May 2nd I visited many of the Saints also the sunday school
Our Meeting [assembled] at 10 oclok spoke 58 M[inutes]
32 spok 10 M[inutes] President spoke 8 Minutes. He said if you want to know why we
want to settle this Southern Country one reason is this, if
the Nation Makes war upon us again we want some place to go
to whare we can have a safe place to keep our women & children in
while we have to defend our homes. Afternoon president spoke 36 Minutes spoke 13 M[inutes] President
spoke 60 Minuts & said I do not know that I have spent
one Moment to reflect whether I should be saved or not. I know
that I am serving a God that will do right & He has given
me a work to do And I ask God to Give me Grace and
wisdom to perform it & I leave all Events in his hands. He then
read the & said this people never saw the
day that they were willing for God to rule over us in all things
there is not one in a thousand willing for it. During the whole
war we were the ownly People in the United States who
were safe in person & property they did not call for any
Men I am Glad of it. The Nation is agoing to have war
& Blood up to there Horses Bridles & they will be destroyed
I have sPaid to this people more than two Million of Dollars
and they would hunt up some Gentile to give it to him there is
still many tares with the wheat among this people what shall we do
with them let them grow with the wheat untill the Harvest
