Wilford Woodruff &
Lorenzo Snow

Wilford Woodruff was an incredibly interesting prophet. His tenure was filled with revelation. Other than Joseph Smith no other President of the Church had more published revelations. He spoke of the time when Joseph Smith was “transformed before us” and glowed as amber because the spirit was so strongly manifested within him. He also cited his prophecy in 1833 that the Saints would eventually settle in the Rocky Mountains. 

President Woodruff even revealed that on that “great and dreadful day of the Lord” the Savior will descend in the Rocky Mountains. He spoke of visits to him from the Spirit World of Joseph Smith and Brigham Young and of visits from the Founding Fathers, the latter requesting that their temple work be done for them.Probably no other president emphasized the redemption of the dead more than he. He was the prophet who received the revelation from God ending the solemnization of plural marriages by the Church. He spoke of casting out evil spirits when opening new missions and of his many near encounters with death. His experience of raising his own wife from the dead is also a part of this book.

Both he and his successor President Lorenzo Snow served as a type of bond to the past. Woodruff’s talks were filled with references to his wonderment about his longevity. He was in Kirtland, participated in Zion’s Camp, was driven out of Far West, Missouri, and Nauvoo, Illinois, endured the harsh elements at Winter Quarters, crossed the plains, and drove the very-ill Brigham Young into the Valley after Young’s prophetic utterance that “This is the place.” The initial founders of the Church were long since dead. A couple of generations had arisen that never knew the Prophet Joseph Smith. They personalized him for them.  Woodruff and Snow were the last of the apostles to actually know the Prophet Joseph. Their first person testimonies enabled others to carry him within their hearts deep into the twentieth century.

He had three especially powerful witnesses to this, the first when a young man of 22, and the third when the Savior himself visited him in the Salt Lake Temple just prior to his becoming president of the Church, which visit is also a part of this book.

Outside of this personal witness his restoration of the importance of the law of tithing was his major contribution in his three-and-one-half-year tenure as president. This ultimately rescued the Church from financial bondage.  His divine revelation on this matter in Saint George is part of established church folklore.

Know what the Lord had Wilford Woodruff and Lorenzo Snow tell the Saints that is not in The Doctrine and Covenants:

• Jesus Christ will come to the Saints while in the Rocky Mountains.
• The hiding place of the Lost Ten Tribes is in the North.
• The Founding Fathers tell of the positions they occupy in the Spirit World.
• Those neglecting the salvation of the dead will have sorrow.
• Joseph Smith was the only mortal to see both the Father and the Son.
• Joseph Smith Sr. was a literal descendent of Joseph of Egypt.
• Avoid speculative and chancy ventures.
• Non-tithe payers are not to be recorded in the Lambs book of life.
• Murders are to be dropped from lineage lines.
• Utah is to be a place of protection when the judgments of God descend.
• Lamanites painted themselves red before the curse.
• Youth organizations should avoid dealing with the mysteries of heaven.
• Many destroyed in the flood have received the gospel.
• City of Enoch will return to the earth with the coming of Christ.
• Declaration of Independence signatories were the best spirits on the earth.
• Woodruff visits Joseph Smith and Brigham Young in the Spirit World.
• Founding Fathers visit Wilford Woodruff.
• Many cannot bear the test of wealth.
• Woodruff receives revelation to remove carriage.
• Law of adoption revealed to Woodruff.
• Every Saint expected to have the gift of revelation.
• Salvation for the dead is what has stayed the judgments of God.
• Devil sought to kill Wilford Woodruff from birth.
• It is those who have the blood of Ephraim that receive the gospel.
• Temple in Jackson County is to be built with the help of the Lamanites.
• Saints are again to live the law of consecration.
• The Church is to fill North and South America.
• Those to inherit the Celestial Kingdom are few in number.
• Calamities are yet to fall upon the inhabitants of the earth.
• Evil spirits are assigned to us.