I will here make a remark concerning my own feelings. After the death of
Joseph Smith I saw and conversed with him many times in my dreams in the night
season. On one occasion he and his brother Hyrum met me when on the sea going
on a mission to England. I had Dan Jones With me. He received his mission from
Joseph Smith before his death; and the prophet talked freely to me about the
mission I was then going to perform. And he also talked to me with regard to
the mission of the Twelve Apostles in the flesh, and he laid before me the work
they had to perform; and he also spoke of the reward they would receive after
death. And there were many other things he laid before me in his interview on
that occasion. And when I awoke many of the things he had told me were taken
from me, I could not comprehend them. I have had [p.318] many interviews with
Brother Joseph until the last 15 or 20 years of my life; I have not seen him
for that length of time. (Wilford Woodruff, “Organization of the First Presidency—Responsibility
of the Saints, etc.,” October 10, 1880, Journal of Discourses, 26 vols. [Liverpool: Albert Carrington, 1881],
21:317-18)
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