Early Missionary Journeys of Faith: Wilford Woodruff
by Wilford Woodruff
The missionary experiences of Wilford Woodruff, an early Apostle and later President of the Church.
One of a series entitled, Early Missionary Journeys of Faith, each book is a collection of missionary experiences from an early Apostle in the restored Church.
These timeless stories will touch touch the heart of any Latter-day Saint.
122 pages
Published: June 2010
I found Mr. Benbow to be a wealthy farmer, cultivating three hundred acres of land, occupying a good mansion, and having plenty of means. . . .
I rejoiced greatly at the news that Mr. Benbow gave me, that there was a company of men and women-over six hundred in number-who had broken off from the Wesleyan Methodists, and taken the name of United Brethren. They had forty-five preachers among them, and had chapels and many houses that were licensed according to the law of the land for preaching in.
This body of United Brethren were searching for light and truth, but had gone as far as they could, and were continually calling upon the Lord to open the way before them, and send them light and knowledge that they might know the true way to be saved. . . .
The first thirty days after my arrival in Herefordshire, I had baptized forty-five preachers and one hundred and sixty members of the United Brethren, who put into my hands one chapel and forty-five houses, which were licensed according to law to preach in.
This opened a wide field of labor, and enabled me to bring into the Church, through the blessing of God, over eight hundred souls during eight months, including all of the six hundred United Brethren except one person, also including some two hundred preachers of various denominations.
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