[Wilford Woodruff]
P. P. Pratt expressed his feelings ... I feel as though the day is not far distant when men will stand among us in their Immorrtal Bodies holding the keys of death & Hell & that Brother Joseph would say if He was among us that we had suffered enough & that we should be numbered among his Jewels. ...
W. Woodruff next spoke & expressed his feelings upon the subject of this meeting of the Twelve Apostles a Blessing which He never before enjoyed in his life, As He never had met with Eleven of the Twelve Apostles. He Considered there had never been but two Bodies of men since the days of Adam who had met under such peculiar & interesting circumstances & those were the Twelve Apostle with Jesus in Jerrusalem & the Twelve Apostle with Jesus in America. ...
President O Hyde ... Prophesied in the name of God that we should all meet & come forth in the morning of the first Resurrection & receive our crowns in the celestial kingdom. It was confirmed by a good Amen by all the quorum.
John Taylor next spoke. ... Now [the Twelve] are full of intelligence & the Nations of the Earth will feel their influence. When I am with this quorum I feel as though I was with the Gods.
A Lyman said ... He has found out to his satisfaction what that love & affection for his brethren is that surpasses the love of women for he had a confidence in his quorum that was far greater than in his wives or Children for they have been brought up in the hard school of experience & have been tried in all things & proven to be true & I have been proven with them & I am wedded to my quorum with all my interest....
C. C. Rich said ... I had a dream while on my way home. I thought the Ancients in their resurrected bodies were associating with us in this place. ...
E T Benson said ... When I was first called to be an Apostle in this quorum I could not sleep for three days & nights. I feel now as though I could break a Nation to pieces. I felt renovated with the Holy Spirit while P P Pratt was speaking. No blessing is to great or to good for us & we shall possess them all. ... Ask whatsoever you will and it shall be ours. My love for the quorum of the Twelve Apostles & the First Presidency is far above the love of wom[e/a?]n. <You may take the most virtuous woman on earth into your bosom and there is something [-] in it.> There is not exhisting with the most virtuous man on Earth (while destitute of the priesthood & Holy Ghost) that spirit of life that there is with the servant of God. My ownly hope is with you. It is life when we met & life when we part. He closed with Thanksgiving & Blessing. ...
[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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