple in St. George, Washington Co., Utah Territory in 1877 and president of Quorum of the Twelve in1880. He was sustained as a church historian and general church recorder in 1883.
After the death of John Taylor, presided over the church, 7 April 1889 - 2 September 1898.
A member of the Mormon advance party that reached the Valley of the Great Salt Lake in 1847, Wilford Woodruff had joined the church in 1832 at its original settlement in Kirtland, Ohio. He was made an Apostle of the Church in 1839, when the Mormons had re-settled at Nauvoo, Illinois, Woodruff traveled widely throughout the United States as a missionary for the faith and made two successful missionary trips to England in the early 1840s. In Utah, he was a community leader whose journal of those early days has become a key document in the history of the church.
(From Connecticut, where Wilford Woodruff was born in 1807...)
1993(Wilford Woodruff, the fourth president of the LDS Church,...)
1840Woodruff believed that the Second Coming of Jesus and a cataclysmic end of the world was imminent. On August 23, 1868, Woodruff preached a sermon in which he famously prophesied that New York City would be "destroyed by an earthquake;" Boston would be "swept into the sea, by the sea heaving itself beyond its bounds;" and Albany, New York, would be "destroyed by fire". Speaking afterward, church president Brigham Young stated that "what Brother Woodruff has said is a revelation and will be fulfilled." Woodruff thought that the United States of America would disassemble by 1890. In January 1880, he received a revelation referred to as the "Wilderness Prophecy," which stated that enemies of the church would be destroyed before Christ's second coming, and reaffirmed the importance of temples.
Woodruff published a statement where he stated that the church did not wish to interfere with members' political endeavors.
Quotations:
"No obstacles are insurmountable when God commands and we obey."
"Do not be discouraged because you cannot learn all at once; learn one thing at a time, learn it well, and treasure it up, then learn another truth and treasure that up, and in a few years you will have a great store of useful knowledge..."
"Upon the shoulders of your mothers rests; in a great measure, the responsibility of correctly developing the mental and moral powers of the rising generation...I have often said it is the mother who forms the mind of the child. Take men anywhere, at sea, sinking with their ship, dying in battle, lying down in death almost under any circumstances, and the last thing they think if, the last word they say is "mother." Such is the influence of a woman."
"Those men who laid the foundation of this American government and signed the Declaration of Independence were the best spirits the God of heaven could find on the face of the earth. They were choice spirits, not wicked men. General Washington and all the men who labored for the purpose were inspired of the Lord."
"As the taste for what may be called book-learning increases, manual labor should not be neglected. The education of the mind and the education of the body should go hand in hand. A skillful brain should be joined with a skillful hand. Manual labor should be dignified among us and always be made honorable. The tendency, which is too common in these days, for young men to get a smattering of education and then think themselves unsuited for mechanical or other laborious pursuits is one that should not be allowed to grow among us... Everyone should make it a matter of pride to be a producer and not a consumer alone. Our children should be taught to sustain themselves by their own industry and skill, and not only do this, but to help sustain others, and that to do this by honest toil is one of the most honorable means which God has furnished to His children here on earth. The subject of the proper education of the youth of Zion is one of the greatest importance."
"Opposition to God and His Christ, opposition to light and truth has existed since the beginning to the present day. This is the warfare that commenced in heaven, that has existed through all time, and that will continue until the winding-up scene until He reigns whose right it is to reign when He shall come in clouds of glory to reward every man according to the deeds done in the body."
"While we sometimes feel and have felt in days that are past and gone, to complain because we meet with oppression, persecution, and affliction, yet I wish to say to my brethren and sisters that these things are the heritage of the Saints of God... I have never read of the people of God in any dispensation passing through life, as the sectarian world would say, on flowery beds of ease, without opposition of any kind."
"My earnest prayer is that the blessings of our God may be over us in time, that when we get through and shall pass behind the veil, we shall have done all that was required of us, and be prepared to dwell with the sanctified and the just made perfect through the blood of the Lamb."
"When we read any portion of Scripture, which did not agree with our traditions, every man had his own system of spiritualizing, to make it bend to his own views. Instead of this, we have now learned that God means what He says, and says what He means... When He gives to us revelations of the greatest moment to us, will He not set forth His mind and will in their true meaning, as He intends they shall be fulfilled, and as He intends we shall understand them? The Latter-day Saints as people have learned to take God at His word."
Following the enactment of the Edmunds-Tucker law against polygamy in 1882, like other prominent Mormons, Wilford Woodruff was forced into voluntary exile to avoid arrest. In September 1890, finding that the prosecution of other Mormons for infraction of the anti-polygamy statute had become more and more effective and was disintegrating the morale of his followers, he issued his famous "Manifesto" in which, speaking for his church, the practice of plural marriage was officially abandoned. He was essentially a mystic, completely earnest and sincere in his religion. He firmly believed in the divine guidance of his life. He states in his journals that "my life abounds in incidents which to me surely indicate the direct interposition of God whom I firmly believe has guided my every step. On 27 distinct occasions, I have been saved from dangers that threatened my life."
Wilford Woodruff was married to Phebe Carter on April 13, 1837, but like most other leaders of Mormonism he was converted to plural marriage by the Prophet Smith, and he had eight wives. Wilford had 34 children.
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