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  • ...re sick, my clothing was sackcloth: I humbled my soul with fasting; and my prayer returned into mine own bosom. I behaved myself as though he had been my fri ...ng children, the almost distracted and heart broken parent, and by a large circle of acquaintances and friends. These like the stars in yonder firmament, sho
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  • ...ur useful paper, or by letter, you will confer a great favor on a numerous circle of connections, and friends whose affections for him were truly pathetic; f .... I read it again, and again {{page break|10|top}}with close attention and prayer. I examined the proof; the witnesses, and all other testimony, and compared
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  • ...d conference by a few preliminary remarks from the chair, and a concert of prayer by the Elders present. ...April 4th, met agreeably to adjournment, and the conference was opened by prayer by the Chairman.
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  • ...n to preach the word unto them as we had opportunity, either in the family circle or in the public assembly. Elder Brown, having been absent from his family ...n company with the saints at Tarapan, Ky. upon the banks of a stream where prayer was offered unto God. Elder Marsh led a young woman into the waters of bapt
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  • The conference was opened by singing and prayer; after which, the several branches belonging to the Tennessee conference we ...o adjournment at 10 o'clock A. M. Saturday, 3rd, and opened by singing and prayer. It was further resolved, that whereas, Elders Patten, Woodruff and others,
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  • ...saints assembled in this place, and, at 1/2 past 8 in the morning, after a prayer, singing, and an address, proceeded to break the ground for the Lord's Hous ...bourn no traveller returns." She has left a husband, five children, and a circle of friends and relatives to mourn her loss.
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  • ...joy one undisturbed eternity of peace, was, no doubt the wish, the fervent prayer, of the framers of our Constitution. ...n the Methodist Episcopal Church, on the 18th Inst. attended by a numerous circle of relations and friends who paid their last respects and shed the sympathi
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  • ...is emissaries with loads of printed lies to destroy the good seed; and our prayer to the Father of mercies is, that, like the aurora borealis, it may rise in ...the conference came to order, and Jared Carter was chosen Moderator. After prayer the conference made choice of Sylvester B. Stoddard, for Clerk. It was then
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  • ...on within a circle formed by a wall of stones. In the centre [center] of a circle, reached by descending very narrow steps, is a large round stone, with the ...ster it: he shall kneel with the church and call upon the Father in solemn prayer, saying, O God, the eternal Father, we ask thee in the name of thy Son Jesu
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  • ...this was received, that Brother Hurlbut be granted a re-hearing; and after prayer, (which was customary at the opening of all council of the church,) the cou ...s to be built in the square marked figure first; and to be built where the circle is, which has a cross on it; on the north and south of the plot where the l
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  • ...a grove a little distance from the camp and there formed ourselves into a circle, and sat down upon the ground. Previous to Mr. Gilliams address, he (Gillia ...der G. Savage called to the chair; Elder Wm. Van Every Clerk; singing, and prayer by Elder Wm. Van Every.
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  • ...and the abodes of ignorance, it is to be cast like a waif into our social circle, it requires no gift of prophecy to tell that the day is not far distant wh ...they went to hold meetings, that they went to sleep in the middle of their prayer, and another had to go and finish it. That there was not any of them but wh
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  • ...where is the ship to go in? It is a spiritual feast to me to meet them in prayer meetings, and hear them pray for Br. Joseph and the church, and with all si ...is wafted to Nauvoo, to my home and fireside; and as I gaze upon the happy circle, I ask-has grim death made any inroads there? I am lead to say there are no
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  • ...midst of her, and let her be organized according to thy law, and let this prayer ever be recorded before thy face; give thy Holy Spirit unto my brethren, un The sixteenth hymn being sung, Elder Woodruff offered up prayer, when the first hymn was sung, after which the number of officers present w
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  • ...rothers Newel, Frederic and Oliver, retired to the translating room, where prayer was wont to be made, and unbosomed our feelings before God, and cannot but Hear the prayer of thy servant kind Father, in behalf of his brethren, over whom he has pre
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  • ...ltation with us, I marched my company into a grove near by and formed in a circle, with Gillium in the centre [center]. Gillium commenced by saying that he h After singing and prayer I gave the council such instruction in relation to their high calling, as w
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  • ...e leader-I mean Joseph Smith. Does he claim to be inspired? Is he a man of prayer? a man of pure life? a man of peace? Where is he now? Does he appear at the ...ntage, these things were heeded with readiness and published in the social circle and rivited [riveted] the butt of ridicule upon every mind; and those who l
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  • ...oon. He called upon the choir to sing an Hymn. Elder Amasa Lyman opened by prayer, and another Hymn was sung. Elder Orson Pratt then read the 3d chapter of t The above painful intelligence will be read with sorrow by a large circle of the deceased's friends. We have been personally acquainted with Brother
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  • ...we very much question whether their heart and affections reach beyond the circle of the Priest and the gorgously [gorgeously] clad elite that surrounds him. ...onference. The solemnities of the occasion were then opened by singing and prayer.
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  • ...strengthened; and humility, so necessary for the blessing of God to follow prayer, characterized the saints. The next day as a kind continuation of this grea ...have written, and that which is taught them by the comforter, through the prayer of faith. Let them go two by two, and thus let them preach by the way in ev
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