Show PRESIDENT PRESIDE INT WOODRUFFS BIRTHDAY biographical on BUD budday day february 28 1897 at 2 p pm m and on oin the following day monday march 1 at 10 am were ezer exer clave in the Taber tabernacle oacle in honor bodor of th the e anniversary of the birth of elder wilford woodruff fg president of the church of jesus hetue christ of latter day and one of the first farat company of utah pioneer that entered ohp valley of the be great salt lake laike for this occasion the tabernacle scle hiss ha been beautifully decorated the fi stands are ornamented lo jin white and old gold with numerous I 1 11 flower lowers and potted ferns and other plants and around the organ the table pit nt the toot foot of the stands Is ie covered with flo werf and in front of this seats are re raised above the floor for president woodruff and wife to occupy during the reception on monday over this able to te a canopy draped with the stars stare and striper with electric lights in the top to throw brow light upon the couple this anomy will remain thrown back upon the table until the time of the reception the upper stand which will be occupied by the president deot and his wife aurit during K the rendering of the pro grow cram be has been raised about sixteen inches higher than its usual post pool so wat that a lull full view can be had bad ot of them from every part of the building in front of and near the top of f we the organ to Is a beautiful star corn com posed of sixty one electric lighte over this his and extending from south to oreb north across the building la in a white streamer bearing the inscriptions glory be to god aa honor to his prophet 10 and the three dater date 1807 1647 1897 around the gallery bunt ing is stretched obed with a star etar over each post poet and at the rear of the building to ie the idio we honor the man so BO honored of goo goa above the rear of the gallery la in a banner on which Is pointed painted 1847 1897 below this Is a union flag which passed through the wr herewith Is if a brief sketch of preal president woodi offs long and eventful life furni abed by himself I 1 was waa born march at ton tob part of farmington now avon hartford county ii I 1 my early life I 1 worked as aa a f farmer armor arid cd miller of course cobrae my childhood was waa passed under the influence of the remnants remnant of me blue laws of coni con I 1 remember the day well when the he baptista and the method Metho distie let in connecticut were almost as aa unk popular as ai the mormons afterwards alter warde became presbyterians rians and coogle were the be ruling religious of now new england in my childhood in aL attending tending the sunday school lr in my early boyhood bocho d under dr noab porter end nd learning lea chapters of the bible by heart boort I 1 saw what jesus christ and the apostles tau taught glit those principles were so BO firmly imprinted ted on my mind that I 1 could never join any church because the of that oay aay dio not believe them until I 1 beara zera zara Pul elpher a marmon mc rmon elder presen to we me and my brother azmon asmon sad a large congregation of at Bi now Dane vibe howego county new york on the day oi of december 1883 on li caring the first sermon I 1 and mj my bi other azmon were convinced and we wint forth and were bouti zed on the slit slat of decem ber her 1888 I 1 went in ID alona in compin campin the spring pring of 1885 to missouri MiMO url to we the assistance of our people who had been driven out ot of jackson county very low few of the members of that camp are living today that thi th usand cusand bilee journey with the prophet joseph joeeph smith was to me a school of experience that I 1 shall never forret loreet in this abr world or the world to comp come when the prophet returned to kirtland with most moat of his ble company I 1 remained in clay county missuri ciui Mis surl ur until the of january 1886 1835 when I 1 left lyman le in company with henry browd browni to go on a mission to lo the southern states batee we pawed through jackson county missouri and through Arka and from little book to memphis tennessee I 1 spent two years year in tennessee and kentucky while therel there I 1 was wag ordained to the effice 01 an elder under the handa bands ol of warren parrish Parr leb and afterwards afterward a member of ef the second quorum of the ibe seventy under the bond of david davia W patten I 1 ordained A 0 smoot to the office et el an elder iu in 1886 and he be traveled with me through kentucky anil and tennessee and accompanied me to kirtland in the fall of that year I 1 organized sed four branches branche Bof of I 1 in kentucky in ID 1887 1 I traveled through part oi of canada now new york massachusetts connecticut and maine and pox fox islands during that mission I 1 hap bap used several hundred persons and organized five branches of the church in connecticut maine and fox in january 1887 1 I was op bp pointed to the first quorum of seven amil I 1 i in 1888 1 I traveled on three islands of theses the ea and in twelve states of the union established three preaching places and organized one ODD branch ol of the church to in farmington conn with nine of my rela relatives including my fathers theia ta house on the of april A arh 1889 myself ano ana george A smith were ordained to the apostleship on the temple corner at fur fair went missouri Mi the same year I 1 crossed the atlantic ocean in company with john taylor to eng laD depe the next year there with the twelve apostles Apo etlea first I 1 went to and organized three branches brao obee then I 1 went to hereford shire worcestershire and gloucester shire where in eight I 1 brought 1800 souls into the church including of the united brethren who had broken off from the be we leyan Meth odlat with forty five preachers prea obera all of that sect but one member I 1 established three conferences and fifty eight preaching places and organized forty seven bevec branches of the church I 1 then went to london with heber 0 kimball and ceorge A smith we organized the first branch of the in that city consisting ol of eighty five members mem bere ID 1841 1 I tra trave velea lei over miles england wales walea and pan of the united states with the twelve pu etlee to attend to the affairs of the church I 1 spent most of 1842 3 in nauvoo at tending lending to tho the priming office and other buBin busi neep cee an AD important year was 1844 in which the prophet joseph smith and his hie brother hyrum byrum were killed that thai year I 1 traveled over miles to I 1 canada and the united v iau tog log the she churcher chur chec al attending tending etc in the fall of the year I 1 was appointed to go to england to preside over the british mission giattina betting sell ball at neyr new york december jtb end ad arriving at liverpool january 4 1845 during which year I 1 traveled in eng idof land and scotland presiding over the churches published copies of the th doctrine and covenants and secured the copyright of the same game in london in 1846 1 I returned from england to t the united state and gathered with the saints bat as winter quarters quarterma Qu artera ou on the missouri where I 1 spent the winter on the ath of april 1847 IL I left my family and crionas at winter quarter Qu artera and traveled with Prest BrI young and the pioneer company ol 01 men a thousand thou Band miles across the jhb plains plain into the midst of the rocky bocky mountains Moun talo arriving in the valley of the great salt bait lake on the of jiniv wi we laid out great salt bait lake city and built ballar a fort around ten acres president young you og and some other othen of us reLur returned ned to winter quarters Qu artere the gernis game season eoa in traveling acnes the plains pistils for three days day and nights we met mea an at ap most moet end lees number dumber ot of buffalo going to their summer cummer ranges to brook break up dp into smaller herds to food feed in the plia allt lilo country they were so BO numerous numer oui that we could way through them hem in the spring of 1848 1 I took my family and returned to boston maw mau spending the rent real of the year and aad too also 1849 in traveling through the now new R england gland states elates and part of canada gathering up most moat or of the saints saint rem mining there and sending them to the rocky booky mountains mountain on the ath of april 1850 with my family and an J about a hundred other saints bainte I 1 left boston and with team strain boats boata rall railroads roade and wagons ago again traveled to the rocky booky mountain where I 1 arrived on the of 01 october having traveled miles art fn in m 1861 1851 to 1877 twentysix twenty six yeara I 1 spent mostly in utah traveling and preaching considerably among ur the 4 sinta and also ajao otherwise lul jul filline fIlling the duties of my calling as ag ong one of th twelve Apo Apoe atlef tiep dent young died august 29 1877 john taylor succeeding dim so aa president Preal dent of the she church from 1877 to 1887 during daring the preil dency of joha jobs taylor I 1 spent most moet of my time traveling preaching in and arizona and labor laboring lor in SL BL george temple for the ampie gisin sud exaltation of the living and the dead when john taylor was waa accepted as aa president Pre aident of the church october 10 1880 1 I became president pre aident of ship te council rf cf the twelve apostles Apo atlea president taylor died july az 1887 and ll it fell to my lot to succeed him film tim in presiding aing I 1 was accepted as the president Preal dent of the church april 7 1889 with george Q cannon and juseph P F smith as a my EUY since which time I 1 E have endeavored to attend to the he duties of that office to the beet beat of my knowledge and ability I 1 was waa appointed assistant historian of the church in 1856 1855 and historian in 1881 franklin D richards Bic barda was sustained as ae my successor in that office april 7 1889 swiss I 1 B chosen president of the does dese set d mud and manufacturing solety by in 1862 and acted as an such ten jn I 1 was waa a member of the utah legislature twenty two ses session twenty of them la in the council 1 I have bare been a 8 bimber of the church daty abree years and two mouth months and have held bold tile the apostleship fifty seven van and ton ten month president woodruff cites the follow leg ing row ibis bia journal as come borne of the given by that great Pl pioneer loneer president brigham young apen upen she grog sabbath day after the pioneer company established itself on the fabe present if of soh bait lidke lake city an striving arriving here bore eniy he his bla full satisfaction in the appearance of the valley as a a rooting piece for the saints and declared tuai repaid for the journey amply 1 ho ws aa I 1 on the next day sunday in public though bough sick with mountain mount aiu as ashing eIng jeer he n addressed we sainte tor for a planes t time and said that the brethren ought not to go work on sunday that if 11 laboy did they would lose loae five times time a as aa they would gala by it that teat they ought not to buot bunt or r flab bob on that slim 9 day that hat he did giet finkk anybody among us wh wb would not observe the sabbath Sabba Sab batt tb they igat dwell where they pleased but we did not nos want them to dwell with no aa jee he bought that no DO man that came here bore should buy boy any landwe had baa no BO laud food to ell that every mau should boulo mave have bla bis bott measured t iff ff to him for city and nd purposes and he be till sill it is just as he be pleased plea ed but he atwould be industrious and take care esa IL He also warned the he saints not to fam ag that did not belong to them that it if they did so BO it would leak out and would become a 8 sk to la we the of jehovah an we lc and the saints end and though they saints and die insight live with tue ins they would come under with h meal at lost last and go to bell tor they were thieves and nothing ma fat burning would cleanse them there would be a 8 meeting every sab both ath wherever we might 9 locate amay perhaps the largest number of poo pec age die that ever assembled in an the larg tabernacle was fp resent sunday afternoon on oil the occasion of the celebration by the she sunday schools of preal dent wilford Wood ruffle ninetieth birthday not only were the seats eats all occupied but bai the aisles were packed la in every part of the immense building frow the time of the opening of the she doer boera at IL 1 0 until after 2 the sunday schools and others continued to bjur loto into the tabernacle on en masse and bd when the she time arrived to com leoce the serviced servi icee cevo oil all seats taken imad and many people were still outside ol of the building while several entire schools were turned away the general public having crowded into toe the reservation intended lor for the children while there was sims corfu sion ion caused by the gather gat berin inic of such buob large abarge number of children and getting them seated floated properly it must be said that shag altogether they did well and thou in la in as aa orderly a CoLdi condition tIon as could reasonably be expected A brilliant effect was produced when she electric current was turned into she globes forming the beautiful double doable star and the word utah in ini front of the organ the latter laster mud and the large star were composed compo eed of clear lights light while the small mall tar star within was made up of red lights the dolora lions eions were very tastily arranged throughout and added greatly to the imposing impost dg on the stand were the following president wilford woodruff presidents george Q cannon and joaeph P F smith elders lorenzo Li orenzo snow franklin D richards brigham young francis M ly man george teasdale heber haber J grant M W mer rill and anton H lund of the coun oil of A pastier apostles patriarch john smith elders elder seymour B young foung and george reynolds oi tue first council of eltive elders george goddard and karl G masser maeser of the general intend in enoy of sunday schools hoole sc elders bluer angus M cannon joseph E taylor a bud d charles W penrose presidency of salt bait lass lare stake elders thomas C U griggs richard S horne home and willard C 0 burton sunday school deacy of salt lake stake elders J W ellas elise Morris Henry dinwoodey H 1 P richard Blo harde levi W richards and george bleutge A smith ara aima rose wallace and sarah A oil gill the services commenced at five fire minutes after two by president Preel dent george Q cannon calling the vast assemblage to la order and announcing the opening loyan we thank thes thee 0 god for a prophet which was rendered by the entire congregation under the leadership of professor sor evan stephens lie its rendition visibly offered president woodruff and made it necessary for the honored veteran to wipe the he teardrops from his eyelids eyelid an appropriate and feeling prayer was offered by elder george Tes teasdale adale after which the sunday schools rendered the hymo Gud speed the right under dundei the leadership of prof E K baskett Bae Base sett ett elder george goddard of cf the gen oral of sunday schools addressed the congregation he stated that it wa was in the largest as sem bloste that had ever been within the walls of the tabernacle notwithstanding this hiu however waver he bolt belt that it 11 desired he could succeed in restoring order such as to bear the he dropping drop of a pin he requested oi 01 the he children present to note in a book alter going home the exer exercises clese chion they bey bad taken part in today children should learn to keep a history of their lives and incidents looi dente connected with the experiences which they had passed through that in after years they might recall those pleas pleasant mot lays days which they had bad seen while hert here upon the earth the speaker then |