April 9th Conference persuant to adjournment
at 8 oclok President in the chair
Elder made some appropriat remarks
had followed men that done more hurt than
good flung more obstructions in the way than they
took out had taken half of his time to remove
prejudice caused by unwise Elders. for God sake
dont preach a thing you dont know. dont appear
before the public in a capacity you cannot maintain
A man in called a congregation the first
thing he did was to read a Patriarchal blessing
which had some strong meat in it. he would
have done better to have preached the gospel
I had rather hear brethren appear small th[an]
large I had rather see a man hold his brother
up than pull him down. Preach what will
save men the same that converted you will
convert them.
Elder B Young arose
and the above doctrin was true and I will add
a remark to it if a man tries to rise by pulling
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another down he will sink as soon as a peace of
pot mettle. Preach faith repentance & Baptism
say nothing but repentance to this generation [Doctrine and Covenants 6:9]
need not go into mysteries preach the same over again
when I heard Br make his proclamation
yesterday I thought it was a sweepstakes when he
said & was Zion. Any Elder
that will be wise when he gets his endowment can go
into any city & build up the largest church in the
city this prooves the prophet true, that the priesthood
is fitted for the condition of evry man & woman
that was on the earth. will the elders go out this
season & preach the things we tell them to & then
stop. build up churches in all the world is a perfect
knock down to mobs. now Mob away and best
let us alone and we will evangelize the world and not
make much fuss about it. mob us & we will do it
sooner. We want the Elders to electioneer for
President Smith and we want to build the
this season and by the help of God you ^we^ will do
it. Pay your tithing if you want a seat in that
house. many other usful remarks was made by
Elder .
Conference Adjourned untill
2 oclok
Met according to adjournment and
called to order by president Brigham Young
President proceded to ordain
a number of Elders into the quorum of the Seventies
B Young remarked O ye Elders of Israel you
are the first fruits of the kingdom of God on the
earth that is to swallow up all other kingdoms on
the earth. [Daniel 2:44] now be wise and not fools like many
smart young men, who have sunk themselves in
degradation & infamy. when you go out go before God
in prayer and faith. Joseph said he was not known
in our midst. he might live & die and not be fully
known untill he was weighed in the balance in the
eternal world. You do not fully know the day
of your visitation the work is beginning to be seen
by the Saints. when went forth to
try to destroy the Saints, A little company of us
went before God and asked him to take away his
power, and it fell like lightning from Heaven
We asked for not to be Govornor He was
not but he is now dead and damned. We asked
for to be taken away. he soon shot
himself & went to Hell. is dead and so
our enemies have fallen on evry hand. whare is
the officers of Government in
seven were hurled into eternity in an instant by
the bursting of a big gun. the bitter branches
are beginning to be cut off. take care O, man how
you oppose this work for their is a gGod in Israel
cannot you practice virtue & holiness in this
Church yes and it is the corrupt & wicked
that oppose the work. go out & do good and work
righteousness.
said we want to
get up a general meeting in as a kind of
convention and we want to do the same in all
the saintstates. He remarked that General had
undertaken a great work even unto the fulfilling
of the Prophets relating to this dispensation A
contribution was taken up for Joseph Smith
to meet a debt $100 dollars was donated another
hundred loaned. Conference was Adjurned
untill 2 oclok Saturday to hear a discourse from
Elder on .
About three
hundred elders volunteered to go out preaching
this season their mames [names] were taken to be
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