22nd Sunday I attended meeting at the Bowary and herd
[FIGURE] an interesting & edifying sermon preached by President
Brigham Young. His text was truth. His subject Salvation,
His circuit the world. He said we see the child seeking the knife
fork or raisor or sumthing to hurt itself with so with many of
the saints & Elders they seek for that which is not good for them
and they know it not many seek for things which tend to death
& not life spoke of some wishing to go to the gold mines he spoke
of the desire for tobaco alchohol coffee tea &c and the desire for
such things was because they contained poison & excited the
nervous system & it was death & not life & many useful remarks were made
I attended a prayer meeting at the Presidents in the afternoon
& had a good time
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Thus ends the Time & labour of another half centaury AD 1850 Yes Eighteen hundeed & fifty has gone to make anoth[er] link in the great chain of this Earth probation. It has been an important year in many respects the revolutions & changes & signs of the times among the Nations of the Earth indicate the fulfillment of the word of God & the preparation for the coming of the son of Man. It has been a year of blessings upon Zion & her children. The Lord hath preserved my life to lead one of the camps of Israel out of the midst of the gentiles to mingle with their Brethren in Zion now building up cities in the rich vallies of the mountains of Israel. The Saints have been abundantly prospered & blessed during this year in all they have put their hands unto some thousands have emigrated this year to Zion from the States
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