Wilford Woodruff
1807 to 1898

Mormon apostle and, from 1889, president of the Mormon church.
Appears in
Improvement Era
2 articles
Journal of Discourses
67 discourses
- The Church and Kingdom of God, and the Churches and Kingdoms of Men
- The Facilities Afforded By the Handcart Movement for the Gathering of Israel—The Saints Specially Opposed By the Devil in Any New Enterprise—Reformation
- The People Asleep—Those Holding the Priesthood Must Magnify Their Callings or Be Removed—The Saints to Be Tried Even Unto Death
- Necessity of Obeying the Instructions and Revelations Given—The Importance of Obtaining the Holy Ghost—The Labors of the Saints Are for Their Own Salvation, and not to Enrich the Lord
- Intelligence Comes From God—Seek First the Kingdom of God—Great Changes to Take Place on the Earth—Israel of the Last Days—Why the Jews Cannot Be Converted
- The Latter-Day Work—Necessity of An Inspired Leader to Stand at the Head of Israel, Etc., and to Dictate in Spiritual and Temporal Affairs
- Inspiration and Teachings of the Spirit
- Necessity of Adhering to the Priesthood in Preference to Science and Art
- Blessings—Trials—Obedience to Counsel, Etc.
- Blessings of the Saints—Condemnatory State and Conduct of the Christian World, Etc.
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Portrait: photograph, Charles Roscoe Savage (1832-1909); original in the C. R. Savage collection, L. Tom Perry Special Collections, Brigham Young University, 1889. Source: Wikimedia Commons. Public domain: studio photograph by Charles R. Savage, who died in 1909, taken in 1889 (Wikimedia Commons licence: PD-old-100).