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Show ( ( \, ' l Page 7. remembrance which shall continue to increase forever. Thou shalt have pOY/er to do many miracles when it is necessary to roll forward the great work of' the Lords. No good thing shall ·be with held from thee. Riches and honors, tlory, inmortality with eternal life shall be added -unto thee. This is thy reward with every blessing which your heart desire, therefore dismiss thy tears tor thy tongue shall be loosed to enable thee to perform a mighty work._ Seek attar these things with all due c d11H gence and not one word herein spoken shall f'a,11, for I seal it upon " thee and thine and no power shall take it from thee. Even so amen. "John L. Smith Schribe---Recorded in Book D page 286 No. 863 Albert Carrington Recorder. As it is good to receive blessings arid have them recorded I now record another blessing ·given by a good old Patriarch who was also driven out ot Missouri by the mob, namely Elisha H. Groves, as follows: "Patriarehal blessing of' Elisha H. Groves on the head of l/h. Leany, son of' Culbert Means and Peggy or Margaret Cook Leany, son of John, born December 19th A. D. 1815 in Franklin, Sipson County, Kentucky. Given ip Parowan, Iron County, Utah Territory February 23, 1854. "Brother \In., in the name of' Jesus of' Nazareth, by virtue ot the Holy Priesthood in me vested I place my hands upon thJ head to seal upon thee a patriarchal or father's blessing which shall rest upon thy head, thou shalt realize the fulfillment thereof'. In as mueh as thou shalt continue f'aithf'ul in keeping the carmnandments of' the Lord thy God thy days shall be many upon th1s earth. The Kol7 Angels shall be with thee and in their hands shall they bear thee up to deliverance tran all thy enemies and trom the temptations of evil one who seeketh the down fall of' the sons of Adam. Thou art ot the Seed ot Abraham of' the loins ot _joseph and blood of' Ephraim a lawful heir to the blessing of' the Holy Prie.sthood which iahou shall receive in due time, that thou mayest be able |
