175 years ago today - Mar 21, 1841

[Wilford Woodruff] 21st Sunday This is the last Sabbath I shall ever meet with the Saints in Stanley & Frooms Hill. ... I am now privleged of having more than fifteen hundred Saints in this interesting field which I first opened one year ago the 5th of this present months, all of which have embraced the work since that Date. Many of the Saints have gatherd to Zion from that region & the rest are anxious to go & ownly waiting for a door to be open for them. ...

[Source: Wilford Woodruff's Journal: 1833-1898 Typescript, Volumes 1-9, Edited by Scott G. Kenney, Signature Books 1993, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]

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