| Show PRESIDENT WOODRUFFS BIRTHDAY ninety one years ago today march in the country village of farmington now called avon hartford county connecticut was born the man who ww now presides over the church of jesus christ of latter day saints in all the world and whose great age and mental and physical vigor axe are incontestable proofs that god has been with him to bless and preserve him for the great work he has done and is still doing when the shocking accidents that have befallen him at different times by which almost every bone in hta his body has been broken the great hardships he has endured and the numerous severe and dangerous attacks of disease from which he has suffered are all recalled his hie preservation in the health of body and mind which he enjoys today becomes still more marvelous ninety one ears what wonderful things has wilford woodruff lived to see bee since he as a boy in charge of grist mill spent many an hour of the silent night in meditation and prayer desiring eiring de that he might live to hear the voices of apostles and prophets he has seen the rise and growth of the work of god to its present eminence and dimensions men he has witnessed the development of the steamboat railroad ad telegraph tele telephone hone and electric it light 9 ht and dynamo te he has seen this nation rent asunder hover long on the brink of destruction deet ruction but given at length a further lease of life through its adherence to true principles he has seen great wars and the evolution of mighty events event that in the nature of things must lead to greater wax ware within the span of his own life he has seen the whole world move swiftly on from stage to stage towards that doom and destiny that await this earth and its inhabitants nations have risen and fallen in his time and great changes have been made in the maps of both hemispheres since he was waa a school boy Mati estimated mated by what he has seen anc and I 1 experienced it could be said perhaps without gilt hout exaggeration that his life has been as long as am were those of some r of f the antediluvian ante patriarchs that w were ere measured by centuries in his wonderful old age he finds himself in dally daily attendance upon the duties of his calling the possessor of the unbounded respect of his fellow citizens who are not of his religious views and of a love arid reverence too strong and deep for expression here from tens of thousands who look upon ht him in as their spiritual ial leader his life is an open book full of lessons of faith patience humility and devotion and of the fruits that follow the practice of these virtues in the life of a latter day saint today in many lands and languages prayers to god are being offe offered aed ex hj heartfelt thanks that dent allford rd boodt woodruff ff has hap been spared so 0 o long and the fervent desire that his life may be preserved yet many Y years baxa W with ith the salute saints in all the world the news ardently joins in the wish that the aged veteran may live as long as life shall be desirable unto him and that health and peace may abide with him until the end |
