Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-02-27

his brother Hyrum were Killed That
| year / lravelol ovor 10000 miles in
| Canada and tho United $ aztec, V cit
| log the ohuTchor, tending meetings.
etc. In the inll OF tho year l was ap-
polluted 10 90 TO England 10 pre-
side over the Brti1h mission, Feitlng
sail at Nnw YORK December 7,h, and
arriving at Liverpool January 4, ls45,
iuriug which year Travelled in Egg
land and Scotland, presiding over tive
churches, published 5000 copies OF the
Doctrine and CovonR ute, and sccuiei
tho copyright Of the same in Lonion.
in 1886 returned from England to
tho United States, and Gathered With
the Sainta at Winter Qulfters on the
Missouri, where l epoh- the winter.
On the 7,h OF April. ls47,
lott my family AM lfisnus ut
Winter Quarters and Travelled
with Presiuent Brigham Young anl
the Pioneer company O. l45 men, a
thousand miles across the plains iuiO
the midst Of tho RocEy MountainF,
arriving IN the valley Of the Crest
Salt Lake on the 24h OF July. We
lnid out Great Salt Lake Guy and built
Q Tort ar1uu1 ten hcres. Presiu.nt
Young and some others OF US returned
w " AIAtA JNNANtie tno hALhb uoA'Ohs
In travelling act, 81 the plalns, Tor
three days snd nights, VIC met an al.
most endless number Of buffalo, going
10 their GUNNER ranges TO break up
into smaller herds TO feed In this Platte
country. They were so numerous that
we cou d scarcely flndIour way through
hem
10 the spring OF ls4S L took my
family and returned to Boston, Mass,
spending the rest OF the year anu alsI
1919 In travelling through the New
IL gland stAies and part Of Canada,
gathering up most OF the Saints rt-
naming there AMI eending them to The
Rocky Mountains.
On tue 9th Of April, 1850, With my
family ami about hundred other
Saints, left Boston, AMI with stsRm-
boats, railroads and wagons again
Travelled to the Rocky Mountains.
where | arrived on the l4lh o. D clOber,
having Travelled 4, 6l7 miles.
From 1851 to 1877, twenty.six Yeare,
l spent mostly In Utah, t.tveling ana
preaching considerably among the
Saints, anu aleo otherwise fulfilling
the duties OF my calling sB one Uf the
Twelve Apostles.
President Young died August 90,
1877, John Taylor succeedin; aim al
President ot the Church.
From 1877 tU 1887, during tue Prssi.
dency OF John Taylor, spent most OF
my time travelling, preaching in Utah
and ArZOna, anu labJrlng in 81.
George temple for the salvation AMI
exallatiop VI tho living aud tho dead.
When John Taylor was nccspiei os
President Of the Church, Oct Der 10,
1850, / became president Of the
council Il The Twelve ApDltiBa.
President Taylor died July i25, 1857.
anu 1t fell to my lot to sucOeeA nam ~
presiding.
was accepted rs the President! Of
the Church April Z, 1859, with George
q. Cannon anu JJseph Il. nith a
my cguuselore, since which time
have en1eavored TO Attenh to the d.
tiee OF that office to the beet OF my
knowledge anu ability.
/ was appointed assistant historian OF
the Cburcn in 1866, anu historian In
1881. franklin ID. Richards was sus.
tanned as my SUCCESSOR In that Office
April Z, 1889.
was chosen President OF the Desc
rot Agricultural ami Manufacturing
society n 1862, aud acte1 as such ten
yeats. was member OF the Utah
Legislature TWENTY-FIVE sessions,
twenty OF them in the Council.
have been member Of the Church
sixty.lhree years and two months, and
have held the Apostleshlp fity.seven
years and ten months.
PIONEER INSTRUCTIONS.
President Woodruff cites tho follow
ing from his journal as some OF toe
instructions given by thpt great
Pioneer, President Brigham Y Jung,
upO1 the first Sabbath day alter the
Pioneer company established Itself on
the present cite Of Salt Lake City:
"On arriving here July "a, ls47, he
expressed his full satisfaction IN the
appearance OF the valley as n resting
place for the Saints, and declared that
no was amply repaiu Tor the journey.
ION the next Jay, Sunday, in public
meeting, though. eick with mountain
fever, he addressed tho Saints for a
short time, and said that the brethren
ought not to WORK on Sunday; that II
they did they would loss i've tim
a. much rs they would gain by 1t;
that they ought not to hunt
or tish ON that day; that he did
not wish anybody among us VIII
would not observe the Sabbath; they
might dwell where they pleased nut
we did not want them 10 dwell with
us. He thought that no man that
came here should buy any land, we hau
no land TO SELL that every mnu should
have his land measured a Il to him
Tor city and farming purposes, and he
might Till II Just US he pleased. but he
should be industrious AMI take care
Of it.
Gle also warned the Saints not TO
keep Anything that did not belong to
them; that II they did 80 il would
leak out and they would become q
stink In the nostriis OF Jehovah, an.
gels and the Saints, and though they
might live With the Saints and die
with them, they wOul1 come under
condemnation at last anu 20 to hell,
Tor they were thieves, And nothing
but burning would cleanse them,
There would be a meeting every Sab.
bath wherever we might locate"
ANNlvERsARY EXERCISES.
The exercises in honor o! Presl den,
Woodruff birthday will occupy part
Of two dsys-Suuuay afternoon aud
Monday forenoon. The 0Tst Is Chill.
Iren's Day, when the Sunday schools
OF Salt Lake Stake OF Zion will meet la
the TabernAbls at ? p. M, and render
program. The seconu Ia q general
reception by President and Sister
Woodruff, Ia the Tabernacle, TO oil