Show H ha I 1 S TEST TESTIMONY 1 president woodruff in the world WRITES WHITES A FINE LETTER venn felir ot of ilis his pioneer E experiences X perien ces I 1 no bow v utah elders fare in colorado last sunday Is a new york world devotes a page to utah and its jubilee prominent the following letter from arf ans s dent woodruff I 1 was one ona of the original pioneers I 1 entered salt lake valley on the cf july 1847 1 I was torn born march 1 1807 ta a farmington LOW called avon hart ford county conn I 1 am therefore ninety ye years ars of age brigham youad entered salt lake adlfy ail fy in my carriage he was sick and had bad been for beveral days and my carriage was the only one with a bed ait it when we arrived armed at the spot where we could havo hava a good view of the valley e wished me to turn the carriage I 1 ach I 1 did so that he cold coid look with ut obstruction when the door was waa opened op ned on the side after gazing on tile the valley for a while lie he said that will do drive on this is the place I 1 iva AYS seen this valley before in vision A few faw of the pioneers bad gone ahead and cut a road through ih a baking quaking ua king asp grove and aid after reaching the valley commenced to break groundnut ground but it was waa s sa very dry and parched that it could not nol be ploughed sloughed hed until it was watered I 1 had in my mv carriage one bushel of and had determined that I 1 would woula not eat nor drink until those thosa Data potatoes toes were planted in the earth with SOMO some I 1 planted those potatoes and they with some others that bed been brought along were the potato crop in utah which afterwards became famous we were on mexican soil bu t we raised the american ilag which of our oar picked men were defend defending inz in t the he war with Al mexico exico we went to work at once and enclosed a ten acre plot on three sides bides with a ten foot adoba wall forming the remaining side with log cabins tais jl ais was for a protection against In indians dkins we also proceeded eded to dig ditches and bring out water from a small mountain stream to irrigate the parched and thirsty soil scarcely anything else elsa was growing on the land but sagebrush and there was waa hardly a white while mans house a thousand miles of us president brigham young went to work with others to lay out salt lake city I 1 assisted assist sd in the work with our surveyors chain and alid compass we laid it out according to bis plan with streets 32 feet W wide ide and crossing at right angles anglee and the beautiful city of salt lake as it stands today is the result of those plans carried out as he be directed god has blessed the land and this aria and barren desert has baa en made to blossom and bear fruit and ana to produce all things necessary for the sustenance of man and beast beas c we have been able to build up plea pleasant sint homes bonus and make a desirable refuge for the people of our faith from rom every land and clime natives datives of all the civil civilized izod nations and of some countries yet considered uncivilized have been gathered into these mountains and after much misunderstanding of our aims and motives and of the work which we have been called of god to tj do we and our fellow citizens of d efferent erent faiths and parties have been admitted into the great union of states and permitted to take part dart in the affairs of our country which we love aad to sustain that glorious constitution which we believe was inspired by al might god I 1 have made my mv home for fifty years of my life in the valleys of the rocky mountains and haye have passed through all the difficulties and trials incident to a newly settled region and a territorial form of government I 1 desire that the principles of liberty for which my mv an ans cetora foug it shall prevail not only in utah but throughout chii broad conti i nent I 1 rm am a full believer bs liever in the divine 1 mission ol of ane prophet joseph smith 1 I heard beard him say before a large asse arseni in blane in illinois Illino iB that if he ha were the emperor of the world and abad had control over the human family he would maintain the ibe liberty of mankind and would sustain every man woman and child in ahn enjoyment of their religious religions freedom no matter what their opinions might be these are my senti sentiments menis today in the providence of god I 1 have traveled many thousands of miles hemispheres and haye have been preserved in his power through numberless dangers and serious accidents that I 1 am alive today is by ilia his mercy I 1 bear testimony that joseph smith was raised up by almighty gd as a prophet in the last dispensation and falness of times that he brought forth the bok B ekof ok of mormon and translated it oy by the gift and power of god for ehg benefit ot of the world in the latter days I 1 know that the book of mormon is true and is a divinely inspired record 1 know that brigham was inspired of god to 10 lead the tha latter Latt erda day saints S lints fram pt tion and bondage to a land of liberty in the heights of the e mountains and I 1 bear teE that the the which is called mormonism is of god and for the welfare end and salvation of the human family I 1 do not expect to remain very much longer on this earth but I 1 expect to yive give an account for all my acts acta and words before the lord and I 1 declare before god and all men med the apostleship and hip which I 1 hold as the president of the church of jesus christ of latter day dav saints has teen sent down horn from heaven by divine revelation in the day da and age in which we live that jesy jeby jesus jebus us christ is the savior the ha world and that by obedience obed obe dence enca commands all mankind may be ba saved I 1 L ask goi god to bless bleas this thib nation and all the b e upright and honest in heart ot every sect and party and conn connery irv and may light and truth and liber liberia y prevail ti till I 1 the whole earth is redeemed from sin and evil WOODRUFF |