[Apostle Wilford Woodruff Journal] 23d It is an exceding Hot day as was yesterday. Twelve years ago I brought the Gospel to this Island in company with Jonathan H. Hale. I spent A year upon this Island And Baptized near A Hundred persons And took about 60 persons with me & my family to Quincy. I found the Saints fleeing before their persecuters out of Missouri And settelled in Ill. Since I was upon this Island before, I have Crossed the Atlantic four times and traveled in all about 50,000 miles And I now find myself treading this soil again to visit the few remaining Saints that they may be gatherd to Zion.
[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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