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Wilford Woodruff History of his Life and Labors as Recorded in his Daily Journals
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REMARKABLE EXPERIENCES IN ARIZONA, 1880.
In a Shepherd's Tent in Arizona.—A Revelation Given Jan. 26, 1880.—Organization of First Presidency.—Call to Apostleship of Francis M. Lyman and John Henry Smith.
YEARS OF GREAT AGITATION, 1881, 1882.
Leonard Hardy's Birthday Party.—Prophecy Concerning Joseph F. Smith.—Death of Orson Pratt—Visit to St. George.—The Edmunds Law.—Oscar Wilde.—Conditions at St. Johns, Arizona.—Call of President George Teasdale, Heber J. Grant and Seymour B. Young.—Death of Captain William H. Hooper.
THE CRUSADE OPENS, 1883-1885.
Exemplary Deacons.—Adam-ondi-Ahman.—Visit to Colorado.—The Patriarchal Order of Marriage.—Andrew Burt.—Farm Life.—The Crusade Opens.—The Family Celebration of His Birthday.—Call of John W. Taylor.—Call of Wm. B. Preston.—Land Troubles in Arizona.—Dedication of the Logan Temple.—A Visit to Snake River. Country, Idaho.—Growth of Children After the Resurrection.—Call of John Morgan.—In Exile.—Conference at Fish Lake.
ELEVATION TO PRESIDENCY OF THE CHURCH, 1889.
Arrest of George Q. Cannon.—Governor Murray's Dismissal.—Death of President Taylor.—President Woodruff Appears in the Tabernacle.—Change in Federal Officers.—April, 1889, Wilford Woodruff Became President of the Church.—Visit to California.—M. W. Merrill, A. H. Lund, and Abraham H. Cannon Called to Apostleship.—Senator Morgan Visits President Woodruff.
THE MANIFESTO AND EVENTS OF 1890-'91.
The Political Situation.—Visit to California.—The Manifesto.—Its Effects.—Sugar Industry.—Henry M. Stanley.—Deaths of Prominent Men.—Earthquake in Southern Utah.—Address to Irrigation Congress.—Interpretation of Manifesto.—Remarks at Brigham City on the Manifesto.
DEDICATION OF THE SALT LAKE TEMPLE, 1892.
New Home.—Visit of President Eliot to Salt Lake City.—Completing the Temple.—Amnesty.—Dedication of the Salt Lake Temple.—Visit to the World's Fair, Chicago.—Liberal Party Disbands.
ADMINISTRATIVE WORK, 1894.
Electric Power Plant in Ogden Canyon.—Saltair,—Death of His Brother, Thompson.—Temple Work for Benjamin Franklin.—An Optimist.—Death of A. O. Smoot of Provo.—Utah Stake Organized.—Trip to Alaska.
THE YEARS 1896-'97-'98.—BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION.—HIS DEATH.
Admission of Utah into the Union.—The Occasion Celebrated.—Political Struggles.—Birthday of Geo. Q. Cannon Celebrated.—April Conference, 1896.—Pronunciamento Regarding Political Matters.—Death of Apostle Abraham H. Cannon.—The Purity and Nobility of His Character Revealed to Prest. Woodruff.—Change of the Fast Day.—Great Celebration on His 90th Anniversary, 1897.—Visit from Judge Kinney.—Pioneer Jubilee Celebration.—Letter to the King and Queen of Sweden.—Visits the Coast.—His Son Owen Called to the Apostleship.—Attends April Conference, 1898.—Goes to the Coast in August.—His Sickness.—Departs this Life September 2, 1898. CHAPTER 56. Funeral Services.
Character Sketch.
Sidney Rigdon.
Address to the Saints of the British Isles.
Storm on Lake Michigan.
Rationality of the Atonement.
CHAPTER 1.
BIRTH AND GENEALOGY, 1807.
A Chosen Spirit.—Divine Guidance.—Genealogy.—A Miller by Trade.
Wilford Woodruff was the fourth president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He belonged to that class of men of whom the Lord said to Abraham, "These will I make my rulers." Of our primeval childhood that ancient Prophet informs us that the Lord stood among those that were spirits and He saw that they were good. Of these spirits the Lord said to Abraham, "Thou art one of them, thou wert chosen before thou wast born." If the Lord knew Abraham and Jeremiah before they were born in the flesh, He also must have known Wilford Woodruff in the spirit world. The latter's integrity and unbounded devotion to the worship and purposes of his God are not surpassed by any prophet of either ancient or modern times. Like those of ancient times, Wilford Woodruff was undoubtedly foreordained of God to a noble mission in life, and to the great responsibilities which he filled with honor and to the glory of God. To him there was a reality of the spirit world rarely enjoyed by men, he constantly felt the influence of spiritual associations which were above and beyond the ordinary affairs of life. That he had an existence prior to this probation in life, he never doubted. He felt that life was a mission to which he had been called and which in the goodness of God he had been permitted to fill. His own spiritual existence was never overshadowed by temporalities or by constant misgivings that so frequently beset the lives of other men.